Show WASHINGTON A AS GREAT GUIDE The past year has seen an ana a wakened awakened public Interest In the life of ot George Washington an In- In Interest In Interest terest that has found Cound expression both In wide discussion of ot his ca u Career career reer and in the production of ot sev- sev several sev several eral books A A number or number of o regrettable things have ha been said and written Some have tried to magnify Washington's ev every ry fault and min minimize his virtues apparently In order to reduce him as far tar as they could to the level of o the common man Others equally worthy of ot blame o ho tried to put the first press dent up on so high a pedestal that he loses reality They have tried to picture him as a man without even minor frailties a aper per person on of ot super superhuman wisdom ind md goodness Both extremes are wrong bu hut but neither is a thin thing that we wen d n d trouble ourselves about What Is important l and worth hilt is that hundreds of ot thou thou ands ands of o people have been led to familiarize themselves ves once again ith e-ith the life lle of o the father of ot his l Tae e story of o Washington has b n and rightly so to Il a a sort of plc of o Americas America's birth It has be beta n Americas America's great reat saga and Washington has become almost legendary semi hero who looms cr er er larger through the mists of lime Washington remains pliers or no biographers the fa father ther Cher of o his country literally and He brought the na- na nation na nation tion to birth through perilous hourS hourS-do do not forget that he would have paid with his life on ona ona ona a British scaffold It If the re revolution revolution tion had failed and and now a cen- cen cen century tury fury and a halt half later laler he stands the shadows shado's grealer greater and loftier than ever eyer a beacon and an everlasting ho hope forthe for tor the people I that call themselves his |