FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1941.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Cherry Tree Incident Only Phase Of Washington's Life Still Hidden
By JOHN CONARD
If you want to know something about George Washington go to Watson library.
Check out the "Life of Washington" by Smith or Jones or Brown or Doe or Johnson or Oberdowski. You probably can read it in a week. Then next week go back and check out another "Life of Washington." Repeat the process. If you stay faithfully at your task, and never miss a week, then at the end of four years you will have exhausted the supply of George Washington books in Watson Library.
Another three years would take care of the books in the Lawrence library. Then you could start on encyclopedias. But why do that? There are, perhaps, two reasons. First, you might want to find a model for your own life; second, it would satisfy any curiosity you might have about the Father of the Country. The first suggestion hardly is plausible, by for the time you got all the books read you would be too old to use anything for a model. But if you have a whale of a curiosity, seven years of reading as prescribed should satisfy is very nicely. What? No Scandal!
How about a scandal? That always rouses the curiosity. Yes, there is a book on "The George Washington Scandals," but much to the reader's disappointment it is devoted to disproving scandal rumors rather than proving them.
Then there is the cherry tree. Hours of searching for "ICannot Tell a Lie, Father" or "The Cherry Tree Chopping Episode in the Life of George Washington" were of no avail. Perhaps their absence from the library files disproves the legend. On the other hand, maybe here is a fruitful field for some youth author. It is the only part of George's life which to date has not commanded a full volume of writing.
You know George was born 209 years ago. You know he commanded the American army in the Revolution; crossed the Deleware; was elected first President of the United States. Filling the gaps between these events is a more difficult task. Captain Augustine Washington (George's father) died when George was 11 years old, leaving the lion's share of his estate to Lawrence.
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the eldest son by his first wife. Buu Captain Washington stated in his will that the property bequeathed to Lawrence "shall go to George, the eldest by my second venture," if Lawrence should die childless or should have an heir who died later. It was through this clause in the will that George, at the age of 20, became sole heir to the great Mt. Vernon estate.
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At 21 Washington was sent by Governor Dinnidwinkle of Virginia into the Ohio Valley to survey the land and tell the French settlers not to encroach upon the lands of the British Crown. In the following year (1754) he and his party encountered 30 French soldiers and an officer. Nine Frenchmen and the officer were killed. Then Washington and his men built Fort Necessity, where they later were attacked and forced to surrender by a large band of French and Indians. Terms of surrender allowed Washington and his men to escape with
"I have heard the builts whistle," wrote Washington to his brother Jack, "and believe me, there is something charming about it." He must have realized how much of the "charm" he was to get before he was through. The battle with Bradlock, in which Washington had two horses shot from under him and had four holes shot in his coat, followed in 1755.
Washington's election to the House of Burgesses came in 1758, "after standing treat to the voters a prodigious quantity of rum, punch, wine, brandy, beer, and cider royal."
'no casualties, but the French and Indian War was on.
Washington's election to the Continental Congress, his appointment as commander-in-chief of the United States army, his battles including Valley Forge and Yorktown, and his election to the Presidency are common knowledge.
Lippmann's Condemnation Causes Faculty Interest
He is the father of our country,
and tomorrow is his birthday.
"We discussed the importance of liberal arts training in times of national stress and the necessity of maintaining the work in the humanities and related subjects which keep us aware of the road over which man and his culture have traveled to the present time, in order that we may avoid the mistakes of the past.
"These courses are also designed to strengthen our inner moral and spiritual resources. Both of these are tremendously needed in the present day of?
"These courses are also de moral and spiritual resources. needed in the present day of confusion and of national and international stress."
Thus Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, described the discussion by members of the College faculty during the regular monthly meeting of the group.
Call Special Session
The faculty became so interested in the subject that it voted to call a special session of the group to complete the discussion. This meeting
will be held at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon in Frank Strong auditorium.
The discussion was brought up when E. B. Stouffer, dean of the Graduate School, reviewed the article "Education Destroying Western Culture" by Walter A. Lippmann, a summary of which appeared recently in The Key Reporter, Phi Beta Kappa news magazine. In this article Lippmann made it plain that he believed an extreme emphasis on
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July Issues Arriving Trickle of Foreign Mags Blamed on Blockade
British blockade and German submarine warfare have a direct effect on the University's supply of foreign magazines and newspapers, C. M. Baker, director of libraries, disclosed today. The foreign publications which get through the blockade are usually late, and many of the magazines are not coming through at all.
French publications have been blacked out entirely since the fall of Paris in July and no word has been received from former sources, although a letter has been received from a publisher in Lyon, a city in unocupied France. November issues were
Paris, the city in which most of the French magazines were published is now under German control. L'Illustration, a French pictorial magazine, is no longer on the magazine rack in the periodical room; no new issues have been received since July.
In contrast to the French publications, nearly all of the English magazines are coming through, but they are as much as a month late at times. The Dec. 7 issue of the London Illustrated News is now appearing on the magazine rack of the periodical room. The plates for this magazine are shipped from England to New York where it is printed.
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German periodicals reach America by going across Siberia and the Pacific ocean. Die Woche (The Week) is on the periodical room magazine rack; June issues are now on call. Many of the German magazines have not come through since the summer months, but several
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Mr. Baker said that some of the more learned publications were being held in Europe until the war was over for fear of losing them in transit.
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