Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1928, Page 82

i » A ‘Wa Washington's birthday offers occasion for another stimulating and informative article from Mr. Creel, similar to those included in his recent series upon heroes of American history. This blograph- | 'mporary _treatments of the subject, should prove of ! particular interest at this time. | Mr. Creel, it will be remember- | ed, was chairman of the - dent’s Committee on Public In- | formation during the World War. | He is one of the widely known | American writers of the day. | morning in 1758 there was small suggestion of the lover h;| his hot voung face. The capture of Fort Duquesne had waited full long) upon munitions and supplics, and his business at Williamsburg was to whip sluggards into action. Even when hailed by a hospitable lanter and forced to stop for dinner. e refused to have his charger stabled, | nsisting that he must not tarry. Once inside the white-pillared man- sion. however, haste fell from him like & dropped cloak, for Martha Custis—as charming as comely—happened to be a visitor. It was well into the next day before he tore himself away, and such ! wes the swiftness with which he dis- patched his Willlamsburg affairs_that th: same week saw him at the Custis home. declaring his love with a passion ' that swept resistance aside. It is to be doubted if there was much tanding well above six feet—strong. straight and dlender as a forest pine— his face like that on a Greek coin. the young colonel also possessed the appeal that romantic and colorful adventure ever gives | Taking a plighted word with him ‘Washing.on returned to fighting, in the war wiih the French. in which he had previously saved Braddock's demoralized men from massacre and in which his Tesourcefulness held the frontier four full years. In November he captured Fort Duquesne, now to be Fort Pitt BY GEORGE CREEL. ! S COL. GEORGE WASHINGTON | rode hard and fast through the| Virginia woods on a certain May | and, not waiting for the formal end of | ., war, raced back and led his bride to the altar within ten days. { Famous at 26, and rich, for Mrs | Cusiis brought many smiling acres to Join with those left him by his brother Lawrence. the young soldier settled ©own at Mount Vernon and proceeded to order life along the lines h> loved | As master of Mount Vernon there | was the care of the estate to give his active mind its necessary occupation. | horses and hounds for hunting, and congental neighbors for the friendships. cards and dancing that his gay soul loved. A tree life, an intimate contact with Mother Earth, and always the solitude of the woods when his wild | note called | Out of the hope that this welcome peace might not be disturbed, he pray- e¢ ¢ .at differences with Great Britain | %ould be yet he wore his uniform lo the second session of the Continental Congress, and was the first | to pledge life and fortune to the cause of independence. anguish of dismay | swept his neart, however, when he was | named by scclamation to command the Continential armies. ! * % o x AS ardent, high-tempered a man as ever lived. his bold soul would have rejoiced in the fierce give and take of combat for his country, but he shrank = from the responsibilities and mufink:_ c {so completely that THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. 1D 0 FEBRUARY 19 1928 —-PART 17. shington, Man of Clear Vision, Met Problems With Iron’ | his | him, | from a beloved father, and Gates and Story of First President One of Great Chapters in American History, Marked by Acbievcments Which Depended Upon Highest Qualities—Waves of Detraction and Slander Inflicted Upon Him While He Upheld Cause of the Republic. || vision he saw the bitter years, that stretched ahead—the drudgery, the wrangles with politicians, the necessity of humbling pride and curbing tongue. Yet later he wrote his wife. “It was utterly out of my power to refuse this appointment without character to such censure as would have reflected dishonor.” After that one despairing letter—his | bood-by to happiness—no one was privileged to hear his murmur. Setting himself to the task with the greatness that men divined. he made himself over only real thereafter did the ‘Washington through the discipline his iron | Wi mposed. At Monmouth Court House, when vic- | tory was snatched from his grasp, he cursed Charles Lee with a fury and fluency that won the admiration of veteran teamsters. dent. beaten upon by storms of abuse, he stunned the cabinet with his rage. crying out that he would rather be in his giave than submit to such treat- ment. The third time was when he kicked Edmund Randolph cut of office For the rest, he battened down his passions and impetuositi accepting treachery, treason, disloyalty ingratitude as part of his burden. Patriotism shackled him and until the very end he was to look at life through | the prison bars of dut. Thesz are facts that historians failed to see or else decided to ignore. As a rezult posterity has built up a pleas- g concepticn of Washington as the happy, envied commander of a ci army that numbered every A able to bear arms: moving from v to victory as in the stateiy meas the minuet: applauded and lo out break cr reservation; remot:, ma- jestic and passionless as & god. There is never mention of years of utter hell. and even, as it is blandly assumed that 2! of birthmark. From the moment he reached Boston | 5, Washington was put to | ing bricks without straw, for the army that he found was an undis- ciplined rabble, lacking money, food, clothes, rifies and ammunition. During the eight mnthcs he sat help! under the guns of Gage and Howe. while Con- gress screamed at him for his inaction, there was but thirty barrels of powder ' in the camp. As fast as he drilled the raw militia into some sort of shape, en- listments expired and the work had to b2 done all over again with new batches of unruly recruits. Congress, fearful that “military power might overbalance the civil.” only per- mitied enlistments for four months. making demoralization a continuous . and as if to make discipline img possible, no soldier could b2 punishea without the consent of the State from which he came. Not until March did gallant Henry Knox sled down from Ticonderoga with ample munitions, and in a night Wash- ington occupied Dorchester Heights, compeiling Howe to quit Boston and take to his ships. ps. Only for a moment the clouds lifted. | Marching down to New York, he watched Sir William Howe assemble 30,000 trained soldiers on Staten Island. backed by the fleet of Admiral Lord expposing _ my | three times | Once, when Presi- | and black | he was born old and grave, the sad. | ed face is looked upon as a sort | MEN ing German mercenarics, 12,000 from | Hesse-Cassel alone Sceing the ne: ity of a victory, Wachington drove his half-trained sol- diers to the battle of Long Island. but the blunders of Isracl Putnam not only lost the day, but put the entire Army in danger of annihilation As Washingion retreated, whole regi- ments deserted and gave themselves up to open plundering. Officers quarreled over rank as dogs over bones: there was graft and corruption in connection with Army supplics, and, as money came from the voluntary contributions of the States, funds cou'd not bz relied upon * % » DECEMBER saw Washingten flesing across the frozen flats of New Jersey. hotly pursued Cornwallis, while back in Wesichoster dawdied Gen. Charles Lec with a large force. | Day after day he was orcered to fol- low. but the arrcgant, scheming soldier of fortune had the secret purpose of keeping himself strong until Washinz- CROWDED ABOUT HIM, SOBBING, BE striking some dramatic blow, succeeding him in the night to fall on Princeton? to the chief command. Horatio Gates, another English-born major-general appointed by Congress, self. There was never a moment when knives were not at Washington's back. The main Army dwindled to 3,000, almost the whole of New Jersey turned Tory, and as Washington crossed the Ordering his Hessfans to wait at Trenton until the river froze, Corn- wallis turned away from a foe that ,7; ok, 7 % | _ But for the exhaustion of the men— they had not slept for 36 hours—Bruns- wick and the British supplics would entertained a similar ambition for him- have been captured, but even so, Wash- | ington retired to Winter quarters Morristown with the wild acclaim of | encouraged country ringing in his ears. | He himself suffered no illusions. The ritish fleet controlled the sea, and his Delaware, sinking all boats left behind | clear eye saw that all the Howes had him, the British snapped at his heels. to do was to seize Boston, New YOrk, I | Charleston and Philadelphia, and then | sit_tight while America strenge'd. | Even should the British continue to | secmed absolutely helpless, and went | overlook this obvlous strategy, a second Dack to New York for Ghristmas GHNNEF | Gvcriie ool thoeatoncd ® Burioyhe. was with the Howes. Then it was that|marching down from Canada, and if Washington resolved upon the stroke | Howe, sailing up the Hudson, joined that moved Frederick the Great to such | forces with him it would give the Brit- delighted admiration. !ish full control of the great river, cut- What need to tell again of that heroic ting America in isolated halves crossing—10 hours in open boats amid floating, crashing ice—the nine-mile tramp thraugh driving sleet and snow— the thunderbolt assault at dawn that captured 900 Hessians? Or the masterly strategy that waited calmly for the ap- At this crisis in American affairs, there came the blessing of another Brit. | ish blunder, for Howe elected to cap: ture Philadelphia before effecting juncture with Burgoyne. Washington was more than content to let him have (& s A . il I NG FORGIVENESS AS FROM A BELOVED FATHER. have crushed them but for the work of Charles Lee, unhappily retuined to his command by an exchange of prisoners. Night fell before Washington could remedy the confusion of conflicting orders, and Clinton escaped under cover of darkness. It was as if some malignant fate had determined that Washington's spirit should be broken. The French fleet, arriving in June, feinted half-heartedly at New York and Newport, and then D'Estaing sailed away to the West In- dies. . | Clinton, taking courage, sent an army Savannah and ravage Georgia, and in Pennsylvania and northern New York the Tory Butlers and Johnsons urged their wild Indians to bloody massacres. Sending Lafay- ettc to France to bsg more generous co-operation, Washington hurried Philadelphia in an effort to force Con- | gress to effective action. Delusive hope! By now all men of haracter were in the field or busy in | their various States, leaving politicians | at the Nation's helm. As Washington to capture Army brought once more to verge of dissolution. So cold it was that New York harbor froze, and at Morristown soldlers died by the hun- | dreds of hunger and privation. Death | and- dcseriion reduced resistance to a | mere shell, but Washington—begging | flour trom State to State, borrowing ‘mm\ey by personal solicitation—poured the wine of his own flerce resolution ; inw the veins of starving men and held | a few thousands together. Moving like | a corpse that rejected burial, the gaunt, | haggard band staggered forth in the 1Spring to take up the old task of hold- | !ing the Hudson. In September, stung to madness by the insuits and injustices of politicians, Benedict Arnold sold his honor for $50,000 and a gencral’s commission in | the British service. | loved Arnold, and for the first time | men saw. him cry—great sobs that tore | his heart—a David mourning Absalom. | As if to spare him nothing. Win- ter was again an agony of cold and | hunger. Checking disintegration by | sheer torce of will, Washingion scnt | his_beloved Greene down South, to- gether with hard-bitted Daniel Mor- gan, Baron von Steuben, Lafay~t and Light Horse Harry Lee, for h2 sa | the Southera States a# the center of | military operations. | Results were soon apparent, for Greene's masterly strategy turned every | defeat into a victory, and at last Corn- ' | wallis was driven back into Virginia | and cornered at Yorktown. Washington learned in May that the { ¥rench flest had sailed from Brest, and | weariness fell from him as he prepared | to strike. He had but 4,000 men. in- | stead of the 37,000 promised by Cor- gress, but Rochambeau hurried to the Hudson with his 5.000 and plans were | laid for an attack on New York. i In August, however, ward came that | Admiral de Grasse was sailing from San | Domingo straight for Chesapeake Bay, | and on the instant Washington grasped the chance of crushing Cornwallis. Masterly strategy deceived the British, and before Clinton awoke the allied army was well past Philadelphia, and | October saw the sword of Cornwallis offered in surrender. ! Two years that followed were as filled with hardship and heartache as any that had gone before. for Congress and the State gayly assumed that Yorktown ended the war, d dismissed the Army from their thoughts. Soldiers continued to serve out of their love for Washington, but as the dawn of 1783 saw peace a certainty these scarred, impoveyished veterans began to murmur. Where was the money due them? Were they to be kicked out to starve in.the ashes of their ruined homes? And as Congress ignored their plight. Gates crept from ! obscurity, together with other mischief “not to the | Washington had | | country when Wi .11 : Men {mwded about begging forgiveness as speech. sobbing, | his crew were drummed from camp. | Nor did peace bring him rest. Por elght years his shoulders had borne the | full burden of a people’s revolution; for cight years politiclans had made a run- way of his proud heart; and now the one passion left alive was to gain the quiet of Mount Vernon that his horses and hounds might let him forget the meannesses of men. Yet when he saw the country plung- ing to ruin—States fighting, commerce dead, open talk of foreign alliances— conscience forced him to give months to the formation of a Constitution that would provide a central Government with strength, power and recognized authorities. Branded as a fool and traitor for is part in this “infamous conspiracy against the liberties of a free people.” he hurried back to Mount Vernon with the sole desire of hiding in its shade for the rest of his life. but when it came to choosing a President. the coun- :g knew him as the one possible selec- n 'rhle four z@;n that followed were ess packed with drud: heartbreak than the Revolutzil:;yfl-s.;llrd, for it was a brand-new government *hat Washington had to fashion, a na- tion that he had to create. an inani- mate Constitution that had to be given Indomitable; majestic, he moved fr- resistibly to his objectives, every one concerned with the confirmation of in- dependence, the permanence of free institutions, laying foundations that en- g:r': today, yet Deset at every step by | Because of his revercnce for his high office. and his simplicity and dignity. | he was assailed as “monarchical” and accused of wanting to make himself a king. Yet when he announced his in- tention not-to accept re-election even his e: ies joined in begging him to serve 2 second term: and. though his <oul sickened at the prospect. he was forced to realize that his work was not vet done. The continued - opposition to every domestic policy seemed to plumb all possible depths of hate and bitterness, but it was as nothing compared to the wave of insane anger that swept the ashington refused to join the Prench Revolutionists in their war on England. Spain and Holland. Gripped by a species of ungovern- able hysteria. people cried out against him as one who ought to be hanged. and cursed the President who would not let America plunge into the bath of blood. Even so. he could have had a third term for the taking—beneath surfgce troth there was still sanity and under- standing in the country—but Washing- ton felt that his release had come at last. He knew he had builded well. the state stood bedrocked in honor and in- tegrity, and now that duty no longer called. now that his conscience freed { him, he turned to Mount Vernon with a ! «eat gladness, pitifally eager for its peace. Abuse followed him. opposition pa- day of jubilee” that | pers announcing a *“ { “who is the source man had gone to | ington than this hour, for he was in makers. and urged the men e | sheathe your swords until you have | Of all the misfortunes of our country™: obtained full and ample justice.” | that lh:’l 'n:n:t ur‘:: ::% wug:o Not even his experience at Valley w“ . e €0 uon"‘wand ‘that who had “cankered the principle fullest sympathy with his soldiers, yet republicanism and jeopardized the very mutiny and anarchy could not be per- mitted to menace victory and inde- pendence. Facing the sullen gathering in the hope of winning them away from their angers. he saw before him those who existence of public liberty.” He had “dsbauched the Nation™ and shown that the liberties of the people.” It did not matter. for what the city. but Congress was now in full | recorded in bitter words, he found only cry against “Fabian tactics,” lacking the | “idleness, dissipation and extravagance wit to see either their genius or their| * * * party disputes and personal quar- { ;I:;:aslly. r:m.i hedm forced to give rels lh‘:l great :mbmcss t:‘ed the day * -d * o | e at the Brandywine. accumulating debt, rul finances, de- ¢ Defeated, as he knew he would be, on ]‘ preciated mnney“'x“ ;ndd n:nemm listen .;o | nxc fumbled for his steel-rimmed | ::‘dh &henipy ‘o'g‘mmmw the very heels of - | him when he out “that our af- ' glasses. e very heel that defeat Washing en he pol & “You see.” he said 3 y and { vears of and heartache. | ton lifted the ragged Army in the grip | fairs are in a more distressed, ruinous | - of the supreme command. With Howe, and heard that England was hir- - ton should bz destroyed, and then, after proach of Cornwallis, then slipped past were as dear as brothers, and tears ' few more insults to one who had filled his eyes. The head that he bared ' known anything but public service? | was no longer hazel, but white as snow. | woods soon shut out the and it was with shaking hands that | screams of ungratefal g 1 il FEER Premier of Italy on Washington s i B § © BY BENITO MUSSOLINL while his mental gif! stupendous | memory, that minute attention of his problems, his patient 1 ought—made him an genius worthy of the admiration of all | times and all countries. They made him, as well. a prototype of the sane snd sensible captains of industry of America. . like the lives of all those who do not live. just to sell alone. is lessons guard what he considered to be the true interests of his country, regardless ©f his own popularity, must surely | awaken the interest of the Italy of today, whose own ouistanding task is to consolidate in the consciousness of her people and maintain before the worid her own national unity, which’® has but recently been perfected. Eut. in addition to my admiration for George Washington, I am moved by the breath of feliow feeling when in the writings of your great country- ~men I strice such passages as the following “The men who opposs surong. energetic government are, in my opinion. narrgw-minded politiclans or &.: under the infiuence of local views ‘“The spprehension expressed by them that the people will not sccede o the form proposed s the ostensible, not the real cause of opposition.” “The difference in conduct between the friends and foes of good govern- ment is that the latter are always work- ¢ and distilling their pojson. while former wre depenaing, oftentimes W much end wo Jong. upon th- sense #nd good disposition of the people W work out thelr conviction and neglect the means of effecting it Grorge Washington herehy expressed his realization that procrastination in difficult political situations can be the thief not only of time but of eMcocious ryeform ws well o ewudent of George Washington's can fail 10 be impressed by the fact L7 this sensitive, high-minded man realized the Ganger Vs constructive gov- ernment from sitacks by the press I the government snd the officers of L sre W be the oomstant theme for rewspuper ubuse, and thix, Yo, without | Condecendimg W invesligele the mo- tives or the facts, it will be impossible 1 conceive, for sny man hving W yianage ihe helm or W Keep the ma- enine g hie wrote n President Washingwn's first cabl- | 1+ with Thomas Jefferson snd Alex- | ris Hamiltun es members the cab- meetings, Washingwn's relute, became mere pocieties B0 that Washington himself | viote Pikering 1 shell not g & men inw eny office of con nee Enowingly whose politice wre wdverse o Uhe memsures | L lie general government i pur aing This ws sfterwsrd sdopled s the principle of the Guverument of the United States And it has also been prers Py 1 GEORGE WASHIN ofter ol Kengedy & by by William Nutter cotemporaries, falled 10 heed the warn- ing of this politiclan. Wit imperturb- able attachment, with profound ven- eration and with that decorum of spirit which characterized Washington him- self and was the natural outcome of his ceep-rooted, passionate regard . for Jaw and order, those future ages unite each year n the celebration of the vaopted by the nationsl government of | Fuseist Ialy What biving American would indorse 1aey the opinion of one of Weshing Yon's most itter adversaries who hud the sudacity 1o deciare 11 ever & nu war Gebauched by one man Natlon wes debsuched by Moever 8 naton wes Geceived Wy one men. the Americen Nation wae decelved by Washingon Lot bis conduct be & Wernug 1ke the grest me end afleclivuele the | w the i out all the storms and ON. by Gilbert Stuat New Yok of this magnanimous, unassuming man who thra ses stro represent his nation as an indivisible whole, never failing in his vision of the government he was bullding up for the generations to come after bim nor in his faith in the people who had the common sense and intelligence to ap- preciate his sims, Roproduced cool- birthday minded, MUSSOLINT AIITING THE AR FORCE BARRACKS AT ROME v oty coprrght by 1 & A ! A much Friedrich George Bernard Shaw has called “a | maligned philosopeher, Wilhelm Nietzsche, whom /caint,” once said: “What promised us we will fulfill to life.” This remarkable nineteenth century | definition of the sense of duty and the | sense of historical destiny without which no statesman can be great and without which no people can be sclf- | respecting, was and is realized and ful- | | filled by President George Washington | as well as by the great people of whom | he was the “Father.” MUSSOLINI. life has| ‘This Mussolini’s first English. It is significant that he chose for this effort a discussion and a tribuge | o George Washington, who, in the eyes of the Roman dictator. is | greatest American of them all.” In the midst of reorganizing Italy, of remaking the laws, of firing a nation | with a new spirit, establishing new rela- tions with the rest of the world. Mus- olini has concentrated a part of his time and his mind on the mastery of two important languages—English and | German. “Through language we learn people, Iwere his own words. In the beginning of his administra- ftion Ambassadors brought their inter- ipreters. Each day saw a constantly imcreasmz flood of important people from all over the world waiting in line at the Pzlazzo Chigl. Mussolint worked on his Prench and 'soon was able to deal directly with the | diplomats. But he was at a disad ! vantage ‘in other languages, especially in English, of which he knew virtually nothing. | A little over a year ago Miss Lillian | Gibson, a young journalist, represent- | ing the Paris Herald in Rome, went to the Palazzo Chigi to interview Mus- | solini. She had lived in Rome a num- ber of years and she spoke Italian per- | fectly. It was probably a rare relief i for the dictator to be interviewed in his | It was easier for him | native tongue. to express himself freely and with pre- | elston. | During the conversation it was borne in on Mussolini that in the interest of | Ttaly’s traffic with other nations it was l important for him to be able to deal di- ‘rrcuy with the English speaking world. | He asked Miss Gibson, who speaks sev- {eral Europe: lznguages, to become his English teacher. A routine was estab- lished. Miss Gibson has spent & num- | ber of hours u day reading and con- versing with her distinguished pupil. Mussol.ni has ied English by no | ordnary formula. There has been none | of the phrasemuk "How do I find a | Milway train?” “This s a ca ay randmother vishes a hot bath.” There oven been those useful sen- et u doctor quick,” nor the do not speak your lan- guage with facility, but I shall try to make myself understood,” and the old ‘1 understand your language None of that for Mussolini 1 Ident of Halt, whose Eng- lish 15 admired in many capitals, was nsked at the White House how he had Jearned the language. “Reading Macau- ! rial of Warren Hastings' with a good diction teacher,” he explained B0 1t has been with Mussoling. He and Mins Gibson have read im- Emlllll! books together They have fol- (lowed the discussion of the reform of the English Prayer Book and they have read American “history. George Was! Ington’s fe has fascinated 1l Duce. He has studied the “Father of the Repul He" with Intense interest, and he has reen s shintlarity in the problems which faced the first Prosident of the United Htatos and now face the present dicta- } tor of Rome. How well he bas mustered languagen wan suddenly revealed to the world when without forewarning he addressed u large congress in Rome two months ago, speaking st in Iallan and then i French He stilled the applause and surprised (he audience by vepeating hiy speech in German, and then in excel- lent English 80 1L happened that when asked for | a contrhubion, Mussolinl gave ta Miss Lilliaa Gibson personally and exclusive- Iv this, his frst article wiitten In Eng- lieh, article in | “the | {of his own tremendous resolve and and deplorable condition than they have { hurled it in a surprise attack on Howe's | been since the commencement of the ' grown not only forces as they lay in Germantown. A fog fell, and a confusion in troop move- | | ments lost the Americans a great vic- tory. Howe. nevertheless, was penned in Philadelphia, and soon from the north came news of Burgoyne's surrender. | Gates, appointed to command at the last moment by the favoritism of Con- gress, received battle plans worked out | by Washington and skilifully executed by | | the unfortunate Schuyler, but even so | he almost invited ruin | Por 30 days he labored valiantly to let Burgoyne escape the trap that had | been laid for him. and when flery Bene- | dict Arpold cried out against such cow- ardly fooling, he was ordered to his | | tent. At last Daniel Morgan's riflemen | took matters in their own hands. and, as the issue hung in the balance. Ar- | nold rushed upon the fleld and led the | desperate charges that smashed British resistance and forced Burgoyne's sur- | render. | *x oo i MEANWHILE Washington, going into | Winter quarters at Valley Forge, | was given neither money, food, clothing | nor blankets. Shoeless men left bloody | footprints in the snow: half-naked | | wretches huddled about fires through | | the bitter nights that they might not | freeze in their coverless bunks, while starvation vied with smallpox in taking | toll of human life. Then ft was that joy went out of | George Washington's life forever: that | | laughter left his heart, never to return, 1 and that sadness reset his face in those | fron lines his portraits show. His own | private fortune had been pledged to the limit; Robert Morris's exchequer was | exhausted: the intrigues and criminal | imbecilities of Congress defeated every | hope and plan, and as he fell on his | knees under the midnight sky, it was | from & broken, blesding heart that he | cried to God. Slowly the fearful Winter wore away ;and May brought the glad news that | France was now an ally. With this threat against England's control of the | | sea, Howe was superseded by Sir Henry | | Clinton, and in June the new commaund- | er set about the business of leaving | Philadelphia for New York. | Springing to the pursuit with furions Wuchlngon trapped the British mouth Court House and would BY STEPHEN LEACOCK. l WANT to tell about the Get-To- | gether Movement we've been carry- | ing on In our town, because 1 think | it will be a help to people o get | together in other towns. | ‘The way It began was this. For some time past some of us had been teeling that we didn't get together | enough. Whether it was from lack of | I don’t know. But the fact was that we weren't getting together 8o some of us began to think of how we could | manage Lo get together better, | 8o the idea came up that & good way to start a movement in that direc- tion would be to hold & lunch as a start | We thought if we could get together ! at & lunch it might serve as a bnuh\~' ning. Bo we began with a lunch. Or rather, 1 should say that before we had the lunch a few of us got to- rnuwr at broakfast to work up the unch. 1 don't know whose idea it first | was, but at any rate a litte group of | fus went and had breakiast at one of the hotels. We just had a plain broakfast - just aly and grapefruit and cggs and bacon and & cholce of steak -In fuet, ust the things they either had on t Ml of fare or could get on half ha nutiee. It was quite informal. We put one of ourselves fu the chalr, as president, and had no speeches or anything of the sort except that the president jlew wo mamly about getting I [ pether and one or two of the other men to get the dinner, a 100 of spade woek ' fellowship, from an outsider [ opportunity of from lack of initiative, | wi ir”“ deal of enthuxtasm u war." Another Winter saw the wretched o Ve SROWL Just added a word or two about how 'and team work It's always that wav we hadn't been getting together in they But at last we got over a hundred past and hoping that in future things would be different and we would get together. It was felt at the same Ume that the purpose of the club should be serylce and 1t was decided that a good form of service would be to eat lunch S0 the lunch came off soon after and was an unqualified success 1 every ¢. The president explained the a of ‘the organtzation and & simple out lpe of A constitution was drawn up. For the use of others 1 append here the two or three principal clauses “Alm of the organization—To get | together “Means 0 be taken to accomplish it By caming together “Purpose of the organization-—Service. “Means of eftecting 1t—Hy cultivating |in the members a sense of service “Politics of the organtzation—Noue. “Ideas represented-- None “Education and other teats for mem- bership— None ‘es, outaide of food -Nothing " The constitution was voted with a When the inon broke up, it was felt that & real start had been made Well, having the lunch encouraged us 10 go Tight on, and so the next thing | s name—-sald s, too. we had was a dinner feellng that you at & dinner where they st together flisten to ane another ald ala way in which you can't unless you do. There was & an get men together Of course, 1t ook a good deal of work with unpremeditated pathos, “1 have ; of the fields was. gray but blind in your ! tent. at least, the Pather of {1y waited for the end (Copyrisht. 1928 : i set S | There was no need for him o read | .Y THE FEARFUL WINTER WORE AWA\Y. Our GetQTogether Movement take our speakers now from & fod way ot And we've certain dorful falks One he Arst--1 th the man was & profosor—Wwas & great k. it was on “How to Be 1N Cent Yourself . and there was on “How o Get 10 Per Qe O Yoursel{": and others ou “How o Think 100 Per vent” and on “How W Be 1N Per Cent Awake ” Theres 1o doudt the organisation has done & whale 06 toward NRging s al together. When the memders mewt oo the street, they AlWAYS say U motn- ng!t or “How are you't or swnething Qf that sart, oF even stop v a swaad and say. “Wall. hows i going’ o HOW'S the bay In fact, you van genctally tell the members of our arganatioa on the strwet Just by Ahe ok o thelr faces 1 A Wan say the other day that he'd Rnow them a mile ot S0 what we feel i3 that there must 0> men of the same stABD &8 ourselves m other towns We ought o koow them and they ought © know us. Lets start something o get together, (Conveieds A8 e Lived in House 80 Years R Courtler of O Rand, m«euilv"\e‘;eh‘nwh‘%.:t‘rm oy ihe house pledged to eat dinner and ventured o Dad sane Wt pull it oft T4 certainly was a big success It was quite informal We just held it in one of the biy hotels. taking the andi- nary table d'hote dinner that the hotel served that night and letting the mem-« bers just come tn and sit down and start ‘eating when they liked and get up and leave just when they wanted to There were 1o speeches—just the | president and one or two gave 10 min. Jutes’ talks on oservioe and community feeling. The president said that the way (0 get these was by gettng to- gether, he satd that we had alveady (done a lot fust by sheer ground wors and he wanted us all to hang right o and stick to 1t and see it through Well, since then we've deem keeping the lunches and dinners going pretiy | regularly. And as a vesult we that | we are beginnmyg to kKnow one another 1 sat next a man the other night whoe 1 suppose 1 might not have ever got to Know 1f 1 hadu't sat pext to him. We Iboth remarked upon it In fact, Tdonti | think there’s any better way (o get next [to a man than by sttting next (o hum when he's eating You gel & conumunity | foeling out of it This wan -1 torget But we've cul out the local speakers. Samehow our members don't care to - day. has lived all his lite W They all seem | i WAKR he was bore, and has hever | 1o feel that vou get more communtty deen ouiside of his native county [ feeling a far better sense of genuine [ Devur - He is W good health and S0 we mach terest W oevenis of e