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Show CACHE AMERICAN, LOGAN, UTAH Sally Sez FOODS OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS Frmads A No Portrait of a Patriot BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON E HAS been described as the forgotten man who wrote the words that nobody can remember, to the tune nobody can sing, and hence became famous as the author of the National Anthem of the United States of America. He was Francis Scott Key, the man who gave the name of "The Star to the American Banner Spangled flag, the birthday of which we celebrate as Flag Day on June 14. Iti a rainy Mason but when yon DO happen to net out HOME INDUSTRY PATRONIZE At 400 Utah Oil Refining Service Stations in Utah and Idaho The circumstances under which our national emblem was thus christened are familiar, no doubt, to most Americans. They also know the name of the man who did the christening. But it is doubtful if one out of a hundred could tell anything else about him where he was born, what sort of man he grew up to be and what else happened to him after that high point in his career when he stood on the deck of a British ship and, looking toward bombarded Fort McHenry by the dawn's early light, saw that our flag was still there. If they want to learn more about him they can do no better than to get a copy of the book Spangled Banner The Story of Francis Scott Key, written by Victor Weybright and published recently by Farrar and Rinehart of New York. It is the first complete biography of this "forgotten man, a portrait of a patriot who deserves better than the neglect that has been his lot. Francis Scott Key, like Adam, came of the He was born red earth, says Weybright August 1, 1779, at Terra Rubra, his familys country seat in the Maryland redlands." And although he became a noted lawyer and associated with some of the nations greatest in the National Capital, to the end of his days he remained a son of the soil with a passionate love for the place of his birth. Key was also a true Son of the American Revolution. Before be was born, John Ross Key, bis father, marched away to the siege of Boston as a lieutenant of one of the Maryland companies of expert riflemen whose coming gave such a thrill of joy to His Excellency, Gen. George Washington. After his birth the elder Key rode away to Virginia to fight with Lafayette against Benedict Arnold and Lord Cornwallis. Curiously enough the man who was to influence Francis Scott Keys life most was not a Patriot but a Tory his uncle, Philip Barton Key, who had been studying law in Philadelphia at the outbreak of the Revolution, joined the British army there and became an officer In a Maryland Loyalist regiment So the Revolution was a civil war for the Keys as It was for many another family. Francis Scott Key was six when Uncle Philip Barton Key, the erstwhile Tory, forgiven by his family and pardoned by the government, came home from England. It was a gala day. . . It may have been the Influence of Uncle Philip with his penchant for poetry or It may have been an inheritance from an ancestor, who was a fifteenth century poet laureate of England, but In any case Francis Scott Key began writing verses as a boy and continued doing so all his life. At first be wrote this for the entertainment of himself and of his sister, Ann Phoebe Charlton Key. When, as a youth, he began to fall In love be wooed the girl of the moment with verse. Certainly It was the Influence of Uncle Philip which determined that he should become a lawyer and which sent him to SL John's college In Annapolis where he could be under the eye of the uncle who was already one of the leading attorneys of Maryland. After his graduation from St. John's, It was the Influence of Uncle Philip which placed him In the office of Judge Jeremiah Townley Chase to read law. Studying in Judge Chases office was another fledgling lawyer destined for fame Roger Brooke Taney, recently graduated from Dickinson college at Carlisle, Pa. The two became close friends and their relationship became even closer when Taney met Ann Key, fell In love with her and married her. Years later he was to become the Chief Justice Taney of the United States Supreme Court who handed down the historic Dred Scott decision. In the summers Key returned to Terra Rubra to spend bis vacation and there in two successive years two significant events occurred. In 1797 he met fourteen-year-olMary Tayloe Lloyd whom he married five years later. "In the he heard for the first time summer of 179S, a political song to the tune of 'To Anacreon in Heaven, the melody that was to make him famous. It was 'Adams and Liberty, celebrating President Adams firm notes to France and England, and it became one of the most popular songs ever sung in America. Its author, Robert Treat Paine, had written It for the fete of a Charitable Fire Society In Massachusetts. The words were rousing. The tune was noreL Even Jeffersonians sang It lustily. After completing his studies In Annapolis, Key went to Frederick, Md., to begin the practice of law. After be was married he moved to Georgetown, just outside of Washington, the new Capital, there to engage In the practice of law with his Uncle Philip. As a lawyer, he developed Into an original pleader. His voice, firm, sonorous, mellow, bis remarkably distinct enunciafigure, were altion, his striking, erect, most his undoing. Hia oratory and personal charm exceeded his logic. He neglected to pierce fallacies with reason. Instead, he resorted to humanitarian appeals. His countenance, calm and expressionless in repose, now betrayed his sentimentality. Like a tragic actor, when he threw his whole soul Into a speech his face reflected how deeply he was moved . , So FraDcls Scott Key became one of the outstanding attorneys of his time a fact which is who all too little known by his think of him only as the author of their national anthem. With his uncle, who was one of the cousel for the defense, he had a minor part in the impeachment trial of Samuel Chase of the Supreme court, the first great legal battle that rocked the federal government" Soon after this trial, which resulted In the acquittal of Chase, Philip Barton Key retired from the practice of law and turned the business over to his nephew. His first Important case was the defense of Dr. Erich Bollman and Samuel Swartbout who were Implicated In Burr's Y. Jju&VMUn! ttt HaS ROUJJDTRIPS SAN FRANCISCO . $31.00 SAN DIEGO . . $37.10 VIA LOS ANGELES These are first class fares, good in Pullmans (berth extra). 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Indian cookery lore has been combined with and modified by the customs and traditions of each separate group of settlers. In Charleston, C. C., the cookary Is a very special mixture of French and negro art. Certain of the favorite dishes of the Middle and Far West were evolved during the covered wagon pilgrimages. Thus the beginnings of camp cookery, although much of It was far less healthful than present-dacamp food, as the frying-pawas the most extensively nsed Implement over those open fires. It Is no accident we associate clam bakes and blueberry puddings with Cape Cod, chile con carne with Texas and New Mexico or fish pilaus with Charleston, where the rice fields nsed to stretch In every direction. Now all these regional dishes may be enjoyed at any point of the compass Lettle Gay In the Parents Mnga-1- Olt Mn BEAT THE DRUMS CLAP A HAND THE FLAVORS GRAND 1 ne. yyJ ' , U : W 1 l 7' ns Base of the Ketj Memorial Keq Memorial at Fort McHenrq The rest of that story is too familiar to need repetition here how Key watched the bombardment of the fort through the night in an agony of suspense as to the outcome and how at last when morning came he saw the Stars and Stripes still floating over the fort a sign that the attack had been unsuccessful. Immediately he began to write a poem on the back of an old envelop (perhaps it was from John Randolph of Roanoke, for the two men had become great friends and regular correspondents after their first meeting at the impeachment trial of Judge Chase). After the unsuccessful attack the British fleet sailed away leaviug the three men to proceed upstream to Baltimore in their small Results Count There were three of them with the boastful spirit of ten years, talking of the achievements of their respective fathers. Said the son of a lawyer, My daddy can get a hundred dollars Just settling something about a fence line. No. 2 retorted, My father Is a doctor and sometimes has two hundred for a good Job. Not to be outdone, the smallest of the group ended the bragging with, Well, my father Is a minister, and It takes six men to carry away the money on plates after he preaches. New Outlook. Ot you taste Grape-Nut- s Flakes, youll cheer tool It has a delicious flavor plus real nourishment... one dishful, with milk or cream, contains more varied nourishment than many a hearty meaL Try It your grocer has it ! Product of General Foods. George repairs his Disposition. boat Roqer Taneq conspiracy, a case which was carried to the Supreme court and which resulted in their This spectacular case, so soon after Francif Scott Key began to practice law alone, definitely established him as a leading barrister . . . His manner of at the age of twenty-eigh- t speech, previously taken for granted, now became a minor sensation. He was a celebrity. . . . His law cases increased In number and importance." In the meantime, events were shaping up for the Incident which was to bring him his greatest fame. The young nation bad been forced to take decisive action against the Barbatj plratea to protect its commerce. When the naval officers, who had subdued the corsairs, returned to America, they were much feted. For one of these festive dinners Key composed a soDg In honor of young Stephen Decatur and set It to the music of "To Anacreon in Heaven." Among other phrases In the song was a reference to the flag of our nation which, with the tune to which it was sung, was curiously prophetic of another song he was to write 10 years later. Although that song was a war song, Its author was opposed to the conflict which produced It. That Is, he opposed It until the British Invaded his beloved Maryland. Then be joined a field artillery company that had been hastily organized in Georgetown, became a quartermaster (and a very Inefficient one) and took part In the comic opera battle" of Bladesburg. His principal contribution there was, as was that of many another gentleman officer, to run around advice to the distracted Genoffering eral Winder and contributing to the destruction of what little unity of command there was. As a result of the defeat of the raw American troops at Bladensburg, Washington fell Into the bands of the Invaders who applied the torch to the Capitol and other buildings. After this work of destruction, the enemy started to capture Baltimore and took with them as a prisoner a certain Dr. Beanes of Upper Marlborough who, annoyed by the rowdy behavior of straggling British sailors and soldiers, bad headed a body of citizens that arrested the roisterers and threw them into the county jail In that town. The doctors friends asked Key to accompany a Colonel Skinner, who was going under a flag of truce to the British, to secure the release of Beanes, who was held on board a British warship. Key and Skinner were successful in their mission but the three men were kept on board the admirals frigate as the British fleet sailed to attack Fort McHenry, the principal defense of Baltimore. Before the attack began they were placed on a small boat which was kept closely attached to the frigate. Key hastened to the office of a newspaper, the Baltimore American, to have his poem printed. The only person left in the office (everyone else had gone to assist In the defense of the city from the Invaders) was a young lad who set the poem In type and printed It as a handbill. Inside of an hour, so wrote Keys friend, Roger Brooke Taney, long afterwards. It was being sung all over town by the citizens of Baltimore, mad with joy over their citys deliverance from the fear of capture by the enemy. Thus was The Star Spangled Banner, our national anthem, born. In the minds of most Americans the story of Francis Scott Key ends at this point in his life. So it Is the service of his biographer to show that his career after September, 1814, was In fact, was even more distinnot guished than It had been before. His reputation as a successful lawyer continued to grow. He became a close friend of President Andrew Jack-soas much of an Insider as any member of the kitchen cabinet . . . and could have had any appointment within reason. But he asked the president for only one favor, a cabinet appointment for his friend and brother-in-laRoger Brooke Taney. The result was that Taney became attorney-genera- l and this activity on Keys part paved the way for Taney which led in a few stormy years to the chief justiceship, which led eventually to the Dred Scott decision, the unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise, and the Civil War. So Francis Scott Key was a history-make- r as well as a national anthem writer. He was also a diplomat as the emissary of Jackson he settled the Creek controversy which might have bathed Alabama In blood. It was a dispute over Indian lands In Alabama In which the questions of states rights and nullification were Involved. He was a philanthropist and humanitarian. Although a slave owner, he hated the institution of slavery and sought a solution of the problems which It brought to the nation by helping form the American Colonization society for settling freed slaves In Africa. He was an ardent churchman and did much to further the cause of the Episcopal church in this country. He became the father of eleven children and his family life is one of the most appealing aspects of hlg whole career. On January 11, 1843, Francis Scott Key died In the Baltimore home of his daughter, Elizabeth Phoebe Howard. He had grown up with the republic. His contemporaries knew him not as a poet but as a conspicuous and able and sometimes bothersome liberal, a distressingly serious layman, and, most singular of all, an honest lawyer. Amiable, mild, generous and virtuous, his colonization pleas and his activities were accepted for what they were the enterprises of a prosperous. If not wealthy, middle-stat- e man who carried into town life the simple Idealism of a benign squire. 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