Show GEORGE washington As 0 IN k 0 an unfamiliar but authentic portrait of washington I 1 hank god godl the people peoples choice wa was just th the one no man equal to his trust wise beyond lore and without weakness good calm in the strength th of flawless rectitude 1 washington the truly great man again la Is here the anniversary of tho the birth of george washington a legal holiday from porto rico to the philippines and a notable day to the who are carrying the english language around the globe as well aa as to all civilized peoples place in history haa has long been fixed if be Is not the greatest man of all time it Is net nt pos bible sible to aade a greater this Is the judgment of civilization and has stood unchanged during the years since his death nevertheless history has done washington a great wrong unable to find in him the Imperfect imperfections itma of ha hu manity it cast aside his humanity and recreated re created him as an impersonal super iran as far removed from flesh and blood as are bis his marble statues th thin deification of washington Is a thing that we american must undo weighed in the balance as flesh and blood he be loses not one jot or tittle titue but rather gains in greatness while we gain a hum human an father of this country for george washington in spite of history was as hunan as any son of adam the T he proof that washington was very ve ry human a man of full blood and hot temper sensitive modest and doubtful of his capacity fond of the good things of life a as he saw them ard reluctant luct nt to give them up even at the call of auty ls Is ready tor for the asking it Is in the writings whitin s of washington himself not so much in those state documents in which he was more or less on parade as in the thousands thousand 0 of intimate pages of diaries and letters let lett taft student once forget washington the demigod and was washington h the man springs to life from writings and there Is abundant these corroboration oration lf if it were needed in the writings of his contemporaries delving into papers in bearch of the real man we come upon boris sorts of little things that show all much like the been very him to have ba ve rest of us in many ways wb have but these 4 for apud p the J superciliousness of 0 f the britt british 91 rasped the CO colonial lonial was washington hing officer the great to the quick after campaign he declined a non meadows command in these words if think me capable of holding a you that has neither rank nor commission ent annexed to it you must MU at em emolument olum contemptible epli ion entertain a ery and believe me to be weakness st of my commission it than the empty more mor 0 self wine vine and his liked good washington agton him we find and famous deira was madeira bla aghast over the fact that fifty fiftysix six bottles of it had been 8 served to casual visitors at mount vern vernon on during his and writing to have it stopped absence claret IM is good enough he says at t once ilia his rule of order justice Jue tice peace made possible the world worlds release taught and sort rt that power Is but a trust and rule alone which arvee the ruled Is 1 just whittler bittler for people who may incline to make a convenience of the house in traveling or who mar be induced to visit it from motives of curi balty dislike lor for slavery and hie his humanity to bis his slaves are beyond question nevertheless we find him writing and what sort of sickness Is betty davis A more lazy deceit tul ful and impudent hussy Is in not to be found in the united states when washington was elected president ho he wrote to knoz knox in conn dence I 1 tell you 0 0 that ray my movement to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who Is going to the place of his execution washington kept his hot temper under iron control he abhorred profanity and here are aro two touches of nature that make us all akin at monmouth finding the traitor lee in retreat be he galloped up to him at full speed and swore at him until the leaves shook on the trees 0 like an angel from heaven in a cabinet meeting some bome one banded handed him a cartoon representing him as being publicly executed by the gullot guillotine no jefferson thus writes of the scene the president was much inflamed got into ono one of those WAss passions lons when be he cannot command himself ran on to the personal abuse which bad had been bestowed on him defied any iman on earth to produce one single act of his since he bad had been in the government which was not done on the purest motives that he be had bad nevor repented but once laving slipped the moment of resigning his office and that was every evary moment since that by god he would rather be in his grave than in his present situation washington waa was no freak of genius aprin springing ging to life full armed for the work to which he be was called he was a consistent continuance of the family pattern he increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with god and man he grew grow just as we all grow the W washington who was so embarrassed by the thanks of the virginia house of burgesses hat that he could not speak and thus called forth speaker RO robinsons bin sons immortal sit down mr washington your modesty Is to equal to your valor and that surpasses the power of any language that I 1 possess was a very different washington from the washington who awed tho great gmt of all the world had washington died before he be be came commander ln chief he would be remembered rem merely as a gallant colonial soldier and rich planter if just after the hur surrender render of yorktown as one of the great generals of the world if after the federal Conven convention Uon as a political leader and great gen san eral it requires his presidency dency to ea e cablish his statesmanship and final ly it took his retirement to private life to giro the last touch to 0 o W hi patriotism and proclaim him first in war first arst in peace and first ant in tho the hearts ot of me his country countrymen meu |