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PAGE 18 - PLAINDEALER-FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1875 100 Years Ago Honor' Washington; Lincoln Birthday Almost Ignored BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENING - McHenry County college Health department, in conjunction with the Illinois Heart association, conducted a blood pressure screening program Tuesday, Jan. 28. Louise Lundemo, MCC Health Services coordinator, stated that out of the people screened, several were referred to their family physician. This service was open to both the public and college community. During February a hundred years ago, Illinoisans c e l e b r a t e d G e o r g e Washington's birthday but paid little attention to Abraham Lincoln's. And a Chicago paper proposed a merger of the two birthdays into one big holiday. A check of newspapers from a half dozen cities in the more than 110 century-old files in the Illinois State Historical library, in Springfield reveals that those papers that mentioned the Lincoln anniversary at all did so in two or three lines. The Chicago Evening Journal said only: "Had Abraham Lincoln lived, he would have been 66 years old today." The Illinois State Register, Springfield, noted: "Sixty-six years ago today the voice of Abraham Lincoln was first heard in the land." Springfield's Illinois State Journal was more generous with its space: "Lincoln's Anniversary-Today is the sixty-sixth anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, our martyred President. Tributes of respect to his memory will be paid in the floating of , flags at half-mast, and the Legislature may ad­ journ, as it did last session upon Lincoln's birthday." On Washington's birthday, the Chicago Journal reported that the state Senate held a session but did not have a quorum. The House was not in session and "most of the legislators are at home celebrating Washington's birthday." The Chicago Inter- Ocean noted that in Springfield "the Governor's Guard and Knights of Pythias celebrated the day here by parading through the principal streets." In Elgin the day was celebrated by "a parade of the Grand Army of the Republic and the C a t h o l i c t e m p e r a n c e societies," which was followed by speeches and "in the evening the Grand Army boys gave a ball and banquet." At Rock Island, the Argus reported that the "Old Settlers of the county held their usual annual festival at the Bellows House" and "the party was larger than usual, 162 tickets having been sold." The paper complained, however, that "No suitable arrangements were made for representatives of the press, without which no satisfactory report can be expected." In Chicago on Washington's birthday, the Inter-Ocean noted, "There were no parades, no celebrations, and no speeches." The banks, government offices, and courts were closed, and "flags were displayed from a number of prominent buildings, but very few if any places of business were closed." The Chicago Journal proposed "making Feb. 12 the great Washington-Lincoln birthday holiday." In a half- column editorial the paper argued "That the birthdays of the Father and the Savior of the country should be celebrated as one holiday seems not only eminently proper, but is sup­ ported on chronological grounds. Washington is generally supposed to have been born Feb. 22, 1732, but the fact is he was bom on Feb. 11 in that year, within or less than twenty-four hours of the same day of the month on which Lincoln was born, the latter's date being Feb. 12, as js well- known. "The date of Washington's birthday was deranged (or arranged, as were all other dates of events), in the year 1752. twenty years after his birth, when, by common consent, the line was drawn between "Old Time" and "New Time," eleven days being added to make up for the time lost in computing the sun' revolutions by the im perfectness of the almanac system. "This addition of eleven days placed Washington's birthday ahead to Feb. 22, the day we celebrate. 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