| Show V of i 7 a t rei ern 7 44 1 4 h ii J 4 4 L I t I c I T r p 5 1 Franklin at the age of 01 seventy seven oven even Painted In Paris In 1783 by Joseph Duplessis This por portrait portrait portrait trait Is le now owned by the New York Public Library the gift of John Binge Bigelow tow low 2 2 Vice Commander Daniel F Gibbs of the Benjamin Franklin pOst of the American Legion lays a wreath at the statue of Franklin near the Trocadero Trocadero dero In Paris In celebration of the anniversary of Poor Richards Richard's birthday lY on January 17 1929 Mm M-m M bers bels of the Legion post attended the ceremony 3 The famous Fur Cap portrait of Franklin made In France a few months after his Ins there in 1777 Drawing by Dc rayes by Le Lebeau Lebeau Lebeau beau It gives an Idea of the Frank FrankIIn FrankIln who W was lS so much admired by the ladles in Nantes PariS Pans and Passy e 15 s a patriarch as a peas peasant nt and andas andas andas as the shrewdest of all diplomatists From Franklin Tte Tle Apostle of Modam rn Times by Bernard Fay courtesy Little Brown and Company 4 Franklin Bache Huntington of New York a great great great grandson grand son on on of Benjamin Franklin places a wreath sent by President Coolidge on the grave of his ancestor In Philadelphia phia on the anniversary of Frank FrankIIn's FrankIln's Franklins Franklin's birthday January 17 1929 By Dy ELMO SCOTT WATSON tt 1 l IlD 3 time 1 l rank ank l s s 11 using living Int in France rr Princey it a aho A ho hr once wild I tint tilt his jl d face ace aces was wis s as y 1 there as the moon And that was wui not os 0 t R RIng I InI Ing the CJ case e lor I or In In- In their ism for tIll this the I reach rench could not find tind out too much n about out him 7 1 he hene ne carried column upon col column column about him historians and blog raphers vied sled with Hh etch cich other In Writ writIng writIng Ing about his career reu and ind he ft s as pie pic pictured tur Lured d In ra hip JOgs The Tile Hood flood of I r inklin literature that started then n Ins his continued e User eer er since Ince especially In his e hod Few rew Americans e hale been heen more writ written written written ten about than Benjamin I 1 until It would could seem beun that Hut American historians and blo had ex er hausted the possibility of telling an thing new a about out him But nut It has lias re remained roamed for a tnt int Freud Tench schol tr irto to write a new v s stud stull les the whole hole field of his life nm and ac ac- activities ne- ne activities In the light of able ahle documents among them more than eLi hundred letters hitherto h hand and ss which presents n whit hat t 11 L probably the most complete view of Benjamin Franklin tint th his s vet et been written The author Is Bernal Bernard d Fay and the book Is rr The Apes Apos tie of Modern Times published by Little Brown Bron Bro Bross n and Company of Bos Boston Boston Boston ton Out of this tills new work hl hawed ed upon facts fact s which hive vp been gathered t to together gather gether for the first time emerges e a anew anew new Jew rr The Franklin Which Americans ns ha hale hae e hitherto known ha has always been bon a n fi figure ure s hick challenges our Ur admiration because u bec e he was such sucha a 8 versatile miny sl sided e mm n But Rut hJ ha haman lumm man n as was this Eighteenth r century character he has lias not ah l 5 been lieen h en un on to Twentieth century Amerle Americ In ins Through the interprets of Professor or ray Fly he lie becomes become more and aid more easily e understood But the title of the book des the eleto dew chess to the hv a was sat the apostle of If modern mOllem times Another historian Philip Gue dada hila once ch Franklin as time the the first and Professor Fly Fay phrases s 's the same came thought In these words Ills Ills IUs career was wis lS time the apo II of the good fellow 1 rhe fhe Innumerable nets facts tl tI at I 1 hive Fathered here for the O first t time bring bringis Ut is clos closer r to I rani r sin and show him him to be more picturesque more In con tryst to the bad ground round of his epoch the Eighteenth r he lie writes s rites In his preface Tills This Is n neither local lorol nor national n but hut Is the story of one of the great eat leaders of men In the century Thus 1 hus one cnn can judge e and e estimate his Immense e In which was nas also fil o varied V as fiS he dominated d th the Hie political and philosophic world orld of his Ills time Put of all his titles to glory the mo most t out outstanding standing one Is Iq tint that he was sas as the first bourgeois bou of the world orld In In this I l century which attempted to do aw as ly my with racy and to orient Itself to the dom of the middle class I n ryas the lie greet greit precursor the great relt ex example ample lIe He defined f ned the principles of the bourgeois In hl his worl works mal and made hIs life lire a pattern to follow folio He lIe e em It bv hv Ioor Poor Richard and this Was 09 hv the entire une ummI universe se em-se e submit submitted I t ted d to his Influence To understand the amplitude and Importance of this had to be Con hJ eyed red from an International standpoint and his hll activity In science rell religion lon arid aud philosophy had to be full Mud ted led Considered from that standpoint I d t N W Tt sly r iATt K iA I u t K- K t ti i I a 4 I j i xi x ved t opa 1 0 A a aa ae J e a M a r oF 1 r 4 x l y J 1 r- r JJ f yr tVS PW 4 r r stands standI resealed re not as a n IH 0 e who ho glorified common commonsense commonsense sense as so man many of his blo biographers r hn e pOI him nor simply as ae a great American but one of time the gl eat men of his century and a n maim ho 11 lined ed In to pel perfect ham mony with sith Ith his times even though In his wisdom Ic om and his foresight be he was far Car In ads ad ance of his times Professor sor F r r lys ly's u use e of time the nets ne which he ered his enabled film to cleir up m mon matters In regard rd to rr q I tell ell glon morals moral and social t e which hive heretofore been but little understood As to his religious be belIefs It can now be he seen scon that he be belIe believed lIe ed In a Supreme Being lIe He re girded Jesus Jecus as a a great moral teach teacher er cr and In reg ml to the of the soul he limed to time the p PI this th doctrine of survival ur in a new lIew ho body v with new ne sen senses e and ind new Ideas as That belief hellet Is reflected In time the ep he tie wrote for himself ear early early carly ly In Ie life an and s which reads The Body Dody of DI BE BENJAMIN J JA A I Printer Like the cover of an nn old book Its contents torn out out And of Its lettering and gliding Lie here herp food for worms Yet the work Itself shall not be lost It will Ill as ho believed appear once more moreIn moreIn In i t new And more beautiful edition Corrected and Il amended 1 7 The Author AuthorA A deist In his rl e early v life lite he belle ed that man could do o no all JI In a world worle worlds here s here all nil e events were b time the Deity and that mm man therefore should ho tike his Ills pleasure where here lie he found It l That hat belief bellet w s is 18 strength strengthened erred ened bv 11 b his lifs l In the notoriously ou ly Immoral London of th the lie early eighteenth century but hut shin 11 lit he IH be became came disillusioned d through the tile nl al by friends he had trusted he de determined to shape sh his hIe life for and for that purpose he bet set down four cardinal l rules of nice ince I good goodwill still III und and lo loyalty alty I I 1 uter ho hp lengthened this tills list by thir silence order res resy temperance teen temperance y frugality Industry justice cleanliness tram humility In the and chastity practice pr of these e heas lie he was sas successful s In nil all but bin two order two order and chastity Is Ismore Ismore Ismore new revelations None of rU Ia s q more Interesting those dealing membership which his Ills mem Ht time I pint pirt In his Ills career reer in the Mesons played pl society had been I lime he Mu Masonic In In 1727 Ij j at nt time the lIme dine when liS only a n corn com unknown voun oun printer It w wis composed ed of rich rimer ner chants hunts who did rile not look with r l lor or unon I r nut But he be forced his wry v IY Into the society b showing In how of ef cly ely he could use his Ills nc against It It tt Its numbers kept him a nIC I outa out and his Masonic helped win for him the po position of l postmaster general of the colonl colonies 8 and later It t smoothed Ills his pith path when hen he scent ent to on his Ills first firt matic ml mission lon theme It ss was as es e een e en cn more valuable al s when hen hen he as sent lent to to enlist french aid for the lie colonies during the Revo Revolution lution Through the Masons l 11 lie he had bad access e to the ne newspapers papers which sere ere officially controlled by time the gO ern government ment but hut s filch were really s ritten by bv the In Masons on and the philosophers such as Suard De la In DIX merle win ho were sere ere all Franklins s friends Sis lS ray Pay Ir nil of the therl rl ne published hll outside of rr nce were In the Hie hands of the In Masons on ons also Franklin Frinklin hid Ind hIs Ills snit writings nt Ings liy hy all of th these e and he be heIng beIng beIng Ing time tile ma master ter propagandist that thit he sums a he made the mo most t of his to present America s cause to 1 The he career of rr is Ie one of the stringent paradoxes ps In history One of them Is 11 that this think son on of a fi poor Bo Boston ton l candemil er cr and apprentice to a 1 poor printer should e 11 Ilse e to record the he fact act that Tho I idid Idid did ld not thin think I th tint that t I should e er e er lit er st at mad ind before kings 1 e hase e stood before fh file Hie e and e cn e en had the honor of sitting down dorm o n with sith one the ln I King of mrk to dinner An Another Another other Is time tile Net that a m mm min who silo ho sas as almost entirely self e educated Should p hale P of two continents continents ing Ing with each other othor In conferring upon him honorary degrees Rut nut most Interesting of nil all Is the tact tint that this mm min situ was sas as so t p t tsp tp p silly lIy American tint that he ner a n ser er stable It S symbol Simbol of America e esen een e cn en In hi lifetime was WUl never ne er understood or orlo cd 10 ed Lis h 1 Ills his own people He lIe was Wal die us ill III eil II Intensely lv bv hv the best best f III or of IV and was ae distrusted hy by ninny others In the Hie colonies us I a elm ch it Ir and a trimmer Th The distrust t In h is 11 easily understood understand lIe ile Hewis sas 19 the or of the small II firm ors lf s mind small trudl tradesmen mn the forces force In tint that colony colons and is is 1 such Ills his name would naturally I ibe be to the ItiC sup sup- supporters supporters porters of the proprietors th time Penns he tie should havo hf-fn hf n reo- reo r girded re-girded g girded In the same wa sa by aristo critic elegant ele France Frame Instead that Country took tool tills this simple demount It to Its heart h rt In his hll lifetime and all but him after t Us Ms 1 death delill Ills Ills moni moral anti and religious theories frightened the tho nUll and eD ens en iron ment he lie In writes I my lIe ale I 55 SS s 8 accused 11 e alternately of or atheism and bigotry for hh hk God re lcd Its P in nt the Christian DI 01 It hid Ind cs Ilten ten nt at length FranI hid ninny many adherents It sat wu- because e of a It double In America he sis lS followed follo ed because hI he was ed belli to tobe tobe tobe because he In France be a Christian was classed with the atheists |
