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Show H The Birthday Of H Washington H As tho years go on, George Wash- B fngton, Father of His Country, ro- H cedes Into the past and seems lik3 shadowy flguro of antiquity. Tho H tendency with many people Is to H, regard Abraham Lincoln as the larg- B , r of the two figures. It Is truo that B Lincoln faced and grasped an ln- comparably bigger situation, and K? i contended with far greater forces. H Yet the resources back of him and ' , At his command wero Infinitely B Washington's greatness Is seen In Hl -comparison with tho pitifully meager H mcnnB which ho controlled. The com- H siander of a broken force of raggei H T (atrlots, halt fed, half clothed, poor- H l.v armed, his attempt must have H;;'t seemed hopeless to the worldly wise H'' f his time. Ht' , It was not merely the foe he faced HV ut the petty and sordid divisions Hf' f the forces behind him. He was K$ the leader not of a nation, but of a Hjj$V .' group of iealous and bickering atatei 'v' and of a-taint hearted Congress. H Under any ordinary generalship, his Hi grotesquely equipped army would (Ef have turned tail and scattered with- 'f ia a year. .But somehow by consuin- H4? -Kate faith In the guiding hand of H$ Providence, by a speed of thought sad action that outwitted a vastly Hf rsmperior foe, he won out agalnsK all' H . Iranian odds. So he will ever the re- 1 ,. srarded by history as one ot the great Hf military commanders the world has 'srrer known. - It was another test ot Waahtng- '! -ten's greatness that he was not 4rawn into the pelty political feuds LsBsHr-iii,, t t his later years. He was bigger sssTssBr??, " tku anv Bolitlcal. aarty. able to see 7;7' ,,,tjaamWlewalrijaiBiv-" " J , v If we can use the marvelous set- C ace and the nighty forces enlisted '-. ilw our war, with as much skill, alert- ff raess, and sound military Judgment K'- aa Washington showed, wo shall win H Cthls war. It we can manifest the H tame lofty Independence of a raero- .. -jy partisan spirit that he should, wo H' ,hall be helped still further to es- H tabltsh the great principles for which Hi ke contended. |