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Show rACHE AMERICAN. LOGAN. UTAH Its the 200th Anniversary o Pleasure Giving Three Famous Revolutionary Figures ... ..By 1737. ANUARY, To the majority of the citizens of the English colonies in North America that month meant the beginning of a new year, nothing more. They could not have realized that it was to be made significant for them because of the births of three boys during its 31 days. In that year these citizens were loyal subjects of llis Majesty, King George II of England. But by the time another 50 years had 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 bovs bom in the first month of 1737. Ti.e first had made his appearance on January 10. The place was a farm home near the town of Litchfield, Conn., and he was of 14 children in the "a bold, domineering and clever family. He was given the name of Lilian 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 ELMO SCOTT WATSO- tories. But lack of space (plus the Inclination of most school book historians to make Revolutionary war heroes pieces of statuary rather than human beings) has prevented our learning there many other interesting details about the men themselves. We know that Ethan Allen "thundered on the portal of oil earthly kings at Ticondcroga" and demanded its surrender "in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress." We know how John Hancock, warned by Paul Revere, fled from Lexington that April night in 1775 before the British redcoats arrived, thereby making it possible for him to write his 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 mens souls. But what else did they do to distinguish them from other men? What of their subsequent d first-bor- 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 the little Quakerof Thetford in inNorfolk an- other 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 Crowm 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- stay-mak- JOHN HANCOCK onies from the Mother Country. The effect of this pamphlet is "so powerful, instantaneous and general that John Hancock will soon have 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 Thomas Paine. January, 1737 So these were the three famous Revolutionary figures whose birthday anniversaries we celebrate this month, Ethan John Allen, the frontiersman, the merchant, and Hancock, Thomas Paine, the pamphleteer. Their backgrounds, their characters, their careers were all as different as those of three men could possibly be. But they had more in common than the fact that all were born in the same month of the same year. All were patriots; all labored mightily in the same cause, though their motives for doing so differed widely; and all risked their lives and everything else that man holds dear to bring about a new order of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness in a New World. Men Not Statues. Their names are familiar to most Americans who have read of their deeds in the school his - N- There he rose to even greater power as a sot t of an uncrowned king. His hatred for New York was as strong as ever; for New Hampshire he had on 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 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 independent existence. Ethan Allens 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 while 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 caof that "frontier roughneck, was the career of John 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 devotion 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 oclock in the morning found young John Hancock at his desk in his foster-fathecounting 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. Furthermore, 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 Hancocks 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 major-generof 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 Bowdoins weakness in handling the famous "Shays made the people of Rebellion 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. reer 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 Americas struggle for liberty. 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. 0 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 Yorks title. Cabins were offered as "burnt sacrifices to the Gods of and the settlers the World, driven out with instructions to "Go your way now and complain to that Damned Scoundrel, Your Governor. Damn your Governor, 100,-00- Laws, King, Council and AssemIn despair, the officials of bly. 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 There, on the early morning of May 10, 1775, he uttered the phrase which won him an imperishable place in American history. An Anti-Clima- capture of Ticonderoga was a brilliant achievement but, unfortunately for Allens future fame, the remainder of his Revolutionary war career was a sad Later he organized a filibustering expedition into Canada with the object of capturing Montreal, but after a short and almost farcical campaign he was captured by the British. Kept as a prisoner of war until 1778, he then returned to his wilderness commonwealth, by now organized under the name of Vermont but still not a member of the Colonial family. The anti-clima- rs al - The importance of Thomas Paine and his pamphlets to the Patriot cause is too uoll 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 mens souls, etc.) was read by Washingtons orders to each regiment In the Continental army and they did much to relieve the despair, that was so prevalent in the army during the trying winter of 1776. Paynes 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 Gen. 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 Washingtons 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 Burkes "Reflections on the French RevoluFor this he was outlawed tion. by the court of the kings 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. Talking to Advantage of Others and Joy to Ourselves in 1937 rPALKINO is the recognized medium of communication between poisons who are together or who, being absent, use a telephone. It is unfortunate having such a marvelous medium at our command that we so often fail to put it to the use worthy of its valut. It is possible to send a glow of happiness through the listener when we speak merited J upper naut on Tracks words of appreciation. It is posBy FLOYD GIBBON'S sible to solace those In sorrow by Famous Headline Hunter words of comfort spoken from the heart. It is possible to make joy A SK a cop! Thats the first thing we all think of when doubly gladsome by expressing we want to know something about the town. Well our happiness in the good fortune if its the towns adventure that you're interested in, you of others. Through talking to our cant go wrong. The cops know about all the excitement children we ca spur them on to that goes on and ten chances to one the cop you ask will do fine things, or encourage them resolves. In short the have been in it himself. Theyre the boys that get the in worthy we cat- do by talking in good thrills and so were asking a cop today, Joe Lovett of the right spirit U inestimable. Brooklyn, N. Y. By talking in the right way we Joe, what's the biggest adventure you ever had In your life? bring good to others and joy to "I was attached to the old 74th Precinct, at 154 Lawrence avenue, ourselves. "Too Much Talk Brooklyn, Joe begins. "I was a patrolman, doing a tour of duty from 4 p. m. to 12 midnight on May 21. 1924. It is when we swerve from the And we go on as stirring a tale of adventure and danger best use of the spoken word that and heroism as any cop ever had in his life, in Brooklyn or we drag it down and harm both - 1T anywhere. It was about seven oclock In the evening and still daylight Joe had been sent by h's lieutenant to deliver a message, and he wa on his way back to his post to report that it had been delivered. The message had taken him quite a distance. He had gone out on a trullcy car, and on a trolley car he was going back. He boarded a Church avenue car, bound east toward Fort Hamilton Parkway and took his place on the front platform beside the motor-maI dont know whether or not it was a department rule that policemen riding on trolley cars while on duty had to ride beside the motor-maIf it was well it turned out to be a darned smart rule in this instance. For it saved a life even if it did come close to costing Joe his own. The car rolled along down Thirty-nint- h atreei. It had gone about 100 feet past the Intersection of Fort Hamilton Parkway, when suddenly a small child a little girl about three years oil the sidewalk, into the street, and STRAIGHT TOWARD THE TRACKS. n. old-to- ddled Motorman Lost His Head. The car was about fifty feet away, but it was moving fast Joe looked at the motorman expecting to see him throw on his brakes. But the motorman didnt move. He didnt even throw off the power. Suddenly It occurred to Joe that the fellow had lost his head, and wasn't capable of doing anything at alL The little girl toddled to the tracks and stopped right In the middle of them. By that time the car was no more than eight feet away, and SHome up the chimney and is wasted. Yet its really a simple matter to save money by reducing this loss convert "chimney loss to "useful heat, as we call It. Heres the remedy: Next time you refuel the fire, move the handle of the turn dam- - S.ction.l Vi.w D.mo.r in Sid Smok WtrCHtfYOUR sXTARtt Medical Authorities recognize the value of s balanced Alkaline as an aid to cold prevention. V!.r Flo damper per (that disc or of an inside the smoke pipe) inch toward the closed upright position. Then, if the fire keeps on burning too freely, turn the damper another sixteenth of an inch. Repeat this operation until you find the correct adjustment one that will deliver the greatest anount of useful heat with the least chimney loss." Once you have found thi3 ideal adjustment of the damper, mark the position on the smoke pipe with a piece of chalk or something that can be plainly seen, and leave the damper set at that mark. Bear this in mind: The nearer the turn damper is set to the closed position the smaller the "chimney loss and the greater the volume of "useful heat that goes to properly heating your home. And, of course, the lower your fuel bills. He Pushed Her Off the Tracks to Safety. still going at its original speed. Too late to try to stop it now! Its own momentum would carry it right over the babys body. It looked like sure death for the poor kid. At that instant, Joe Lovett started moving. The car was one of kind with an open front platform. Joe leaped for the the side of the car, grabbed hold of an iron upright at the right of the motor-maand then, getting a good purchase with his foot on the right hand step, flung himself forward. His hurtling body got there in time to save the child. With a shove of one oulflung arm he pushed it off the tracks to safety. But he didnt have time to get out of the way himself. smallest fraction of a second. When next he got his bearings he was down the side of the car. One leg lay lying in the roadway, sprawled across the track, and the car was still in motion. Ten feet away, the rear wheel was bearing down on it, certain to cut it off if he didnt move it in a hurry. Joe started to move that leg and then the awful truth dawned on him. He was still by that first bump the car had given him. He could see he could feel BUT HE COULDNT MOVE I He was doomed to he there in the street and watch his leg being severed from his body! He tried again to move. Almost, but not quite! Fear sent the blood racing through his body, and that cleared the cobwebs from bis brain. Joe thinks Providence had something to do with it too and maybe hes right. Anyway, with that grinding wheel a scant six inches from him, be suddenly regained the power of motion. With a frenzied heave he lifted his leg off the track, Just as the rear truck rolled up to and over the spot where it had lain. LUDENS ; half-daze- d Re-- contribute to your Alkaline 1 serve because they contain an ALKALINE TACTOB WOMEN WHO HOLD THEIR MEN NEVER LET THEM KNOW matter how NOback aches sod "Quotations" V good thing for the whole world to keep your word. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Politeness is not one of the things inculcated by the American educational system.. L. Mencken. It takes centuries to win a little freedom and a very few minutes to destroy it. Sir Ernest J. P. Benn. Broadcasting the culture of other nations helps us to understand their Guglielmo Marconi. thoughts Servtcw Bell SjnJic.te.-W- NU plate-lik- e half-wa- y G Wcitern Newspaper Union. Many Words Have you ever considered how much is said when derogatory talk is going on? Word are spoken and reiterated over and ever again, as if by repetition the unpleasant things would be Increased. Unfortunately this is what happens. Unkind or unfriendly conversation, by some perverse twist of human nature, is sure to be repeated, and usually with embellishments. Either the one who repeats it cannot believe her ears, and wonders if anyone else knows about the unfortunate circumstances, or else she finds strange pleasure In repeating Blander. It may be the derogatory words are against someone she dislikes. It may be they are about a total stranger. If the talk was commendatory repeating it would foster fine things. Good things should be given frequent repetition. Pleasure Giving In 1937 We all could add so much to the pleasure and joy of living during the new year 1937, if we would set a watch on our talk, and by a wishful determination use this great means at our command to help others. It is one of the things that costs nothing and yet which can do such an endless amount of good. It is s way open to all alike. 53 Turn Car Was Bearing Down on Him. matter of fact, Joe didn't even have time to THINK about it No sooner had he pushed the child out of the way than he felt something hit him a smashing blow on the back. That dazed him for just the 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 Paines 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 Paines 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 increasing enthusiasm for the republican ideas of which Paine had been the principal exponent. But that hope failed to materialize, and eventually the bones of this English - American - French revolutionist found their last resting place in France. Mn Barclay Hating Expert How to Check "Chimney Loss, Greatest Waste in Home Heating V7 HAT is "chimney loss? Well, thats a term we heating experts have for heat that goes As a ETHAN ALLEN Heating ourselves and our hearers. Thera is an expression loo much talk which is significant of this very thing. The words speak for themselves, declaring that it would b advisable to cease saying the things we are. It Is never said of good words. Of them we could 8ay: Let us have more talk of the same sort, it is needed. Its I mighty ' much your your nerve cream, your husband, because ho ia only a man, can never under stand why you are ao hard to Uva with one week in every month. Too often the honeymoon ex press ia wrecked by the nagging wife. The tongue of a three-quart- er wise woman never lete her husband know by outward sign that she ia a victim of periodic pain. For three generations one woman has told another how to go "smiling through" with Lydia . Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. It helpe Nature tone up the system, thus lessening the discomforts from the functional disorders which women must endure in the three ordeals of life: 1, Turning from girlhood to womanhood. 2. Preparing for motherhood. 8. Approaching 'middle age." Dont be a three-quartwifej take LYDIA E. FINKHAMS VEGETABLE COMPOUND and Go "Smiling Through." EARN y3 u . LEARN BARBER1NG . SPECIAL TUITION Approved by your State Barber Board. Moltt Ivtar Collet. Ill Resent St, Salt lata Cltj, Wit Girl Was Safe But Joe Suffered. Joe was still dazed, and badly shaken up, when he rose painfully to his feet. The little girl Fanny Cecere of Brooklyn was safe and sound. But Joe didnt get off that easily. A bystander took him to the Norwegian hospital, and there they treated him for a sprained back, a sprained thumb, and lacerations of the face, knees and hands. Joe was on sick leave for a week after that before he was again able to resume his duties. The records of the New York Police department will show you that, on February 19, 1935, Joe was called before the honor board and awarded honorable mention the second highest distinction the department can confer for valorous conduct in having saved a life at great risk of his own. But Joe says that was only the third biggest thrill he got out of the incident. The first, of course, was seeing his leg safe and unhurt as the car wheels went rumbling by. And the second was being able to save that baby from those same wheels and finding her unhurt afterward, NU Coastlines Michigan has a total of 1,715 miles of coastline on the Great Lakes, 905 miles in the Upper Peninsula and 810 miles in the Lower Peninsula. The U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey lists only sea coast. Florida, with a coast of 399 miles on the Atlantic and 798 miles on the Gulf of Mexico, a total of 1,197 miles, leads California with 913 miles and Louisiana with 397 mile. In tidal shore line (including islands), Florida has 2,2'i6 miles to California's 1,190 miles. According to the methods used by the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Maine has only 228 miles of coast (not including i: lands); if all the indentations are measured, it would have about 3,000 miles. Service. 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