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m Qeorge Wadungton Elected Presu -.Tim. dent!42 Years Ago Yesterday Father of His Country Only Man Ever to ^ the Unamimous~Vate ^of the Electors ... ;<1 >1 "1" *:->®£€4 "P. •'• When the people of the United States turned to George Washington with the universal demand that he stand at the head of the new government and fill the great office of first President of the Republic, he evidenced the same diffidence which weighed 1^*' ^ upon him when he took command of the armies, according to the Division of Information of the George Wash- '-t*! ington Bicentennial Commission. W^r•-* ?n response to the suggestion that he be a candidate, he recognized the fact that he was likely to be again ^ i called upon to render public service, and added simply that at his age it Iff fci would involve a sacrifice which admitted of no compensation. He maintained this tone whenever he alluded * - "to the subject, in replying to mimer- .^ ous letters urging him to accept. But, although he declined to announce any decision, he had resigned himself to 'the inevitable. s • Washington made it clear that he v. • V* was not pursuing .the office, and would f-'il' only leave his farm to take it frond a sense °f duty. The electoral col- ^•^^1 lege gave him its unanimous vote on '• February 4, 1789. Neither the anit 1 mosity of parties, nor the large num- V» i ber of enemies of the new government in some of the states, could deprive him of a single vote. The reluctance with which General Washington assumed his new posi- ^ tion and that genuine modesty which 5 "was a distinguished feature of his I character, are further illustrated by the following extract from a letter to General Henry Knox: "I feel for ^rs > those members of the new Congress, ^ •isni£ who, hitherto, have been given an un- %S action. For myself, the delay may be compared to a reprieve; for in con- ^ fidence, I tell" you (with the world it would obtain little credit,) that my movements to the chair of govern- . „ ment will be accompanied by feelings not un"^e those of a culprit who is H| £°in& to the place of his execution; ^ | so unwilling am I, in the evening of • - life, nearly consumed in public cares, 'to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean y •, *> of difficulties without that competency »* of'political skill, abilities, and inclination, which are necessary to manage - , the helm*. I am sensible that I am ... 4 embarking the voice of the people, » 5 • and a good name of my own on this v»yag«; but what returns will be made for them Heaven alone can fore- ;4|t tell. Integrity and firmness are all •4® \ can promise; these, be the voyage ^ long or short, shall never foresake '• me' although I may be deserted by all men; for of the consolidations ^hich t;: are to be derived from these, under i*»y circumstances, the world can not * deprive me." ii-R - The official announcement of his .election as Chief Magistrate of the " United States was made to him at ^ Mount Vernon on April 14, 1789 by Charles Thomson, the secretary of the Continental Congress. Accustomed to * respect the wishes of his fellow citi- ^ sszens, Washington did not think him- ^ 4 self at liberty to decline an appoint "v'iifjifment conferred upon him by the suf- \ frage of an entire people. His aciceptance of it, and his expression of •j gratitude for this fresh proof of the esteem and confidence of his country, ' were connected with declarations of diffidence in himself. MI wish," he said, "that there may ^ not be a reason for regretting the choice--for indeed, all I can promise, .•lis to accomplish that which can bi 4 done by an honest zeal." As the public business required the > 'immediate attendance of the Presi " dent at the seat of the Government, ;!f§ he hastened his departure, and on the Js - second day after receiving notice of visS his election, he took leave of Mount Vernon. In an entry in his diary, the feelings inspired by an occasion so affecting to his mind are thus described: "About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity; and with •||a mind oppressed with more anxious ^and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York in company with Mr. Thompson tSfc-dTand Col. Humphries, with the dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expecta tions." On his journey from Alexandria to New York, Washington was everywhere received with the greatest demonstrations of affection by all classes of his fellow citizens, which were manifested by the most flattering marks of heartfelt respect and by addresses which evinced the unlimited confidence reposed in Ids virtues and his ability. At Philadelphia he was received with unusual splendor. In imitation of the triumphal exhibitions of Ancient Rome, an arch was erected at the bridge over the Schuykill River and on each side was placed laurel shrubbery. As Washington passed under the arch, a civic crown was let down upon him. The fields and avenues were crowded with people, through whom he was conducted into the city by a body of leading citizens. At night the town was illuminated. The next day, at Trenton, he was welcomed in a manner as new as it was pleasing. In addition to the usual discharge of cannon and the demonstrations of respect and attachment by military corps, and by private persons of distinction, the women of the city arranged a tribute indicative of gratitude for their deliverance, twelve years before, from a formidable enemy. On a bridge over the creek which passes through the town was a triumphal arch, decorated with laurel and flowers and supported by thirteen pillars. On the front of this arch was inscribed in large gilt letters, "December 26, 1776," and beneath, formed in the flowers, "The defender of the mothers will be the protector of the daughters." As Washington passed under the arch he was met by a party of matrons leading their daughters, dressed in white, who carried baskets of flowers in their hands, and sang an ode composed for the occasion. At Brunswick, he was joined by the Governor of New Jersey, who accompanied him to Elizabethtown Point. A committee of Congress received him on the road, and conducted him with a military parade to the Point, where he embarked for New York in an elegant thirteen-oar barge, prepared for the purpose by the citizens of New York, and manned by thirteen pilots. "The display of boats," said Washington in his private journal, "which was attended and joined on this occasion, some with vocal, and others with instrumental music on board, the decorations of the ships, the road of the cannon, and the loud acclamations- of the people, which rent the sky as I passed along the wharves, filled my mind with sensations as painful (contemplating the reverse of this scene, which may be the case after all my labors to do good) as they were pleasing." At the stairs of Murray's Wharf, which had been prepared and decorated for the purpose, he was received by the Governor of New York, and was conducted with military honors, through an immense concourse of people, to the apartments prepared for him. Washington arrived in New York on April 23 and on the 30th the Constitutional Government of the United States began with hia inaugu ration as the first President. tnp y * !**I . -Hi,* -t < " , .HJLOfDXAIJtt, THUXSDAT, rEBSUAItT S, 189f- EMPULSE 83 ffi Costly Kiss ^ The driver of a car was challenged by his lady friend to give her a kiss en route. The motor car was somewhat excited by contingencies and wabbled from the straight and narrow. A third passenger in the car was injured and got judgment for $11,783 in a California court. In bestowing kisses it would seem that no party should be omitted.--Los Angeles Times. WH'I Staad Storagp Btri&s that become dried oui%f ovcr heated in storage produce plants that go "blind." that Is, ..they never flower. TRAINING FOR TOE TEACHER By DR. THOMAS ALCXANDER, Columbia University. % i X THE last twenty years we have measured everything in the school system. We have scales for this and that, but we have ignored the real objet'tives o£ human society. Teachers give more heed to iqeasnring what they teach than to educating the children. I can think only one item which has been discovered in the last twenty years that ' has been contributed by psychology. Every worth while suggestion con- . ~ ^ tained in a book on psychology has been known to the Iramjui race since before the study of psychology was organized. • Young teachers in training should be required to participate actively # ^ 801110 walk of life, and it would be extremely educative for them to _ pass a semester in a factory, on a farm, or in some industry. Their abil- Ji-ity to appreciate and understand the problems of life would be immeas- • *, - i tirably increased. _ ^ * Previous teacher training has been devoted to training rlassroonl instructors rather than^educational leaders. The elementary school teacher functions primarily & an educator and an intellectual leader in the community in which h(P works, and therefore it is necessary that stress be pl|ced upon the training of teachers who are creative, resourceful and original. ± ' As a means to insure the attainment of this end, I would suggest the « requirement of a broad academic preparation for admission to a teachers' ^ ? college. Two years of college work, and in time even an academic degree, should be the basis for professional training for teachers. In combining ^ general education and professional education as is now being done in teachers' colleges and normal schools, neither one is being done very |i!jj well. Above all, the young people who have been selected as teachers (6. McClur* Nvmrpapar Syndic*!*.) EVERYONE in the hotel bowed In acknowledgment to Eleanor Morley's impeccable quality of sweetness in her treatment of her mother. This Included Mrs. Midgely herself, who recognized how fortunate she was in possessing a daughter like Eleanor. And there was plenty of time for reflection like this to flow through the brain of Mrs. Midgely. To one as accustomed to leisure as she, the days offered plenty of leisure to do countless things she had never found the moments to do during the years she was struggling as a widow to rear Eleanor, educate her and keep going the small Connecticut form left her by iier husband, who had died of exposure trying to coax fecundity from a sparse and rocky bosom. Since Eleanor's marriage to the Spencer Morley of the well-known chocolate mints, Mrs. Midgely was entitled to feel that she was more than compensated In leisure, repose and comfort for the long, lean years when she had carried on her small and patient- looking shoulders duties that should have been shared by three or four. The llorleys and Mrs. Midgely occupied a spacious three-room suite on the bay-window corner on the eight h floor of a modern uptown apartment hotel. They shared a common bath of white tile with an Inlay of green ducks swimming above the tub. The sitting room contained a bright bay window, with Eleanor's growing plants and a canary bird. There was a piano strewn with Eleanor's music, a small white poodle dog which slept twenty hours a day on a pink silk cushion and a small printed sign nailed to the door which held out to the guests not only rules and regulations, but every offer of comfort. Eleanor and Spencer occupied a nice square bedroom, rather dark because it faced a court, furnished In Circassian walnut Mrs. Midgoly's room, smaller still, and, it must be admitted, darker still, had no window at all, but a practical skylight through which, if you peered hard enough, you could see a faint gleam of stars against the opaque glass. For this suite, furnished, the Morleys paid the sum of eight thousand dollars a year. That meant that Mrs. Midgely prepared the three breakfasts in the bathroom, over an electric ring, laying Turkish towels along the transom to keep the coffee smell from percolating into the corridors, thus indicting them for violation of the "No Cooking in Rooms" rule. Lunch Mrs. Midgely and Eleanor took in a small cafeteria two or three blocks away from the hotel. At evening the three of them, mother, daughter and son-inlaw, emerged quite grandly down into the main dining room of the hotel for a table d'hote dinner that began with an elaborate appetizer and marched on through soup, fish, fowl and dessert to a finale of bridge In the lobby, a motion picture or, occasionally, a theater. Mrs. Midgely did not play cards, hot even with her daughter and son-inlaw much In demand for that pastime, evenings in the hotel were seldom tedious. There were women of Mrs. Midgely's own age--many of them similarly situated or living on incomes of their own--to talk with, to say nothing of odds and ends of elderly men, eager to pass the time of day .tor night. Sometimes a group of the *«lder folk made up a party among themselves and attended a motion picture. This always delighted Eleanor, who often rushed around organizing the party herself. Sweet girl, Eleanor I And Spencer, too, was all that could be desired in a son-in-law. To be sure, he was sometimes a little abrupt when things that had to do with business were ou his mind. Mrs. Midgely sometimes suspected he came home with a whiff of liquor on his breath. But, in the .main, he was a kind, good fellow, highly tolerant of the fact that from "the first day of her marriage Eleanor had been cumbered with the presence of a third person. And Eleanor wus In love and in a perpetual state of bedazzlement over the change of fortune which had hurtled her from the life of the small farm in Connecticut to the apartment hotel where existence was lubricated and moved forward easily, even luxuriously. If it bewildered Mrs. Midgely to Qpd herself sometimes sitting the day through like a well-fed, sleepy dog on the upholstered chairs of their apartment or on the upholstered divans of the lobbies, she knew that the mere thought was an ungrateful one. Mrs. Mklgely's hands, even though they were manicured now by the blond girl in the hotel beauty parlor, still bore traces of the manual labor they had done In those years when she was struggling to rear Eleanor. It seemed sacrilegious to regard the sitting about as tedium. Eleanor did not She was another girl. Her bright hair was alive and electric with vitality. Her legs, in their sheer silk stockings, flashed - about eagerly on their missions of enjoyment and pleasare. And she was perennially sweet and thoughtful about her mother, too. Sometimes Mrs. Midgely would wake up from her afternoon nap to find a fresh box of chocolates on the table beside her bed and a motion picture magazine. This was Eleanor's way of filling in a possible hiatus in her mother's time while she was passing an afternoon away at a bridge or matinee party, with this pleasant invitation to lie longer abed and munch chocolates and read the picture magazine. Then something happened that created quite a serious situation between Mrs. Midgely and her son-in-law. As Mrs. Midgely weepingly confided to her daughter later, probably Spencer had been In the right, but he need not have been so rough about it. With tears of sympathy In her bright blue eyes, Eleanor assured her mother that that was Spender's "way." He had nat meant to be blunt. Mrs. Midgely realized that that was probably true, because later her son-inlaw apologized and sent her roses. But the heart within her lay sore. An old gentleman in the hotel, a Mr. Mosely, a man of sixty, of refinement, a widower of twenty years, no children, one of the cronies with whom Mrs. Midgely was In the habit of sitting about while the younger folks played cards, developed the immediate need of one thousand dollars. A mortgage had fallen due some few weeks before certain remittances of his were sheduled to arrive from South America. There was In Mrs. Midgely's saving bank exactly twelve hundred dollars to her credit, her sole patrimony In the form of money which she had received from the sale of her Connecticut farm; money, she told herself often, that lay between her and complete dependence on Spencer. Figure it out later as she would, Mrs. Midgely could not, for the life of her, realize how it had come about that she and old Mr. Mosely had walked across the street to her bank where she had drawn out the thousand dollars. There was something BO appealing about Mr. Mosely, the fine white snow of his hair, his eager yet withal embarrassed eyes, his desire to hold on to the small Vermont holding which was dear to him because of memories. Not that Mr. Mosely had suggested the loan. On the contrary, It had all come about through the incident of his showing Mrs, Midgely some snapshots of the old place In Vermont. It stabbed her to see this plaee, the small rambling farmhouse, the sugar trees, the copious barns, the flowing meadows, the little detached summed kitchen, with buckets of drinking water on a bench in front of It, reminiscent not only of Mrs. Midgely's otfn home, but of something deeper and more atavistic. Here was the typical home of the ancestors of Mrs. Midgely. Desire for that kind of home ran In her veins. Great-grandmothers and great-great-grandmothers of Mrs. Midgely had lugged buckets of drinking water to benches outside of summer kitchens. Anyway, the impulse to come to the rescue of Mr. Mosely was bigger than Mrs. Midgely. Almost before she realized It, the deal was accomplished and the little old man, with white hair like snow and a tear in his eye, had kissed her hand. Of course. It transpired that the farm in Vermont was not worth the saving. Scrawny, sterile land, tumbling barns, broken fences. Spencer had been right. His anger justified. Mrs. Midgely had to endure the humiliation of beholding her son-in-law In a position to say, "I told you so." He never said It, except by his man ner. Eleanor, tireless in her efTort te act as buffer between these two, saw to it that he did not. What happened In the end was again as bewildering to Mrs. Midgely as had been the incident of giving over the thousand dollars. She only knew that here, In the figure of this white-haired old man and In the prospects of his broken-down old farm, lay ber happiness. Mrs. Midgely and Mr. Mosely, with Eleanor aud Spencer and one or two of the hotel guests for witness, wens married in the Morley suite. Eleanor was beautiful and Spencer pleasantly tipsy on the champagne he had pro» vided for the occasion. The Moselys live on the farm In Vermont. There are practically no modern Improvements, so it happeiw that Mrs. Mosely, .concerned for Mr. Mosely's rheumatism, literally doe* carry the two buckets of drinking water to the bench outside the summer kitchen. Every morning at six, the two of them set out on the endless choree of this farm of theirs. The winters are cold, frozen ones full of hardship, but filled with a sure happiness. Springtime on the Mosle; farm is delightful. Along about Jun< there arrive Eleanor and her two youngsters to spend the summer. Spencer comes up, too, from time to time. He has recently advanced his stepfather-ln-law a loan of one thou sand dollars for purposes of mending broken fences, supplying new~farm implements and installing electric Ugfct. QKIBWOLD LAKE lb*, and Mrs. Jack Geary were callers at McHenry Wednesday evening. ,4 Mr. and Mrs. Henry fehaffer and Mr. and Mrs. John R. Knox of McHenry spent Thursday evening at the Henry Geary home. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Davis accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon to Woodstock Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Litwiler of Round Lake spent Wednesday at the G. J. Burnett home. G. J. Burnett was a caller at Waukegan Friday. Mr. and Mrs. J. Molah of Chicago were Friday visitors at the John Bamings home. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Kennebeck attended a party at Ringwood Friday evening. Simon Stoffel of McHenry itfas a caller here Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Freund and family of West McHenry were Sunday visitors at the George Scheid home. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Schaid " were recent callers at Wheeling. > • Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Maiman Gf Wauconda were Friday evening vis itors at the Henry Geaiy home. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Freund and daughters were Wednesday callers at the Nick Kennebeck home. Miss Myrna Bacon and Clarence Heidner attended a 1>asketball game at Libertyville Friday evening. Leslie Davis and Wayne Bacon visited at Crystal Lake Sunday morning. S. Salverson of Burton's Bridge was a Friday evening caller at the John Barnings home. Clara Kennebeck and Irvin Nester of Woodstock spent Tuesday with her parents here. Stanley Schaffer and Maurice Schreiner of McHenry were Saturday afternoon callers at the Henry Geary home. Mr. and Mrs. A. Barnings and son of Chicago spent the week-end at the home of their parents here. The Jolly Card club held a surprise party on Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schumacher at Spring Grove Thursday evening. Euchre was played and prizes were won by Andrew Steinsdoerfer, Pearl Foss, Fred Khars and John Bamings. Lunch was served. Mr. and Mrs. George Scheid and Mr. and Mrs. Nick Kennebeck and son were Monday evening callers at the Math Glosson home at McHenry. Wall Street Term The term "lame duck" originated In Wall Street and was applied to one who failed or was unable to fulfill his obligations. It became commonly used to describe a senator or representative who, having failed of re-election, was unable In the last session of congress to fulfill promises made to l\ls constituents. Faith Require* R« It IS always right that a should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.---Sydney Smith. Or Doa't Care In spite of anti-noise campaigns there are still a surprising lot of people who don't know that noise annoys other people.--San Bernardino Sun. Modern Building to House Young and Care for Their •»--*- v.- EjifJOOT™ 4-sTxlcr&UN.T Ou ENTK.ATCR nffnurrtmf PAKCL3-» !j«v, ,3 G0NCBST$ CURO* • _ 13 * -- •FCEDMIENORH CM/Pcn CALTPCN CoNcBtre|l\oo»! •fttsauaBoirr If-0*--ft it'-if j , CBSS lEHlf 23K2 CMfffeN PARTI NCN5-« CRLTPTV CAI/PTN CALTPCN CALFPEM By W. A. RADFORD Mr. William A. Rinlford wTTl answer questions atid (rive advice FREE OF COST on all problems pertaining to the subject of building; work on the farm, for the readers of this paper. On account of hjs wide experience as editor, author and manufacturer, he Is, without doubt, the highest authority on the eubject. Address all Inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 407 South Dearborn street, Chicago, 111., and only Inclose two-cent stamp for reply. On the modern dairy farm, the calves are taken away from their inothers a few days after birth. While 4thls is not a handicap to their growth and health under the present-day methods of feeding and handling, housing them so they will develop rapidly and so ttkat the work ef c_. , ing for them at the least possible lai^ bor costs requires a building especial® ly designed for the young stock. Sue!® a building is shown in the accompany^! Ing Illustration. This calf barn Is 78 feet long and£ 24 feet wide. As will be seen by the. floor plan, there are ten pens, six oil one side and four on the other sid«f of the feed alley running through th| center of the building. There also lj| a room for mixing the feed for th# calves. The plans also include a cros«| section and various details which fur* nish sufficient information from whld| > a contractor can undertake the •etnall building of this bam. 2 Japanese Tit-Bits At Japanese inns the traveler Is told that "Bombay duck" can be had at a reasonable price. The hungry customer visions a fat fewl, but the waiter brings in pieces of smoked fish about two inches long and as thick as a dime. The menu also Includes pickled seaweed, seawped Jelly and chutney, which resembles pickied citron, but is almost as hot as Mexican chili. More raw than cooked fish is eaten by Japanese. Row baby octopuses are particularly popular. "Japanese limburjjer" lg not a cheese, but a Japanese pickled 'dalkilit, •«# tiiir white radish. should be trained to think for themselves. * TP* Comfort for Kids The reason everybody likes children te that they're not self-conscious and don't try to put on airs. If they do you see through them at once and they know that you age through them.--^ American Mn-mtine. ' 'a*>rW J-,. F" Bettor Hastle • • Fwtape the world may «*#* • living, but you will die of starvation if yon sit down and wait for It to eaB AAA. Mttlft i irukM^. Licht and Heat Light travels at the rate of 186,824 miles per second. In hot summer temperature sound waves travel at the rate of 1,266 feet per second; In zero temperature, fraca 1,068 to 1460 flset per second. . - Conveyors Carry Ford Car Parts • Trains unload in the plant. Bodies starting through the Prodigal Differat Now Itomadeys the prodigal eons (toil go home so long as there Is any wj lief forthcoming by mall.--Ft. Wayne ( Kswi Saatlnsl., Ss* 3- 'KMl I Conveyors carry wheels with mounted tires over a line on which cars pass to completion* The highly important part played by conveyor systems III all Ford Motor Company manufacturing and assembly plants Is graphically shown In the above three pictures taken In the recently opened Edgewater, N. J., plant One of the pictures shows how parts may be unloaded from freight cars within the plant only a few feet from the various assembly lines. Another picture shows automobile bodies starting their trip on a conveyor while •JU'l.M ."I" ,11. •" -"T")!' "nip;. n)iiiii.iii)|ii_y niijiir M in mm 'I III ... ni'ft the third view is of the conveyor system used to bring wheels to the chasses which are also moving on a conveyor. As indicated in the picture, a constant flow ef wheels on which the tires have already been mounted moves around and over the chassis assembly line.. A» a chassis enters the section, workers, In groups ef «sfcr» each take a wheel from the hooks and fasten It t» the chassis. • - - • < "4 : -- -M-, • "i •••• • "C: : tlSfekJ : m. vm.;- 3*