Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1926, Page 3

NEW NIGHT AIR MAIL PLANNED BY NEW Line including Washington Philadelphia and New York to Atlanta Considered. A night air mail route, embracing New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Atlanta, is a possibil- ity of the near fature, according to an announcement by Postmaster Gen- eral New made public toda New said that bids will be called for on a contract to vperate an overnight airmail route between these cities on the Atlantic seaboard within a few daays. Alr mail officials have had the ques- tion of a route between Washington and Atlanta under consideration for the last month, according to the Post- master General, and it seems likel that the call will single out the cen- tral route — through Richmond, Greensboro, Winston-2alem, High Point, Charlotte and Greenville—be- cause of the prospect of the greatest mail busin ral aviation com- panies have signified their intention to bid. Excites Lively Interest. The citles along the proposed routes have evinced a lively interest in the proposal. Various delegations of citl- mens from some of these cities have approached the Post Office Department with their claims. A number of land- ing field sites have been offered. Spartanburg, S. whose deleg: tion presented that city’ day, was promised the surveys to be made for Way. Among the routes proposed is one passing through Roanol Bristol, Knoxville and Chattanooga. A pro- spective bidder sent a plane over this pnsideration in the air- route to get pictures of the topogra-| phy. Tt was found to have many e cellent sites for landing fields. However, the middle route, which the Postmaster General thinks may be chosen, presents some difficulties in the way of landing fields south of Charlotte, It is understood, however that communities along the route will} provide such fields. ; The third route was_ laid through Rishmond, Raleigh, Columbia and Aungusta. This was not thought to be so attractive as either of the two others because of smaller revenue. According to the proposed schedule all the flying will be done at night. Planes will leave New York and At-} lanta at 9 o'clock each evening and ar-| rive at their respective destinations| at 6 o'clock in the morning. It will be necessary to light the airway, and this will have to be taken care of by con- gressional \ appropriation under the new air commerce act. Emergency fields also must be provided every fifteen miles and beacons placed over the whole route, NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING. Notice is herehy given that the annual ‘the stockholders of the Washing- n League Base Ball Club will be offives, of base ball . 1927° at ‘12" 0" rpose of electing & hoard of directors for P ensuing year and for euch other. busi- ness as may be properly brought before il EPWAKD B. EYNON. Jr.. 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The hands stood, and on that clock they still stand, at 20 minutes after 10—20 minutes after 10 of that Wintry aturday night, December 14, 1799. From that moment to this our Nation has revered the memory of George Washington “True, that reverence has often been assoclated wigh absurd idealization of the man, owing to his early biogra- phers having depicted him almost as a god. But, for the most part, that ill work has long since been undone. For some years past, we have been looking upon a George .Washington pretty much freed from those demi-god trap- pings hung upon him by Weems and Sparks. Has reverence abated pings have fallen away? Rather it has’ grown stronger. Not n super- man, but a being of faults and failings like our own rose to those heights of character and achievement. * K K K But wait! Today, on the 127th anniversary of this man’s death, are we finding that we must lessen that reverence? Two recent biographies, now creat- ing quite a stir, assure us that we have not vet got down to the true George Washington. From dem to human being is mnot enough: we must also write him down a much less worthy human being. That is . painful—but really | wish the truth, we must not- dodg: {criticism. Turn to these books. | "Oh! Both by fiction writers? Still !that {s not conclusive against them |as_biographers. X { dently books of no_sinall value {as contributions to the life story of ieorge Washington. One °presents {much unfamiliar matter as to his |early life. The other shows a very careful study of the man’s colonial and western background. But-—character interpretation? Can it be that upon these books we are asked to revise our estimate of Wash- ington, our reverence for him? | True, both books have much inter- pretative comment, yith much pre- tense of fairness. Over and over we are assured that the writers’ only purpose {8 to strip away myth and halo and reveal the true man. If so, why methods that have nothing to do with myth or halo? Muckvaking for sensational incidents; selzing upon them half-proven; twisting them to unworthy, often salacious, signifi- cance; then presenting them as depict- ing the character of George Washing- ton! as those trap- * ok * % / The great man was always unlucky, and in nothing more so than in his blographers. Just as the first two wrote in silly adulation, these latest two write in sensational detraction. This, from their standpoint, they have to do. Otherwise, no surprise, no_thrill, no book! PagesS and pages devoted to etrip- ing George Washington of Weems and Sparks finery that he has not (in the conception of any intelligent Ameri- can) had on for years. Even the cherry tree story again. > Scores of disparaging references to ‘Washington’s character and ability, wholly without historical confirmation. Nos not “wholly,” but worse. Take the words of even a friendly reviewer of one of these books: “Evidence can be found to support every statement. It is evidence sometimes of the flimsi- est kind, but the author uses it as conclusive, He intensifies a whisper " That from a friendly ‘Worse yet. Scores of statements as to the man we honor, literally true and unobjectionable, but cleverly barbed with innuendo to make them sensational. . It is so evident that these novelist- biographers are, in the words of an- on: Man or Myth Vashingt By FRANK W. HUTCHINS. bit! Tt is caught up gleefully. Proof? No trouble apout that. Times are selected when the man’s diaries show many Sundays without entry that he attended church—ergo, he did not at- tend! By such reasoning, he could just as well be made out to have s dom attended the House of B s the diaries seldom mention his doing so. But, waiving that, why no word as beinz v as to the as to the many Sun- days when there were no services; as to later years when he set a trouble- somely high standard for many good churchgoers? * oKk Washington as an illiterate man— more good stuff! Instead of treating this matter fairly, giving credit to him as we do to Lincoln for what he accomplished despite meager early opportunities, here are glee and chortling over his errors in spelling. Says one of these writers, “To his dying day the English language al- ways whipped him.” Sayg the other, “the fantastic system of spelling that bedeviled him to the end of his days * ¢ + Alexander Hamilton coul spell, and so could Jefferson and John Dickinson and Benjiman Franklin. Unfair comparisons — every one! But accept them. The fact is that not one of these men always spelied correctly. Ciood spelling was rare in that day. * ok kK Benjamin Franklin? According to his orthography, we ma; - he lived in “Pensilvania,” perhaps in a “chearful” house with rmant” windows; had an ‘“agre- occupation as a _printer, in which he did “Italicking” and ‘‘capi talling,” sometimes stopping only for a “bisket,” “untill” he had an “opper- tunity” io “chuse” a life abroad, where he wore somewhat better * and “linnen” and was quick his culture in the most “doggrel” verse. m a mere skimming of the manuscripts. Franklin, the printer- editor! Thomas Jefferson? Strange bio- graphical fairness to pit one of the most highly educated men in America against a man who lived in ceaseless regret over the meager educational advantakes of his youth! But again waive the unfairness. Turn to the writings of Jefferson—not to the edited works, but to the manuscripts in his own hand. T Observe that this scholarly gentle- man rarely began a sentence with a capital—Washington always did. Now, following Jefferson's pen, we may ‘say that he lived in Virginia, not “Kentucke”; was a man of much “knolege,” master of “‘verbel” expres- sion, who always “accomodated’ needy, tipped the ‘“horseler,” and whose fireside “recieved” many friends before its ‘‘handirons,” till he; toa, “‘acknoleged” the call to go abroad, and on the “volage” saw many ‘‘pet- trels,” and then returned very “inde- pendant” for the writer of the Decla- ration of Independence. If one or two of these spellings were rather accepted forms in that day, equally were some now charged tc Washington. So much for folk set up to spell Washington down. In truth, ——— g e Prices range from $7,950 to $12,950 Every Location other reviewer, “simply out to ‘get’ somebody—the more exalted the bet- ter.” There is room here to notice but one or two examples df their methods. 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Doubtless, as their authors say, we do not yet fully know the true George Washington. -+ But writers of sensational ‘“best sellers” | are not going to reveal him to us., We shall come to know him better only through the new scientific meth ods of historical research and interpre. tation, And, judging hy the evolution so far, we are going to possess a national figure greater as man nyth. Meanwhile, on this an 0 of us have the faith in him th had in us. Al in the midst of detraction, he calinly looked forwar to the judgment of posterity. Alw: in a peculiar trust, he gave his name into the keeping of those who shoul come after. Always he said that they would understand. 1026.) SCHOOL IN EDGEW0OD IS NEARER REALITY Supervisor of Fifth District to Rec- ommend Erection of Building, Citizens Are Told. A school in the territory of the Edgewood Citizens' Assoclation was brought a, step nearer, when the school committes reported to a meeting of the association last night in the Lin- coln Road M. 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