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Show Page Two arro • rae PERSONAL IDEAL NATIONAL NEED • B7 JUDGE ANDREW A. BRUCE, Northweatena UnfYerllt7• W HILE the American people individually are la~less, colleethely they are the most law abiding of all the nations of the earth. Sovereign states have been willing to settle by court decrees great- boundary and water rights, dispute• such u those between Colorado, Nebraska and Arkansas, which involved the use of the Colorado, the La flatte and the Laramie rivers; and between Texas and Oklahoma which involved the great oil depositS of the Southwest. 'l,'hese eontroversies in most of the countries of Europe would have meant war, but the sense of law and order was so strong in this 'ountry that a supreme court of nine men in gowns was able to seftle the disputes and to settle them without the firing of a gun or the calling out of a soldier. Collectively we are law abiding, but individually we are lawless. We show a national patrioti~m and a national ideal. What we need, chiefly, is a personal ideal. Democracy is individualistic; democracy is self· centered, and rebels at constraint. Democracy is lawless, but democracy: i~ irresistible. Its possibilities are unlimited. It needs only to be faced. It needs only to be understood. It needs only to be directed. We have a national patriotism, a national self-respect and a national ideal. All that we need is the cultivation of a personal respect and a personal ideal.. What the boy and girl and what the defaulting father: and mother need is self-respect and a sense of dignity that is in them• • By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Imaclne a crea parallt~locram made of low cabIn• set end to end, their common outalde wall be· Inc the wall of the fort, and loopholed. At tbe four comer. of the parallelocram the cabin• jutted out, •tth ports In the ancle In order to clve a ftanklns fire In case the 1avage1 reached the palllade. Arul theA there were huge log cates with watchtower~ on either Bide, where Bentrle• eat day and nlcht 1cannlng the forest Une. Within the fort wa• ll blc common dotted with forest trees, where aucb cattle u Jaad been eaved browHd on the 1canty era-. There hact been but the one 1crawny hor•e IMfon out arri'V•L ADd the lettler•r How 1hall J c1e~crlbe them u thfy crowded around n• tnelde the sateaf Some tltand at ua wltb llallow facea ana eye~ brtghtenec'l lily the tner, yet other• had the re4 clow of lleaJth. lf¥7 of the men wore roucb bearcJa. unkempt, and weathem-worn huntlq ahlrt.e, often 7e~ow, atalnecl with blood. The barefooted women wore aanbonneta and Joo•• homespun sowne, aome of line• made from nettles while tlte children awai'IDed here and there and everywhere In anJ' CI0~1PD* that chance had clven them. All aeemtnsly talked at once, they plied u• with queetlon after queatlon of the trace, the Watauca aettle-l menta, the ae..,. In the Carollnu, and bow the ' war went. • • • EVILS CHURCH MUST COMBAT . B7 REV. J. MARONI (Lutheran), Dean of Oolo, Norwa7. UCH Ill the picture of an American IICell& UiO J'81lr& &IO wblcb Winston Churchlll painted In his book, "'The Cro88lng." For It you remember that c_reat noTel of a quarter of a century ago, you will recall wrltln1 et those American.. that Churcblll wbo, lD the words of Arthur Gutterman. the poet, w"' , , • Bunt their lonell' at&Uona and the loc• were cut and hewn By the breed or Simon Kenton and the 'blood or Daniel Boone. Tli.,. atood behln4 the loopholes In their ru•ged palleadel Tbroqb hot and weary alecea. attacks an4 ambuacadeL ~ 1hot aDd made their ealll• Ull the Sbawaeea 'brolte and 184, WilDe the women charce4 the rlle1 and Ule women allaJMd the lead, 'l'he womert nuraec'l the wounc1ed an4 the women . watolled by alcbt, Tlae -mert broucbt the water tll.rougb the perU of the ftllrht. 'l'lle mothers ne'Ver faltered; and tbe aona that tbea were .miUl Grew aa Bunters of Kentucky aDd were atron• and brave and talL .ADd thll "great parallelogram made of 101 caldu set ~d to end" was t.he cradle of liteatuek;v, the ftrst ED&Uab settlement west of the .Allelbanles, the place which hu been aptly • called the "Bamestown of the West"-hlatorle Burodaburg. A.lthout;h the stirring events wbkh . took place within and around Its walla al'& now a century and a halt ln the past, that historic put ltln UveL Oo to Harrod.'lburc today and JVQ will rub your eyes In astonishment. For ~ yeo wtU see "theso logs and cabins. brolllng Ia th liddaammer IIUD," much u Churcblll has dekribed them, and aa you walk throu&h the .... toe ptee," which stand Invitingly open, It 'i eu,. to torret that you aN: llvlnl In the Twatleth century Amerlea of racUoa and automoldlfll' UC alrplaDea uc1 lt Ia eaay to believe that ..._ -.ate has carried 109 back to that tar-o« t1JM. ,.._ tJie Dlltlon wu m the making. .,_ OD t1ae edp of the modern dtJ of Harrodsbarr. KJ., Ia a park wltlch baa been presented to the -~ bJ tile dtlseu of HarrodsbUI'I u a ...odd to hr pioneers, ud domlllatlq all Clf ot the past Ia a heavilY· the odlet .toekade4 lipltt9eun. a l'&pllca of Harrod's tort. Aa :r01;a liQ'01J aC!f'oaa the craasy eommon Jualde Its ~ It li aot ~It to people thoee cablna &rRDcl wltla :roa with the pioneers wllo once Uvet ad Joyed, lailoret ud fought and (some of _..clera them) died tllll'W;,:; •aDds .Jamea Barrod, aetlYe. dlpJftecl, CJDe of O'Nf ID tl*t '( PoRtia; oomDt ~ the handaoDiest ...,., ~ u.at o tiiJ tlate." Look through eUifl. ud t11ere JOll mllht maa; tall, *lUiftt·lndJt, IIIID-~deoed, auK17 of J&alr, his ~ btu .,.. .,....,,•• tbe '4oo~ Of see a youD• tnttPU1 the ~,. ,rtdcla Utter the ~hewn table befell'& wbtdl llt alta. It • Qeecp Bqem Clark pl•qJns hta OODCHIIt ot t1ae _.... torts eouau;, l'rom ..._,. eabiD m ~., ~tile . . . . Of . . . . Ja lo'a4 . . . . . ner. Ia aD tlllP7 aote lD tbe ...... II IN ftke ot a lbOJt; CJ~t4-aet mtm. l'ot" llq1a MC!Qaq Ia a bot'-~ ~ a braft man bat • 1'11111 aat ha8tJ . . . ·u tM at017 ot tile d18btnnla ba.ftl' • :81Ge Llekl ~ JltQoaUT braTe ate .T~ Bow· 188D, .TMD J'JoJ4. Uha Toctd QG' BmfaldD ~ 1m U.,J caDDOt peri1Ml48t llqb MeOa17. .ADd aa. apeak~ ap the QUiet '9'0ii* ot aatu.. :uuaer. No man can be blind to the fact that society of today is in an unhealthy condition and confronts us with most difficult problems. There are evils of poverty and unemployment, house shortage, the war, clas1 remwarfare and mammorusm. :Men are striving with feverish zeal to ' edies for these ills. We cannot leave these difllculties to be settled by politicians, for they are the representatives of but one party, and the church must goard against becoming the servant of a single party. Since prevention is better than cure the church must be always mod energetic in the cause of temperance. It must take up the fight againafl all the pitfalls that are set to catch the feet of the young. It must pro. teet against slackness with regard to the sacredness of marriage. It musfi attack the selfish code of business and commerce, and stop the lrazen, shameless advertisement of sin of every kind. It is the duty of the chureb' not IP~rely to relieve want and suffering but to create a Christian opinion with regard to morality, legislation and social resj,onsibility. The life of the Christian is the Bible of the world, and is often the only one that is read. pd.. 28$.J.I1'f(.f;JI;fG!tNff Portraits of Hamilton and Clark from Qualfe'a MThe Capture of Old Vlncennea" (courtesy of Bobb8-Merrlll Co.). Photographs of the fort and · Lincoln cabin by the author. r Of cour.., the love of the frontier waa In the 8l'&ln of then men. But what did they come back to? DIIJ' after day would' the IUD riae over the fon.f; u4 beat down upan the little enela.ure 1D .,__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __,.. whlell we were penned. The row of cabin• leanaround whose broad ftft)uth theft' Is always the Inc acalnat the atoekade marked the boundaries of our dlmrnuttve wOTld. Be7ond them, lnvlalble, trace of a smile and In whose blue eyes there lurke4 a relentleaa foe. Within, the creater aoula glints always a klndlr but determined look. And aloae wen calm, au a man'• worth wu eet c1own all of them listen, for this man Is Daniel Boone. to a balt'a 'reaCth. Some were alwaya to be found 114Uatttnc on their c1ooretepa ourehlc the But not all of the Imaginary Inhabitants of hopr which bad aeen· them depart for thla laD4; Fort which you might see are Ogbting Harrod's aoi'ne wre•tled and foucllt on the common, for a men and generals and empire b-..Uders. From aat lpt with a fair field and no fa'Vor waa a fa Tor• one of the cabins comes the hum of young lte amusement of the backwoocbnllen. • • • voices and as you peep through the window you lo the .ummer wore away, whUe we Jived from h&DC to mouth on ncb scanty fare aa the two of see the homespun-clad form of Mrs. William tbem llbot and wb•t wa could venture to cather Coomes, around whom are gathered a group of In the llnkempt lel4a near the catL A wl•ter of leamlng their letters from paddles, youngsters tamlne lark~ ahead and men were coaded near to Jaatlrreea at the tbouwht of c:learln~ra made and crude reproductions of the old English hom· cora $1lante4 ln the tprlng within reach or tbelz hooks of Queen Elizabeth's time. For this Is ba~a. aa tt were, and thel' might not harveet lt. the ftnt school west of the A lleghanles. But S Friday, August 9, 1929 THE MIDVALE JOURNAL before some stupid or mischievous child leams that these paddles have another use at the bands of Mlstre88 Coomes, let us Investigate the ateady bum which comes from another ('llbln. For there alta Anne McGinty at the spinning wheel which she has brought with her over tbe long mountain trail and abe Is busy spinning the thread of com· blnatlon buifal.) wool and lint trom wild nettles. Back ot her stands tne loom which sfle bas realpecl for weaving the coarse but warm cloth which so many of the pioneers of Harrod's Station ate wearing. "Anne also experimented with nuts and barks tor dyeing her geods, for, bavlng an artistic eye. 8he was not satlsfted with the drab tones ot the natural C!Olon," one of the charming women ot Harrodsburg, who act as guides through the fort, wlU tell 70u. "The Inner bark of white walnut produced dull yellows; black walnut, dark browns; Indigo, blues; madder, dingy reds; oak, purple ; cedar beiTiea, dove or lE'Itd color. Wltb theM pretty colors the women made bright dresses of the IInsey-woolsey, and the -:voman who could originate the most beautiful combination of colora or deGIColll. the 11101t perfect 'broken plaids,' was a WOIJUlD of note. Anne was rarely akllltul and full of energy and so soon as the Indiana had scalped a husband, abe selected at wm from the waiting list before her." Little wonder that the cltlzeWJ of the Harrodsburg of today have takeu palna t11 recreate the atmosphere of the put and to take prldf> In the history ef their clt7. l'or they have andlsputed claim to the follo'Wlng "historic Orata.'' The Ont white settlement of Kentucky, 1774. The ftrst white child bora In Keatuny. The ftrst summer resort In Kentucky. The ftrirt court for Kentucky county. The ftnt 1cbooJ lD Kentucky. The ftrst sermon preached ln Kentu~. The ftnt Presbyterian church organised lD K~tucky. The ftrst representative from Keatucty In the Continental congress. The ftrst election In Kentucky, sending George Rogers Clark and Gabrk·l Jones to the Vlrglnla legislature. Tbe tlrat Sunday school orpnlzed In Kentucky. Th• 81'8t aplnnlng wheel for making IInsey. The ftrst crtat mill drlva by water (near Harrodsburg). The ftl'Bt race COU1'88 In Kentucky. The ftnt manufacturln1 of pottery, fabrics, plows, etc. At the lDtersection of two of the prlnclpall!ltreel8 In Harrodsburg stands a granite boulder wltb a bronze tablet bearing this Inscription, "Erected by the Woman's Club of Harrodsburg honoring the Mother Town of Kentucky. founded June 16, 17i4, and remembering the Orst mothers of the west to eater the wilderness: Ml'8. Daniel Boone, Mrs. Rlehard Hogan, Mrs. Hugh Mc:Gary, Mrs. Thomas Denton. A tribute from the womanhood of the present to the womanhood ef the past, June 16. 1926." Although that almple lnB<.'rlptlon auggests the cJory of Barrodaburr'a historic past, It Is not UDtll cme 1'181ta the ploueer memorial state park, prenoaaly referred to, that the past can be Yiaaallzed. l'or besides. the replica of the fort, there ene ftDc111 a monument erected by the same Womana• club lO that "Washington of the West" --Qeorp ~1'1 Clark. Nearly, too, Is the flODeer cemeteey, Old Fort BJJI C!emetery It 18 aDecJ. In which He burled more than 600 of the ...,.een ot that rectoa. In fnbt of tbe fort • • ufJQwr 'ftllnl~er of the past. a log cabin, wblcb w a eompeWna IDtereet for all vJalton. For It is the log cabin In which Nancy Hanks lived when a girl and ln which she was married to Thomas Lincoln by Rev. Jesse Head of •Harrodsburg, a Methodist circuit rider. In thla cabin, which lltood orlglnall,y on the Lincoln farm In Washington county but wblcb was moved to the Harrodsburg park several years ago, Thomas Lincoln and his bride lived for two or three years before moving to the farm near Hodgenville where on February 12,. 1800, thla pioneer mother gave birth to the son wLo was destined to be<'Ome one of the great mNA of all timeAbraham Lincoln. Harrodsburg gets Ita right to the title of "The Mother Town' from the fact that on June 16. 1774, a party of aettlen led by Col. Jamee Harrod, pitched their camp .beside a b~ spring on Its site and proceeded to lay otr a town there. They a881gned one acre ID-Iott: on f!Btb aide of the street running east and west and ten acre out· lots to each of the Inhabitants. They then proceeded' to build four or ftve cabins on their In-lots and drew lots for cablns scattered over a wide territory whlcb were called "lottery cabins." Soon after their arrival they were joined b7 Il!laac Bite, a surveyor, and ,a nother party of men. While they were busy planning the town, Daniel Boone and Michael Stoner, mes&P..IIgera from Lord Dunmore, who bad come 800 mlles In 62 days to warn the venturesome pioneers In Kentucky that the Indians were on · the warpath, arrived. While there Boone became Interested In tbelr plans and was &1ven e lot In the new town, adjoining that of Evan Hinton. A double log '"-abln was built to serve both Boone and Hinton and stood there until It was burned by the Indians ln 1777. Thus It will be seen Boone had a band lD settllnc Harrodsburg before he did the town which bore hls name. The settlen at Harrodsburg remained there until July, then, as a result of the wamlng brought by Boone and Stoner, returned to take part In the Dunmore war and fought In that historic engagement, the battle of Point Pleasant. On March 1G, 1775, Harrod and hls ~~ettlers returned to make their permanent settlement at Harrodsbur1 (since Boone began bls fort at Boonesborough, April 1, 1775. Harrodsburg baa a priority of more than two weeki over Boone. borough as a permanent settlement). By September 8 the wlvee and familles of the Harrodsburg settlen bad aiTived and, fl.ndlDI the orl&1nal tort Inadequate and scarcely sat'cl as a defense from the Indian attacks which were sure to come, a second ud larger one was butlt on old Fort HUL "Within lta narrow eonJlDes that stockaded stroqhold contained all the elements that have made Kentuck)' famous-courage and klndllnea which distinguished such leaden as Boone and Harrod and Logan : re11&1on as practiced by Rev. John Lythe and Squire Boone, who came wltb Bible In one band an ax In the other; culture and statesmanship as exemplified ln John Todd; superb generalship, for there George Rogen Clark planned bls conquest of the Northwest Terrltoey." So reads a descriptive pamphlet of the fort. "Situated on the Wfldemesa Road. It was COD· venlently reached and provided a refuge for other forters when Indians were on the warpath. Brave ploneen placed their wives and chlldrea there for safety when unable to protect them at their own forts. People travellnc over thla Wilderness Road stopped there and found cor· dial welcome. except perhaps Gen. Henry HamIlton, called the 'halr b07er,' who rested there when sent ln chains to Wllllamaburg. the captive of George Rocen Clark. "Black Fish attacked lt. Capt. John Baggln, Capt. John Hinkson, C&pt. John McClelland, Col. Robert Patterson, General Loaau, John Maxwell and scores of others who¥ names adorn the pacea of our pioneer history oceupled Harrod'a fort at some time duriDI those eYentflll yeal'B. , • • To them all we muat acoord the horior due for they eame as the Revolution beg11., h•ld their ground, defended Vlratala'll back door and taYtcl aa - . plre to the Dlltloa." CLERGY CALLED TO ACCOUNT B7 REV. DR. ltNICXERBOCKER. :Minneapoli• (EpUcopaJ). • There exisb a widespread loss of faith today. 'nle chief contributing factors in the situation are: The theory of evolution; breakdod between the natural and 8\tpernatural; discovery of the relation of the nervous system and consciousness; loss of heaven as a place in which anythi-~ is to be done or accomplished, and alienation of a large group of unpri!· ileged. There are a number of causes for the apparent ineffectiveness of ou, work today. The average clergyman bas no schedule of work, he works when and as he likes; he engages in indulgent and careless living and careless thinking. He is satisfied with the externala of his profe88ion. An indulgent laity complains not and he goes on in a slipshod manner, unaware that be is becoming ineffective. The church today is on trial. Our religion i11 being challeng-ed in many quarters. We must marshal all our resources if Christianity is to 8e saved. We must again bring the world to the feet of Christ. MODERN PARENT FAILS IN DUTY • B7 DR. BERNARD IDDINGS BELL, Columbia l111iYerlit7. , I am not concerned with whether young people neck or do not neCt~ drink or do not drink. What matters is that some day Hfe is going to crash over them, when they reach the age of thirty or so, and their BillS world of conceit is going to be smashed to smithereens. There is no reality in the thing known as "American youth." Rather, we have in America, as· everywhere, a group of yoUDg people who are passing through the unstable and erratic process of growfllg up. Durinl that period young people should not be relied upon for rational conduct. There is nothing new or strange or alarming about young folk of today, The present age is slightly more insane in many respects, especiallY, in the way mature people act in regard to young people. The old·fash.· ion~d martinet parents may have hurt some childreu, but not as mucli as the parents of today, who flatter their children, slobber over them, and think they are endowed with ability to lead their elders. SUICIDE VICTIM OF EXAMPLE Why so many suicidal leaps from Chicago and New York.akyacrape this last year ? It's just a habit. And ifs just u euily controlled as any other habit. One reada in a paper or bean IOIIle 011e say that 10me cme elae hac leaped to death from a tall buildin(. One :riaualizea the pw.lllicity that att.nds such action. One becomes subjective l!ld pla,ya with the thought. Tho when ODI becomes depreaeed, he rememben tllat leap. Tb• folhrwl the Daclin&tioll -and another lllicide. If the aample bad not t.. set the broodiD.g pencm would ban chol• Ill then il to it. 101111 - oa. met'besl of tell a. ln<8• -~ ~ |