Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1931, Page 16

A—16 s s THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. TUESDAY. MARCH 10, 1931. PUBLIC WILL VIEW REAL WASHINGTON Bicentennial Commission Se- lects Picture Without the False Teeth. By THOMAS R. HENRY ‘Washington without his false teeth ‘This is the picture which the George ‘Washington Bicentennial Commission, headed by. Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard University, wishes to pre- sent to the American people on the 200th_annjversary of the birth of the first President next year. The committee appointed by Con- gress, has set out to “humanize” Wash- ington. It is accumulating evidence to show that he was really an intensely likable man and that the picture in the mind of the public of a cold- blooded ‘“demi-god” is far from true. “We mugt think of him,” says Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, grandson of the Civil War commander, “as the very human person illustrated by the few portraits made in early manhood be- fore false teeth had stretched his upper Jo into rigidity and had artificlally given his mouth that unsympathetic look of inflexibility which we have come to know from the pictures in gen- eral circulation. It is hard to feel on familiar terms with a demi-god or to think of the Washington in the Stuart paintings as a human being beset with the same impulses and difficulties which -constitute our personal problems today.” > 4 Data Being Gathered In Ime with the “humanizing” proc- | ess the committee is gathering data on ‘Washington the frontiersman and In- dian fighter when he still could enjoy a practical joke, such as getting a troops of Indians “dauncing in a most comical manner” by “elevating their spirits” with liquor. It was a hard life in a rough coun- try. Among Washington's own papess, the committee reports, is found the fol- lowing account of one of his adven- tures while returning after delivering a warning message to the French com- mandant on the Ohio: “The horses grew less able to travel every day; and the cold increased very fast; and the roads were becoming much worse by the deep snow con- tinually freezing. ‘Therefore I de- termined to prosecute my journey the Fentres'. way through the woods, on foot. “The day following, just after we had passed a_place called Murdering- town, we fell in with a party of French Indians who had lain in wait for’ us. One of them fired, not 15 steps off, but fortunately missed. We took this fellow into custody and kept him until about 9 o'clock at night, then let him go and walked’ all the remaining part of the night without making any stop; that we might get the start so far as to be out of reach of their pursult the next day, since we were well assured they would follow our tract as soon as it was light. All Day on Road. “The next day we continually travel- ed till quite dark and got to the river about two miles above Shannapins. We , expected to have found the river frozen, but it was not, only about 50 yards from each shore. ‘The ice, I sup- pose, had broken up above, for it was driving in vast_ quagtities. There was no way of getting over but on a raft, which we set about with but one,poor hatchet, and finished just after sun- setting. Then we set off; but before we were half way over we were jam- med in the ice. in such a manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft that the ice might pass bv: when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole that it jerked me out.into ten feet of water. But I fortunately saved my- self by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our ef- forts, we could not get the raft to either shore but Were obliged, as we ‘were near an island, to quit our raft and make for it.” Typical Frontiersman Washington's life at the time was that of a typical frontiersman, as the Bicentennial Committee pictures it, with occasional broadly humorous in- cidents interspersed with the most thrilling sart of adventure. The coun- try through which he moved as a sur- ‘veyor was sparsely inhabited by a rough pobulace. “We got our supper,” he records, “and was lighted into a room and I not being so good a woodsman as ye rest of my company, stripped myself very orderly and went in to ye bed as they called®it when to my surprise I found it to be nothing bat a little straw mat- ted together without sheets or anvthing else but only one thread bear blanket with double its weight of vermin such as lice, fleas, etc. I was glad to get up (as soon as ye light was carried from us). I put on my clothes and lay 2s my companions.” COUGHING IS TABOO ON THE AIR! ADIO people can’t afford to cough. “I should feel disgraced if I coughed while on the air,” Rolf San- derson, WGBS pro- gram director and singer says. And Barbara Maurel contralto with Rolf Alexis Columbia Broad- Sanderson casting System, declares, “Many of us have learned torely on the quick relief Pertussin gives.” Broadcasting studios use Pertus- sin because it re- lieves coughs quick- ly and clears the air _ passages. Doctors " have prescribed it for years—for both young and old. % - Barbara Maurel . ““We always keep this quick reme edy right beside the microphone® says George Beuch- . Philco Taking Off Clothes, Illinois Girl Dies By Lying in Blizzard By the Assoolated Press. GENESEE, Il., March 10. Discovery of the frozen body of Miss Apna Roberts, 20, in the garden in the rear of her home revealed yesterday the story of how the girl had gone out into last Saturday night's blizzard to lie down to die after she had re- moved all of her clothing. A coroner's jury investigating her death found that she had killed herself in order to atone for some imaginary sin. Her father, Earl Roberts, alarmed at her absence, found the body. Be- lieving she might be revived, he summoned Dr. J. H. Murphy, but the physician’s car became stalled in snow drifts. ‘r¥ b P SRR s TR T T e ritory in connection with the Taft rec- reational center, now located between South Dakota avenue and Eighteenth and Otis streets. Selden M. Ely, xupervl.slnf principal, fifth division, District public schools, also gave the history of the develop- ment of schools in his division, of which the Burroughs group is a Chester N. Holmes, principal of Langley Junior High School, outlined the purposes_ of the Juni® High School movement. The association decided to “bury the hatchet” with tht Rhode Island Avenue Citizens’ Association in the feud on school facilities, territorial lines and other controversial matters. Speakers in the long debate included William A. Horn and Wilbur S. Finch of the Burroughs group and Chester R. 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