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because he had three strikes on him
before ever he got to the plate?"
So the newspaper gentleman got kind
OF mad and he said well, he sort Of
agreed with what Senator Shepherd
said and that was that If all the ecom-
munists in America were laid out on the
ground end to end it would be mighty
good thing.
But" he said. "since you don't take
any stock in any plan that isn't gotten
up by any communist, maybe you will
like this plan that am going to tell you
about and it is called the Pekinpaugh
Plan because it was gotten up by the
celebrated communist, Professor Pek-
inpaugh."
But the other customer said that he
had never heard of Professor Pekin-
paugh and the newspaper gentleman he
sort of sneered and said that the other
customer could not have kept in touch
with the latest developments of his pro-
fession or he would certainly know Pro-
lessor Pekinpaugh and his monumental
works about communism, like Dollar
by Dollar. or From Delivery Boy to
President" and "A Short Introduction
to the Study Of the Effect Of Changes
IN Federal Reserve Balances On the Pro-
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attachments regarded, that when Aaron
Burr was being tried for treason, Presi-
dent Jefferson appointed Writ as one Of
the counsel to prosecute the case on be-
half of the Government. He served as
Attorney General in both of the Monroe
administrations, and in the cabinet also
Of John Quincy Adams.
In reminiscing Of his youth In George
town, Mr. Writ has said:
I'm ITO, I was sent to Georgetown,
eight miles from Bladensburg to school
a classical academy kept by Mr.. Rog-
ers. was placed at boarding with tho
family Of Mr.. Schoofield, q member Of
the Society Of Friends. They occupied
a small house Of hewn logs at the east
ern end Of Bridge street. Friend School,
field was well-set, square built, honest
faced and honest-hearted man; his wife
was one Of the best of creatures.
"A deep sadness fell upon me when I
was left by the person who accompanied
me to Georgetown-when could no
longer see face that knew, nor an OBJ
ject that was not strange. I remember
the sense of total desertion and for
lornness that seized upon my heart, I'M
like anything I felt in after years. I
sobbed, as If my heart would break, for
hours together, and was utterly incon-
solable, notwithstanding the maternal
tenderness with which good Mrs School,
field tried to comfort me.
Almost half a century has rolled over
the incident, yet full we'll do I recollect
with what gentle affection and touch
ing sympathy she urged every topic that
was calculated to console child of my
years. After quieting me, in some meas
ure, by her careesses, she took down her
Bible and read to me the story Of Joseph
and his brethren. 1t Is probable I had
read 1t before, as such things are usually
read, without understanding; but she
made me so comprehend it that in the
distress Of Joseph and his father I for
got my own.
Il passed one winter in GEORGETOWN.
and remember seeing a long line of
wagons cross the river on the ice I
conjecture that it was the winter OF
1779-80, and that these wagons were
attached to the troops which we're going
South, I remember, also, to have seen
a gentleman, Mr.. Peter, I think. going
out cunning for canvasbacks-then call
ed whitebacks-which have seen in
those days whitening the Potomac, and
which, when they arose, as they some
times did, for half a mile together,
produced sound like thunder.
Naturally Georgetown has had ever
so many prominent men whose names
are omitted here, and which will likely
be referred to later. 1t has also had its
scientific and literary men and women.
and. of course its eccentric characters,
which no town seems to have been able
to get along without.
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30 lots, to be erected into town, and to
be called Georgetown
Except for the fact that in such cases
1t was customary to appoint certain
officers, we might suspect that the COM
missioners anticipated serious trouble in
carrying out the law, for we find them
appointing. to start with, Alexander Beall
as clerk and surveyor, and Josiah Beall
coroner. But so far as we know, the
only disagreement that took place at that
time was the refusal of Messrs. Beall and
Gordon to sell the part of their property
taken for the town for the $50 pounds
awarded by the commissioners, and in
consequence the coroner was directed
to summon jury of II to assess the
value of the property to be taken. which
was accordingly done by William
Pritchett, Ninian Magruder, Nicholas
Baker. James Beall, Nathanial Magruder,
Charles Clagett, Thomas Clagett, James
Holman. Charles Jones, Zachariah
Magruder. James Wallace, Basil Beall,
William Williams. Alexander Magruder,
William Wallace and John Magruder, son
Of Alexander.
George Gordon finally agreed to accept
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of the sea, for he seems to have set down
kind of McGregor foot on the soil of
Maryland. His son George was not
exempt from the same penchant for what
is called terra flrma. In all probability
that son was our first settler and oc-
cupied to our town the same relation
which Boone occupies to portions of Ken
lucky or Penn to Philadelphia.
George Beall, the son of Ninian, was
the immediate progenitor of George and
Thomas Beall, who were respectable in
habitants of Georgetown. Ninian, being
friend of the Hanoverian succession,
probably gave name to his son from this
fact. George of George died in 1905, and
was buried in the family cemetery, which
is nearly opposite to the house now oc-
cupied by DR.. Riley. He was a man of
rather limited education, but his head
was stocked with plain common sense.
He opposed the rotundity Of the earth,
thought knowledge Of accounts and
the art of surveying much more useful
than Latin or Greek. and his reading
was confined to Josephus' Cooks Voy-
ages" Morses Gazetteer" the Bible and
all the newspapers he could collect. He
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whole business should be washed out and
nobody would owe anybody anything.
Laugh that one OIL" said the news
paper gentleman.
And my other customer looked kind
Of goggle-eyed for = minute and his Jaw
dropped the way gold fish's does when
you drop the little pieces Of white stun
on top Of the water. And then all Of Q
sudden he got red in the face and he
said for the other customer to Oh, 70
to thunder! So that Judge he didn't
like the Pekinpaugh Plan any better
than he liked the Rummel Plan.
But I think myself that the Pekin-
paugh Plan is the best because, II I
understood 1t right, 1t meant that after
you had paid your taxes you still would
have that money to spend any way you
wanted to and that certainly sounds good
to me because I surely could use that
money, Or any other money that comes
my way.
And the thing that don't like about
the Rummel Plan is that Rummel il
having all he can do to get out Of the
way Of the British Army and I don't
see why We should have any German
General coming and telling US how we
want to raise our taxes.
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duction of Horse Hides in the Chippewa
Islands"
Now he said that the Pekinpaugh
Plan was for the United States Gov
eminent to start corporation to be
called the Taxpayers Loan Corporation
to lend the taxpayers the money to pay
their taxes.
Now. Of course. the Taxpayers Loan
Corporation would have to raise that
money somewhere and it would borrow
that money by issuing Tax Loan Bonds.
Now. of course there would be no.
body to borrow that money from except
the American people, and, since the
American people are all going to be tax
payers in mighty short order, the Taxpay-
ers Loan Corporation would be borrowing
that money from the taxpayers. So the
Taxpayers Loan Corporation would owe
the taxpayers the money 1t had borrowed
to lend them to pay their taxes with.
Well, then, the Taxpayers Loan Cor
poration is just another name for the
United States Government, so it would
come down to this, that the United
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BY John Clagett Proctor.

The first residents in any settlement
are naturally Of much interest. though
In ever so many instances it is dificult
to place due credit for this honor on
the exact person. However, If the record
is straight, the pioneer settlers in that
part OF Washington generally known as
old Georgetown were Col. Ninian Beall
and George Gordon, with whatever ad-
vantages there may be going to the
former, who obtained a patent for the
Rock Of Dumbarton" in 1903 and pitched
his tent, so we are informed in the
wilderness about at a point where is
now the northeast corner of N and
Thirtieth streets, these streets prior to
the adoption OF the present system of
naming streets, being known as Gay and
Washington, respectively.
George Gordon, the other early settler,
probably first made his appearance in or
around Georgetown about 1874, the year
ne became the owner of a part of
'knave's Disappointment" a tract of
about 300 acres, originally patented to
James Smith, and which after that date
went by the name Of George Gordons
Rock Greek Plantation"
BY l75l there evidently were quite a
number of persons living west of Rock
Greek in this vicinity, for in that year
we find the settlers residing there
petitioning the Legislature of MARYLAND
to establish town where now is George
town, The request was granted, by
provincial act, on May Is, 1751, which
authorized Henry Wright Crabb, John
Needham, John Clagett James Perry and
David Lynn, commissioners, to lay out
and erect town on the Potomac River,
above the mouth of Rock Creek. in
Frederick County, Md. 1t specified the
land to be used for this purpose as that
belonging to George Gordon and George
Bean, where it shall appear to them"
(the commissioners to be most con-
venient-and to survey the same into
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Bv Basil Gordon.

The greatest document in the history
Of the United States, and perhaps in the
history of world striving for liberty, is
the Declaration of independence. Not
only did 1t start the United States for
mally as Nation, but the thoughts con-
tanned in it have kept it going through
many crises and challenges from with
out and, during the Civil War, even from
within.
Controversy has arisen as to who wrote
1t. In reality, no one man did. 1t was
a collaboration effort; yet Thomas JET
ferson did write the first draft
It was not by accident that Jefferson
was given the honor of commencing
work on the Declaration of 1ndepend-
ence.
Going back to early 1776. we find
much-divided Continental Congress
afflicted with muddled thinking and
handicapped by oversentimental ties
with Britain. 1t could not see that indie
pendence was the only way out. Into it
fell bombshell; its Virginia members
received instructions from home to de-
clare the United Colonies free and inde-
pendent States. Richard Henry Lee. the
orator. took the floor on this motion and
so stirred the Congress that COM
mittse was appointed to word the neces-
sary bill. BY vote, Thomas Jefferson was
made its chairman.
This put the issue squarely up to him.
He had heard enough to realize what he
had to compose. Opening the drawer of
his little folding desk he took out his
quill, bottle of ink, sand for blotting, a
blank sheet of paper and set to work.
Jefferson wasted very little ink. 1t is
recorded that "the instrument, prac-
tically as offered by Jefferson, was
unanimously adopted and to 1t were
placed the signatures Of all the members
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Back From the Front
The Front From the Back
BY Roy L. farmer,
Black and Blue Cab No. 1877.

One important thing about every war
is the way YOU are going to pay for it.
And the way you pay for wars is with
taxes. And that means your $40 and
my $40, so everybody is naturally inter-
ested in it.
Well, today I took couple of Gus
toners up to the Capitol, where they
were going to q hearing of the Ways
and Means Committee which was about
taxes. And they got to talking about
taxes and about what they called the
Rummel plan.
One Of my customers was a news
paperman and he said he thought the
Rummel plan was all right because it
meant paying your taxes with money
that you had instead of with money that
you ha1 already spent and he said that
he didn't mind how much taxes he paid
with money he had, but that money he
had spent already was going to be aw-
fully hard to get back from his creditors.
The other customer was an ecommu-
mist and he sort of sneered at that and
said oh my dear fellow, that just goes
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Pioneer Residents of Old GEORGETOWN

the terms and selected for his own lots
4s and So, privilege granted to himself
and George Beall, and the latter sub
sequently accepted the same terms under
protest.
Origin of Name.
Some writer's on Georgetown assume
that the place was named after George
Gordon and George Beall, while others
believe 1t was named tor George II, King
OF Great Britain. There was an earlier
Georgetown in Kent County. Md, no
doubt named for this King, and the
chances are that our own Georgetown
was also named for this monarch
Col. Ninian Beall. who obtained a
patent for the Rock of Dumbarton," in
1903, was born in Scotland in 1925 and
died in Maryland in TIT.
Thomas Bloomer Balch, in his "Remi-
niscences," published by Henry Polkin-
horn in 1859, tells us that Ninian Beall
was born in or near Largo, and also
makes the following remarks about that
early Maryland pioneer:
He was probably born in or near the
town Of Largo. This was the place out
of which the celebrated Alexander Sell
kirk escaped and went to sea, and where
relics of him are shown to this day He
became monarch of Juan Fernandez, the
comrade of goats and cats, for more than
four years, and his adventures have been
wrought up into an inimitable romance
by De Foe, who lived in the reign Of Will
liam, Prince of Orange.
No shire in Scotland has produced
more distinguished men than Fife, Of
whom DR.. Chalmers, Adam Smith and
Wilkie the artist may serve as specimens.
Loeb Leven is its principal ornament in
the way of natural scenery, and its COM
paratively soft features have been de-
scribed by Bruce, who was born near its
margin. A castle on an island in the
northwest of the Loeb was for time
the prison of Mary Queen of Scotland
"Ninian Beall was fonder of land than
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flair for digging up interesting facts
from past history. Through the coloners
researches. the writer is enabled to
present an account Of the destiny Of
that desk
The lap desk used by Thomas Jeffer-
son when he wrote the Declaration of
Independence was made in May, 1776, by
Benjamin Randall of Philadelphia, with
whom Mr.. Jefferson lodged at that time.
For many years Mr.. Jefferson kept it
In fact, until 1925. when he gave it as .
wedding present to Joseph Coolidge. IT,,
who became his grandsonAn-law by
marrying his granddaughter, Miss RAN
dolph. It l. Interesting to note that .
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showed wonderful judgment and fore
thought in selecting this spot. for there is
not q more attractive place around
Washington. Here, from the extreme
south end Of the grounds the eye can see
up the picturesque, winding Potomac and
also for miles down the river, and I'M
doubtedly the view from some Of the
upper windows Of the university build
ings must be wonderfully beautiful.
Indeed, II this can be said Of its charm
today, and it certainly can, how much
more beautiful must it have been in
the infant days of the Republic, when
Georgetown was a mere village and the
District of Columbia was yet to be born.
Archbishop Carroll was born in Upper
Marlboro, Md, and for many years made
his home with his mother at Forest Glen.
In 17S6 he took up his residence in Balti-
more and died there December 3, 1915.
And though his residence in Georgetown.
if any, must have been brief one. prob
ably no man ever did more for the good
and the fame of the city than he
George Peabody.
Another man whose name will always
be a part of the history of Georgetown
was George Peabody, for whom a street
in the Northwest part of Washington is
SO appropriately named. He was born
in Danvers, Mass, in 1795.
This noted American merchant, bank
er and philanthropist began his business
career at the early age of II as an
apprentice boy in a grocery store. When
Is he became full-fledged clerk in his
brothers drygoods store, but within
year this store was burned down and
young Peabody came to Georgetown and
entered his uncle's shop in the same
capacity. During the War Of 1912 he
served as volunteer at Fort Warburton
Cater Fort Washington.
After the war he became a partner
with Elisha Riggs in the drygoods bust
ness in Georgetown, Riggs furnishing
This enterprise proved a great success
In 1887 Peabody moved to London and
established himself there as a merchant
and exchange broker. This rapidly led
to the banking business and later on
Junius Spencer Morgan, father of the
late j. Pierpont Morgan, was taken in
as partner. Then came the Drexels
of Philadelphia.
Tn" Peabody Public School is named
for this benefactor and the Peabody
Library of Georgetown was a gift by
him to the citizens of that part of the
District Of Columbia, where I COM
menced business for myself in early
YOUTH as he puts it. His philanthropies
included 100000 to establish a free liz
brary in Danvers, his native town;
100000 to found free library and
institute of art and science at Baltimore,