| Show HAS SUFFERED FROM alm TRADITION NJ in modem writer gives Us new version ion of the character of washington great soldier as H he Is universally ho he wa was also a ater deathless champion of the right rights of hu manity ORE than any say other american M statesman ata teaman more than any other american washington bu suffered euffe rod from tradition write writes john D barry la in the washington times la in act fact I 1 cant thirk of any other great man in 1 tt Ll ot of the world who baa has been damaged in juat just the aua same way through belog being made to appear 0 to o good the reat reason la in that be he ha his been preeminently the childrens hero ho lie li in a distinguished victim of the deceit we practice on children la in the name ct of education only the varr good boya boys and girl girls care for the etory story of washington and the cherry tree the athern the majority ire are bored or amuse amused d or puzzled and then the la is the saying dinned into the an earn of american childhood never told a lie it alone alienate alienates tact vast numbers 0 of children from washington in 12 cacir little beads it finds no echo no enthusiastic desire for emulation for truth telling much aa as we love it la in children and much aa as we labor to graft it on those highly imaginative mind Is often a virtue that develop develops only year years related to latelle recce mid to maturo mature character I 1 it derive derives ita its beauty largely from association with other qualities more sympathetic do real damage to truth be I 1 f assert fro truth tellers often seem rigid in character they do great damage to truth by tr making it U be cot not beautiful aa as it honed be but hideout hide oua even in winds fit pf maturity to the reputation of Waa hington there sull clings a suggestion of the comic thackeray did not help the when he introduced the youthful washington into the virginian as a bighley self conscious and priggish frig glah co collel cos lel there la to a ats chance for a new cl C washington one pas who will bring out the real man owea owen witter wider male a tart start some yea jeara rs ago am when ha he a little look ook emphasis lag cetone more human qualities bat but the book wa was too light slight to b be mr wlater may write the complete astory needed by the world of today 1 r today at of all time times the world ought to reflect on the service of washington in the making of wf this cation nation nad and on the attitude of bf washing ton toward the future of this nallon nation washington a seer since the spanish war the ra farewell rowell andreis Ad dress dreis once a classic and apparent ly just about aa as much alive as Ilas classics has ba fallen into disfavor we dont bear of tta its being pointed to with pride ai as often as a we did perhaps if t we do to back to it we ball shall find that washington besides being ft a and a statesman was a seer and st seer ie much more interesting inc than a little boy that chore chops down ft it cherry tree or 1 R man that hits never told ft a lie A seer ha has ft a way of projecting him self into the future and finding anding ft a new life there ae an ft a prophet washington is i ft a vital force today but he be la is ft a force that baa has been consciously and deliberately disregarded washington the hero of valy valloy force wae was P man ct c peate lie ile aw saw that the happl neis and cocu ecu rity of this country lay juet just as the happiness of an individual did in ft a policy of noninterference aa as a oon soon as thia this country ceased to follow this policy washington fore saw aw complications on the surface it eema seems strange that ft a man whose inheritance find and way ways of ife life were aristocratic should be ro rb garde an the father of american Amerl caa do anu anti to the present day point of view 1 it ie Is all the more strange when we recall the reproach made mads against wash ington that the great held slaves 1 but washington to be judge judged fair lr in like everyone else ele must he be consid red with reference to big hi time aud surrounding ur rounding conditions condl tlona washington deserves little credit for not yielding to the temptation to ae lert sort bit his arleto cratic unease lineage by becoming a torf tor he ile wa wits directly affected by the unfair attitude of the mother country la in imposing tandon without representation what he did wai a natural outcome of what bo b was wa when he did merit the highest honor wa wits in bla big rising so 0 o to hie his responsibilities lad opportunities A A man selfish and arrogant might bare bay exacted more mors tor might bare have striven to himself As u permanent power over the nation he bad helped to create dut but there te Is no evidence that washington ever felt uch such a temptation Aristo aristocrat crt ai as be lie wai 25 and slaveholder holder he wae was all the jore extraordinary in la being able abic to turn from the prejudice prejudices of hie his training to a realization of the democratic ideal perhaps we CAU can I ich g a little clear er of what bat washington wae was and of what hat he did by placing him in or own time it we was its a if at the present time a man of distinguished position loa and of wealth wire to become a leader in the labor move went for from the point of view of england the colonials colon colont lali als were humble folk mainar tiller of the field geld work en ors la in email small enterprise enterprises to their cause washington gare gayo dignity aa as well as marvelous personal cuti courage rage with big bl tatt battem emd halt half fed poorly troops he defeated the pro sol ota tere ulers of england and nd the mercenaries lie ile bad of course the superlative advantage adran tage of being belat sustained by the power of A sublime moral idea all the more effective mccause bc cuie cause it wai was opposed br by the weak lexe nexe that goc goes with self conscious and super arity really deserves pore ore credit washington tan rot been accorded by the world tho credit be he defees dec errea for bis his share in establishing democracy as a a working force in A nation we lr are e likely to forget that democracy while he be fought tor for it 14 waa was rot accepted by the world ai as practicable to a few it waa wits a beautiful theodr aa an ideal to the many it wai was cable a 6 denial or what they ul t ard alicd d is a the natural Im Atness of human buman being la in large wastes to golem themselves from prance france mainly rousseau had come the great democratic theory bat but france had yet to eek seek its it establishment la in the blood of the french our next washington ii to not moir to be a soldier idler statesman maa lie fie will not lead la in ft a war between caboni or be tea toes with any geographical limits he ile will give dignity and coherence cober coher enre and to a cause caune now la in need of a si powerful champion he will itrice arit taxation representation but against 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