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SE TE TR TTY a eae ear ia---- cra ra -------- OE ST ETT ERT ROSE 10 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1924 WASHINGTON IS RADIO SUBJECT Dean James Gives Pen Pic- ture of Leader In a Washington's Birthday address upon "George Washington, American Citizen" which Dean James A. James, professor of history and head of the Graduate School of Northwestern Uni- versity, delivered over the, Chicago ~ Daily News radio -- WMAQ -- this week, the intense purpose of Washing- ton to so strengthen the infant Amer- ican government as to render it pre- pared to meet successfully any ordi- nary international emergency was emphasized. Disorganized and unable quite to find itself on winning the war against Great Britain, this coun- try, Dean James pointed out, needed the firm and wise guiding mind of George Washington. "In his foreign policy the American spirit was his pole-star," said Dr. James. "No language seemed to touch him to the very quick so much as that which accused him of sympathy for England as against France. When offering the secretaryship of state to Patrick Henry, he wrote: 'My ardent desire is, and my aim has been as far as depended upon the executive department, to comply strictly with all our engagements, foreign and domestic; but to keep the United States free from political connection with every other country, to see them independent of all and under the in- fluence of none. Tn a word, I want an American character, that the pow- ers of Furope may be convinced that we act for ourselves and not others. "On another occasion Washington asserted,--'there is a rank due these United States among the nations which will be withheld if not ab- solutely lost by the reputation for weakness. If we desire to avoid in- sult we must be able to repel it. If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war. "But, to my mind," continued Dean James, "these expressions of national policy uttered at the close of the eighteenth century could not be fairly used today by the advocates of ieola- tion or preparedness. We are to bear in mind that Washington was address- ing a nation in the first years of its existence, with a population of some 4,000,000 people scattered along the Atlantic coast and with Spain and Great Britain wholly out of sym- pathy with a republican government, blocking western expansion. France likewise was determined to regain con- trol of Louisiana. Thus the problems of diplomacy during the years in which the new government was being established were of quite as much significance as the inauguration of a sound financial system." Dean James furnished interesting in- formation regarding the personal ap- pearance of the first president. He quoted from a letter of a man named Ackerman who had commanded a company in the Revolutionarv war, as writing to a friend that "Wash- ington is not what the ladies call a pretty man, but in a military costume a heroic fieure such as would impress the memory ever afterward." And the following: "He had a large, thick nose-- Sw which was ant to turn scarlet in a cold wind. He was standing near a small camp-fire, evidently lost in thought and making no effort to keep warm. He seemed six feet and a half in heieht. was erect as an Indian and did not for a moment relax from a military attitude. Washington's exact height was six feet two inches in his boots. His eye was so gray that it looked almost white, and he had a troubled look in his colorless face. Washington's boots were enormous. They were number thirteen. His ordi- nary walking shoes were number eleven. His hands were large in pro- portion; he could not buy a glove to fit him and he had to have his gloves made to order. His mouth was his strong feature: the lins being alwavs tiohtly comonressed. At that time he weighed 200 pounds and there was no surplus flesh about him. He was tremendously muscled and the fame of his great strength was evervwhere. His Innes were his weak point and his voice was never strone. His hair was chestnut brown, his cheeks were prominent and his head was not large in contrast to every other part of his hoadv which seemed large and bony at all points. His finger joints and wrists were so large as to be genuine curi- osities. He was an enormous eater but was content with bread and meat if he had plenty of it." | | - DEERFIELD DISTRICT v | ™ "Bungalow: New, 4 rooms and bath. Hardwood floors, white n = enamel trim. Gas, water and electricity. Excellent value. u » $1,500.00 down, balance $50.00 per month--same as rent. ® = Lots: 60x135. 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