The evening world. Newspaper, July 11, 1918, Page 15

TE Lincoln’s Famous Phrase By the Rev. Thomas B. Gregory \ Copyright, 1918 by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). N bis world-famous “Gettysburg Speech,” Lincoln declared that the brave men whose monument they were then ang there dedicating yd died in order that “government of the people, ty the people, and for the people, ehould not perish from the earth.” | Like lightning, the phrase electrified the whole Nation, and from that @ay to this it has remained the most celebrated saying in the most cele brated speech in the annals of our-country. But fame {ts always a mark for the shafts of the critics, and time ar*| again eines Lincoli/, brief but tmmortal address was delivered ft ha been intimated, or penly charged, that the martyr President was noth- ing less than a plagtarist, and that he took from another the most strik-| a Phrase in his speech and failed to make any acknowledgment of thc | fact. . To these tntimations and charges have come tts counterclaim that TAncoln's much admired phrase was strictly original with the Gettysburg orator, and that to Lincoln alone belongs the honor and glory of having | carried ft and sent it circulating around the world and down the agea, About the fact that the phrase in question was in existence long | before Mr. Lincoln used it at Gettysburg there ts no room for argument. Five centuries and a half before Lincoln's time there lived in Old England one of the stanchest democrats that the race has ever produced. ‘The name of the rock-ribbed old commoner was John Wickliffe, the cele-| brated theologian. Now, in the preface to Wickliffe’s translation of the Holy Scriptures —1324—there may be found these words, “This Bible is for the govern-| ment of the people, by the people and for the people,” which is identical, | word for word, with the expression used by Lincoln at Gettysburg. | In the year 1830—thirty-three years before the delivery of the famous | Gettysburg speech—there was a public meeting held at Olten, Switzerland, at which a speaker named Schinz, in the course of his remarks, used this Janguage, “All the governments of Switzerland must acknowledge that they are simply from the people, by the people, and for the people.” | In an address before the Anti-Slavery Society, New England, Theodore | Parker, the celebrated Unitarian divine, on May 29, 1850, used these words, “Democracy is a government of all the people, by all the people, and, of course, for all the people.” | To go a great deal further back than we have as yet gone, we find| & Greek politician of the time of Pericles, Cleon by name, using this ex-| pression in one of bis stump speeches to the men of Athens, “I am in| favor of the democracy that 1s democratic, and that gives us the govern-| ment that {s of the people, by the people, and for the people.” | The similarity between these phrases {s so absolute {t goes without | saying that Mr. Lincoln could not possibly have originated the famous, expreasion used by him at Gettysburg. But does {t follow that our martyr Prosident was a plagtarist? Not by any means. Mr. Lincoln possessed an inquiring mind and he knew | @ great many things; but no man can know everything, and it {s hardly likely that he had ever heard of the phrase until he heard it from his own lips at the dedication of the Gett: rg memorial. | But even if it was proved that Lincoln appropriated the words the fact would not seriously militate against his fair fame. The great Goethe declared one day that if everything in his works that he had taken from others should be stricken out he would not have @ dozen pages left. | I have just finished reading, for about the tenth time in my life,| “Tristram Shandy,” the greatest book ever written by man, and my enjoyment of it and my admiration of Sterne’s genius was in no way lessened by my knowledge of the fact that the author took most of the best things in his story from his literary forebears. | The greatest of the great in the fields of Mterature, philosophy ana : WHISKERS eloquence have pillaged right and left, without stopping to testify to the| pany THIS KIND If Mr. Lincoln appropriated the now immortal phrase and falled to| acknowledge the person or persons who helped him to {t, he only did what the majority of the kings of thought had done before him. (Tir New York Brening World). TAX on EVEN I NG CAMOUFLAGE EXHIBITIONS / a SINGING IN FLATS HEALTH TAX ON COUGHING IN THE THEATRE EN pad Gx — TAX on } Ruta NITTI Baas WITHOUT ™\ TAX ON UNNECESSARIES * TAX ON IKISSES 2 Advice to Lovers By Betty Vincent | TRAIN or a boat ts no place for| A a girl to pick up casual ac- quaintan or to allow them | \ ; . Sameera to pick her up. i] Mice aise caine wauien readers| WKenned S k A id f S : remarked Craig, turning it over and ly to pu are about to fo on vacations, and eeks id o CLENCE sve, Ponte they will travel several hours, per- F h . ile appeared to. SEA PAS VB pa eas to Further His Search era ae Gouin hes There always are persons on public] conveyances who are more than ready | fo rr” a Cl ue te make the acquaintance of une without leaving an impres- combination, ‘There are stories } now be easily radios of how de Moche has been playing graphed.” on Mendoza's passions—she's thor- 1 looked carefully as he traced out oughly unscrupulous and Don Luis is something on the queer negative, On somewhat of a Don Juan, I write 1 settling @ qualm Of cons jt, it was easily possible, following his this to put you on guard. Her son, » shoved the letter into his guldan: to read the words Inseribe Alfonso, whom you perhaps have mot poket. on the shect of paper inside, Ho ad- also, is of another type, though fas) Pee c A moment later the clerk returned. mirably defined were all the details have heard it said that he laid slege corted young women travellers, Of} SYNOPSIS OF PREGEDING CHAPTERS, “ve just had Mr. V ley on the that even the gum on the envelope to Inez Mendoza in the hope of be. course, it would be absurd to say that he re i, [ don't think and th ne Jges of the sheet of paper coming allied with one of the oldest " eo lntencen ie | be back at least for an hour. inside the envelope could be distin- families. every such acqua 1 shall come in again,” rejoined guished “4 at least, fs the gossip down with danger, but the chanco of dan- Kennedy, as we bowed ourselves ou! “It scems ineredible," I exclaimed, here, I cannot presume to keep you ger $s too great to be taken at all. ‘Khen to me he added, “if ho is with scarce eving what I actually posted at such a distance, but If you require any information dur. ry . ae . i Senora de Moche and they are at the saw It is aimost Hke second ht.” thought I had better write what is x ‘ b t wound it , i Hdward Albert, 1 think I can beat | Kennedy smiled. “Any letter write in every one's mouth, As for the in ing your journey, or just before its i y 1 ary 1 him back with this letter if we ten With ink having @ mineral base seribed dager which ton has termination, there ts sur the burry.” anh radiographed,” — hi added. taken with . I rely on you to in- officia} person in uniform, a conduc A {ew minutes later, in his labora- en when the sheet is folded in the form me, seems to be a great tor or 4 purser, who will t you set to work quickly WSuAl Way, It is possi by taking @ deal of my connected with it Clearly and authoritatively what you i over X ray apparatus, As 1 Tadiograph, as T have don nd 1 am ce even to haaurd want to know, It is not necessary to Rion oe MpnonaD He nate va, swine in a Watched him, 1 saw that he had Scopicilly. po. ya nature, Mortunately, ask your fellow-travellers. ‘There ar tu bis Isburatory experiment ined from (he wouud of M . placed the letter in it it Pe OO AD Fe you are on the spot. Very sin ly girls who, frowning on advances made | i are What are known as ‘low }t Can magnified, “HAGGIRTY yours, “8 remarked Kennedy, as he 4 journey, aliow | alds tn Lven | CHAPTER V., con by young men dur women to start a ring it if it is dn: expluued. ‘They give out ae r from both blood samples six satic ‘ome of it looks rad over the translation of the centigrams of the poison, It is al ting. 4” he co i t that is unw nly safe rule is | btrunkuown. T could only be sure _ He continued to work for several ng. At be con skiagraph which he had jotted down that you must know no one to whom NEDY reached over and took w min then took the letter out and i interesting.” = as w rked out tters and at I discovered by testing the al effects. I was very What clse was there to do? you fellows to try it, if 1 it to me Now, Walter," he said brus just hurry ba 8 office and replace I think I will have som will astonish you—though er it will have any bearing on you have not been properly intro. | iked to t out word that's how land lies, duced. ral paragraphs Byerybody scem~@ to have appre gist of which I give ciated the imt © of the . - “Except Norto: I could not h LIMA, Pera, putting in in disgust. And now kone," he continued, pressing very fa- “just as thouxh some oi had the stop- dropped it overboard. I believe I war, I will keep that appointment you mado thing in my power to for with Whitney, after all. our Interest, and now and nus Ste hap aot T found ng to the seareity of money, myself a third time entering Whit- , un able to pick Up a concession ney's truilding, I was about to step could not very well CletPly, which will be of immense into the elevator when Kennedy ve tugged at my a white mouse from the huge = | box on the corner of the table. CANNING BOOK FREE | at me sbow you what f y i 1 have found,” he said, “1 am now For Evening World Readers. | ori. to inject a little of the blood m of the murdered than into this )You,Woulda't have let, me de se remains to be soen, At least te mous quietly pos seolng Whitney him- He wok @ needle and injected some What is this deadly poisont x *¢!f for : na [of a Uquid which ho had isolated, managed to as Fabia Hie tap down auBia Ae tt |The mouse did not even wince, 89 You have been f to obtain a ss back When I ightly did he touch it But #§ 99 \fuseum of was the watcued, is Life seemed gently to evo p "gasped Leslie, “DPAR WIT “Matter aloni “You wouldn't have let me cas 1e to us later, : ast led no letter 0 able arm and pulled me without pas without slrug- ins 6 Orale, val i} are ee ida nye. FAD) Howey itis not go much of bus- b; df lo ts breati simply gourd, or “Mr, K daceenk t I'wish to write you at the “Hello, Norton ard him aay, wNext he wok the gourd whica we Mt when h 0 KNOW present time. You know that my as I turned and nt might of the nel a tohaa ee Shin aise borane meee nan wren bt jt frivod Senora de Moche, with her archacologint Just Leaving an elevaior y gourd just Lake aaa son, Alfonso, is at present ow that had come dow oft just the minutest article af we the liquid state and left to dry rhe . York. Dou dele Hee Gironde — Norton'a thos showed plainly that black, Uoorice-like stuit that INCFUSt* dood. that is just What has been Pe aici a ‘i called on you and tried to Intere was worrl ed iL He dissolved the paruicie 12 by those who manufacture It i mene wale Yen) , you in her own properties here { “What's tho matter? somo alcohol, and with a steriized jengtny and somewhat secret. f PANDO LABORA advise you to be very c putting the eireu ‘ needie repeated bis experiment on & cogs Sh ne 1s WIT SHAE DAYS: eee Sine wath hie. “What bas W yy been second mouse ‘The eltoct pre- —_____ ter slot of the pr ehinninie tha other day I heard a rumor Ciaely a Re to iat prom beast Be ie CHAPTER VI. perhaps i teaene toate anters Norton eemed reluctant to tain, mea tae eg but having no All the steps !n canning are not)” | was intent on what Cralg was do- ° < 5 DO and } ternative motinned THES ther vistt nt there whea pos B . to us to ste > in the corr! only described but illustrated (as in| ing wuen Dr. Leslie broke in with @ (9 PaTAPNed ean eee cs clare ea iasmad peu Raw) ne nee Se eee ete above picture, “Adjusting Boiler for|question, “May I ask," be queried, edy, considering the “Mr. Whitney is en bis way down of inea daraer wh him since the was stolen nt Home Canning") in tho hooklet,| "Whether, admitting that re as mon be would take BOW," No reported , beara @ very import te about the loss,” he sald nervously . wah : hil er -. | mouse died a t aren € a aati . cata oh aes, { ye “He led mo up balf an hour age “Home Canin 0 Drying Of Yage | OMseiey At TS nd, you have tm the inve tion, aie Bil) ONG Ral ah Rens Recut ae ie IP ard eed tuk to come deenee en etables and Fru prepared by eX-|Droved that the poison ia the same Accordingly, half an hour later he rived, consrutulating sayself on the Very raticent, lut_no« has 1 looked at Kennedy significantly perts of the National War Garden| in both cases? And if it is the 84ié entered the Wall Street office, where od luck 1 had hadin returning the told about it by this time, M@ Evidently it must have been just Commission, can you show that it affects numan ere’ (00 Wall | . letter, i Wve of Value, I depend on after his return to the office and’ re This booklet will bo given free of} beings in the same Way, that en y te "What is it?’ I asked, a few min- you know, so that 1 may ceipt of the letter which I had stuck charge to Evening World readers, | of jt has been discovered in the blood — “Mr. Whitney is out just at pres- ute. han Thad rolcined Craie aot d accordingly io the letter slot who bave only to clip out this illus-|o¢ Mendoza to have caused his death? ent," he eaid, “but if you will in the labora n getting at is this: I “He was very angry over some fated Ballon ang pre ent it at DY} 11 other words, I want the last doubt seated I think I can re h He was poring intently over what “t from rumors and re- thin, continued Norton, “lin sure it ‘orld office listed below. SS eld in looked like a nega S believes that Was Rot my fault if the dagger was Te you wish it mailed to you send)” It ever Craig startled me, It was by “phone ' f reading the con took an unfair advantage stolen, and I'm sure that managing two-cent stamp and your name and] nis quiet reply: At Ho set in the outer ofice while inclosed in a during her absence, What the ine @n expedition in that God-forsaken address to the 3 ational War Gar a8 I've isolated it in his blood, ex- neys own room the door opened and 1 plivd, still ption is L don't know, but from cou doesn't give you time to read Fomanlesiony Hi aabing Rod to your” | tracted it, sterilized it, and I've tried the postman entered and jald some giuayin shadowgraph closely, the Way these people down » act every Inscription, expecially when it le eo mailed to yo ton myse ne postman on a “his a y been esta iby t would think that they all had a is almost illegible, right on the WORLD OFFICE it on myser letters on a table near us. Kennedy } on tiee a Wer i oe mas 4 4 1 breathless amazement, with 4 well-known 8¢ ist, Dr. Hall Kd- proprietary est in the relic, There was work enough for months Information Bures u, Puliteer pay Pat ars pine ra lisiena, Pee nay hs iP # the letter on wards. He haa been experimenting What it 18 all about I don't know, that I brought back, along with (hat (World) Building, No, 63 Park Row. | Sit, As van ¢ | top of the pile, and noticed that it with the meth of using X-rays re- Hut you will find the Senora both a Sometimes Whitney's unreasonat No. 1393 Bi Then that was what was the mat- 4,0; r 7 , V Uptown Offi: io. 13 roadway ore o re @ stamp from Peru. He picked cently discovered by a fore wien- keen business woman and an ac- “You don't think he could have rtheast corner 88th Street) ter?” I blurted out. “You had been jt yp and read the postmark, “Lima,” hi \ id ° ee Ad re up mo. '. on Pp Bi pos ama,” tist, by which radiographs of very complished antiquarian, if you have known something about the dagger lem Office, No, 155 West 126th| trying the poison on yourself? and the date some wi " Harlem Mh) He nodded unconcernedly, “Alto- some weeks previous thin substances, such as a sheet of not already discovered it, all along?” ventured Craig. ®treet (near Seventh Avenue). Sh p In the lower coiner, underscored, paper, a leaf, an Insect's body, may b “1 Lockwood and Men- Norton puckered his eyes, “H ‘Om No. 410 Hast 149th| ether,” he explained, as Leslie and I thy rds “P a 4 * y, may be n regard to ani len, iy 8 Bronx Thire “Avenues listened, specohless, “I was able to were the wo! ‘ervonal—Urgent.” obtained, These thin substances, doga, if we oan get them in on our never sald anything,” ho roplied. “If Mrrest (near Beit F046, Ae at f0 Je, Saal Shrough which the rays used former- side, it ought to prove ® winning be bad asked me to drop other things & ensishiae — ais ed a-mto t - ee 2 —— t - — eather - nos — , an Seay rv < = ss = The Evening World’s Kiddie Klub Korner Conducted by Eleanor Schorer pyraht, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) |Kiddie Klub Pin All You Need to Enter Luna Park July 17 There Also Will Be a Kiddie Klub Show by Klub Cousins at the Park on That Same Day. | IDDIF KLUB members wearing their pins will be admitted free to K Luna Park and its safe attractions on July 17 between the hours of | 1 and 5, One adult may accompany each child into the park free jot charge ‘ | ‘The amusements open at 2 o'clock, but the park and restaurant, where basket parties are welcome, will open at 1 o'clock for the accommodation | of those who come a long way and wish to refresh themselves and rest be- fore starting the day of fun. Free to Cousins. The Silver Glades. Captive Aeropianes. R. T. Richard's Circus. The Whip. Zanctg's Temple of Mystery Gyroplane. Over There, The Witching Waves Submarine Attacks The Chutes, Lana Ride. The Red MILL - The Top. SAFETY FIRST. Only safe amusements will be open to Kiddle Klub members. Small children will not be permitted to enter the amusements without an adult. Luna Park employs more than five hundred attendants and plain clothes men to safeguard its visitors. KLUB HONOR. T know that I can depend upon all Kiddie Klub members to act ine way that would distinguish them anywhere as Kiddie Klub members, We have never had a display of {11 manners at any of the many Kiddie Klab affairs, ‘This {8 one of our dearest prides and one to be upheld by every joyal Cousin, . To make courtesy and safety doubly sure for all, Luna Park attend- ants have been requested to take the klub pin and the name of any mem- ber found acting in an unbecoming manner, ‘This means that the un- | worthy Cousin forfeits all further enjoyment of klub privileges at Lana | tor the day. If an attendant should find it necessary to use this authorfty | U will be astonished and humiliated. Cousin Eleanor. ae eel suetentense wr 9 wi woaisomeiais * *|more than 1,300 subscriptions, sine | amounting to $304,250, $5.000 of whteh } About Cousins. i | was subseribed by Sergt. Empey . *| hima OL, PAULINE HENKEL has It is not diMecult to imacine why taken enough time from ber| we welcome Col, Pauline into our | patriotic activities to gather six | | Kiddie Kluy coupons in order to be- | ag COLONEL PAULINE HENKEL come one of our Cousins, Col, Paul me Ry MG. a Just thirteen years of age and has! | greeting 1 bring you, dear Ifttle her title and rank in the United) Pauline, Hater ey tits through ber work | OM this your birthday—just thirteen. pe ' onel Pauline ia the way that the In the Second Liberty Loan, A mort while ago, at P. 8. No, 67 Meret. Guy Empey presented our new | They speak of your title, here— Seret. ams vverywhere, Kiddie Klub Cousin Pauline with ®! qnq'T’ do believe tm the innd “aver ‘old medal in honor of her patriotic |” there.” | gold medal Buea Limarty Loan, She Tf You were a Ind and a wee bit older work in the Third 1 You'd try to enlist and be @ brave hird Loan | | wotdier _--- |No slacker you'd be; you've done your best, And showed even the men that you nd your teat | Keep on in your work, be big—never sousinship with great enthusiasm, out peaks of you, when your virtues they shout And your praises, will be sung, dear litle Pauline And a year from to-day may the utes udly pr aim And add the word "General to your present name ourse, | would have -— done so. afford to lowe him | Cyusin Marforie Agor of Mahopac is a contributor to the exploration Falls, N. Y..ewrites to her Kiddie fund found it—i'm afraid J'V@) Kousins, living on farms, ‘This. is put my foot in it this time.” what she says: “Wo have about Kennedy said nothing, and Nortoalthirty nena besides some bantams, I continued, growing moro excited: |tuke care of them. We get fr verybody's been talking to Whit-/teen to twenty eggs a day, anc ney, telling him all kinds of to have f 1 day 11 get a Lockwood, the de Moches heaven) dozen, ‘Then Lam going to sell them hnows who else. Why don't theyland with the money buy Thrift come out and face me? T'vaa nota) stamps. Other Cousina who have to try to carry on my work indepena-| hens could do this, too." ently, Not play# hob with seloi- ship like You'd think he owned me body ana soul, and t lection, too, if you heard hin Why, he accused me of care n running the Museum, and he knows [I'm not the curator—I'm not even the janitor! Norton Was exc help feeling that he w I've been preparing when I'd have to cut | on finally ow, 1 suppose it is ec Ah, well, perhaps it will be bet who can't T may not do # much, but it will all be mine, with no strings attached. Perhaps, after all for th JUNE CONTEST AWARD WINNER, The Fourth of July Spirit. it is for the pest.” ‘Talkin r his troubles se Ato ; olBy WALTER WARNER—No. 408 do Norton some good, for T am sure] West 116th Street, aged nine years PDS: ane Shanes Hin pod ci ole wa PENNANT WINNERS. entered the lift, We founc | Margaret Louise Koehler, No, 2600 @ilme Street, HMrooklyn: Mild tney In an eve Huntingtoa, L, “1 Boeck, r 201 Avene 2 our Tisit br N Ne Oe Beow ing that could be he gir f " “ise ra Be CHAPTER VIL \\ i West t ; cted the | k 66 TES strait we've new! i} pauline § n our effe > what clues we | key PULY CONTEST FOR DRAWING AND WRITIN to follow ur rode Uptown ag otection we can | SUBJECT: THE FUNNIEST THING SAS LAe Sa THAT HAPPENED AT SCHOOL ity i ahs ip pr Ten prizes will be awarded ae * | Ki ub m¢ s-ages from six ; sine eaae Tio) ‘ irs, inclusive—-who make of molng back best drawings or write the beast w pped off near sont niiest things that of the Mendozag and at sch ane ‘ » done in Bink i the Gorne ar down | [ndia ink crayon penell ‘ Plan NA ist \ceed one bumdred 1 ufty (50) words. Contamtants ¥ uld to K at et r pame, address, age me er familar | Address Cou Hieanor, Fventng A : World Kiddie Klub, N ark Row, Ww Naw York City and 1 have OW TO JOIN THE KLUB AND in the opp. from OBTAIN YOUR PIN. nswered Kenned Resoeint with any mul qu space, ‘ t Kor t shutss ed tO spring ther He nso had evider in the shadow of an ent the street. As we walked could see the little drama with prac tically no fear of being seen, so earvestly were they talking, | (To Be Continued) . 3 COUPON NO.