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When Washington RefosedtKinjrship
Few Americans kno* ttiat our
Country today might be a monarchy
but for an act of nobility performed
by George "Washington on May 22,
1782. The officers of the Revolu
tionary Army had implored Wash
ington to assume royal power, place
himself at their head, and rule the
country as a king. On May 22, a
century and a half ago, General
Washington refused, this invitation
In patriotic terms so strong that the
idea was dropped. This information
comes from the United States George
^Washington Bicentennial Commis-
We know that he refused the of
fer of kingship, but the circum
stances surrounding that dramatic
moment in our history, known chief
ly to scholars, need be recalled to
the every-day American, that he may
form a still clearer conception of the
nobility of Washington’s character.
This incident, which constitutes
one of the critical moments in the
destiny ©f America, occurred while
General Washington and the Conti
nental army were encamped at New
burgh. on the Hudson. The surren
der of Cornwallis had virtually ended
the Revolution, but nominally hostili
ties were still in effect, and W ash
ington was determined to hold the
army together against any surprise
renewal of the war. As usual his
soldiers were poorly clothed and fed,
©nd Congress was deeply in arrears
in their pay. By then the war had
dragged on for seven long years.
The struggle had cost many of
Washington’s officers the loss of
Their personal fortunes, and the en
tire enlisted force faced a future of
want on being released to civil life.
Discontent rose to dangerous in
tensity in all ranks. At length,
Colonel Xewis Nicola, a respected
character on friendly terms with the
commander in chief, spoke for the
officers as a body when he addressed
to Washington a veiled proposal
that he take over the government
©f the country, with the army behind
him, and rule it as a king.
The l^te Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, in his biography of Washing
ton, states that on this occasion
Washington was as truly tempted as
Caesar, with an offer to make him
self king or emperor,
moreover, would have been easy of
accomplishment.* The colonies were
all beggared by the war. Their gov
ernments were slack and weak, The
Revolutionary army was the one co
hesive, national power in the land.
To a man the soldiers worshipped
Washington, and with their aid he
could have taken over control of the
nation. As near as that, at this
stage of America’s history, was the
country to becoming a monarchy.
The stroke,
And yet it was a great distance
away. To George Washington the
temptation of kingship was no temp
tation at all. On the contrary he put
it aside with far greater and more
Sincere indignation than did Caesar
wave aside the laurel crown. In a
letter whose every word should be
implanted in the mind of every
School child in America, he declined
Nicola’s offer and rebuked
who made it. Writing on
1782, he said:
"Sir: With a mixture
the man
Muy 22,
of great
surprise and astonishment, I have
read with attention the sentiments
you have submitted to my perusal.
Be assured, sir, no occurrence in the
course uX Uw war has given me more
STOKES TOWNSHIP
Mr. and Mrs. Steen, William Steen
and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Taylor are an
ting the births of new babies.
•. and Mrs. Henry Reigle spent
week-end at Jackson.
spent
and
Mr. and Mrs. John Diffendahl
Sunday with Dick Diffendahl
family.
spent
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cooper
Sunday at Dayton.
Earl and Wayne Allison spent the
week-end in Springfield, the guest of
Bobbie Tuttle.
Mrs. Etta Wolf was taken, to Mt.
Carmel hospital, at Columbus on last
Saturday.
Mrs. Morrison, of London, spent
last week with her son, Paul Morrison
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Evans, Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Rowand, Mr. and Mrs.
Roscoe Reigel and children, Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Millison spent the week
end at Russels Point.
Edwin Clements and Ed Coil spent
Sunday at Indian Iake.
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Jenkins were
visiting out of town Sunday.
Mrs. Clarence Clement is sick at
this writing.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wyant called on
A- J. Lansing and family, Sunday.
Mrs. Alvin Pierce and children spent
the week-end at Lucasville.
Mrs. Vemie Sherrin and children
were the Sunday dinner guests of Har
rison Curry and family.
Mr. and Mrs. William Meer return
ed home from Kansas, Saturday eve
ning.
Mr. and Mrs, Simon Bennett and
Children and Prof. Van Cleve, of Illin
ois, were the guests of McClelland
Bimmerman and family, Thursday.
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Si fet'
painful sensations, than your infor
mation of there being such ideas ex
isting in the army, as you have ex
pressed, and I must view with ab
horrence and
ity. 44 ’"s'
“I am at a Toss to conceive what
part of my conduct could have given
encouragement to an address, which
to me seems big with the greatest
mischiefs that can befall my country.
If I am not deceived in the knowl
edge of myself, you could not have
found a person to whom your
schemes are more ‘disagreeable
Let me conjure you, then, if you
have any regard for your country,
concern for yourself or posterity, or
respect for me, to banish these
thoughts from your mind, and never
communicate, ^as from yourself or
anyone else, a* sentiment of the like
nature.”
reprehend with sever-
LAFAYETTE
Lafayette, June 17*—Mrs. Gladys
Hibbit and family, of Toledo, have
just returned home after a few days’
visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Vynul Harbage.
Mrs. Nellie Vance, of Springfield,
spent Thursday of last week with her
sister, Mrs. N. B. Rhyn.
Miss Addise Gallow’ay is spending a
week with her sister, Mrs. Robert
McSavaney and family, of London.
Mr. and Mrs. Seth Gamble spent
Sunday with the former’s parents in
Zanesville.
Mr. and Mrs. Vynul Harbage en
tertained over thfe week-end relatives
from Toledo, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Dillion and
family spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Warner Stone and family, of
near Resaca.
Mr. and Mrs. Samel Dillion enter
tained relatives from Columbus over
the week-end, motoring to North Lew
isburg, Sunday to spend the day.
Oat Smut Injury
Cut By Treatment
Formaldehyde or Ceresan Dust Meth
od Found to Reduce Heavy Losses
Treating oats to reduce smut injury
and resulting losses is one way to in
crease the farm income from this
grain, says A. L. Pierstorff, extension
specialist in plant pathology at the
Ohio State university.
The best treatment for oat smut, he
points out, ases Cither Formaldehyde
dust or Ceresan. Formaldehyde dast
probably will give better results than
Ceresan in most cases because the
formaldehyde penetrates to all parts
of the sack and each kernel need not
be coated thoroughly with dust as is
the case with most other dust treat
ments.
To treat oats with formaldehyde
dust, he suggests that the grain be
placed 4 or 5 inches deep on a clean
barn floor. Sprinkle over the grain
3 tablespoons of formaldehyde dust
per bushel, shovel the grain over once
or at the most twice and sack. The
oats can be seeded the next morning,
or any time thereafter for at least
several months without injury to the
seed.
If growers wish to use the old liquid
formaldehyde method it is quite satis
factory, Pierstorff asserts. To one
pint of 40 per cent formaldehyde add
one pint of water and place in a quart
hand spray. This amount will treat
from 40 to 50 bushels of oats. The
clean oats are then placed on the barn
floor, and while being shoveled from
one pile to another, each shovel-full
should receive about as much of the
solution as will be expelled by the
sprayer in two strokes. The pile of
treated oats should be covered imme
diately with grain sacks or horse
blankets and remain undisturbed for
five hours. If the treated oats is not
sown within two days, the pile should
be shoveled over several times to per
mit the fumes to escape, so the ger
mination will not be injured.
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The Highways
Of Real Progress
When $100,000,000 is spent for sec
ondary highways of the road-mix type
costing $3,500 per mile, $40,000,000
goes to the direct employment of la
bor. Many millions more go indirect
ly to labor, due to purchases of sup
plies, shipping, etc.
No other form of relief effort does
so much to aid employment as prac
tical road building where needed—and
none so permanently benefits states
and town&, During the last year or
two, millions of families have been
tided over bad periods, wholly, or par
tially by road work, while towns, vil
lages and farming areas have been
given year-round roads that are vital
to future progress.
We can buy good roads without in
flating the tax bill. What is needed is
a wise allocation of funds between
main and secondary arteries, and a
high degree of efficiency in highway
departments.
New Mexico has made some wonder
ful demonstrations in building satis
factory low-cost roads with the oil
road-mix type of construction.
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What the gondola is to Venice,
the canoe is to Akron.
In the summer time, some of
the people of that far-famed rub
ber city actually live in their
canoes! For Akron lies at the
north end of a remarkable chain
of beautiful lakes, which, connect
ed by canals and channels, extend
tor fourteen miles south of the
city.
The main lakes are five in hum
ber—Summit Lake, Long Lake,
jBig- Reservoir, Little Reservoir,
and Turkey Foot Lake—-the latter
so tamed because its shape re
eembles that of the foot
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our
favorite Thanksgiving fowl
Time Alfalfa Hay
Harvest For Yield
Cutting Alfalfa at Proper Time Found
To Increase Yields and Quality
With between 4b and 50 per cent
of the season’s alfalfa hay produc
tion obtained from the first cutting,
it is advisable to make every effort
to harvest high grade hay from this
cutting, according to, R. D. Lewis,
specialist in farm crops for the ag
ricultural extension service at the
Ohio State university.
In raking, loading, and storing al
falfa, he points out, it is best to
use a speed that will be consistent
with obtaining well-cured hay with
the largest possible percentage of
leaves. Over-drying in the swath,
too large windrows,. and the use of
a rake when the hay is extremely
brittle are all dangerous practices
and may result in poor quality hay.
After the hay is first wilted it will
cure more rapidly in small wind
rows than in the swath, and will be
more uniform in color and leafiness.
The second crop may turn yellow
due to the presence of a little insect
known as the leaf-hopper. These
leaf-hoppers puncture the stems of
the alfalfa and suck out the juice.
Because of their activity during the
first half of July, it is best to
make the Second cutting between
July 24 and 31. If the second cut
ting is made in the middle of July
when leaf-hoppers are active, they
cause the new third growth to be
dwarfed and the yiel dto be reduced.
The last, or third cutting, will not
weaken the stand if it is properly
timed, Lewis states. Experiments at
Columbus show that two cuttings of
alfalfa averaged 5520 pounds of hay,
but three cuttings yielded 2700 ad
ditional pounds of cured hay. This
cutting is best made the week of
September 3 to 10.
Rural districts are supplying the
state with greater numbers of chil
dren per family than are urban cen
ters. Every 1000 native white moth
ers in the country have about 1324
girl children as compared with 950
in the cities,
born
eign
1435
ored
dren
As for the foreign-
in rural Ohio, every 1000 for
mothers have approximately
girl children. Every 1000 col
mothers have 1142 girl chil
if they live in the country.
Misnamed
You’d think a horse with a name We
Economic, which finished second in the
Kentucky Derby, woud have saved
enough early speed to win, Miami
Daily News.
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A good coat of tan, gradually ac
quired, will obviate the necessity to
seek your store of Vitamin in the
cod liver oil bottle.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY MADISON COUNTY DEMOCRAT, LONDON, OHIO
EXPLORING OUR OWN OHIO----------------
Akron—Canoes and Airships
Pima
ar
Clinton
(One of a series of articles suggesting easy motoi hips to scenic sections of the Buckeye State. Map
Consider
The modern idea about home
grounds is that every square foot
should serve a purpose. Land is ex
pensive, and the time has passed
when a home owner was content to
use only that portion of his lot upon
which his house steed. Today, if he
is up-to-date, he considers his home
to embrace the entire area of the
ground to which he has title, and he
develops every part of it to perform
a definite junction, useful or
mental.
But this has now changed and the
back yard in the modem home
grounds is transformed into a beauty
spot, the most inviting part of the
home, the outdoor living room.
Many modern houses are designed
so that the living apartments com
municate directly with the outdoor
living room and this is highly de
sirable if it can be arranged. It is
often possible to adjust an old house
to give this desirable connection and
always, with some thought, an easy
and inviting access to the backyard
can be worked out.
The private garden in the of
fers more opportunity for individual
expression than the front yard, where
planting must be for the public A
certain restraint is called for in front,
and harmony with neighboring plant
ings is desirable.
But in the private garden ®ne
should express his own idea of out
door beauty. There should be plant
ing to give privacy and screen out
unsightly views. This may be ar
ranged so that passersby on the
Stow
Comet
All the lakes are fringed with
cottages—but there are still
many stretches of shoreline left in
their native state. Excellent
paved roads wind in and out
among the lakes. Another at
traction near Akron of great
scenic beauty is the gorge at
Cuyahoga Falls.
Competing in interest with the
lakes tor thousands of tourists
to the Akron district this summer
is the giant Zeppelin U. S. S.
Macon, sister ship of the U. S. S.
Akron, Sow under construction
by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Co. The ship is being built at
the Akron airport, located in the
southeastern part Of Akron.
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The building of the Macon
proceeding satisfactorily. It
expected that the framework
the ship—the total length
which is 7S5 feet—will be in po
sition by July 1. The airship is
scheduled for completion late
this year.
No passes are necessary for
permission to drive motor cars
into the airport and down to the
very doors of the huge dock of
the Macon on most week days.
But on
holidays
Without
the top
nuay walk to the dock.
Saturdays, Sundays and
passes are required.
them cars are parked at
of the hill and visitors
THE HOME HOT
AS A UNIT
&
am
street can get a glimpse of the beau
ty within without privacy being de
stroyed. Comfortable furniture, per
haps a swing, seats, chairs and a
table, will give the yard the look of
an abiding place. Bird houses will
attract feathered visitors to entertain
us. And flowers will help make the
outdoor living room the source of joy
throughout the summer.
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trans
For-
This idea has resulted in a
formation of the back yard,
merly it was the most neglected part
of the home grounds. A view of
even a fine residence section from
the alley was far from edifying.
Land of great value, and capable of
use which would justify its value,
was usually devoted to rubbish heaps,
clothes lines and miscellaneous stor
age. Houses turned their backs to
all this, and owners only went into
the back yard when wearing their
old clothes.
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History of Fire
Fighting Apparatus
It has been a long step, mechanical
ly as well as in terms of years, from
the earthen buckets once used to fight
fire to the modern pumping engine.
The first mechanical fire-extinguish
ing device was a syringe, known as a
“hand squirt.” These squirts were of
extremely limited effectiveness, inas
much as their capacity was from two
to four quarts of water and three men
were required to handle them. They
were followed, in the middle of the
16th century, by a giant syringe with
a capacity of about a barrel of water.
Then came the “pump engine”—a
a plunger pump set in a large tub of
water and mounted on a sled which
was dragged to the scene of the fire.
Various improvements were made up
on this, and the man-drawn hose reel
eventually came into use. The next
mechanical device of importance was
the steam pumping engine drawn by
horses. It was eventually developed
to a high degree of efficiency, and
served creditably in the war against
fire until the practicability of the gas
oline engine, both for transporting fire
apparatus and for furnishing power
for a fire engine pump, was proven.
Today the vital need for depend
able standard fire-fighting apparatus
is universally recognized. There is
not a town in the country, no matter
how small, that can afford to be with
out the protection to life and property
it offers. And it should be remember
ed that the best standard fire appar
atus is always the cheapest—measured
in values of infinitely greater import
ance than mere dollars.
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Classified Ads axe Result Getterd
Worthwhile Project
Working on the theory that every
industrial concern and its workers
are entitled to the benefits of or
ganized accident prevention, the Na
tional Safety Council has announced
a plan for spreading the gospel of
industrial safety throughout the
length and breadth of the land. Ev
ery concern, large or small, can have
the. organization’s1 help in establish^
ing a plan. for a continuous cam
paign of accident prevention.
The plan offered may be pretty
well described by one word, “per
sonalized.” •.« It {takes cognizance of
the fact that safety work is every
body’s business—not merely that of
^safety engineers and shop foremen.
Every person connected with the
plant becomes a “stockholder” in the
work. The Council has provided In
dustrial Safety Trophies which will
be awarded the department or group
winning the year-round safety con
test within a company. The individ
low
TIRES TAXED
after June 20th
But if you
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FRIDAY, JUNE 17,1932
ual workman will be reached each
hionth with an interesting magazin^r,
called “The Safe Worker” Payroll
messages are to be provided to b©{
given on pay day to every workman|
as an added reminder of safety. Tho
technique of the plan is to reach
ery member of a concern with per*
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Industrie^ should take advantage.,
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through concentrated safety work,
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thousands of non-fatal accidents can
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Evidently President Von Hinden
burg regards Adolf Hitler in the same
light as a dose of castor oil. If you
have to go through with it, it is fet
ter to take it at once and have it over
with.
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there’s still time to buy
at the Lowest
Tprovidesby
HE Revenue BiW, as
passed Congress,
for a tax of 2JT
cents per pound on tires
and 4 cents per pound on
tubes.
This will probably result
in an increase in tire
prices.
If you are going to need
tires this year, NOW is
the time to buy them.
And no matter what your
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