Show Ii I i 4 A r II r q r L ip s at a atI T I By y ELMO SCOTT WATSON PHIL PIUL 13 Is a day for forA forA honoring the memory of A one the of-the most versatile Presidents the United States has ever er had It Itts ItIs i ts the anniversary of ot the the birthday of Thomas Jef Jet Jeffer Jefferson fer ferson on and although con con- congress Cross con gross gress has not yet acted d dupon upon the proposal to make It a n national holl holiday ay the anniversary Is generally or locally observed ll by Americans In recognition of Jef Jef- Jefferson's Jef- Jef Jefferson ferson's ferson services Ices to the nation Wh When n Jefferson was approaching the end of ot his long and varl varied d career le be composed the epitaph which he wished to have hae Inscribed upon his tomb It read Here was burled Thomas Jefferson author of the Dec Dee Declaration Declaration of American Independence of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and the lather Father of ot the Uni University Uni- Uni of Virginia If Jefferson vere ere to be remembered for nothing more than those three things his fame would be secure But nut history bas written these other achievements under tinder his name He was a u member r of the Continental congress 76 1775 1775 and a n signer of the Declaration In 1776 he was a It member of the legisla I legislature ture of Virginia and a leader In Im irn Important legal reforms In 1779 Iii he was governor of Virginia In a u m mem member m ber her of congress from 1 i to liS 1789 1780 he hewa was caS United States minister to France be was the first secretary of stat state serving erving In Washington's cabinet t 1700 1790 04 04 he was nas Vice Ice President 1801 1797 anI he was the third Irp President of the United States 1801 1819 During his Presidency lie he made the lie famous purchase from from France which carried the American flag la lalu lu in one giant leap from the lie Mississippi to the summit of the and ond paved po the way nay for the extension of this from sea n to sea Perhaps no other public man this Country has ever er had not even the s Roosevelt nor the much gifted I Franklin was BO so actively and ando go ao o practically Interested In so loony and much varied matters writes a recent historian lie did dill not mere mere- merely merely merely ly play pl y wise with the these e things but went nent Into lato each of ot them whether It some matter of science sd- sd science ence agriculture art literature hl his his- history his history tory torr or what not with active e Int Inter wt r- r reH r- r rest est eH and ond usually achieved something worthwhile with It lt Philosopher Philosopher scientist artist and writer were roles he played ed o his own greatest satisfaction according to another historian I was S always s 's fond of philosophy even e n In Its drier form he wrote while still a youth At oth other r times his letters letter declare Nature In Intended in- in intended tended me rue for tor the tranquil pursuits of clence dence b by rendering them my supreme delight science Is my passion lolI pol politic itic Is my duty and he lie said noth noth- nothIng noth- noth nothing ing tog lured him from such studies s but buthis Lis revolutionary re duties duties- In fact the list list of his Interests Interest and ond Is an ao amazing one and reo re- recent re recent cent historical researcher have hae to tight light a 8 great grent number of interesting facts about Jef Jefferson that are arc little known to the average 8 American As a farmer Jefferson was far tar In advance of time On his hi Virginia plantation he be f ef To Jb V practiced rotation of crops TOPS long be before before fore this basic principle of ot agriculture was thought o of It ly l y a peo- peo peo people pIe who were to build a nation deep deep- d deeply deeply ep ly IF root rooted d In the products of ot the tue soil As a patron of I Hie he Improvement of lie stock In this country and the lie III in- in reduction in-reduction of new fruits and vegetables eta bles bl's he lie was ns In con constant communication tion with m men n Int Interested re te In these thee sub sub- subjects subjects both In Am America meriea and While lie he was President lie he laid the lie foundation for the lie modern s system tem of go government Dt crop reporting tJ by person person- son pc personally nil oily ally watching the lie markets of Wash Wash- WashInton Washington ington Inton for eight years ears and recording the he earliest and lind latest appearances ot of 37 different farm products As a n scientist his name Is presen-ed presen In scientific records s In the lie technical name of an extinct e ground sloth whose fossil remains he was tile tue first to describe x Jeffer- Jeffer soni When lien lie he sent Lewis and Clark ou 0 their famous exploring expedition Into the lie acquired newly territory be- be beyond beyond be beyond yond the Mississippi one ODe of ot the duties with which he lie charged them was hat of making accurate and complete te rec rec- rec- rec records records or s of the he natural history of the lie re ic region gion the life lite of ot the lie native nathe races the tue fauna and anti flora lorn weather condi condi- conditions bus an and the like It Is not generally kilo knon II perhaps but he was Wll arso In- In Int In Interested t crested rested In ethnology and In 1791 liDl he made a tour of ot Long Island to visit the Indians of ot that hat r region lion and to reo re- record re record cord their language The result was wasa wasa a word OO vocabulary 0 of these thee Indi Indians ans the manuscript of ot which h In Jef Jefferson terson's ferons ferson own handwriting Is still pre preserved served Rotation of crops an and other ther forms torms ot of scientific agriculture e however arc not the only things thing for which the ag agriculture agriculture of today Is Indebted d to o Thomas Jefferson When the farmer plows up tip an on old lId meadow turning the lie f sod od over OWl upon Itself lie he can thank Thomas Jefferson the he Inventor For It was wn this thi man who Invented In the lie II plow ow mold board which mal makes 1 mod mod- modern modem modern em ern gra land grass plowing possible When the lie motorist t folds do doa n n the top lop op if his car lIr to get the full benefit beneti of ot the lie cool breeze he can thank hank for the Invention which makes i It 11 pos possible sible silde to do so When ien the d desk sk work worker er tilts tilt back buck In his Ills comfortable swivel chair or r swings around easily instead of getting U up and turning the HE chair chairlie lie he should remember gratefully th lie annie of Thomas Jefferson Jefferon for fur i It 11 was tills his Virginian who Invented In the lie only I In seating d devices lIes tile be tinie line of the lie early r Egyptians In III Intact tact all inventors Inventor should look upon Jefferson us their heir patron saint For when hell a Ii man devises deI cs something new and establishes e In II court his right to I It against hose lioe who would Imitate ii 11 md and thereby lie he Is I Indebted to Jellerson for or laying down the prin- prin prin prill principle elide ciple upon which the lie United d pa t ni c-ni othie I Is f d d No 10 less Interesting than lion Jefferson Ji the and tile lie Inventor Is Jp 1st son tei-son the patron of tIne line arts ni-is lie III was k keenly Interested In literature e aud alil was vas hi himself a writer of note III He was a mu musician and an pushed lI It Is recorded mit when his Ills earl early home hOllie the hie hoube e of his fattier father nt at lI was horned burned in III although lie he lo lost t all of his hi hooks books and papers paper he rejoiced In lu the lie fat fact that hat his violin was vas saved su-ed by a negro servant As an artist he tie expressed I himself best In a architecture and mon monuments mon mon- to 0 his architectural taste areto are areto to tl be found today tollay In the lie beautiful buildings of Georgian f style tyle on the of the University of Virginia I at Charlottes but more larl on his Ills estate n nearby arb the famous Monticello ello Monticello was as Jeffer Jeffer- Jefferson's Jefferson's sons son's r residence sl ence from oin 1770 liO until his In 18 1526 G Built under tinder his Ills person person- personal al nl direction aft after r his lils Ideas the lie house took more muro than lion 30 years s for or com coin completion He tie selected the lie site super super- supervised supervised the lie clearing dearing away ay awa of the he hilltop drew the thc plans and designs for tor the he house hous chose the stone an nod timber directed the lie preparation of the lie former and the tue lie dressing of ot the lie latter looked after the tue lie manufacture of the nails b by his own servants ser devised lse Ingenious contrIvances for comfort and enl con convenience convenience ence designed desi ne the tile Interior decora decorations ions and personally selected the fur fur- furnishings furnishings and ornaments and laid out the he grounds gi about the lie house hOIle The r result i sult o of his work was pointed to 0 In the Alic lie earl early days as one of the he few examples of ot beautiful architecture of which America mei-Ica could boa bon boast t Foreign Foreign- Foreigners Foreigners ers tra I fin cling In this country ing dut-ing the lie Revolution He and afterwards often commented upon the lJ beauty nul of the lie mansion The marquis of ux wrote note lifter a visit to Monticello Jefferson Is the he first American who has consulted tile llie lie fine arts to o know v how lie he would shelter helter himself from the lie weather The fhe due uc dr dl di la ha 1 who visited Jefferson In 1797 1707 1 said Mid Monticello according to Its first plans was Infinitely supe stipe- superior nor to all other houses In America Amerl III point of taste an and nud convenience As a statesman and a political lend lead leader er no nn finer filler tribute has lias ever er e- e r been heen paid tl 0 tills this his man who has given hen us the phrase Jeffersonian Democracy asa as asa asa a symbol s of ot political thought than that expressed ed liy hy a n recent raph Illo-raph r Francis W V Hirst sas says To Ih the student of political philo philos philosophy ophy Jefferon la hi th the most rest Int Interest InK Ing of all 11 American statesmen he combined with n a marvelous Into the springs sprints of human nature and Into Inlo the motives motive that WRY away Individuals Individuals usia or r masell an extensive knol I know edge of political science an and hIstory lie HI wn a theorIst but Lilt always alwayn at 01 school chool with experience Among founders funder of the Great Republic the stateman who wrote the Declaration of Independence and nJ added Louisiana to the tir lie Union can never be forgotten To those thoe who In spIte of failures failure and disappointments still real re their heir hopes of par ful and nd civilized civilize pi on representative Kov and popular popular lar education Jefferson III I n a prophet and more e than a R prophet Dv nv those ll who believe that the lucres of dem- dem dem Institution InstItutIons and the ment of ot E will good-will od between nation and classes clo depend on a wide dl nation of liberal Idea ideas the author of Ih he of Freedom and the Iho opponent of the laws will ivill be b deemed not of n ii olace lac besIde huldo Milton and and other heroic men who down to our on 01 own n times have h v withstood the he ty- ty tyra tyranny tyranny ra ranny of priest soldier monarch or bureaucrat l Those Thos e n again aln who love hove republican frugality and nd who wish their mInisters K to 10 I be k thrIfty stewards of public mone money and would equalize o opportunity partly by ft a Just ju m of taxation partly by JudIcIous expenditure on public health and lu e edu education CatiOn will learn alike from lh he pro pre pr cepl cepi and Ant practice of oon Jen-er-oon that no noone not one not even e ven a Peel Feel II Cobden or r a Ul did H more r to graft thea fruitful aim and golden rules rul of lid ad ministration upon a new democracy |