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Show 1 NATION PAYS I HONOR TO FIRST El U. S. PRESIDENT I Sir Arthur Currie Says f Washington Had Strong ' I Aid in England MAC NIDER COMMENTS Heretofore Unknown Doc I uments of Country's Fa ther Come to Light PHILADELPHIA Feb. 12. It wm I !hr Inevitable working of poetic Jus-j lice In human history thnt the great-j a t conference ever held In the lnter- E? est "f - " should meet nearly a ren-j St . ,i, if., i- c.i-circro Wash- . Ington's struggles and triumphs, Gen- B W eraj Sir Arthur Cufrle, head of .Mf- m Gin university, Montreal, declared to-1 to-1 5.11 jj the orator of the day Hi . i the University of Pennsylvania 0 ihington's birthday exercises Af- r JM , ,,s address lh.' U'lnii-r anndiai w nei ..i and General Pershing were 1 n r.-.l with the degree of doctor of laws, conferred bv the University. IDE UiS BTIXLL LI 1 Washington's ideals still Mvo upon the earth, he said "The men and . JJ, boys who went out from your countr f nnd mine to die on foreign fields for lhelr principles during the recent , irs Of world tragedy were similar to . ,i him In spirit." he- said. 'They, too. W .. iihUkt of mmii dalesmen would l,- havi llbertj "i d ith. And surely mf ibove their graves, with the Anglo- k f Saxon Weals of Washington to L strengthen us we shall remember In a the 1 mi ure onlj I he common ca usi fo M n our r-' e nac alwayc H "Washington's rhetoric was nevei m 1 1 rhel revel Bli Arthur IB tli i - I hi i ilm, Judicloui b ra earnest appeal of a man with ch ar and HH far vision who represented tho best RV ;,nj noblest spirit of hu uge In ONE CLARION VOICE. HV 'In formulating his theories of des- Efll tent md freedom his doctrine of the Efl Tights of life, liberty and th. pursuit KmS "l happiness. h;s principles of govern- HV mi n' Instituted among men and d''- HV riving" their just powers from the Hj , ,,iisent of the governed, he was not eM m hi- generation, nor "as he p. I fjrsl ai & onl; ot th pr...ilu-i 1 KM pi the thinking people of Britain His E9 Was but one clarion vole in the great -J , horui singing in liis lime the paeon r W . . i QB i "Washington waa not without M j irlends and conrades in Ideals In PM I LJritnln. His ideals wore thoso of t. I i hi w Pw 1 "1 against him, ll Li true, but wc Tm must not forget th.- courage of tn CH majority who sympathized with nlfl |