Daughters of American Revolution Dinner The annual George Washington dinner of the Shanghai Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was held at the Ameri can Women's Club on the night of February 22. The arrangement of the tables in the form of a hollow rectangle, the hollow filled with pink. peach-blossoms and sword ferns, "and decorated with pink carnations and tall candles in silver feandlesticks were especially {elicit The address was by Dr Hawks-Pott. The Regent, Mrs, P. Dunbar, in introducing the speaker mentioned that it was also his birthday, and as to his subject: George Washington, re. ferred to the answer made by a pert young lady to the question of savant beside her "Well, no; the truth is, T believe in letting bygones be bygones. In_, this she differed from Emerson, who said "The Institution is the Tengthened shadow of a man." If we all felt that bygones should be bygones we should have little with which to build; for the data experience is our true foundation. Behind every political structure every religious organization, every economic theory there is the urge fof a human personality. The reed, that men have felt; the visions they wave seen every religious organiza:
jon, every economic theory there is the urge of a human personality. The needs that men have felt; th: visions they have seen, have impelled them to project their ideas into a society, often hostile; those that have succeeded chart the history of human progress. General Pershing said: "The heritage of free government stands as a challenge to our best efforts. It ix not] enough to applaud the struggles our forefathers; we must continue to preserve what they created: "—in other words, to lengthen their shadows, The Times and the Man Dr, Hawks-Pott said, in part "A person of my calling feels that} he must have a text, and also his firstly and secondly.' So my text fare those words pronounced by Henry Lee at the funeral of George Washington, and known to every American scholar 'First in war; first in peace; and first in the hearts of his countrymen.' We ask Why was this true of "Washington, the great Leader?" In order that a rear leader may emerge, the time and the man must meet. In George:
Washington we see the man, prepared by God's hand throughout his ife to meet the crisis. Had not arisen he might have ued ax a Colonial surveyor. or as an English country gentleman lof wealth. This crisis came, and the man was ready asa great leader to meet it, The elements that lead to the crisis of the American Revolution, were many; but in the the issue was this: does a lo exist for the benefit of a ing class, or does a ruling das exist for the benefit of the people?' As descendants of Englishmen the colonists had rights, and knew ther Once and for all they established the principle that colonists donot exist for the good of a governing, class in England. For this, England owes as much to th American Colonists. as America does. The policy of England toward her colonies changed from that period.
"Why was Washington first war?" He embodied just the qualities needed for leadership at thal time: courage, patience, perserverence under defeat and hardship, military genius and mastery of strategy.
Why was he frst in peace?" He embodied the real statesmanship necessary to attain what was the best possible, the best that was: practicable ruder the circumstances. Jay's treaty was far from satisfactory to him; but it was the best hho could get. How could anyone use to advantage tio such dissimila~ men in his cabinet as Jefferson and Hamilton? Yet Washington's policy was to use both of these great mon, of radically different views. and to conciliate them for the grea: task before them. So, the time and the man met.
He embodied in himself the great ideal of the American people. Lincoln is often referred to as having the great American ideals in himself; but we may say that Washington was the first American to embody these ideals, which are: National Democracy and Manifest Destiny. In him the Colonial Englishman became the American Democrat. He saw how, those diverse, scattered English colonies could be united in a nation, In 1787 ho threw all his energies into forming of the too-loosely federated states a Central Government strong enough to make a nation. That was the keynote of his Presidency, laboring toward the national ce ception. He would not permit Genet to conscript men for France nor let America be used as a cats-paw for France.
Washington was the one man who could bind up the colonies, and slowly the nation evolved, So with democracy: he was indigna when one of his colonels suggested that he be made king, and bade him never again to speak of such x thing. He believed in the sovereignty of the people. Hi: was a gentleman, far from believing that breeding, birth and education made no difference; but also he was a democrat, as much of a democrat as Lincoln.
"He believed in the Manifest destiny of America; that God had 8 purpose and a mission for the new country. Through the war, and—through Presidency, Washington believed that God was using the United States, to carry Liberty to the world. The United States stands by certain ideals and God has used her to carry out those ideals.
"When we stand and view the great white shaft of the Washington monument, standing in lonely grandeur, we know that it is composed of stones from every State in the Union. As we look at that we feel that no more fitting! monument to George Washington could be. He did stand in majestic solitude, because he was the peerless cader of the American nation."
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