Show by ELMO SCOTT WATSON bhole history of the american around one man george W n so it was eminently that alie one hundred anil nn sary of that tremendous cent in alie history of alie zoild find alio nation entert t centered in that man what aue alie outstanding events in lie year alie annl of the high point in the american war for certainly it was not hie in the alti where the declaration of independence was signed for that celebration w is a dismal failure the outstanding eiena those put upon the lips of all Ainer inina once moie the name of washington and aused them to take in a discussion which lias not t tn tadd dd is to the real washington ho 1920 hlll go down in hl not only as alio one and fiftieth anniversary of alie declaration la of independence but also ns the year in an immense store was added to the available and prom iseri dejl for further accession to in llie As the result of lie events of ne come to another celebration of wash with our knowledge of him en and despite or perhaps because of all the controversy that lias raged over whit was or aas not the real washington a better appreciation of just how we owe to alie min we call the father of ills country an arrangement of alie 1920 W items h chr order rather glnn attempt lug to consider them on the basis of relative am shows the curious fact that this man lead these years started off the ear aa a headliner ahta came about when Ilu glies the novelist in january gave au iid dress before the sons of the american lion in the national capital and not only aroused alie ire of that but up a nationwide control eroy kihen he told the truth about washington n he alie although it turned out later blut the speaker was misquoted even at that some of his statements were too strong for some persona to accept without ao the tempest in a teapot which the seemed to be took on greater proportions as vi ns successively attacked aud defended iii d others took a hand in alie row the net result aa that paradoxical as it may bound george washington became a national figure once more at least so far as alie news japera were concerned and one ew york dally pointed out that washington s birthday was celebrated as neer before because of hughes effort to represent washington aa u man and not a kahue one bent of considerable significance connected the celebration of washington s birthday was flip of what has been termed tie iott portrait made of washington which Is re produced ath tills article alie story of this portrait Is a romantic one in 1793 a twenty three i farold far old I 1 named charka julian r exert de st came to from alty of dijon and settled in philadelphia 1 ht re lie invented what he called a and which he was to a human head on paper with mathematical reducing or enlarging it to any alza for reproduction on u copper plate the original van on araon craon and the copper in mezzo lint in HS washington went to philadelphia and while lie oat for the trench min for what Is fald to leaie been his last portrait there Is authentic record of the fact tint st loaned lie original portrait to gilbert the most famous of all of washington sac neier recovered alie portrait bioni for some unknown reason and stuart ae it to J careon of brooklyn N Y Ire it seems lent some money to alev J D nn episcopal minister of taking aal the library in some way the portrait tame into possession and lie it on to 11 nephew J S philllp who nah little illing re its alac gave it to the alfo cf lila n gioro V I 1 1 ii I 1 farall removed from brooklyn to and george philllp went into the fuel business in Lomon rd illi A few coara ant mi aunt lyn came to lit tham anil p ive of alie SL somo time this n story awu ahi st portrait of nal made the that tho oriel nal lad acca enst whereupon tle ona of gearu r 1 phillp their blunts eliut a st portrait wag owned in their finlly began searching for it in the attic of their home and found the precious its authenticity aa established by officials of alic chicago ills society that was a number of airs ngo but so tar as Is anon the portrait was neier re produced jn print until it appeared in a chicago newspaper upon alie occasion of t birthday Irth day 1020 although the anniversary of a number of reo events during th year 1920 to bring about mention of name from time to attroe it was not until september eliat the controversy which arose from speech wag relied re lied ihas came about with tle of books george ohp iange and the man by W E woodward pon and hiie N T and george washington the human heang and the hero 1732 1702 bv rupert ll llam morrow co N T alte hughus biography dealt with only tho first thirty rears of i life woodwards coerced his whole life from 1712 ti 1709 the aim of both was to leeal alie real washington but by widely different methods hulln s less alian half of mashl nimons life indeed up alq statements with documentary author lh ahli effort being as he to let tell his own story as fully as possible in his own woid i woodwards book was a study not only of bush ington but diore broadly of the era in which washington llred and it was more of a peronail pe ronal interpretation of the man and his time than the other HP interpreted more us u business man alian in any other role and asserted that washington Is not reull alie least of our great men but the best understood bv cause lie was lie ignator alie adrige imin delfied deified and ti the nth power bicie we see tho topical tain of industry attitude cap alie effect of tham two books both attempting to substitute the living ahlston for tl e marble statue ivas to ailie interest in the whole subject and lie of critics on both ol ain le it Is not too much to say eliat the publication of lie and the hushes may MOH ho na inong tho events in relation to ho of 1920 if there Is one nia that clile t Is the walh tool pl ice in trenion N T last december when the ary of tha of irenton w etli president and sira and thirteen tho of the original colonies cs their bieste nieste ni este the citizens of the new jchse capital a of hinss meetings and church in keeping alth lie im of lie winter night n li undred and fafty years ago nhen and lita inadi their famosa of the delaware to le fat the hessians and to present to atrue glaug the inest ial that it could possibly desire a victory at an hour when the hope tor the cajuso of deemed dim hather ha teer the now school of historians imi accomplish in that was not the daml d that he lita often hi en painted hut that lie was H being with fral lUes that la to MV lo boeer eer much hey take awny froin of us nr lint he vi n eangon of nil hie it I 1 doubtful if they win be able even if aln it 11 dim hie slon of lie leader and in nil of ills rord there 1 no more brilliant achievement ihal celebrated at in Denil nr or ihn lectory in the 1 iolli of I 1 ii tta 1 cl on J nu arv 3 of this ar of this campaign cims annl on nl inid hai ro me three things lie rtIn tle alnea of the alie method and result tolita of icv hinl ton campa liin rink rinks s aifong llie mo it int in hestor hl stor and its and of it prosecution stamp him ns n soldier of the dinst order tie of tin lid adim d nt and attained in lare rn lie er Althou gli neither of the en etienn ienn ants which took claie tn carrvll out the breit ddn f it rose ti the of n battle anil must be clawed as hei I 1 regard it ns one of thoe the are points in history had he leen other ali in they were the whole oure of he world would lue been in of lie app arent of the the ln 1 dents of the when alie nuit olal with which it was worked out considered re us fraught with interest us full of lalue t he 01 ol adler und evl denee ns ciuch nem iff the leader us it had add under his command a hundred thousand men and lie little had heen as and us san ulnar HS lie gigantic italics of larger war and later dais it la not but Bt rateR personal courine achieved by hh we jude he lolaler in tace operations depre canted the of his career dickton n and daring llop that ot napoleon in ills caily italian an inflexible capacity of resistance and ts the creat in hla anva of ind n determined doused not toba to ba persistence calli lo 10 mind the bindom grant the fate of the revolution was determined right then wd there more glnn at fany other glen period of that broat condict ct alio cause of human liberty hung in the balance on that december olcar A |