Show GEORGE WASHINGTON To T the memory emor of the man first In war wa first In peace and first In the hearts hearth heart of his countrymen M JU ORE 0 THAN HA A HUNDRED years yer ago these tese words word were uttered by Henry Henr Lee Le in a a eulogy pro pronounced pronounced on George Washington W V a a few days after the death of the greatest soldier and statesman of all il the great t soldiers and statesmen statesman this republic hag haa ha pro produced produced produced Long since the body of Henry Lee Le moldered Into luto the dust from which came caine the man mn but his words ring as clear and as a true today as af they did When Then the nation naton mourned moure the greatest bereavement It Lt had h d over ever ev r known kown A hundred years hence when this generation has taken taRen its It place In the silent halls hals of death deat when all au but a handful have passed from the memory of ot otman man the name or of George Washington will wU still be beheld beheld beheld held in reverence the te story of f his life Ufe and his achieve achievements ments will be told and told again Washington was wasa a a man with a mans passions a mans loves and hates bates a amas mans temptations but he rose grandly above all al personal D considerations and when we think of ot him we remember nothing but the good he did It has been said that The evil evi men do lives after them the good is oft of interred with wih their bones With some lome of the te most prominent characters of or history the saying is true but not with Ih Washington In the life of ofa George a org Washington there must mut have been events event that he would not have cared to proclaim to the pub public public lic lc No human being reaches the age of or maturity without making mistakes without succumbing to totem temptations tem without experiencing regret for acts a ts of omission or commission Washington was human and therefore he must have erred ered but nobody has written his errors Into history Of Ot him only the good Is remembered remembered And there is the greatest tribute to the te man He Be had enemies bitter biter lifelong enemies who traduced his character and who endeavored to destroy his work but the overpowering greatness of the man at last overcame all aU opposition and when he died the nation aton mourned as ns a stricken mother for her first born The first president of the United States would be be called caled an aristocrat these days He was the scion n of otan an old and wealthy family He was never poor por In the sense of t f having to work for a livelihood and andi it i is therefore all aU the more to to his credit that that with wih every temptation to a life lite of ease and idleness he be found and worked out a career the history of ot which will wl never perish from the earth This is the one hundred and anni anniversary of the birth of Washington As It comes on Sunday this year the celebrations will wI occur tomor tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow row by common custom and all allover over the United States and in foreign lands where a few Americans are gathered together the name of Washington will willbe wi willbe be coupled with feeling tributes to his worth Soldier statesman but first of all al a q patriot no American name nae evokes the same sentiments the te same unanimity of or oi feeling that the name of Washington does i His lie life cannot fail fal to be at once an Inspiration and an example to the youth of the te land |