Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1946 — Page 6
‘Reguler Wednesday Feature of The Times THE FIRST READER . . . By Harry Hansen
"Here Is an Opportunity to Learn About Zachary Taylor, Forgotten President of U.S.
"OLD ROUGH AND READY: ZACHARY TAYLOR." By Silas “Bent McKinley and Silas Bent. New York, Vanguard. $3. VEN with a brand new refrigerator as a prize, I'll wager dozens of “contestants” in quiz games would be stumped fo identify Zachary Taylor. Is he a horse, a cigar or a ball ‘player in a bush league? Already the names of some Presidents of the United States serve a purpose as lowly as that
. . . . ) na wal Famous Americans” series, pubShakespeare imagined for imperial Caesar, whose clay might |y;heq by Bobbs-Merrill, which now be used to stop a hole and|™""" +. includes nine volumes by Miss
used to receive, from Mexico, wads of chicle.
keep the wind out. Zachary
quiz program. tisky to use his name. Yet why should we remember sible for chewing gum. him? A whole generation is grow-| publicized this might give him more ing up in the belief that Presidents | lasting fame than his famous re-| are chosen for life and that before!tort to Rep. Alexander Stephens Roosevelt, Washington and Lincoln | who objected to troops being sent] divided the executive : Without boning up, I'd be hard|dispute with New Mexico. put to name the achievements of | John Tyler and even U, S. Grant,|to coerce Texas,” said Stephens. | and if I had not been born at the gite of Zachary Taylor's Indian mand the army in person, and any fighting in the Black Hawk country, man who is taken in treason against | Td be hazy sbout him and would the Union I will hang.” not blame anyone else for a similar Sn plight. THEY CALLED him “Old Rough rv » »
AN OPPORTUNITY to find out and Ready. 8 Shose dass, 200 fust who Zachary Taylor was, what Years ago, they loved epithets, Gen. he did, what opinions he held and| Winfield Scott was “Old Fuss and what sort of dent he made on the peathers.” William Henry HarriAmerican way is afforded by the gon was “Old Tippecanoe.” Andrew publication of "Old Rough and | Jackson was “Old Hickory.” Abra- | Ready: Zachary Taylor,” by Silas|ham Lincoln was “Old Abe.” But] Bent McKinley and the late Silas paylor had no connection with Old | Bent, who were cousins. Taylor. If you are disgusted with the] We know a lot about their doings present state of affairs, youl in.maturity, but what an interestcan, by reading this volume, es-|ing group they made when they cape to another century, where were young and eager and ambithings were badly contemporaries were disgusted, t00. Black Hawk war, when Zachary] It was an America before gas, elec- Taylor was 48 and a colonel. His tric light, street cars, telephones, aid was Lt. Jefferson Davis, who movies, swing and pants pressers; married one of his daughters, for Zachary Taylor lived from 1784 against his wishes, At Dixon's ferto 1850, and was elected president/ ry on the Rock river, in Illinois, in 1848. various regulars and volunteers got 2 acquainted while taking their meals WHY SHOULD we remember y,oether. Here Lincoln met Davis, Zachary Taylor? The authors say| ajpert Sidney Johnston and Joe E.| that he was a great Indian fighter, | johnston, later Confederate gener- |
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won the war against MEXItO; held|,js. also the son of Alexander [shares the poverty and insecurity of
the slave states in check and was) gamiiton and the son of Daniel! the chief influence in making the goone, Pacific our western boundary. = ® RAL 4 . Not all of this is obvious, espe- THE AUTHORS, I Sally She ast Hem, J § 59 up say, are quite realistic about border was : oe] a slow poke in peace, and that his| fighting. When Black Hawk was | position on the slavery issue was | defeated, Taylor assigned Jefferson to be rooted where he stood. What | Davis to take him to the east for we ought to remember his name|eynipjtion. He was “subjected to
: ich | BO yn Ee BCH | the taunts of a people who had
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: stolen his lands, slain his braves, | Pearce. Javeimens and a hy the. seat | wantonly murdered his women and| Mr. Schwarswalder denies the of our pants. I refer to the intro- | their children.” A large part of [commonly accepted notion that duction of chewing gum, not men- |W Westward progress was by Women are wonderful spies, ex] . ’ tioned by our authors. | massacre, plaining that they usually fall in — erove ua U fles | The new biography is pretty love with their victims and give ZACHARY , AYLOR went “into compact and undramatic. It ig| Out more information than they re- : Mexico and defeated the Mexican | [Friendly to its subject, but does not | ceive. : : i leader, Santa Ana, the butcher of | 8lorify him as did Holman Hamil-| Among x the shapters i "We / , ton in a biography of Zachary as a Caught Spies” are “The Narrow
the Alamo, didn't he? After the war Santa Ana was brought to the/ Soldier. You val hi ap ides of United States and held in polite] p usion, Amer1-
{ca walked toward the Civil war arrest land. Th h . on Staten island ete ¢ | Such biography, calmly realistic,
jmakes us aware that for a peace-| ful people we have done a lot of! shooting
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Stevenson, besides many others hy His secretary introduced | ther writers. : Taylor might stop a whole |chicle to an American inventor| Apout a month ago, Miss StevenIt would be too named Adams. The rest is history. son handed in the manuscript of Ergo, Zachary Taylor was respon-| her 10th contribution to the series. If properly | mhis book, “Clara Barton,” will be
honors. into Texas to stop its boundary'teaching | children, Miss Stevenson “Southern officers will refuse 10|concerned James K. Polk, Benjamin Harrison, obey your orders if you send troops | entertainment, which she thinks
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