Show MOW 00 A abw 0 doe I 1 anif X tl Q aa ak q 4 4 n t X 9 csia fiort o q y f 4 4 iby ELMO SCOTT awatson W ATSO IN EID 1111 approach of 22 rei ca calls s not oni only pe he great figure wham all americans honor upon this dale but also til this mafe mit erfal ilal relating to alq life which has come to light during the past year to make ank even better our understand ing and oil rap of him film even evan grenter grea gren tei terAs As usuna nn nin amount auni of new vast in quantity consid considering dring the years that have intervened sine since e ile he w walked ait ed the stage of american ills his toray has been unearthed and an all even gref greater iter amount h heretofore 0 o wv only ta unprofessional professional historians has been made e botn ta e gen iral public and as usual the most washington lana items fire the nev books which have been written interpreting anew the life of this man who ft ho has been the theine of so ninny many biographers undoubtedly th the 0 outstanding washington of the year jear Is the second vol lame of rupert hughes study of him published tt by bi marrow and company of new york which takes up the narrative where ills his arst volume left off and tells the story of george washington tile the rebel arid the patriot 1762 1 the interpretation oi of washington Is important bormore for more than one rens reason dif the principal une one being that lie more than any other washington biographer has been the storm center of public discussion and as a result ninny many people who would not atlen otherwise alse be likely to read of washington have rushed to do so to see gee for th themselves emsil na mi whether ether or not has maligned the memory of faiq the father of bf llis ills country of tills this 1 Is unfortunate ate for if a man who Is seeking honestly to tell th the truth and no one can read the hughes Il volumes without being impressed by the fact that li he IS but in the long run it la Is a fortunate cl circumstance because it Is making more americans better belter acquainted than ever before with tile the facts about washington not just th the e dini I 1 school book legends though to some persons borne of iheke melt facts may ma bo be unpleasant they can not help kielp seeing that the favorable aspects of diameter character far outweigh the unfavorable and they will ond find that it Is only by a cort con of both that they have reached some adequate understand understanding inZ of the real washington in his first volume sir hughes stated staled ills his pur pose as follows to find out as aa tar far as possible and to repeat as faithfully as possible just what george washing ton ion was did paid sald wrote thought and why and how bow the main effort hits has been to let washington tell his own story as fully as possible in his hl own words frels is indeed as nearly an autobiography ap an I 1 can make it ky aly incessant effort in this biography has been to see his hie life as tie he saw it all other biographer s have tacitly assumed that he be knew the future futua and himself grandly for it they have look looked ed backward upon him through the dazzling aure aureole 0 Is of hia bia nut but that was not the way he saw the world ile he had to grope tor for tile lila faith and he missed few of the pitfalls the thorns and the torments of ft the way no moro more did he miss thi the primroses prim roses the festivals the dances and aid deports sport and romances mances lo that purpose Is repeated in ills his second volume in which lie he sas ys again as in the first volume my incessant en elf deavor has been to let washington tell his own etory in his own words and to try to see ece his hi world and his dinies a as they have looked to him not mot as they appear app r to a backward gaze across a landscape tilled with tall onus oaks that were once acorns and monuments that thai were once men W washington ashington tike like every other animal vegetable ind and mineral war nas an evolution in body find and char mc acter ter with him as with all other earthly being i environment play played ed a vital tal part and changed him while tie lie changed it it Is no sacrilege to represent him as I a boy before he became a man and a mat man te before fore bild while he be became a god and there Ys t no no kindi toss to 0 o hn 44 in the facts for th the M moie 01 0 ully fully f the truth hirn is 1 ania th h greater Ms it Is tile anost niost tragic of farces that iso eo many americans should idslet botti both thit flint washington could not tell a tie lie end and that his hie chroniclers mai ma oot jell ell the truth alt hough file fl first volume of the flu hiu glies lies blag Is calledo tile being and tile llero the volum eIf fitly thing mord the first dist gives gh es us an insight into george washington the human being for it if la Is ln in the period which tills this volume covers 1702 to 1777 that we see washington tho the virginia planter who gambled drank wine arne anarum anda rum hunted danced and farmed as did the other country gentlemen of ills s time nor do we have to rely upon the words af a twentieth century biographer that he j did ill these ese things washington lugton him himself self Is our htiu authority 1 ant and he set bet down the whole record with painstaking p accuracy in his diaries and ledgers ledger r A careful and a methodical man tills this Vir virginia kinta iii planter anter married mairich to the wealthiest hist boman t in america possessed of th a of acres of land surrounding mount vernon behind with his on interests a lq alg jobin hshanks hs hands li adte eier nebout handling it in a careful and rufan manner r S so he fie kept depta a close record at f all of ills his activities his big winnings ings and losses at cards game killed crops raised and sold slaves bought and bartered dances dance and dinners attended I 1 blid and all ali other details of the complex life af of that period 4 if lie he oft ofte set down such stich entries as by play tickets at sundry times 1173 or by lost jon on the race as ar or by cards loss los 1 1 he also recorded frequently his generous impulses thus by gave a beggar or dy by treating the ladles as 17 at tile the end of every year he totaled up on one page alige all thesues the sums taken whether from tobacco burgess burgas wages house or farm rentals and other sources 0 ol 01 income not neglecting an occasional winning at caros cards for lie he was not even perfect as a gambler lie he sometimes won writes Ilu glies on the opposite page be summed up the outgo of nit all sorts and then struck a balance it itts Is delightful jo fo find that his books never came out right some of 0 ills explanations are I 1 ingenuous by mistake in count of the english silver last year by NA cash lost stolen arpard or ably away without ethl charting charging that tha athe the necessity for farm relief was sometimes tim s as acute alladin in his day as it Is today and that ki I 1 apin country estate was a great luxury then even as now Js shown py by the following quotation from his jou journal anal it Is almost belond bellef that from covvin cos a actually reported of a late ate enumeration of the cattle that I 1 am obliged to buy butter for tile the use ofay of my family another indication that washington on faced tile the same came problems as americans of today is shown by tile doctor bill for ills his family martha tind and her two children jad jack and patsy custas wa herje je a large item amounting binik 11 in one year lo 10 more than eighty pounds not including V physician aho aho vho wits aa kept on salary for ali ger servants geovanis vanis slaves he kept his diaries as faithfully ns as he did hia hl i ledgers here lie he gives in his own matter of fact way the record of the teeming activities of mount vernon his light fight with the stubborn virginia rolt his fils struggle for more wealth through uie tile cultivation of tobacco ills his efforts to secure for himself nud nod the s soldiers bl illers who lind had been under his command I 1 la large rge tracts of western land and occasionally in the latter years of the drift toward revolution of introspection he betrayed never a hint hughes tas sacs A more emotionless diary was pro probably never never written ills only warmth nth iras was shown show in the pages over which he wrote nt oie die top acet acct of the weather in i refo ar or whatever the month might be here it sl angularly pleased him to be minute and as near ta as he ever came cam except for tile the sufferings of his sold soldiers lerN highest eloquence was reserved rescued for the weather remove Ke from life ills his careers career sas is i n soldier solder and a statesman and there remains s little littie to distinguish him from the average success ful business ninn man of ills his day and ours hughes writer but he was n P scientist as well ne he had the spirit and was always experimenting with manures and fertilizers new methods of planting find plowing such was the washington fit at mount vernon and af ifie j we find it necessary to 16 bring forward any more alore evidence of the humanness of the man 1 it t can call be found in the he record of nf washington ra ln chlof of continental army of ill hla cyrett career highl in ahli role flur lluc lis li has as written batho ratho fi f lath moet endear lne of all qualities find and it han ban to 0 o love or feel vorry for the hington of the textbooks yet he himself wan waa X ft A vi ta ita itt v ML I 1 A f iS cSt ay 3 4 fyd 2 i tfx 0 39 2 0 ka t al poy al a l C 2 li al is R sy yx l sst ic e ail a x 7 00 0 0 4 4 44 t a S i 1 S t 3 2 A 5 A A 7 say cwi wwi i a s 4 SS S S t 37 A t 53 3 crua 00 twisy tw isy ij ia SA aa tj 3 ay A y a IX f A 0 ta iolj e jr 0 if jeA f z yay j an infinitely pathetic lonely figure ie fie was in no sense a sod god truck struck from the brow of in full ful uniform lie ile was a poor struggler with infinite at a time when chaos groaned in a eloon 0 n ot 0 f torment from whose travail a nation was born and shaped amid the cries of pain and things of uncertainty nobody knew just what the right or the helpful thing thine to do or what the outcome would be and washington was as an profoundly bewildered as aa any body everybody who knew him spoke of his shyness his lie ile inspired awe and reverence also but for the purity of his patriotism pa t r lotisa and the loftiness of his ideas yet he 14 was wretchedly afraid of himself and he had no ambitions except to grow rich be free cultivate hl hi farm and his friends his charities charlt lef and the other charms of this world and leave behind h him m ah an h honorable ono rable name ire he was forever being appealed to to aaa friends relatives regiments colon colonies or the nation from their own mistakes and jealousies and he did his best beet for them going inlo info debt to lend money taking on trusteeships trustee ships to the neglect ol of his own affairs forever writing letters and keep ing books though he lov 3 to dance and follow f 0 11 ow the hounds and shuffle the cards and let the th theater display before him the boes woes and entangle ments of people who would not ask him to arrange their lives for them it la Is surprising to find how emotional washington was ivas how homi bewildered tewil dere rn how sensitive a en and how frank in his it t t I 1 very touching to note his concern about the public lic opinion of his efforts and the kalnit pain ga gave him to be harshly criticized for inactivity that he could not help and dared not justify even to his own friends and fellow officers lie made no pretensions whatever wha to unusual or ability and prote protested a i ted InZes incessantly that he was ignorant inexperienced and incompetent to hla hia problems pro blema but that his motives were honorable unselfish and the man mah himself Is infinitely more apt appealing ealing pitiful heartbroken tragic gay witty tender gracious tactful fearless ferocious heroic ant and at b hla ia loftiest loft iest sublime than the dull pray gray bore manufactured by stupid dullards dul lards stodgy politicians and bongers mongers of there Is but one oile thins thing needed to io complete the picture of washington the hutnan being and that la is to show that tills nian who tins hits been 90 often painted a tf a towering deml god inclinable incapable of tile lie commonest common commonest esl of huahn emotions was wag at times allies capable of bf towering raes cowardice always in furcated furca fur ted him and after one particularly disgraceful exhibition of p ined on the part of 11 Is troops wd c haaf tills this picture complied from contemporary accounts throwing his hat upon the ground in a rant rans port of rago rage and indignation he be cried are these the men I 1 om to defend america with Il edre pistols and snapped them at hia men he alwayn thought a coward bitter better dead S out t hs pistols would not fire 1 it was said eald that he drew his sword and threatened to run the cowards through it Is known that he u used red t he h he ha Z carried and lit lie beat his people crar cr C r the shoulders derd flogge tf nut only tho the private eold lera but off leers as an well lie ile lashed the colonels across the shoulder blades swinging his aln plunging horie way and that in the tor rent of men gone rat ile he nailed flailed a brigadier gentral and bt at jast when the british approached approach eq very iose dote hi he vy als so BO bitten with despair that he would not move and an order orderly ay hadbo had to load ld etli III borgs bore away |