Pag Four
THE
HEPPNEK, HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
Tuesday, February 19, 1924
I The Greatness of :j
EVERT nation has some great fig
ure of Its own by which It fixes the
tandard of greatness In man, but to
America was given a figure whose
greatness Is more than national. The
greatness of George Washington, ob
serves a writer In the Kansas City
Star, Is universal, like that of Shake
Vpeare; his name and fame abide In
mil lands.
The explanation Is not difficult to
nd. Washington's greatness was In
the man, aud was not made by events.
Us a soldier he met (lefeut more often
Shan victory, yet as a soldier he takes
srank with the greatest In all lands and
IhII ages. Washington lost many bat
Hies, but he never lost an unny, and
t!n that he outranks Napoleon. He hud
&oth the courage to fight and the cour
tage to decline fighting, for his Judg
ment always held complete sway over
(the man. He could afford not to win ;
&ie could not afford to lose. "The old
ffox," the British generals called him,
land called him well. He had the su
ipreme faculty, without which there
can be no great generalship, of mak
ing himself Invisible, of turning up at
unexpected places, of striking and dis
appearing. Napoleon's soldiers in the first Ital
ian campaign boasted that they won
fthelr general's victories with their legs.
It was Washington's ability to move
his army that saved the Revolution.
The greatest military victory of the wur
was won at Saratoga hy a third-rate
general. The greatest military achieve
ment of the war whs Washington's re
treat across the Jerseys, after having
been beaten twice. We do not need
Vou Moltke's word for this, though he
i wns a good Judge, nor Cornwallis',
t though he was present. We have the
jpolntlng finger of history to read by.
jOn that retreat the American Fnlilus
1 and the term was then one of re
jproaeh lo Washington snatched two
j victories that remain classics In war.
(With a beaten army In full retreat, In
(the dead of winter, he surprised and
(defeated two IJrltlsh armies In quick
succession and got away before either
could know where he came from or
where he went. Trenton and Prince
ton stand high above Saratoga In mili
tary annals. In during and In swift
ness these movements are unsur
passed. The risks were great, yet
were taken by a general whose cau
tiousness Is a maxim of military
clence. Nothing approached these
! movements until a generation later
when Napoleon, feinting at England,
threw his army from the channel to
ixnm.
Did Not Love War.
Washington wai a great soldier who
I4M not love war. As a youtb he felt,
1H he confessed, "beut for arras,"
land Horace Walpole records that the
;young Virginia militia officer wrote In
! dispatch from his first field some
thing about the "charming sound" of
the bnllets. The dispatch is not an-,
thentie. In the fullness of his fume
'Washington was asked If he wrote It.
"if I did," he replied gravely, "It
.was when I was very young." With
iour loving war for glory or waging It
for fame, Washington rose to the
front rank In an art pursued for a
'great cause alone, refusing pay for his
'.services and laying down command In
I the hour of victory, and while the
'world rang with his renown, to re
itlre to the life of a Virginia farmer.
1 If Washington's public life had end
fed with the end of the devolution aud
IttU fame rested on bis military achleve
jment alone, we should still have
So place him among the foremost of
aanklnd.
But Washington'! constructive gen
lus was not misled by the results of
fthe war. The military victory of the
i colonies ushered In their real test ;
.fit was then to be determined whether
statesmanship could create a nutlon
lo seal the victory In the field ; wheth
er the liloa of nationality could sup
Ifilant In provincial minds the raw
Conception of the sovereignty of de
rtaehed and jealous colonies. Wash
ington the soldier retires from his
tory, and Washington the statesman
Emerges. As the voice of Massachu
setts called him to the command of
armies, the voice of all now culled
the same great leader to guide the
deliberations of that body that made
he Constitution under which we live
today. Here again the American
yaotus displayed the dsrlng of Tren
ton. The colonies were not ready for
nationality, but the cautious but sure
Judgment of Washington risked giving
at. The Virginia plan drawn by Mudl
on had his approval. It must be na
tionality or anarchy. Washington took
the risk, kuowtng it to be a risk, de
claring that what the convention did
might be rejected by the people, but
approving and guiding the deed. It It
be conceded that the mentality of Mad
flsou and Hamilton made the Constltu
iflon the weight of the character of
'Washingtou ballasted It. Hit name
-carried It. His statesmanship exe
trated It In the first feeble years of the
jroung republic.
Broad In His Views.
' We have beeu told many times, says
school boy In an oration, that Wash
ington was not a genius, hot per
mod of excellent common sense, of ad
mirable Judgment, of rare virtues. He
Jbelonged to that rare class of nieu
who are broad euough to Include all
the facts of people's practical life, and
deep euough to discern the spiritual
laws which animate aud govern those
facts.
t'aesar was merciful, Sclplo wn r
tr-rr i- i ' r " ' . I . . . i il
But k was reserved xor wasnmgton
to blend them all In one, and, like the
lovely masterpiece of the artist, to
exhibit, in one glow of associated
beauty, the pride of every model, and
, the perfection of every master. A con
queror, he was untainted with crime
of blood; a revolutionist, he was free
from any stain of treason, for aggres
sion commenced the contest and his
country called him to the command.
If he had paused there history
might have doubted what station to
assign him; whether at the head of
her citizens or her soldiers, her heroes
or her patriots. But the last glorious
act crowns his career and banishes all
hesitation. Who, like Washington,
after having emancipated a hemi
sphere, resigned its crown and pre
ferred the retirement of domestic life
to adoration of a land he might be
almost said to have created.
Just honor to Washington can only
be rendered by observing his precepts
and Imitating his example. He has
built Ins own monument. We aDd
those who come afier us In successive
ireiiTations vvp its appointed, Its priv
ileged guardians, the widespread re
public is the future monument to
Washington. Maintain its Independ
ence, defend Its liberty. Let it stand
before the world In all Its original
strength and beauty, securing peace,
order, equality and freedom to all
within Its boundaries and shedding
light and hope and Joy upon the path
way of human liberty throughout the
world and Washington needs no other
monument. Other structures may fully
testify our veneration for him ; this,
this alone can adequately Illustrate his
services to mankind.
Washington Set the Style.
Washington created a bit of aston
ishment among ills friends at one time
when he appeared wearing a coat with
pink conch-shell buttons sparkling on
Its dark velvet surface. But, follow
ing the lead of the president, conch-
shell buttons became a fad.
THE WASHINGTON
MONUMENT
After the great Washington monu
nnt In the city of Washington was
(50 feet In the air the entire founda
tion of stons was taken out and a new
foundation of concrete was substi
tuted. WASHINGTON'S
TOMB
GREAT kings of old have wrapped
them round In Btnte,
And, clothed in splendor, yielded
up their breath,
Dreaming a monarch's am should
outlast Death.
And gold and jewels stay the hand of
Fate.
The treasures of the earth have decked
their tomba;
With amber, topai, diamond and jade
Have skillful craftsmen their dark
house Inlaid,
As though their Jeweled gleam might
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m mis a
S flip. "M$p
fill a-'; Ktffc
light Death a glooms.
Tet have kings slept the centuries
away.
Their names forgotten and their
glories dim;
And no man's llpa have Darned the
name of him
Who walked as walks a god,' a little
day.
But thou, a Country's konor and Its
pride,
How void of splendor is thy sleeping
plaoel
For no roan's hand has skill enough
to trace
The story of thy worth, thy grave be
side. .
Tet here shall gather through all pan
Ing days.
Bo long aa men shall reverence the
true.
Children ant children's children, to
renew
Thy Country's homage la their heart
felt praise.
Bleep thou serenely on the earth's soft
breast;
Better than radiant gems or outline
gold
Our love and reverence about thee
fold:
Xa nobler state wbmt king would ask to
rent?
' ' " Uile Whittlesey..
New Washington
Memorial
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Scene at the recent cornerstone-laying
of the George Washington Masonic
Memorial at Alexandria, Va. Presi
dent Coolldge used the trowel used by
Washington when he laid the corner
stone of the Capitol building in Wash
ington, D. C.
"Mississippi Dragons"
Two devil-like monsters painted and
carved on the face of a cliff SO feet
above the Mississippi river near Alton,
111., were discovered by the French ex
plorers Marquette and Joliet In June,
1G'J3. They were known as the "Piusa
potroglyph" to archeologists and were
commonly called the Mississippi dra
gons. They were ranked as the fin
est example of early Indian art, and
many legends were told to account for
them. Marquette described them as
being "as large as a calf, with horns
on the head like a deer, a fearful look,
red eyes, bearded like a tiger, the face
somewhat like a man's, the body cov
ered with scales and the tall so long
that It twice makes a turn of the
body, passing over the bead and down
between the legs, and ending, at last
In a fish's tall." The painting was In
an almost Inaccessible place on the
cliff and remained there until 1356 or
'57, when limestone workers quarried
back Into the bluff and destroyed It .
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WASHINGTON
ON NATURE
A GREAT deal of rain fell last
night and the heaviest sleet 1
ever recollect to have seen. The
boughs of all the trees were Incrusted
by tubes of ice quite round, at least
half an inch thick the weight of
which was so great that my late, trans
plantations in many Instances sunk
under It, either by bending the bodies
of the young trees breaking the limbs
or weighing up the roots the largest
pines in my outer circle were quite
oppressed by the ice and bowed to the
ground, and the largest catalpa trees
had some of their principal branches
broken."
"A great hoar frost and lee at least
one-eighth of an Inch thick what in
Jury this may have done to the fruit
and vegetation will soon be seen. The
buds of every kind of tree and shrub
are swelling the tender leaves of
many had unfolded the apricot blos
soms were putting forth the peaches
and cherries were upon the point of
doing the same. The leaves of the
apple trees were coming outf those of
ftie weeping willow and the lilac had
been out many days and were the first
to show themselves. The sassafras
was ready to open the red bud had
begun to open but not to mnke any
show; the dogwood had swelled Into
buttons. The service tree was show
ing Its leaf, and the maple bad been
full In bloom ten days or a fortnight.
Of this tree, I observed great differ
ence in the colour of the blossoms;
some being of a deep scarlet, border
ing upon crimson, others of a pale
red, approaching yellow. . . ."
"Found what is called the spire
bush (a fragrant aromatic shrub) In
bloom perceived this to be the case
on Monday, also as I returned from
Alexandria and supposed it had been
blown two or three days it Is a
small greenish flower, growing round
the twigs and branches, and will look
well in a shrubbery."
"Its light and airy foliaue, crimson
and "fi"i"ritjt flowers, presented a
gny and rut Jpjjearance ; contin
ually "", visited by the
brilliant thundering humming gird.''
Quotations from Washington in James
H. Pennlman's "George Washlngten as
a Man of Letters."
Washington Mote
Sells for $1,575
A LETTER written by George Wash
Ingtoa, regarded as most inter
esting, changed hands recently at a
sale In the Anderson galleries of auto-
Just Good
grapue iniis uic turini ui uie iie
Henry Cady Sturges of New York city.
The price paid for the letter was
SW75.- This Is the letter in which
Washington said he was not Inclined
to accept the presidency. The missive
was addressed to Jonathan Trumbull.
The letter reads:
"Mount Vernon, Dec. 4th, 1788.
"My dear Sir: It Is sometime since
I had the pleasure to receive your
favor of the 28th of October but as
I had nothing particular to send In re
turn, I postponed writing until the
present time to see whether anything
new would turn up. Nothing of im
portance has occurred. But In the
meantime, I was extremely happy to
find that your State was going on so
well as to federal affairs; and you
will permit me to say that I have not
been a little pleased with observing
that your name stood so high in the
nomination for Representatives to
Congress.
"In general the appointments to the
Senate seem to have been very happy.
Much will depend upon having dis
interested and respectable characters
In both Houses. For if the New Con
gress should b composed of charac
ters In whom the citizens will natural
lv rilnce a confidence. It will he a moat
Wi crimen f-g
II aOHHIgWH e
by Stuarl
This remarkable painting er the
Father sf our Country etopicts him a
he appeared during the trying days at
the close of the Revolutionary struf
Bis. The painting is by Gilbert Stuar
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THE HERALD
lonunaie arcumBtanee tor conciliat
ing their good will to the government
and then, If the government can be
carried on without touching the purses
of the people too deeply, I think it will
not be in the power of the adversaries
of It, to throw everything Into confu
sion, by effecting premature amend
ments. A few months will, however,
show what we are to expect
"I believe yon know me sufficiently
well, my dear Trumbull, to conceive
that I am very much perplexed & dis
tressed In my own mind, respecting
the subject to which you allude.
"If I should (unluckily for me), be
reduced to the necessity of giving an
answer to the question, which you
suppose will certainly be put to me, I
would fnln do what was In all respects
best. But how can I know what Is
besf, or on what shall I determine?
May Heaven assist me In forming a
judgment ; for at present, I see noth
ing but clouds and darkness before
me. Thus much I may safely say to
you in confidence; if ever I should,
from apparent necessity, be Induced to
go from home In a public character
again it will certainly be the greatest
sacrifice of feeling & happiness that
ever was or ever can be made by him,
who will have In all situations, the
pleasure to profess himself, with
sentiments of real esteem.
"Tour affecte friend and obedt
Servant,
fSiwied) "O. WASHINGTON."
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U. S. Land Office at The Dalles, Ore
Dec. 26, 1921
NOTICE Is hereby given that
Jacob A. Dexter, of Heppner, Ore,
who, on March 5, 1919, made H. E.
No. 020142 and on July 12, 1920,
made additional H. E. No. 020443,
for NE, NNW' SENW,
NSE, Sec. 20, NWUNE4,
NW14, NSW'A, Sec. 21, Township
4-South, Range 24-East, Willamette
Meridian, has filed notice of inten
tion to make three year Proof, to
establish claim to the land above
described, before Gay M. Anderson,
United States Commissioner, at
Heppnjer, Oregon, on the 6th day of
February, 1924.
Claimant names as witnesses: J.
N. Batty, of Eightmile, Ore.; F.
M. Lovgren, of Heppner, Ore.; G.
I. Burnside, of Elghtyml'e, Ore.; H.
D. McGurdy, of lone, Ore.
J. W. DONNELLY,
Register.