Show I I The Human T Washington I TAUL PAUL HAFFER HAFfER of oC Tacoma was known to toL L but hut few tew of his fellow countrymen countrymen when J t he published his article a few months ago tI i I I accusing George Washington of or drunken drunken- j ness and other irregularities Today he is isi i known wherever the wires of or the Associated j Press tick out their dan dally daily 1 dole of or news The Washington Supreme court has confirmed J hi his sentence of tour four 1 I months in the county count t Jail jai for libelling the tho first President and to 4 those few that knew luew Haffer Haer nna and held him In I proper contempt are added millions ho who are j divided b between amusement and irritation 4 over ovel the Tacoma brand of Justice Instead I of consigning consigning a n fool to stew tew In the Juice of 1 l his o own folly Coly the courts have made mado him a martyr George Washington's memory may safely safely safe safe- afe- afe ly be ho left to his countrymen in their enjoyment enjoyment enjoy enjoy- I ment of the tho heritage he ho carved for Cor them with his sword He needs no laws to punish punish pun pun- ish d detractors for libel no court decisions to affirm his respectability or ir the decency of oC his private life Customs were less stringent stringent gent In those carl early lays days cas and the Virginia gentleman genteman imported his Jamaica rum and drank it ev even n In the presence of or his spiritual Ulvi adviser er without provoking rebuke But the life and ail infinite Va Washington of temperate patience could not have been greatly a addicted addict addict- ed eel thereto for Providence Pro lid did not choose choope r for r Ic leadership nor did brave men follows follow 1 I drunkards drunkard an and wastrels then an all any more than now flow Of at the tile first Presidents President's humanness history history his his- tor tory leaves no doubt an and his memory Is the dearer to his country countr because of It It He wn was not superior to the frailties of ot his day and generation but his stern repression of oC his hison own o tendencies Is Js tr traditional Posterity loves los to thin I think of ot him as ns calm self self-re self restrained and of ot fine tine poise un under er circumstances the tho most provocative pro but what American re respects respects re- re him the less because his historic language lan Ian i guage e to Lee at Monmouth was precisely what that brave but obstinate and aggravating aggravating aggra aggra- soldier de deserved 1 Ills His Ils country is glad to know that the patriot who could thrust a aside ido a crown pursue Ibert liberty to tho the exclusion ex eX- clu elusion lon of all al else could coul lose his temper when a Jealous subordinate permitted en envy to override e his patriotism m and his duty Notwithstanding the quality of our recent weather thero there Is little lite doubt the young men who have just returned from the border find in it a certain attractiveness the Texas cHI climate climate cli cli- I mate lacks |