Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-18 | Page 34 | Personal Hero Gives Way to Historical

f I r r 0 VJ Il 0 e WI Wiy W 0 u oIl Il o By E. E M. M H. H k Last ast week W we honored the Scarcely ther the thc r g great eat Lincoln YO youngest child today but hut has j a reives i rei ves who lived during Lin- Lin coins ln's lifetime and either came H n's r. r i in personal contact with the thet t ir great nt man or became i imbued With th his greatness through hear hear- sap say sa This week we honor the birthday tC of George Washington the Ilie father of our country and our country having taken t ken on the v of age anyone who participated at the birth of it must necessarily be a a bit more xe remote te a bit less of the personal hero and more of the historical No one of our ancestors who knew knew personally of Washington is here to give us reminiscences We must be content with history both authentic and fictional fictional of of both we are replete replete and and George Washington the aristocrat the general of the army is called to tom m mind nd most vividly by the symbolic symbolic sym sym- bolic olic cocked hat the hatchet and the he cherry tree Strange as one who reminisced of Lincoln said last week Folk Polk some of them seem to feel it is complimentary to Lincoln to make him appear uneducated uncouth and ungallant ungallant ungallant lant to emphasize his democracy when in reality he was a gentleman gentle gentle- man gentle and manly So perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps it is for this reason the hatchet and the cherry tree are kept before the childish mind and others for fear the aristocrat might seem aloof upon this his one ne hundred ninety-first ninety birthday