| Show Ben's Birthday By ELIZABETH C. WALKER On we honored the birthday of Benjamin without whom we may well not have become a He was born years ago in BENJAMIN Franklin was the most remarkable man in American We are all too frequently satisfied with learning of his experiment with a kite to attract lightening and do not know of the other things he FOR INSTANCE Ben then living in was the outstanding printer and journalist for the colonies because of his Saunders He was active in city he sponsored such services as the organization of the fire and militia HE WAS instrumental in organizing the first public and the academy which is not part of the University of He identified lighting with along with other won him membership m every important learned society in It was not until at age 51 that Franklin began his diplomatic It was here that his greatest contribution to his country took In he was in London as a delegate to the Pennsylvania seeking and securing the king's permission to tax the Penn HE WAS again in London in opposing arbitrary taxation of the After serving a short time in the Continental he undertook his historic mission to France in securing vital military and financial aid for the American This was a masterful piece of diplomacy without which the Revolution was doomed to A MAN of serene he met the exactitudes of life without tension and without undue He credo it that I now take up a to do for the future all that lies in my way for the service of my THIS credo shames the politics of |
