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Show Thursday, December 31, 1936 THE TIMES-NEW- NEPIII. UTAH S. Work Known to Millions; Column Popular in This Newspaper. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON-- s d the years passed, they and their sons were to be engaged in an armed rebellion against his son, and outstanding among the "rebel leaders" would be these three boys born in the first month of 1737. The first had made his appearance on January 10. The place was a farm home near the town of Litchfield, Conn., and he was the of 14 children in "a bold, domineering and clever family." He was given the name of Ethan a Hebrew name signifying "strong." And strong he grew to be, for this boy was Ethan Allen, who was later to be characterized as "the Rob Roy of a Wilderness Commonwealth," "the Robin Hood of New England" and "the Strong Boy of the Revolution." Two days later in the home of a clergyman in Quincy, Mass., was born another boy who was to bear the name of his father and his grandfather, also a clergyman. This boy, however, would not follow in the pious footsteps of his elders. Instead he would be taken into, the counting house of his uncle, be adopted by that relative, fall heir to a large fortune and become a great and wealthy merchant of Boston. And on a July day in 1776 he would be the first to sign his name to an immortal document of human liberties and sign it "so large that King George could read it without his spectacles." That name would be John Hancock. The scene changes now from New England to Old England. On January 29 in the home of a in the little Quaker town of Thetford in Norfolk another boy is born. He will become a preacher and a dissenter, a writer of verse and prose, a republican and a radical, and a severe critic of the government and political customs of his native land. As such he will be welcomed to the British colonies in America as the dispute between them and the Crown grows more bitter and in 1776 he will issue a pamphlet bearing the name "Common Sense." In that pamphlet he will advocate absolute independence of the col- - possible his to write for him signature with its historic flourish a year later. We know that Thomas Paine wrote "Common Sense" and the "Crisis" and some of us have recited those thunderous words from the latter "These are the times that try men's souls ". But what else did they do to distinguish them from other men? What of their subsequent first-bor- n stay-mak- er JOHN HANCOCK onies from the Mother Country. The effect of this pamphlet is "so powerful, instantaneous and general" that .John Hancock will soon hav his chance to flourish his pen and write his bold signature to the document which incorporates the sentiments expressed in "Common Sense." For the author of it was that third boy born in January, 1737 Thomas Paine. vt -- 1, mf&W fcn Kir1 . 3 ,.V5i under British dominion with a certain measure of independence reserved. For this he has been branded by some historians as a traitor, although his "treason" is doubtful in light of the fact that the congress had cast Vermont loose to shift for its own inde- pendent existence. Ethan Allen's turbulent career came to an end in the roistering manner in which he had lived. In February, 1789, he died on a load of hay whiie returning from a joyous drinking party on an island in Lake Champlain. A year later New York gave up its claim to the Vermont lands and recognized the independence of that colony. In 1791 it was taken into the United States as the first to be admitted after the 13 original. colonies. And when Vermont came to honor her two greatest men by placing their monuments in Statuary hall in the National Capitol in Washington, the first one chosen was Ethan Allen. In striking contrast to the career of that "frontier roughneck," was the career of John THOMAS PAINE careers? Were those incidents which are preserved in the school books the only ones worthy of mention? In partial answer to those questions are offered these "footnotes to history" to help you recall on this, the anniversary of their birth, these three notables in the history of America's struggle for liberty. . th When Ethan, "The Strong," grew into young manhood, he found Connecticut too narrow a sphere of action for his tremendous energies. After farming a bit, mining a bit and wandering from place to place, he finally landed in the region into which he fitted so perfectly. It was the frontier country between New Hampshire and New York known as the "New Hampshire Grants." There he acquired nearly acres of wilderness lands by grants from the New Hampshire provincial government. But this territory was also claimed by the province of New York who tried in vain to colonize it, for it was already held by "squatters" called "the Green Mountain Boys." A Name of Terror. Before long the name of Ethan Allen was a name of terror to settlers who dared come there with their New York grants and to the officials whom Governor Colden sent to survey the lands and try to enforce New York's title. Cabins were offered as "burnt sacrifices to the Gods of the World," and the settlers driven out with instructions to "Go your way now and complain to that Damned Scoundrel, Your Governor. Damn your Governor, 100,-0- 00 Laws, King, Council and Assembly." In despair, the officials of New York proclaimed Ethan Allen an outlaw and placed a price on his head. Ethan retaliated with a similar proclamation against the governor of New York. So the war of words, and from time to time a more serious war of action, continued. Then came the outbreak of the Revolution and Ethan Allen, embarking upon what was ostensibly a patriotic expedition but what was in reality a move to safeguard the frontiers of his wilderness commonwealth in case of war between Canada and the United Colonies, marched with his "Green Mountain Boys" and with Benedict Arnold against Ticonderoga. There, on the early morning of May 10, 1775, he uttered the phrase which won him an imperishable place in American history. these were the three famous Revolutionary figures whose birthday anniversaries we celebrate this month, Ethan Allen, the frontiersman, John Hancock, the merchant, and Thomas Paine, the pamphleteer. Their backgrounds, their characters, their careers were all as An different as those of three men The capture of Ticonderoga could possibly be. But they had more in common than the fact was a brilliant achievement but, that all were born in the same unfortunately for Allen's future month of the same year. All fame, the remainder of his Revowere patriots; all labored might- lutionary war career was a sad Later he organized ily in the same cause, though their motives for doing so dif- a filibustering expedition into fered widely; and all risked their Canada with the object of capturlives and everything else that ing Montreal, but after a short man holds dear to bring about a and almost farcical campaign he new order of "life, liberty and was captured by the British. pursuit of happiness" In a New Kept as a prisoner of war until 1778, he then returned to his World. wilderness commonwealth, by Men Not Statues. Their names are familiar to now organized under the name most Americans who have read of Vermont but still not a rriem-be- r of the Colonial family. of their deeds in the school his So There he rose to even greater power as a sort of an uncrowned king. His hatred for New York was as strong as ever; for New Hampshire he had an aversion almost as great as for the other colony and for the Continental congress, in whose name he had sworn at Ticonderoga, he had profound contempt. This congress, refusing to deal with Allen's "outlaw administration," steadfastly declined to consider adding Vermont to the United Colonies. So Allen began negotiations with the British for annexation of Vermont to Canada Anti-Clima- x. anti-clima- x. Hancock, scion of two generations of clergymen, a graduate of Harvard college, a cultured, polished gentleman whose heritage and training assured him a leading place in the affairs of the colony. Choosing a business career instead of the ministry, he showed a conscientious devo tion to his work which would have assured his success even if he had not inherited a fortune from the uncle who adopted him. For seven o clock in the morning found young John Hancock at his desk in his counting house and even after he became the "great Boston merchant" he still observed those early hours. Some of the modern school of historians have "debunking" made much of the fact that, just before the Revolution, Hancock was engaged in smuggling goods into the country to evade the British excise taxes. They have pointed out that there were 500 indictments against him for this offense and that "if convicted the penalties would have been 100,000 pounds, twice the value of all his property." In this fact they see the motive for his encouraging the revolt against the crown. But it might also be pointed out that, when the best method of driving the British from Boston was under discussion at a patriotic club in that city, he declared "Burn Boston and make John Hancock a beggar, if the public good requires it." Further more, in the autumn of 1776, when congress gave Washington instructions to destroy Boston if it should be necessary to do it in order to dislodge the enemy, Hancock wrote to the commander of the Continental army saying that, although he was probably in the the largest property-owne- r city, he was "anxious the thing should be done if it would benefit the cause." Certainly that does not sound like a man whose main concern was private gain. A Soldiering Statesman. As for Hancock's other services after the outbreak of the Revolution and especially after he had become famous as the first and only signer of the draft of the Declaration of Independence which was first published, he was a member of the Continental congress from 1775 to 1780 and again from 1785 to 1786, serving as president from May, 1775 to October, 1777. We do not ordinarily think of him as a soldier, yet the fact is that, as of the Massachusetts militia, he commanded the contingent from that state and served valiantly in the expedition against the British in Rhode Island in 1778. After the close of the Revolution he was a member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention and in 1780 he became the first governor of the new state of Massachusetts. He held that office until 1785 when James Bowdoin was elected in his place. But Bowdoin's weakness in handling the famous "Shay's Rebellion" made the people of the state regret the change of chief executives and in 1787 Hancock was again elected. He soon improved the conditions in regard to taxes and seizure of property for debt which had been responsible for the rebellion and until his death in 1793 he was reelected governor regularly each year. foster-father- 's major-gener- al The Thomas importance Paine and his pamphlets to the Patriot cause is too well known to need much comment here. It will be remembered that the first number of the "Crisis" (that one which begins with the immortal "These are the times that try men's souls, etc.") was read by Washington's orders to each regiment in the Continental armv and they did much to relieve the despair, that was so prevalent in the army during the trying win ter a Smart Rug That's Easy to Make Here's Arthur Brisbane, Editor, Dies at 72 It's the 200h Anniversary of Three Famous Revolutionary Figures tories. But lack of space (p'us JANUARY, 1737. To the majority ol the inclination of most school historians to make Revoluthe citizens of the book tionary war heroes pieces of in colonies English statuary rather than North America that human beings) has prevented our learning there many month meant interesting details about the beginning of a new year, other men themselves. nothing more. They could not We know that Ethan Allen have realized that it was to "thundered on the portal of all be made significant for them earthly kings at Ticonderoga" because of the births of three and demanded its surrender "in the name of the Great Jehovah boys during its 31 days. and Continental Congress." In that year these citizens We the know how John Hancock, were loyal subjects of His warned by Paul Revere, fled Lexington that April night Majesty, King George II of from in 1775 before the British redEngland. But by the time an- coats arrived, thereby making it other 50 had PAGE THREE of about: zL Tba Social Krgikter SANTA MONICA, CALIF. who warm their soNow York, N. Y. With the aristocratic hands at the cial comfort take register, death of Arthur Brisbane issue of that Christmas morning, the from the latest volume. It seems world lost its most widely priceless if a lady weds known and most widely read athat, with a club night playboy newspaper writer and editor. head suitable for a handle on The veteran commentator, a dollar umbrella, she slays whose column "This Week" put. in this appeared regularly But If she Is married to a Pattern 5099 newspaper, (lied of heurt disgentleman, such as Gene Is. or a gifted ease while he slept. He was Just a simple square, repeated orchestra leader. rrTZ?W?'lr seventy-two- . and joined together forms this 1 such as Eddie Duchwell-bor- j of 1776. Tayne's Other Services. But writing these pamphlets, important though they were, was not the only contribution which Paine made to the cause of American liberty. After serving a short time in the army as aide to Cen. Nathanael Greene, he became secretary of the congressional committee of foreign affairs but lost this position in 1779 through charges made against him by Silas Deane, commissioner to France. Then Paine became clerk of the Pennsylvania legislature and while holding this place made an urgent appeal to the people for money to relieve the distress of the ragged, starving Continentals in Washington's army. Moreover, he subscribed his entire year's salary to the fund that was thus raised. In 1781 Paine was associated with Col. Henry Laurens in a successful effort to obtain loans from France and Holland and a grateful nation voted him the sum of $3,000, the state of New York gave him a large farm in Westchester county and Pennsylvania again made him clerk of the legislature. But Paine was not yet ready to settle down to the quiet enjoyment of life in the new nation which he had helped found. The fight for human liberty was still being waged in other parts of the world. He went back to England and in 1791 published his "Rights of Man" in reply to Burke's "Reflections on the French Revolution." For this he was outlawed by the court of the king's bench, so he went to France where the Revolution had overthrown the Bourbons and where he was hailed as a hero. In fact, he was elected to the National convention but his republicanism was not strong enough to please the Jacobins. So when he opposed the execution of King Louis XVI and urged instead that the monarch be exiled to America, the Jacobins expelled him from the convention. Saved by Chance. When Robespierre came into power Paine was thrown into prison where he was kept for a year in constant fear of death. True to the Brisbane tradition, lie terrific pace of Ins work kept tip to the last. When lie was stricken late in the afternoon of Christmas eve he had almost finished his column. "Today." which appeared in many large daily newspapers, principally those of William Hamlolpli Hearst's string. He was forced to call upon his son, Seward. 22, to complete it. It was the first time in his life Arthur Brisbane had nut finished what he had set out to write. Millions of Headers. It was only a few hours afterward Mr. Brisbane fell asleep in his Fifth avenue apartment. At his bedside were his physicians, Dr. Leopold Stieglitz and Dr. Frederick Zeman, and a nurse. In the apartment his entire family had gathered his the- - if. - hi. out she goes. 1 Listed among those who were to mount the steps of the guillotine, he escaped that fate by a strange freak of chance. One morning the keeper of the prison went along the corridor placing chalk marks on the doors of those who were to be executed that day. It so happened that the door to Paine' 3 cell was open and pushed back flat against the wall of the corridor. In the darkness of the gloomy old prison the keeper failed to notice this and put his chalk mark on the inside of Paine's door. Thus when the door was finally closed the guards passed it by when they came to lead the other prisoners to their doom. Paine was finally released through the efforts of James Monroe, United States minister to France, and resumed his seat in the convention. Eventually he returned to the United States and died in New York in 1809. He was first buried on his farm at New Rochelle but a few years later William Cobbett, the English radical, removed his bones to England with the hope of in creasing enthusiasm for the tepublican ideas of which Paine had been the principal exponent, But that hope failed to material ize, and eventually the bones of this English - American - French revolutionist found their last rest ing place in France. Union. Western Newspaper e y :' Protecting Human Game. OR the preservation of the lcss- ening wild fowl, the govern- ment stands pat by its ruling that V f i, t ducks may no longer be lured to hunting grounds which have been baited for them and then bogged. But one shudders what would happen to Wall street if practically the same system now in vogue for garnering in the human game was ever abolished on the stock exchange. Still, why not leave well enough alone? If there was no margin gambling available for cleaning the poor things, they'd bet their money on horse racing or the old Spanish prisoner game or something. Liberty League Marriages. rotogravure sections reveal they've just opened a fresh crate of du Ponts, too late to qualify for membership in the Liberty because League, the Liberty League, alas, is dead of overnour-Ishmen- t, but in ample time to fill up the background at the approaching marriage of the President's fine son. Franklin Delano, Jr., and a charming daughter of the royal family of Delaware. That's one wedding where the ushers will do well to see that the families are seated in separate pews during the ceremony, because somebody might tactlessly be reminded of little things that came up during the heat of the late campaign. Otherwise, in the customary recoats and galia of striped trousers, it will be difficult to distinguish a champion of the rights of the great common people from an entrenched wretch of the ruggedly Individualistic group. High hats and neat spats make all men equal and make some of them THE ARTHUR BRISBANE wife, Mrs. Phoebe Brisbane, whom he had married in 1912; his son. Seward, and his four daughters, Mrs. J. R. K. McCrary, 23; Emily, 18; Alice, 14, and Elinor 12. The great editor never awakened. Probably no one knows how many millions of persons read Mr. Brisbane's verse, analytical comments upon the news of the day. It is estimated that 25 millions read his daily column. Additional millions followed with satisfaction the weekly column syndicated by Western Newspaper Union to this and many other leading weekly newspapers. Mr. Brisbane was wealthy. It is reported that his yearly salary at the time of his death was $260,000. In addition, there was the return on his extensive real estate holdings. Arthur Brisbane was born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1864. He attended the public schools and then, forsaking a homelier-looking- . college education, he became a reporter on the old New York Sun at Playing the Ponies. 19. Yet his rise to the position he held in the world of journalism at RACING starts soon out in star-ine- s and the stars and the last was not the Horatio Alger have to make their pictype of success story, with glory tures may between events at Santa Ancrowning the hero after countless ita because they'll have absolutely g tribulations. He was no time for fiddling around studios. was successful he from the and good To risk my modest wagers on, start. I'm looking for a horse named VirIt was not long before he was the Sun's London correspondent. After ginia Creeper or else Trailing Arbu five years, there was a shake-u- p on tus. Then when I lose, as I always the paper and the management do, I can't say my choice wasn't cabled him to return. He said he appropriately named. If I had a bet on Paul Revere's would if they made him managing editor. Managing editor! He was nag, Paul never would have made famous ride of his. Somewhere just 23. They made him managing that editor. And so well did he execute between Concord and Lexington, a his job, Joseph Pulitzer took him constable would have pinched him over to the New York World, which, for blocking the highway. e I often wonder where the under the Brisbane directorship, soon became the most influential plugs I get tips on really hail from. stable. Maybe organ of public opinion in America. It can't be a racing yes, I'm sure that's right "Greatest Journalist of Day." When William Randolph Hearst they're exhausted refugees from a came from California and bought the New York Journal he hired Mr. Future Inventions. Brisbane at a reduction in salary of almost 50 per cent. But there was CELEBRATING the hundredth of the American an agreement that as the circulation the assembled reincreased, so would his compensa- patent system, declare that among tion. His earnings on the World search sharps were multiplied in almost no time. the boons to mankind promised The association with Hearst be- us in the near future by our native came a friendship, and Mr. Inventive geniuses are the followBrisbane soon became regarded as ing: Clothes made out of glass (with next to Mr. Hearst in importance in the chain of newspapers. When he curtains, I hope, for those of us died, Mr. Hearst said: "I know that who are more than six years old). Whisky aged instantly by powerArthur Brisbane was the greatest ful sound waves. (But who has journalist of his day." 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