Show MOUNT VERNON Th The New York Sun thinks that congress should hould make a special endowment to Mount fount Vernon to pr prevent prevent pre pre- vent the petty pett charge that thatis is expected from visit visit- o ors os s The charge does not amount to anything no noone lone one objects to it but the time principle is all wrong Tong I We Ve think congress ought to make a large endowment endowment en en- and make of Mount 1 Vernon which is one of the sacred spots of our country a place of beauty There should be a park laid out there without disturbing the old house That house should be he preserved in its entirety even if the the- theold old material has to b be taken out and new material put in The little sepulchre at the f foot ot of the time hill is ismore s smore smore more impressive than a great tomb would be but it would be all aU right to surround it with impressive mementoes of the father of his country The whole place ought to be converted into a shrine sucha place as would induce ever every visitor that goes to Washington either cither from home or abroad to go and antI see it h because ca more interest attaches to that spot than to any other George Washington went out from his quiet country home he lie led the armies linder tinder under lin- lin un tin- der privations and discouragements that would I have appalled an anyone one else to victory and then when the fla framing ing of or the government go came his character shone out and revealed him as the thc foremost foremost foremost fore fore- most man mali of or all this earth carth and the American people pee pat pIe plc cannot do too much honor to the place where he lie lived live and di died d it should be he made a school of patriotism for fOL n no American boy hoy or girl man or oi woman can go and see it W without being a better American all the rest of his or her life |