The Comanche Reflex (Comanche, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 1920 Page: 3 of 8
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COMANCHE' OKLA REFLEX
Five Minute Chat
tin Our President
B i JAMES MORGAN
ICapirrlahl IDIt hT Jlua Muryarf)
GEORCE WASHINGTON
1732— (Feb 22) Born noar
Fredericksburg Va
1753— Flrat expedition to tho
Waat
1754— ISaoond expedition
1755— On ataff of Gan Brad
dock
1759— Marrlod Martha Cuatla
Five Minute Chats
oif Our President
By JAMES MORGAN
ICuprrlahl Ii:a hr Jm htaraao)
FIRST IN WAR AND PEACE
WASHINGTON was made of tho
same cloy as most Americans
who have won high leadership and
likt them ho cut his teeth on the
crust of poverty Only four or five
of our presidents canto from poorer
homo than our first president und h
had less schooling than four-fifth of
his successors lie was In fact the
only president In the first forty yenrs
who was without a college education
Not starting to school until eight be
bad to leave at fourteen to go to work
Thenceforth until the Revolution tho
woods iwd fields were his only School
room and life his only arhnuluinster
We never can truly understand this
man If we start with the mistaken Idea
that he was the product of weulth and
aristocracy His people really were
only a plain though always highly re-
apectable family living on the out-
skirts of the cavalier castle which sot
up Its manor in the Jaine river
region George' own father wlio at
1775— Juno 15 appointed tom-
minder In chief
1761— Oct 15 received the our-
render ef Cernwallle at
Yorktewn
17E&— Dee 23 eurrendered hie
commission to congress
1769— April 33 Inaugurated
first president aged fifty-
eeven 17C3— March 4 Inaugurated a
second time
1766— September Farewell ad-
dress 1797— March 4 retired
1799— Dee 14 died
PUNISHED FOR KINOLY DEED
T:
com'inundrr In chief of the Revo-
lution I one of the mysterious hut
huppy accidents of history Nothing
In the deeds of this militia colonel
who had lost every fight that he had
fought pointed him out us the one
and only man to meet the armies of
the greatest empire In the world Noth-
ing In tho words of this fanner
who never made a speech Inspired
the congress at Philadelphia to turn
to him by unanimous Consent ns the
leader of the young nation Yet
I'utrlck Henry testified that this si-
lent member was "the greatest man”
In an assemblage which Lord Chat-
Englith" Magistrates Seem te Have
Dealt Harshly With Man Whs
"Brake" the Sabbath
John null Is an English publication
The letter we are reproducing from tta
columns was written to the magis-
trate of the English town of Reading
One wonder If they ever beard of the
distinction between the fetter -and the
spirit of the law remarks Our Dumb
Animate
"Your Worships: I gather you don’t
go to church on Sundays as a regular
thing Let me tell you why 1 gather
On a Sunday during the strike a po-
liceman dug up the Sunday obserr-
ance act In order to convict a poor
devil of a drover— Charles Palmer to
wit— of driving cattle through the
streets The man had fetched the
beeets from the railway station
where they had arrived from Dublin
They were then In a had state If
they had not been removed to He fed
and watered they would have been the
vlctlu of callous cruelty and though
on thl particular Stindny that which
la written ’Which of you shall have
an ass or an ox fall Into a pit and will
not straightway pull hint out on the
Sohhoth day’ wp pnrt of the gospel
you made thedmver pay the costs of
his prosecution To all Intent and
purpose therefore gentlemen you
Slight ns well have convicted and fined
Im What a pity It Is that the act
of 1077 doesn’t prohibit Rending mag-
istrates from walking or driving
through the streets on Sunday in or-
der to catch their dinner"
VOLCANOES AWAKE TO LIFE
Mount Katmal In Alaska Especially
Shows Signs of Preparation for
Destructive OuttawsC
George Washington
one time bad been a sailing captain
In the trade with the mother coun-
try left bis wife and children at his
death five! thousand acres of land
ham declared never had Its superior
anywhere in history
As he went to the front he met a
more or less unmvJuellTe twenty- conrier on a lathered horse bearing
'dhe drendful news of Bunker Hill “Did
the militia fight?" was all he wished
AiT or ding so ffwe-wv4lleff MbwOv-
of aoture In a sails mood and
awakening memories of the ghastly
detnll of the eruption of eight years
ago Mount Kntninl most powerful and
restless of North American volcanoes
Is again In violent activity according
to Capt Charles A Glasscock and
Purser Gary Bach of the steamer Ad
mlrnl Watson which reached port re-
cently from southwestern Alaska say
the Seattle Iost-lntelllgencer
A sable pail of moke from the fun-
nel of tiie belching crater broods over
the northern 'sky for a radius of 40
or 50 miles by day while fretful
tongues of flume can he spen by -vessels
a score of miles at sea at night
according to the Seattle mariners i
Knight’s peak a neighboring vol-
cano has also been stirred to spectac-
nlor efforts by the outburst of Its more
deadly companion 'and wreaths of
smoke hnng over numerous peaks of
the rugged Alaska peninsula
A slight 'earthquake shock was ex-
perienced at Kodiak Island the? night
of April S n dnv before the arrival of
the' Admiral Watson Two days later
those on the Admiral Watson had a
rare view of the volcano
- two slaves a slender purse and a lean
larder
' While at Mt Vernon which his old-
est brother Lawrence had inherited
i he learned the simple rudiments of
surveying and Lord Fairfax who llyed
nearby employed him to sijrvey a
vast estate in the Valley of Virginia
In his young manhood Washington
found his “Inclinations- strongly bent
to arms” To softeranus than those
of Mars the young militarist also was
Inclined ‘
Prying posterity finds him at six-
teen pining for a mysterious “lowland
beauty” who would not have the pen-
niless surveyor1 He received also by
his own confession a “cruel sentence”
from a “Miss Betsy” and afterward
was rejected by Miss Phililpse of New
York' At last the oft-disnppointed
wooer came to the White House on
the Pamunkey and once more he lost
his heart The mistress of the manor
Mrs Martha Dandrldgp Custis was
wise enough- to keep It being a widow’
of seven years the mother of two
fatherless children the owner of large
' estates ' -
When flying embers from the tvar
fields of Europe Ignited the savage
forests of the New World Washing-
ton was a militia major and he was
dispatched on a mission to" the Ohio
a perilous journey of ten weeks
through a wintry desolation The
next year he went again with a band
' of soldiers for now the Seven Years’
war had spread to America His cam-
paign wns hardly' a glorious failure
’ but he reported that he liked to hear
the bullets whistle
Now General Braddoek came to
scorn the colonial breed while he
showed them how British- regulars
fought 1U proper soldierly formation
The undrilled red children of the for-
est stubbornly refusing to fight on the
European pjnn Braddock fell amid his
panic-stricken troops on the Mononga-
hela At the head of Ids grave in the
wilderness the prayers for the dead
were read by Colonel Washington
Although Washington had won no
battles he had made a most Important
conquest When the Seven Years’ war
came he Was still an Englishman and
to him an island three thousand miles
away still was home Ia his contacti
with BMtish officers he Was shocked
to find them alieUs to him and his New
World and himself only-a colonial in
their eyes W ith native condescension
they undertook to tench 1dm his place
but with native independence he Ob-
jected By the time the Seven Years’ war
was over the colonial colonel no longer
was an Englishman That Illusion was
gone and had left Washington an
American
to know “Yes” “Then the liberties
of the country are safe” Although It
Is said that Washington never in his
life read but one book on the art of
wrir he knew that if the people would
only stand up to the king’s regulars
they could lose every battle and still
defeat an enemy who was 3000 miles
from his base
The Revolution was not won by the
sword of Washington but by his in-
domitable character It was his char-
acter slowly built up by poverty and
struggle which had given him from
the start the leadership over men
who talked more yes and who knew
more ”
The invincible fortitude of a people
heroically erorlled In him overthrew
the king’s urmy and navy and his
I-Iesslans The unconquerable spirit
of the 3000 hunted hungering shiv-
ering rugged Continentals of Valley
Forge wrested from the British crovn
an empire greater than all the con-
quests made by Napoleon’s- grand
array - -
I At the last asxthe Americans leaped
those last hurdles to Independence the
British redoubts at Yorktown Wash-
ington only said: “The work is done
and well done Bring me my horse”
The war was qver but the noblest
victory was yet to come Having re-
ceived the surrender sword of Corn-
wallis Washington surrendered his
own unstained by personal ambition
to the people who had entrusted it to
him and went back to his farm from
which he was called to become the
first president of the republic
No president has been more bitterly
abused than the first His cabinet
quarreled until Jefferson his secretary
of state resigned and his next secre-
tary Edmund Randolph basely be-
trayed him His vice president John
Adams called him “an old mutton
head” who had “not been found out
only because he kept his mouth shut”
“Treacherous in private friendship and
a hypocrite in public life” Thomas
Paine pronounced him Because he re-
fused to take the side of revolutionary
France “10000 persons In the streets
of Philadelphia" — then the capital —
“threatened to drag Washington oat
of his house” Johii Adams tells us
Notwithstanding the outbursts of
partisanship he retained the confi-
dence of the country to the Inst when
Submarine Radio
The last innnunl report of the bu-
reau of standards states that members
of the bureau's staff have developed
very successful methods of communi-
cating with submerged submarines by
radio-telegraphy' With a single-turn
coll or loop attached-to the outside of
the submarine signals can be received
as well when the vessel is submerged
as when it Is at " the -surface It Is
also possible to transmit from a sub-
merged submnrlne a distance of 12
miles Thus becomes possible for
a ship and a submarine- to exchange
recognition signals A coll aerial
a satisfactory direction finder when
submerged and readily receives signals
transmitted thousands of miles just
the same os when used In the air The
navy has equipped Its larger subma-
rines with this apparatus — Scientific
American '
Airmen Guide Cavalry
While the Fourteenth cavalry was
on the march recently from Fort Sam
Houston Tex to Fort Ringgold Tex
an aviator who chanced to pass over
their heads acted as their volunteer
guide ’
The observer In the airplane saw
that Instead of the Trio City road
they wore following Yvliat Is known as
the Somerset rood He advised them
of tlielr error by a message dropped
In front of the moving column and
the troop detoured to the correct road
The air-service officers reported the
incident to the chief of operations at
Kelly field upon their arrival and 25
riiimites later a map - showing the
route to their destination Fort Ring-
gold was dropped Jn the middle of
the marching column
Just What Did He Mean?
Little Henry Hoanhammer is a typ-
ical Hoosler youngster who uses his
ears to good advantage Since prohi-
bition has been enforced in Indiana he
has heard a great many remarks made
by people who in the past were accus-
tomed to imbibing occasionally But
at (Christmas-he electrified his fam-
ily by his own opinion
The Christmas tree was aglow and
everyone was talking about Its beauty
etc Finally it came Henry’s time to
say something and he did He looked
at the brilliant tree “Gee It’s all lit
up” he sighed “and I sure wish I
the people at the inauguration of his was too”— Indianapolis News
successor followed the retiring presi-
dent Into the street and left the new
president all but deserted The long
task of the homesick exile from Mount
Vernon was done He had found the
Union a theory and he had left It a
fact ne had found the United States
paper and he had left It a rock ’
i 1 ' Hard Luck’
“I was born too early” he sighed -“What’s
the matter?”
“I had to 'wear overalls when they
were a badge of hard labor and now
that wearln’ 'em Is fashionable I’m out
pf the game"
nrmnm-j n m nnn iv'v7rsizririrs mm i
Tlie Retom of Fall
All will agree that we are having too much rain for
our fall crops and this brings out more forcibly than
ever the valu and indeed the necessity of helpful and
efficient banking service and co-operation
It is said we must save money for a rainy day This
is a good time to begin before we have many more of
these rainy days
DEPOSITS GUARANTEED
FARMERS STATE BANK
J T CHELF Pees Roy G Glass Cashier
Wm Brooking Asst Cashier
-i
FOR SALE — Leases
in Stephens County Ok-
lahoma near producing
wells Everybody needs
money so now is the
time to buy Few hun-
dred dollars invested in
Stephens County will
bring you thousands
Write today for full par-
ticulars to P O Box
1128 Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
CORRECTLY TRANSLATED
“What’s your order sir?” asked
the waiter
“I’ll take a ‘hot grounder and a
couple of ‘foul tips’ ” replied the
baseball player
The waiter brought his chicken
wings and a baked potato — Boston
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PROFITEER’S BEST FRIEND
A Topeka woman" has been look-
ing longingly at a brown broadcloth
dress downtown but hesitated to
buy because the cost was $106
Someone else bought it about the
time the Topeka woman decided that
she couldn’t buy it anyway A few
days later she saw her maid starting
out to a movie dressed ia the frock
LIGHTNING KILLS MAN
During a thunder storm at Ifar-
tindale Texas Feth Waide negro
was struck by lightning and instant-
Iy killed He was carrying a year-
old baby in his arms His wife and
two children stpod near him' as did
two white children They had been
picking cotton
Waide was the only one who did
not escape the bolt His clothes
were badly torn A scar on his
throat was the only sign of the
lightning '
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Leeman, Sam M. The Comanche Reflex (Comanche, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 1920, newspaper, September 10, 1920; Comanche, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1729602/m1/3/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed July 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.