| Show i j M ti ti r Tb S 4 t r t I ra n n at even kev the a aJoseph age or of r even seventy painted In I 16 Par Paris arl In Joseph n 1783 Ph by 8 red D Duplessis trait ThIs t i I s sred now por Pub Public II C Library L oWned 11 b by Y the New York ar arby y th thY the lowY low e gift ft of John Bigo- Bigo f Vice BeS COm Commander of the h B mander 3 Daniel F Gibbs G BenJ enjamin Franklin America American post pest of thed the can n Lealon statue tatu t 0 theof of Franklin Frankl F n k lays n ays a Wreath at the near the d deco ero fn In Paris p ofIn In b atI of 0 f the Y of Poor poor Richard ch s birthday t on n Janu January ary 17 17 1929 hers bay ers r of the flem Le I Iary 3 on post pest pos attended att nd d tl the Ie ceremony 3 13 T TIe The he famous ot of othe F Franklin Fur c P portrait P alt mad made e In France a few months mantis after after hi his arrival there In 1777 beau Drawing by D y es print b bLe b uy Le L LIIn It gives g es an idea 0 of fie fiew the Frank w wh h hes o 0 Franko Vias so much admired hy by the theas thes ladles In Na n S Paris as Passya a patriarch ar and ard d Passy P a sy andas a as a peasant and as the sh of f all con Fran Fron Franklin The he Alos le of rod lod ore ern LIttle rn Times b by Bernard Fay courtesy Brown and Company 4 Franklin n Bache Bashe H Huntington I of N Nn Flew ow w Yorka York a great ea great great gr grand rand ton Son on of Benjamin Franklin places a ath Wreath sent by nt President P C Ce Coolidge on th the e grave grav W of his hi s ancestor stor in on thes the anniversary of Frank Tins s birthday January 17 1920 1929 By ELMOs ELi ELMO O s SCOT SCOTT COTT T WATSON 1 l time Lime Benjamin I rank rank yv was as Jn h living hung In II I rinse gri I he Ie on once e said that his f ice le was a as familiar y 1 there as the moon And And that was sac not 0 en t lug IlIg the c else cise se Por In In- In l ij- ij their enthusiasm I fi m for this Am American er I can the could not Dot End nd 0 out ut too much about him him rl The Ie newspapers DC c curled r 1 e d dIe column upon cot col colm about him m historians and bl blog ciphers 1 he s vied s led with Hh w Ith etch eich other In W writ writing I lag Db Il about out his Ills career and heas he was as pc plc I turgid In Innumerable ell engravings rl flood of i I If that started then has continued ever since e l In hIs Ills nitle e land Americans Americana hive e been more writ written written written ten about than Binjamin Franklin until It would could seem that American and biographers had ex es the pos possibility of telling any anything anything anything thing new about him But It has re remained tor for a brilliant French Creech scholar which stud to write a new whole field of his life and nc ac In the light lIht of Innumerable documents among them more than sl hundred letters hitherto fished and s which presents what shat hat I is probably the most complete view clew of imin Benjamin Franklin lIn that has yet been heen written The author Is Bernard av Favand Favand find and the hook Is The Apos hed by tie of ot Modern Tires Tines published of Boston Boston Bos Boston and Company Little Dro Brost Brown Dron n ton Out of ot this new work based upon to been heen gathered facts which hive hale gather for tor the tIle first st h time emerges emel a anew anew new 1 l The Franklin which Americans have hitherto known has t challenges 81 always a s b been n a fiure admiration he a was such sucha our ur Put humin hu sided man a 8 versatile vErs mint min m as was this i m i century not ah always nys been ben un nn untangle under character he has tins tangle Twentieth century to der I 1 trough the Ati Am he be become becomes of Professor or ray Fay tine nhip and more easily easil more title or of the book nut But the ond A why why- to the reason Jh the clew apostle or of modern modem a was the the I 1 Another hi torian Philip Gue trines tImes as r ch dills Jt on once and the t first t thought In the same alOe the was Ills career words these of the t oat fellow have e facts fa that I Innumerable The fhe bring brine the first t time b gathered thc red hc here re for tor and show shiny him us to be clo r more er toc toto to background round c qUe of more his In epoch con ck to o the tn trist t lie he writes In the rl century cn ury Ie neither her b o r This This li his p Is the story ot et but bitt local nor r of mm min In thin lh 1 one ne of ot the great leaders Titus Thus or one can cun Fig century his J i In estimate edge e and he jud j varied varl a as al also alo o was as va which s and th the of dominated do world orld of hi his I tie time Put p philosophic the m mot most act t out lory II all 11 hi his l to 1 glory the first one Is that tie he w bourgeois of the world orld which 1 t ou century In In this t his i with arI toc away ay attempted to do It It t to o the tam dom dam racy to middle class I ra inn of the th gre at e ex great of the seas the ned dl do geed lIe Ile made ample and orl his the In lIe e his hIe life lite a pattern to follow antl an d this It t by hy poor nor or K submit piffled e Pat Ire 13 IS h the no 10 understand 1 ted tad to his Influence Importance nce of thIs th i the and he be c n ni nace to ii h id 11 Franl pi pian nt ace nil from nn rel relo felon Ity In stud and his hie fully an had bew to t o be end and philosophY led CI that standpoint considered Considered from 3 a I l I 3 tw A K N a n 1 Y f t tf f 4 y i d n z s aC a s y tt v W J 0 b y r r A I 1 stands revealed resealed riot not as us a pro plO pio Yankee who common commonsense commonsense sense as so many of or his bis biographers base e portrayed him nor simply as us a great American but one of the great men of his century and a man mun who ho used II In tn perfect harmony with hh hl his times even esen thou though h In his wisdom 1 lom and hl his he be was wis far In an ad advance 1 of his times Professor Fais Fai's ra s 's use n c of the new v material which he dl ered co tins enabled him to clear cleir up mans mun matters In regard to rr Fr inklin s roll nil glon gion morals and social which ha base ha e heretofore been but little understood As to his religious beliefs be- be belief be beliefs lief It can now be seen en that lie he be believed In a 1 Supreme Being lIe He re regarded girded Jesus Je us us as a great moral teach teacher teacher teacher er and In regard to tile the of the soul foul he subscribed to the p tin or an doctrine of un survival In a new body hody with ne new senses and ind new ne filets 7 1 hit h it belief Is reflected In the epi epitaph which he lie wrote rote for tor himself ear early earI I ly in life and which reads The Body ot of nn JAWN fIN FRANKLIN Printer Like the cower cover CO er of ot an old book Its Its contents content torn out out And of Its lettering and gilding Lies here food for worms Yet the tho work ork Itself shall not 1 be 0 lost It will as he believed appear once more moreIn moreIn moreIn In a II new v And more beautiful edition Corrected and nd amended ByThe ny icy The AuthorA Author AuthorA A deist In his early earl life lite he lIe belle bellee e that min could do no evil esil In 10 a world where hue all events were foreordained bs b the Dell Deity and tint thit man therefore should take his sure w hele heie he found It That beliefs belief was wis s th cued by b his Ills experiences cs In the Immoral london I ondon of or the early parly Eighteenth century but when he lie be became became came disillusioned through the betray betrayal al by friends he had flail tru trusted he d to shape his life for elf and for that purpose pose he lie set do down don n four cardinal rules of suid guid uld per L good goodwill and loyalty I ater atu he lengthened this tills flat t by thin teI temperance teen ance silence order r so reso I Industry sincerity e el cleanliness tran chastity and humility In the practice of or the hI he was successful ful fulIn In all nil hut but two order t two order o-order order and chastity r Oll of or I ay a s s new v revelations re ismore Ismore Is Ismore more Interesting thin than those e dt dealing with the part pirt which lily bli membership tn in the n Masons on cd In hi his career The Masonic society had bun Ill n t h lI hd In Philadelphia In ht li 1727 7 at the time hI n rani tin lin was HIS only a corn com all unknown lI oun printer It was composed Largely hr ely of rich mf t chants who did not look with or upon Fr nut But be he forced his way Into the society bv by lo ho showing hu how buss of ef he be could me use lils Oe It If it Its members kept hIm out out and his a Masonic helped win In for li n the pO position of 01 general of ot the colonies and liter It Il smoothed Ins Ills pith when hen hE wait to England Fn land on his Ills first rt m itic mission there It was as even en more valuable v s lien hen he was sent to I ranee rance to enlist t French aid for the Hie lie colonies during the lution Through the he hid h access to the newspapers which were f re controlled by the gas gO gOern era ern meat ment hut hat which were v ere cre really written hv by th the Masons n on and ind the philosophers such as Suard De la In Div DIC merle were ere all I b s friends sa sass I 1 iy Practically nil all of the I 1 newspapers ne publish d outside or of I 1 ranee rance were In tIle the hinds binds of the Masons 1 also Franklin r had Ind his Ills writ writIngs In lags s by hy all of these and he heID heing heing ID ing tIle the mister master propagandist t that he hewis wic he made mide the most of his to present America s cruse to Flie fhe career of Franklin I Is one of the strangest tr ng t par In Ore Ole of them Is Ie that this tins son of a poor Poston any apprentice to a poor printer should hould Ilse 11 e to record the Fhe he fact that thit Tho I IdId idid Idid dId not think that thit i I should ever er lit orally stand before kings I 1 hire e stood tood e five file th e and e even esen en had tile the honor of sitting doss do down don n with one the of Denmark to n nother other Is the fact tint th It a man who s lS is almost entirely lv self educated should hise e universities s of two t continents sting Ing with each other In conferring upon him honor rV decrees Put must most of all ull I Is the theta ta fact t that thIs tills man mun silo ho hos was wis so t pi call American tint that he lie became a 1 ver er symbol cymbal of America ev even n In his lifetime wis s never neer ne er understood or 10 ed by l y his Ills n ov-n people lie was I III ed cd Intensely bv LJ the best bet fl I of Penn i h unit and was as distrusted by many others rs in the cobalt s is 11 i a char 1 latan Iatan and ind a n trimmer The distrust t In lenn h Is easily understood lie He HeI I was as the organizer of or th the tho small s-nall farm ors er l nil II ivies and small tradesmen I Ithe i I I I I the democratic forces ore cJ In that thit colony colons and anci a as such sue lils 1111 would naturally r I t he nn theina to the ari sup sup- supporters sup supporters I i porters of or tile the proprietors the Penns I I he should havo o horn b fn re- re girded re-girded girded rdell In the same simp by hy reI I I cleo ere cic int lilt Frane Iran e III Instead tint tool took this simple to ro It Its heart In his lils and all hut but toI I canonized him after Us t I death III Ills moral and antt religious theories frightened the lie v and meat ment he tie lived hived In w writes rites r Fly ty IY lie I was a I d ot of atheism and nd hl for Cor though his hl God Cod re Its parent the Christian hi istian DI DIvi I vi nit It had dl differences ben Men hen nt t length lenth Franklin had many I It was wis because e of a 8 double role rn's In America he WitS was toll followed 0 eel because he be was aJ believed to tobe tobe he be a Christian In rr n because he was cI classed sed with the atheists |
