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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH Crowds Flock to the Peaches Browning Case H rr " .'i ... f ! ' J' Oov''tP? S' ! ' 'x' ; Mr" .:. V-' TN f t r -- " ' In -- L.ijtemaamm Sr yJk'K' " k iJRtnJWRO r ft t This picture shows only a part of the huge throng that gathered outside the courthouse in White Plains, dally while the separation suit of Peaches Browning against her wealthy husband was being heard. N: Vast Area Flooded by the Ohio River I, pw i . Hood waters along the Ohio river for about 500 miles have been rising steadily and large tracts of land have This photograph shows the high water in a street of Newport, Ky. been submerged. Bring New Plants From China INVITES LEGION N By ELMO SCOTT WATSON saintly of Ills race, but a man with ing a statement without backing It up HAT will the final ver- - many human frailties and much com- with another criticized him of on mon sense, who rose in the fullness for authority, history fatal llloglc and false romance of to time Washington be: be the political deliverer of the movies." A Harvard professor, or Superman? of our country. Albert Iiushnell Hart, announced that If we are to believe Those words, written nearly half a lie had found 297 errors of fact In (he early lay biogracentury ago, long before' any effort the book. Another reviewer declared phers of the Father of had been made to dispel the myths that Mr. Hughes walks on ail the llis Country, it will he Superman, a which had grown up around Wash- eggs without a single one. paragon of allr the virtues, who was ington, are strar.geiy prophetic of the Even the most breaking rabid biographical funnot only first in war, 'first In peace events of the past year which have damentalist will find little to comand first in the hearts, of his brought up again the question of the plain about in this book." but first in faultless living. real Washington and focused So there you are! The case of RuSuch is the nioihd which Parson upon it more sharply than pert Hughes, the biographer, is itwho Weems, Invented the cherry tree has ever been focused before. Out- anew of the statement made proof by one tory, established, and It lias been in- standing among those events was the writer is an thatGqorge Washington dustriously copied by many later biog- cr.tieisni which met the attempt by elusive person, for for although raphers, especially those who write one of Americas novel- forty years, from early manhood until our school histories. ists to write the sort of Washington the time of Ids death, he was inIf we are to believe a later gen- biography of which McMaster speaks. creasingly In the public eye. the real eration of historians, it will be Man, The novelist was Rupert Hughes and limn, high on his pedestal of official man of his times with the haldts ids biography was George Washing- and personal reserve, has been hard of a man of his times, including its ton, the Human to come at. A part of tills is no doubt Being and the faults as well as its virtues in short, published by William Morrow &Hero, Comdue to the early biographers, such as George Washington, the human being pany of New York. Parson Weems, who began, building hor more than a century George In fact, looking back upon the up the myths about him, and the In year Washington has baffled the historiaas Just past it is curious to note how creasing years only served to In tneir effort to present the real many times the two names Rupert them an increasing firmness of give fixity Washington." Forty years ago one Hughes" und George Washington" in the popular mind. of them. Prof. John Bach McMaster, have appeared in the news dispatches Hughes lias well expressed it when pointed out the difiieurties' which con- together. It began In when he January wrote, No other man in history front the biographer of Washington Hughes made a speech at a banquet has suffered so much from malfeaswhen lie said: of the Sons of the American Revolu- ance in office by historians. Nearly all General Washington is known to tion in Washington, D. C in which of Washingtons biographers have felt us, and President Washington. But he was described as having pictured It their duty not only to correct his 1. H. Dorsett (left) and his son, J. H. Dorsett, who have Just returned George Washington is an unknown Washington as a profane. Irreligious writings, but to l, niarv. When at last he is set before and pleasure-lovin- g prettify from China where they spent two and a half years collecting new plants man." Although it and falsify Ids character. ic In us ns he lived we shall read and doing other research work for the Department of less was afterword learned that he had Agriculture. zeal for denaturing this big, of the cherry tree and more of the been misquoted, the mischief wns blundering, bewildered man. Naught surely that is heroic done as soon as giant they havfc the story went out. done a further Injustice to all his will be omitted, but side by side he was attacked and contemporaries, of whom Immediately with what is heroic will they have appear much defended all over the world. Sermons made either dwarfs or that is commonplace. acolytes, and We shall be- were delivered on his speech, his of his sincere adversaries demons of hold file .great commander repairing name was heard in congress and put malice and envy. It Is poor, defeat with marvelous celerity, .patrihealin the Congressional Record, sena- otism, ridiculous Idolatry and rank ing the dissensions of his officers and tors denounced him he received dishonesty to rob the host of other and calming the passions of his mutinous clippings of newspaper comment on strugglers for liberty and progress But we shall also hear his his troops. speech in almost every language. of their Just deserts and to oaths and see him in the terrible out- French. German, perpetuate Dutch, Spanish and old slanders- against bursts of passion to which Mr. Jeffer- Italian. at home and nbrond In order to turn son lias alluded and one of which Mr. Interest In the controversy was re- Washington Into a god. As a god hear has described. vived in September vhen.Jhe Hughes Washington was a woeful figure; as a We shall see him refusing to he book appeared. Even though it did inan he was tremendous. paid for his services by congress, yet not arouse such a storm ns T'lo wonder then that from the real expecting the family of the speech, it, too, was met with did his divided is .vet to be delineated. Washington! poor mason the shilling that was due. both censure and praise. Re- One opinion, type of mind weald make him a We shall know of him as the cold und viewers for the most part historians Superman ; another a . Man. But the forbidding character with whom no themselves were far from unanimous final verdict of history fellow-maevpr ventured to live on in their verdicts. Where will one praised decide Hint he was a bitprobably dose and familiar teims. We shall the of both and for his painstaking the picture which ft biographer will draw of him respect and honor him for being not care in the greatest of generals, not the most statementsminute documenting' of tils will he somewhere in between the two and refrnlning from mak extremes. Wdlof countrymen public-attentio- n - best-know- n jT" - caarai II. II. Brownlee commandant of the London post of the American Legion, has come over with an Invitation to the delegates to the Legion convention in Paris to visit England. Mr. Brownlee is shown above with his little son and daughter. blue-penci- thel-frant- Indias Greatest Dam EGYPT WANTS HER Is Completed his-enem- ies n Mystery in Old Rails gation. They are smaller .than those made tod. ,v. but heavier in ptoikirtlon. An eli.irt will he made to fragments of iron or steel rails just what they are and how determine they were were found in the ruins of the old made. city of St. Joseph, in Florida. These were along the of the old The Beautiful Souls St. Joseph and Ioia railroad. The fact There is no so wretched and so that these pieces of rail were none a soul wherein some particuthe worse for rust, aitiiougl had lar fancy Is not seen to they no been lying in the open suit air for soul so buried in sloth and shine; ignorance, more than 8" years, aroused such inbut it will make a sally Ht one end or terest that they have been sent to laband how it comes to pa-another; oratories ia Philadelphia for investi tliut a mind, blind and asleep to every right-of-wa- y thing else, should be found sprightly, clear and excellent In some one particular effect, we are to inquire of our masters. But the beautiful souls are they that ure universal, open and ready for ail tilings; if not instructed, at last capable of lining 80t jfon. talgne. Not Unusual Aunt W hat did little Bessie get ut her birthday party? Mother Six books, four handkerchiefs, and the measles. The greatest ('( ei.l l.v ( t i net .v( a. t (him of India, the Blinndurdnra, which was dedicated hy the governor of Bombay in Alimednagar district. Due to the loii of tills dam much of tiie surrounding waste land may he r d Ii has taken sixteen jenrs und eighty n.Ahs of rupees to ti ii- dam. - eon-.i- i This bust of the Egyptian Queen Neferti, taken from an excavation at by Doctor Rurchardt, noted German archeologist, and now In the Berlin museum, Is the subject of diplomatic correspondence. The Egyptian government. It is reported, has refused to allow Doctor Rurchardt to resume excavations because he smuggled the bust out, and until It return he will be continued to l bnrred. It will be remembered that the bust was not exposed tn t lie museum until after the signing of th Versailles treaty, to insure its retention in Germany. , |