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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATODAY, FEBRUABY 22, 1919.

“Economy means happy homes and sound nations. Instill it deep. ”

Not the leant important of the great principles for which George Washington stood was that of thrift, individual and national. He practiced it consistently; he advocated it often and earnestly. Just now, when we are tempted to overlook the urgent need of after-the-war economy it is well to remember this lesson which among others we may learn from the first President of the United States whose memory we are honoring today.

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Failure of Legislatures to Act Results in Appeal to Congress by Treasury Officials.

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TlM> ladlMMtpeli* »w* SS Wratt Baildiag. WASHINGTON. February 22.— The failure of state legislatures to enact laws under which misrepresentation in the sale of stocks and bonds can be stopped has led the treasury department, the federal reserve board and the capital issues company to join in a request to the congress that it enact legislation empowering the federal trade commission to deal with the problem. Secretary of the Treasury Glass said today that it is imperative that something be done to protect the great number of Liberty bond and War Savings stamp holders against unscrupulous promoters. He expressed the hope that states through their legislatures would yet see the importance of doing something, but he felt, he said, that federal legislation should be enacted in any event. The federal trade commission has announced It Is ready to co-operate with the treasury department and also with tha states tn a nation-wide effort to curb unfair practices In the sale of securities. The commission believes It has authority to accomplish something without waiting tor additional legislation. Authority of Commission. "The commission Is authorised under the federal trade commission act of IM4 to prevent unfair methods of competition in interstate commerce and to require all corporations and others who know about its affairs to inform the commission as to their business methods and practices and to make public so much of the Information which it obtain* a* It may deem to be In the public interest,'* the commission statement

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‘The commission has already considered recent decisions of the federal courts holding that stocks and securities are articles of commerce. The concrete cases which have heretofore come before the commission have been disposed of either hy reference to the postal authorities or the department of Justice on the facts developed In those

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The fact is appreciated that there are a great many inexperienced investors in Liberty bonds and War

Savings stamps who are being sought ? U A .. y Promoters with very tempting baits under such attractive

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“We have found this practice widespread, said James A. Gill, representing the federal reserve bank of New York, ‘•that promoters of fictitious and doubtful securities turned over their

arc* nn vunu purchasers were carefully card indexed, and now these salesmen are attemntinK to show that in peace times the 414 per cent, interest on Liberty honds is not sufficient returns They are offering par and sometimes par and a premium for Liberty bonds, providing the Liberty bonds are exchanged for oil or other •tocks that are alleged to yield in some »* high as 50 per cent. and which are for the most part worthless.” FARMERJNDS LIFE. Henry H. Rollings Age Seventy-Five, Shoots Himself In Head. fSpecial to The IndlanapoH* Newel GREENCASTLE. Ind.. February 21.Henry H. Rollings, age seventy-five, a Putnam county farmer, committed guicide last night by shooting himself through the head with a ,32-callber revolver. A physician told Rollings last week that he was suffering from cancer of the stomach. This Is believed to have caused him to take his life. Mr. Rollings made his home with Mrs. Louis Bullerdick, his daughter Honorable Dlacharg© Emblem. WASHINGTON, February 22.-The "honorable discharge” emblem to be issued by the war department to soldiers leaving the army will be a bronze lapel button similar to that of the G. A. R. It was announced that a design had been selected from fifteen models submitted by American artists and sculptors.

THREE MEMBERS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON’S PERSONAL GUARD ARE BURIED IN INDIANA Jonathan Moore, Who Was Next to the Last Survivor of the Famous Unit, Was 99 Years Old at the Time of His Death, and Lies Buried Near Petersville, Bartholomew County—Nathaniel Cunningham, Putnam County, and Thomas Blair, Spencer County, Were the Others.

Washington’s birthday recalls the fart that three members of General Washington's personal guard died In Indiana and are buried in this state. Nathaniel Cunningham died in Putnam county. August W. ISC. On January L 1433, Thomas Blair, another member of the guard, died in Spencer county. Jonathan Moore, who died in Bartholomew county September 25. HS3. was not the last member of the guard to i die. but it is believed he attained the ! greatest age of any because he was more than ninety-nine years old at the time of his death. With the exception of Samuel Whitroarsh. who died In; Weymouth, Mass.. December 3. I*S4. Moore was the last survivor of the; commander-in-chief a guard. Jonathan Moore's Epitaph. In a little country cemetery, near Petersville. Bartholomew county, there is a modest-looking, moss-grown slab which marks the final resting place of Jonathan Moore. Oh the slab is this inscription;

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Jonathan Moor*. Sen. Bom Aug. t JTW. Died Sept ». Age n years 1 month 3 day*. H* served a« a eoHter in tb» revolutionary war a term of eight years and five years of that time aa one of the life guards of General Washington, fie now sleeps In peace in the land be fought to defend.

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The Commander-in-chiefs guard was organized at noon, March IX ITTS, pursuant to an order issued by Washington on the previous day. The order ; from headquarters, at Cambridge, said: |

The General’s Order.

"The general is desirous of selecting ^ a particular number of men as s guard ; for himself and baggage. The colonel or commanding officers of each of the { established regiments, the artiUery and riflemen excepted, will furnish him with four, that the number wanted may be chosen out of them. His excellency depends upon the colonels for good men, such as they can recommend for their sobriety, honesty and good behavior. He wishes them to be from five feet eight inches to five feet *ten inches, handsomely and well made, and, as there is nothing In his eyes more desirable than cleanliness In a soldier, he desires that particular attenUon may be made tn the choice of such men as are clean and spruce. They are all to be at headquarters tomorrow precisely at 12 o'clock noon, when the number wanted will be fixed upon. The general neither wants them with uniforms nor arms, nor does he desire any man to be sent to him that is not perfectly willing or desirous of' being of this guard. They should be drilled men.” History' shows that Baron Frederick d* Steuben, formerly aid to Frederick the Great, and a lieutenant-general of the Prussian army, suggested to General Washington that he take charge of the guard and whip It into shape. This suggestion was made with Washington's approval, so an order was issued at Valley Forge. March 17, 1778, asking for 100 hoeen men to be annexed to the guard,

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ARRESTED AT SHELBYVILLE William Kennedy, of Indianapolis, Held for Theft of Morphine. ISpecUi to The Indianapolis NewsJ SHELBYVILLE, Ind., February 22.— William Kennedy, of Indianapolis, was arrested here last night and is being held In Jail on a charge of petit larceny It is alleged that he entered the drug store of Charles G. McBride several weeks ago and took a quantity of morphine. Kennedy denied the charge. He was seen on the street Friday evening and identified as the man who visited his store. His companion escaped. Kennedy had a box of opium capsules in his pocket when arrested. He said that he had bought them from a Dr. Evans, at Indianapolis. When he was placed in Jail several of the capsules were left with him on advice of a physician. Kennedy said that hia parents live at Springfield, III. He said that he was traveling for a farm Journal published there. IN OCCIDENTAL BUILDING. Fire Does Slight Damage—Starta in Storage Room. Fire, said by firemen to have originated in a storage room In the rear of the Occidental restaurant, in the basement of the Occidental building, Illinois and Washington streets, burned Its way tip a conduit to the roof, early today, causing a loss estimated at approxiFrarne" doors leading to a conduit, which carries the water and sewage pipes of the building, on each of the eight floors were charred by the flames, firemen said, and the interior of the storage room was damaged slightly. Firemen stopped the progress of the flames by running a line of hose into the conduit from the roof of the building.

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his effects. Among other things handed down since the beginnings of American independence, there is a razor which Moore used at various times in shaving General Washington. True to tha general’s desire that all members of the guard should be clean and spruce. Moore was careful of his personal appearance throughout his long life. On the day of his death he brought forth the razor that had been used on America s first President, shaved cleanly with It, then lay down on hla bed and died.

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Moore was * tailor by trade. He married Elisabeth Long, who died tn Bar- ? tholomew county tn 1S50. Relatives who |

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A TRIBUTE TO WASHINGTON BY JEFFERSON, PRINTED IN 1831 Emma H. Hudson, of Terre Haute, Finds a Characterization of Washington in The Casket, a Periodical That Was Published in Philadelphia in Early Days of the Republic.

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Emma H. Hudson, of Terre Haute, has in her possession bound copies of the Caaket, a periodical published in Philadelphia In the early days of the republic. Samuel C. Atkinson was the editor. In the volume covering the year ]S31 she found a tribute to George Washington by Thomas Jefferson, and it is fitting that it be reproduced on this, Washington's birthday. The tribute was printed in connection with an engraving made from Stuart s portrait of Washington. Jefferson said of his distinguished contemporary : Mind Great and Powerful. "He filled the measure of his country’s glory. "His mind was great and powerful without being of the very first order. • • • "His Judgment was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imI agination, but sure in conclusion. • • • He was incapable of fear meeting personal dangers with the calmest concern. * • • His Integrity was most pure, his I justice the most inflexible I have ever j known: no motives of Interest or eon1 sanguinity, of friendship or hatred being able to bias his decision. He was. indeed, in every sense of the word, a wise, a good and a great man. In his expenses he was honorable, but exact, liberal in contributions to whatever promised utility, but frowning and unyielding to all visionary projects and all unworthy calls on his charity. • • • "His heart was not warm in its affections. but be exactly calculated every man’s value and gave him a solid esteem proportioned to it although in the circle of his friends he took a free share In conversation, his colloquial talents were not above mediocrity, possessing neither copiousness of Ideas nor fluency of words. Poor Public Speaker. "In public when called on for a sudden opinion he was unready, short and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readilv. rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style This he had acquired by a conversation with the world, for his education was merely reading, writing and common arithmetic, to which ha added surveying at a later day.

"On the whole his character was. in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, In a few points indifferent, and It may be truly said that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great and to place him tn the same constellaton with whatever worthies have merited from man an everlarting remembrance. For his was the singular destiny and merit of leading the armies of his country successfully through an arduous war for the establishment of its Independence, of conducting its councils through the birth of a government new In its forms and principles until it had settled down into a quiet and orderly train and of scrupulously obeying the laws through the whole of his career, civil and military’, of which the history of the world furnished no other example."

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poraJs. two drummers, a flfer and 13fi privates to appear at guard mounting. Jonathan Moore was one of the private* who answered the command that day. Baron de Steuben took charge, but a* he could speak no English he was forced to give hia commands through an Interpreter. Hia Service Record. Jonathan Moore enlisted In the revolutionary army before the nation came into being His first enlistment, was on June 28, 1775, for six months, as a private of Captain William Goforth s first New York regiment He was discharged at Albany, December 28. 1775, but reenlisted at Hopewell, N. J., April, 1778, for one year, joining Captain Thomas Paterson's 2d company of the 3d New Jersey regiment, commanded by Colonel Ellas Dayton. Moore again enlisted, this time at Ttconderoga, N. Y., January 13, 1777, for the duration of the war. He was still a member of the 3d New Jersey and In that regiment he participated in the battles of Short Hills. Brandywine and other engagement!. He was transferred to the commander-ln-chieFs guard, commanded by Captain Caleb Gibbs, and then took an active part In the battle of Monmouth. 'Other engagements In which Moore figured

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WASHINGTON. February 23. — Pensions have been granted the following ladlantana: Minors of William h. White. St; Roes Quinn. |*11; minor of James M Stsela Huntington, ■ *U. Pension# of *25 have been granted I Nancy J. Mumraa. Monroeville; Sarah M.

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Washington’s Address Read, Salutes Are Fired

WASHINGTON. February a.-Gov-ernmental activities, with the exception of the congress, oeaaed today in commemoration of the birthday of George

Washington.

In accordance with custom. Washington’s farewell address was read In both

the house and senate.

The holiday was observed in most of the military camps in the country and units of the American fleet in all parts of the world fired the usual national salute. School children had been urged to make today an occasion for

C*mde«;| Joining in the government campaign for ' the furtherance of thrift. In many cities the children carried out a program arranged and distributed by the savings division of the treasury de-

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