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Hospital after a
long illness. He
lived in Glen
mont, Md, near
Silver Spring.
Mr.. D e n ! e y
came to Wash
ington in 1908
and started the
electrotype CON-
pany. He retired
about six years
ago but remain
ed president of
the firm.
He was born in
London, Canada,
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Richmond. He
was on his way
to Florida at
the time of his
death.
A native of
Loeb r. a v e n.
Md, Mr.. Harri-
son c a m e to
w a s h ! n & t o n
about 80 years
a G o. B e f or e
that he lived
in Rich m O n d,
where he was
manager Of the
Acacia Mutu a !
L i I e Insurance
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Walter F. JueckeI Dies

SANTA MONICA. Calf, Dec. 80
(R.-Walter F. Jaeckel. 66, retired
fur merchant, died in a hospital here
Sunday after a brief illness. Born
in New York, he had lived in Cali
fornia for the last year.
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Gated IN st. LOUIS. He was WITH Cne
Norge Corp. before joining Philco
in 1910 in New England.
During World War I he served
with the Navy. He lived at 5615
Roosevelt street, Bethesda, Md
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Jean Breck; a son, Todd Breck. and
two sisters, Mrs. Earl Salisbury, St.
Louis. and Mrs. Alvan Kittridge,
New York.
Funeral services will be held at
4 pm. tomorrow in chapel at
Washington Cathedral. Burial will
be private.
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died yesterday at
Suburban Hos
pital, Bethesda,
W h ere he had
been hospitalized
two days.
Mr.. Beck came
to Washington in
1943 as Philco'S
representative on
war con t racts.
Three years later
he was made dl-
vision manager
Of the Capital
division.
Mr.. Breck was
born and edu-
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CT. DenIey, Is, Dies;'
E|ectrotype Firm Head

Charles F. Denley, IS, founder and
president of the Potomac Electro
type Co., Inc, 1903 lexington place
NE, died yesterday at Emergency
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Daniel J. Harrison, 81,
Insurance Man, Dies

Daniel j. Harrison OF Falls
Church, Va, ST, Washington insur-
ance man, died unexpectedly yes
terday in the home of his son in
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Lewis Tebbetts Breck, 81,
PhiIco Sales Manager, Dies

Lewis Tebbetts Breck, So, Philco
Corp. sales manager for the Dis
trict, Maryland, Virginia, West Vir-
ginia and part of North Carolina,
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Dratha

LEIGH, HARRY VERNON. Suddenly:
Hospital. HARRY VERNON IN i, LEIGH Io be be,
and and father Of Vernon. Alfred B., W. Lewis
brother brotfi a Of A Lawrence Leigh: Friends
Home, 1o09 H st: NV, until IL noon
WEDNESDAY, December 81. Funeral serv. ~.
ices at the Andrew Chapel Metnodist a
day, December 81, at = pm. lnterment
church cemetery. oo
LAMBERT, WILLIAM c.. On Tuesday,
William & G. LAMBERT of IS s5a neIdl Gailat,n u
Wilson and Norman E Lambert Services
at the above residence on Friday, January
,, 194s, at > pm. 1nterment Fort Lincoln
Mausoleum.
LYNCH. MARY AGNES. On Monday;
Deeem6eF @ts s W. NARY a. AGNEs esS sa lynch BE-
loved mother of Miss Olive F. Lynch OF
this city Mrs, Katherine l. Fealg nS,ef Of New W
ssi5imore iuH, Md Rey WiIlisa A. 4; Lynch; Y. 4
S j. of Norwalk Conn Jehn and 1osepn tDn
at the S. II Hines Co. Funeral Home, "90l
l4th st. NV. until 10 pm, TUESDAY.
Services and interment Stockbridge, Mass.
MAIER, EVELYN G. On Tuesday, De
semDeE 80 94 s AS 6R st. mother
Adam E. Maier and Mrs. Martha A. Rowan
Friends may call at the Lee Funeral Home
4th st. and Mass. ave. ne. Notice OF 1u-
neral later.
MARKHAM. GLADEITH J. On Monday,
mother o., Mrs; Dorothy NJ. Griffith and
John MnTssan Hnss 20 Fnera R9manS Home Sol
14th st. NV. Notice of funeral later
H.uDy ~DprpIrnu cuddep,y m
McVEY of 3706 Volta ave- Brentwood;
Nd. beloved daughter of Mathew S. and
hampshire, Mrs John McLauehlin, Earl N,
William M, Charles H, and Edward s:
Mckeownt FRIENDS so may ss. call at Gasfhs ar
attsvile, Md where services will be held
on Wednesday,. December 81 at pm.
Relatives, and friends invited. 1nterment
George Washington Cemetery.
MERCER. MINNA LEIGH. On Thurs
s5T d RaSsRseF RiNss LEIGH NSsfss sfs
the late Carroll Mercer and mother, Of
MIS- Ms Wa B. aPa Paners sf
vate.
NELSON, GEORGIA LUCILLE: On
M1nday HFg6N Rsfsm5er 9 Que l94 s GEoRGd SsoJea
Rieee ssss! Of Of Ms. ' RUBY James, Mrs. Hestsr
Zones and Ms vce FauS Other ea
pm. Tuesday, December 30, friends may
cali at the Carver Memorial Funeral
Hcme. "9-3l H ST., NV. Funeral and
interment al Blackville, S. c 30
o'CoNNOR. CATHERINE. On satur
day. December p, l941, CATHERINE
OCONNOR. Funeral from the Wilson
X. Huntemann Funeral Home. 513,? Geor-
ela ave, on Wednesday, December 81,
at $40 am. Requiem mass at 8 am.
at the Church of the Nativity. Relatives
and friends invited tc attend; 1nterment
New Cathedral Cemetery. Baltimore, Md.
OXDINE. WILLIE. On Wednesday, De-
cember "a, 1874 Z, at his resi-
dence, 942 Eye st. NV, WILLIE
1881 OXDINE. GraveSide funeral
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The caiety Of Mexico awaits you in
this informal "Fiesta Car"-designed
specially for Golden State coach passengers,
but open to all. The bar was inspired by
fountain in quaint Mexican patio. The
tables and comfortably upholstered chairs
are made of hand-carved oak. Brightly
colored canopy adds to patio effect.
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three grandchildren and four great
grandchildren.
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demoeF denee, a45 Eve stt st. NV, ~ W Will
OXDINE. GraveSide funel
services will be held at Arlin
ton National Cemetery on We
nesday, December 81. at 81
orvicae nv Ch an hers
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Attest: DANIEL N. RENNICK, Sec.

day, December 2S, 1947. JOHN EDWARD
JACKSON of 231a .Virrinia ave. s.w:
He leaves his parents, Jane Fury and
Donald Jackson; his brother. Donald
Jackson. ir.: his grandparents, Ora and
LLOYD Patterson: his aunt, Elizabeth Lee;
son and Nathaniel Oliver, and other rela-
tives and friends. Remains may be
seen on Thursday, January l. 194s. after
- noon. at Eugene Ford's Funeral Chapel
l213 4th St s.w.. where funeral services
will be held on Friday. January >, at
II am Interment Payne Cemetery /
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LATHAM. RICHARD l. On Monday.
of 1892 Reno rd NV, home of his step
dauehter, Margaret l. Wire Services at
the S. H. Hines Co. Funeral Home, 2a01
14th ST. NV, or Friday, January 1913
alexandria Gazette please copy.J
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been announced.
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JOHNSON, Ethel, CHRISTIAN.

Tuesday. December 80, 1947. at GARFIELD
Hospital. ETHEL CHRISTIAN JOHNSON,
1910 18th st. NV. She also is survived
by two sisters, Mrs. Mary Hicks of 4914
Lee highway, Arlington, Va. and Mrs.
Alice Flanagan of Lynchburg, Va, and
other relatives and friends Remains rest
ing at the Allen & Morrow. Inc, Funeral
Home, 1926 st. NV Notice OF funeral
lot
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HUDSON. JAMES B. tDICK). Sudden
y, on Monday, December 20, 1941.
JAMES B. DICK HUDSON of ;i1Ol
Upshur st, Mount Rainier, Md. beloved
husband of Florence Evans Hudson and
brother of Mrs Helen H. Evans. Mrs.
Teresa Summerall. Mrs. Carrie H Welch,
Mrs. Marie H Boteler, John T. and Thorn
as w. Hudson. Friends may call at the
GaSch Funeral Home. ABB Baltimore ave,
Hyattsville, Md, where services will be
held on Wednesday, December 81. at q >
pm. Relatives and friends invited. In
terment Fort Lincoln Cemetery,
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of5cers and ushers OF the National United
Ushers' Association of America are re-
ouested to pay the last rites TO Mother
Of our national body. Funeral will be held
Wednesday, December 81, 1914, 3, pm,
from Galbrauh A. NJ. E. Zion Church.
ALLAN A. C. GRIFFITH, Sr.,
Drae
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KERSEY, KATHERINE A. On Monday,
December %. l941. al Prince Georges
General Hospital KATHERINE A, KER-
SEY. wife OF the late Frank R. kersey
and beloved mother of Mrs. Helen Peter
son. Vincent NJ, Kersey OF Cherry Point.
n. c.. MIS-. Bernard E Eaeleston o.
Suitland, Mo; John e, ksrsey Of this
MOI mond. V CALI. She She also al is survived BY
sixteen grandchildren and two grea.-
grandchildren. PRAYERS at Chambers
Funeral Home, 5l1 llth st. Sc, on
Wednesday. December 81. at $40 am.
Mass at Mount Calvary Catholic Church.
Forestville. Md. at 10 am. Interment
Mol AlRYanEria Va
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. HINES. PAUL A. LegionnalTes of Bunker
xrSrtar, Hill Post. No. 81 the Amer
1&HRSA lean Legion, are notified OF the
fNSsSs1a death of Legionnaire PAUL A
HfhGINtaz3 HINES. and are requested to
S&SEA0 assemble for services at his
ESSSS9Y late residence, ;}5}6 Appleton
st. NV, on Tuesday, December
30. l94., at S:l5 pm.
THOMAS P. ROYSTON,, Commander.
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BEALE. JOSEPHINE.

RFAIF JOSFPHINE On Sunday. De-
osis esn0fl 81 ". JjocsEPA1NE BEALE, wife ot
three daughters Lila Washington. Lucy
williams and Fannie Minor two sonS,in-
law, Robert Washington and George vii,
iIams and many other relatives and
friends. Remains resting with L. E. Murray
& Son, 1887 10th st. NV. where friends
may call after } pm. TUESDAY Funefal
serv;ces Wednesday, December 81, at
rn at the GalbraIth A NJ. e Zion
Church Rev. White oficiating. Interment
la Harmony Cemetery.
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nication of Westgate Lodge No
.2?0, A. F. & A. NJ, is called
IN for , pm. Wednesday, December
MCN n. lgi7. in the lodgeroon, for
WALf the purpose of attending and
W. conducting the funeral of our
late brother. JAMES B. HUDSON.
Members are requested to be present By
order of the worShipful master
VANCE V VAUGHN.
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Discomfort in BruziI

Virtually complete returns make
possible an Interpretation of the
Brazilian elections which took place
on Sunday. January 10. The delay
of, more than fortnight in getting
the full result was due to counting
more than 100000 ballots for TO-
900 candidates to 5000 national,
state, and local offices, an additional
complication being multiplicity of
parties.
This was not a Presidential or
Congressional election. the execu-
tive and legislative branches of the
national government having been
chosen a year ago. What was at
stake this time was the composition
of the state legislatures, many city
governments, and additional nation,
al Senators, the new Brazilian Con-
stitution having increased the num-
ber of members in the upper House.
The chief parties in this complex
contest were: The Social Democrats,
which>can be called the Government
Party, since it elected President Du-
ira and plurality in both Houses
of Congress; the Communists; the
Labor Party, basically the creation
of former President Vargas, and the
National Democratic Union, essen
TALLY a. protest group which cam
paigned against all the others. In
addition, there were some minor
parties, notably the Progressives,
limited mainly to Sac Paulo State,
where 1t ran fusion ticket with the
Communists.
The actual outcome upset most
prediction prophecies. The Social
Democrats ran badly virtually ev-
erywhere, thus rejecting popular
discomfort at official inefficiency in
combating high prices, imitation, and
other adverse economic conditions.
OF course, this will have no direct
effect upon the party's control OF
the Presidency and Congress, but the
psychological consequences may be
profound. The Communists piled up
big votes in the large cities-Rio, Sac
Paulo. and Pernambuco, especially,
but they were showed under in the
rural districts and do not appear
materially to have increased their
record of nearly 100000 votes in the
national elections a year ago. Var
gas and his Labor Party made poor
showing, he himself being defeated
for the Governorship of his own
state, This body blow to his un-
disguised ambition to stage a come
back in national politics is especially
| pleasing to the Communists, who re-
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A-1o WEDNESDAY, February IL, 1s47
Now q Subdivided Court

The dignity of the Supreme Court
suffers some injury when decision
in a case at law becomes Babel,
with many voices clamoring for
recognition. The Bergman cartoon
today is not overdrawn Three cases
on Monday evoked nine separate
opinions. Four were in one case.
The opinion of the court and a
dissent, 1t seems, are not enough.
We now must have an opinion of the
court; a dissent; a concurrence in
a part of the opinion; dissent,
in part, from the dissent. This
is the sort of thing that can injure
the prestige of the court. We lose
the impression of nine men, learned
in the law, conscious of their high
station in the Republic, calmly and
wisely celebrating toward meet
ing of minds that will spell out what
is the law. In it's place there creeps
the unwilling conception of men
who have not been quite able to put
aside desire to attract attention.
There comes the suspicion that
there is present in the court sort
Of overweening vanity, personal
anxiety lest ones own opinions on
the finer shadings of the law may
be lost to posterity in the anonymity
of unity. We lose the idea of a high
court, whence comes the opinion of
the court. We find ourselves follow
ing the maze of how Mr.. Justice So
and-So, agreeing in part with Mr..
Justice Such-and- Such, finds it
necessary, nevertheless, to point out
that instead of this it should have
been that. The justices themselves
are in an unassailable position. For
does not intellectual honesty demand
that they remain true to their own
convictions of what is right and what
is wrong? The justices may be in
an unassailable position. Not so the
lower courts, the lawyers and-may
Heaven help him!-the layman. For
them this individualiSm on the
court, this highly personalized fash
ion of getting ones last word in,
creates confusion. AS for writing
the law in the pattern which is
becoming popular on the court, all
of us concur, without dissent, with
Mr.. Bumble-"If the law supposes
that . the law is a ass"
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Agreements Should Be Kept

Assistant Secretary of State Will
liam Benton made an interesting
speech in Chicago yesterday on
freedom of information. In the
course of it he asked this question:
May we now hope that the time is
propitious for converting our cam
paign of words (about freedom of
information} into deeds?" The
answer is "Yes," and a good place
for the State Department to begin
would be to persuade Russia to live
up to an agreement regarding free
coverage of the forthcoming Moscow
meeting of the Council of Ministers.
The agreement was between Mr..
Byrnes and Mr. Molotov. Mr.. Byrnes
accepted Mr.. Molotov's invitation to
meet in Moscow next month on
condition that past procedure in re-
porting council deliberations to the
world would be followed in Moscow.
Mr.. Molotov agreed, mentioning the
housing shortage in Moscow-but
agreeing. About seventy-fve COR
respondents applied for visas, made
preparations for the trip. No visas
have been forthcoming. The State
Department, while trying to obtain
more, has succeeded in getting Rus
sia's permission for only twenty
newspaper and radio correspondents
and photographers. The same pro-
cedure followed in Paris and New
York, therefore, seems not to apply
in Moscow. No other foreign gov
ernment has limited the number of
correspondents 1t is of great i'm
portande that our State Department
not permit the impression to become
established in the minds of the
American people that, in dealing
with Russia, reciprocity operates
in only one direction and that only
the United States is impelled to live
up to agreements. The meeting in
Moscow was agreed to on a condi-
ton. The State Department is in a
position to see that the condition
is complied with.
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important Exceptions
By David Laurence
m the toronto Globe and Mail.

From the Toronto Globe and Mail.
Numerous and irrefutable arguments
have been cited, including those bar
riers which controls have raised against
production, for the government follow
ing through to a logical and speedy
conclusion of price control. All can and
must make allowance for the "excep-
tions" to total decontrol. Canada still
faces emergencies" not fundamentally
different from those which brought ra-
tioning and price regulations into being.
We refer to the housing shortage and
its relation to rental control and proper
distribution of building materials to
satisfy the priority needs of /, low-cost
housing and essential industrial con-
struction. But these no longer excuse
clinging to the still broad program of
controls, especially since wages and sal
aries have been set free. *
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On the Record
By Dorothy THOMPSON

What is being proposed for the Mos
COW Peace Conference Is that the Allies
draft a German peace treaty first. This
then will, be discussed with Germans
only when a central government is
established in Germany that is rec
ognized as suitable to accept the doeu-
ment" This is the view of the Soviet
government in. its memorandum of JAM
uary 81. 1t is at this point that the
United States Government had better
stop, look and listen.
Poland, though an Allied and not an
enemy country, had a peace treaty made
for her by the Big Three, which dis
posed of her frontiers. The reason
there is made-in-M Moscow government
in Poland is because no Polish govern
ment except one which owed its exist
ence to foreign power would have
accepted that treaty,
Now the territorial conditions which
the Russians and their Polish satellites
designed, unilaterally, for Germany
and which grew logically out of the
territorial changes previously imposed
on Poland-will never be accepted by
any German government that thinks it
necessary to have its actions ratified
by the German people.
y 4
If this matter of Polands western
and Germany's eastern frontiers is left
open for two or three years, it is my
guess that the lunacy of present az
rangements will become increasingly
apparent to every one. Poland lost
ga ,230 square miles of territory in the
east, including all her oil, and her
greatest forest reserves. She was COM
pensated in the west by the vast agri-
cultural territory of Lower Silesia. Upper
Silesian coal, what Upper Silesian in
dustry had not gone to her after the
last war, and the great Baltic ports of
Danzig and Stettin. /.
But Poland also suffered, in these
arrangements, by the loss Of her minor
ity populations and the determination
of the Polish Jews. This was 81 per
cent of her prewar population, or ap-
proximately the same number of people
as previously inhabited the territories
detached by the u S. S. r. Therefore,
without any new German territory at
all. Poland would have about as much
land per family, for population OF
"a, ,000, 900, as she had, prewar, for
population OF 35.000,0 900.
do not suggest that this would 30
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enough for prosperous Polish state
The funacy, however, was to award
Polish land to the Soviet Union which
has no population pressure but suffers
instead from shortage of labor, and
compensate Poland by taking agricul-
tural land from Germany whose popula-
ton pressure, like that of Italys has
been a basic cause of expansionism.
Under present arrangements, which
the Soviets would now like to embody
in a treaty, Poland, with IS per cent of
Germany's population has II per cent
as much agricultural land.
/ think the next years will show that
Poland cannot settle these vast agri-
cultural tracts. 1t would take 81 per
cent of the entire Polish population to
work the area as intensively as did the
German farm workers.
But If the arrangement is economic
lunacy, there is political method in the
madness.
Nothing Is more certainly calculated
to reinf1ame German nationalism than
the eastern frontiers issue / suggest
that the Soyiets know this, and that is
just exactly what they want, in their
Machiavellian calculations.
The only German government, which
could be counted on to suppress ma
tionalism which flames UP over COM
pletely justified grievances, would be
one permanently directed by the agents
of foreign power. The only country
equipped to rule states from within,
while pretending not to do SO, is the
U. S. s. r. Therefore, what the U. S.
s. r. wants for Germany is q peace
treaty that only a communist govern
ment would accept.
Communism as a political system is
abhorrent to most Europeans. But
Europe, including Poland, hasn't been
getting it by acts of popular will, but
as the completely logical development Of
the peace and territorial arrangements
made at series of conferences.
Under 1t, the Soyiets are building
nothing less than colonial system In
Europe And / strongly hope that we
will sign just not anything In Moscow.
but let the general situation ripen a
little more. For bit by bit people are
awakening.
The Soyiets are, am convinced, over
playing an essentially weak hand.
Released BY the Bell Syndicate, Inc.1
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Lincoln Needs Not Our
Pruise

A great man needs no tribute, gift or
praise.
He rises like crGg beside the sea,
At wkose unheeding feet the ripple lays
Its offerings of drifttDood ceaselessly.
Lincoln needs not our praise. The
lengthening years
Add TO his brightness till he stands
reDe1led
In all the grandeur ,ofict the hate and
sneers
That mere his lot In life had hay
concealed.
He needs US not. And yet ne come,
confessed
OF our o1op need of him--t1tat toe may
be
QuicEened In spirit, lifted up and blessed
In contemplation OF subltnatty,
As acnpes that gather round q pron1on-
tory
And briefly bear the image OF Its glory.
NEz BARCLAY KIRBY.
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Abraham Lincoln

There always will be something
mysterious about Abraham Lincoln.
Finite intelligence never will be
competent to comprehend him COM
pletely. But as the years pass and
he continues to be studied from a
variety of different angles he does
come closer to living generations.
His contemporaries knew him less
well than those scholars and COM
mentators who, born after he had
died, have examined, appraised,
analyzed every action, every word,
even the strange silences of his
career. What emerges from the
evidence thus developed is char
acter of magnetic attraction.
One reason that this is true is
that Lincoln was in numerous re-
spects an average man. He contra
diets the notion that ordinary folk
lack interest. Up to the moment
when he was elected to the presi-
dency he was in effect simply a
small-town politician who had failed
in many different occupations, fallen
short of success in many different
enterprises. He had been store
keeper, postal clerk, railsplitter,
a militiaman, a lawyer with few
briefs, a member of State Legisla-
ture, an Indifferent sort of a Con-
gresham. Fame had not touched
him, fortune had passed him by. He
had been disappointed in love and
had known other sorrows which,
trv as hard as he might, he could
not forget. Even the consolation
which some unhappy individuals
discover in religion was not conceded
him. His neighbors considered him
a skeptic, if not actually an agnostlc.
If he had disappeared from the
American scene in the early autumn
of 1850, no citizen today would recall
his name in any other connection
than that of a few partisan debates
in obscure Illinois towns and per-
haps in relation to that speech at
Cooper Union in New York IN
which he set forth his elemental
philosophy:
Let us have faith that right
makes might; and in that faith
let us to the end dare to do our
duty as we understand 1t.
But Lincoln's last five years re-
mained for him to live. BY choice
of God or by accident, il 1t be
preferred, he symbolized in. him
self not merely his broken country
but the whole tortured world in his
time. The agony of his mind and
heart was fearsome trial. 1t would
have been easy for him to break
under the pain of it. That he did
not give up the struggle is just an
other aspect of the mystery sur
ro1nding him-and also just anotner
proof OF his Identification with
average people. He represented them
in his power as well as his weakness
in his certainties as wen as ms