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4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON £ —"1 f present session of congress has S I seen the introduction of an almost , I unparalleled number of resolutions k I and bills appropriating money for i the erection of monuments, memoI rials and markers in various parts of the country, and the Americans I who are to be thus honored, if the ■ gn&VjMd bills pass, range all the way from I Presidents, Revolutionary war heroes || mid Civil war leaders down to vice II P res id en ts and other comparatively obscure individuals. I One °f the most interesting memorials thus proposed is the plan for a “Plaza of Presidents’’ in Nashville, Tenn., since this one project will honor the memory of three Presidents. One of the three is so well-known and is so often included in the list of “truly £reat” Presidents that it would seem impossible to add anything to his fame with another memorial. But the other two. neither of whom is nearly so well known as the first, have certain claims to importance in our history which should make their names better known to all Americans. Under the terms of a bill offered by Representative Byrns of Tennessee, the federal government will be asked to contribute $300,000 toward the establishemnt of this “Plaza of Presidents’’ in Nashville on which statues of Andrew .Jackson, James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson will be placed. The state of Tennessee would donate $30,000 to the plan and the use of the whole fund in building the memorial would be supervised by the secretary of war and the governor of Tennessee. As stated above, it would seem almost impossible to add anything to the fame of Andrew Jackson, for this picturesque figure has so impressed itself upon the consciousness of the American people that the mere mention of the name “Old Hickory” brings to our minds as definite and clear-cut a picture as do the names of the “Father of His Country” and the “Great Emancipator.” His name and his part in American history have been perpetuated in a dozen different ways. There is scarcely a state in the Union that does not have a town, city or county named Jackson; the famous (and much criticized. from an artistic viewpoint) “rocking horse" statue of him in Lafayette square, overlooking the White House, is one of the best-known landmarks in the national capital; the anniversary of his famous battle with the British is a red letter day on the calendar of thousands of Americans and “Jacksonian democracy” is the fundamental principle of the political faith of one of the two great political parties in this country. His home, the Hermitage, near Nashville, is imOe than just a state landmark —it is a national shrine, second only to Mount Vernon in historic interest, to which thousands pay a visit of homage each year. And only the other day, the name of Andrew Jackson, dead these 73 years, was heard again throughout the land when, before a group gathered in Statuary hall in the Capitol in Washington, Andrew Jackson IV, descendant of Old Hickory’s adopted son, pulled a cord which unveiled a statue of his famous namesake. It was Tennessee’s gift to the federal government of the likeness of one of her two greatest sons and this gift was accepted on behalf of the whole nation by President Coolidge. The career of James K. Polk, a man vastly different from Andrew Jackson, is nevertheless an interesting one. Like Jackson, he was a “Tennesseean from North Carolina.” Polk was born in Mecklenburg county, N. C., in 1795. No

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In 100 years hardly one of the great houses which have been so long a feature and a glory of English country life will survive. The buildings may still stand, but death duties and high taxation are robbing them, one by one, of all that gave them beauty. Knole, the seat of tlie Sackvilles, is the latest and perhaps the finest of the country houses whose new owners have had to pay high death duties.

7;, such hardships had attended his youth as had characterized the early life of old Hickory. In terms of formal schooling he was a much better educated man, having been graduated from the University of North Carolina. A man of considerable ability, he rose rapidly in the political world. He was a member of the house of representatives for 14 years and served as speaker in the house from 1535 to 1839. It is interesting to note that he was the only speaker of the house of representatives who ever became Presi dent. Following his service in congress he was elected governor of Tennessee, an office which he held for one term of two years. Considering the importance of the events during his administration as President and the part which he had in shaping those events, it is all the more remarkable that he was the first “dark horse" candidate and that his becoming President was more or less of an accident. A brief review of the political history preceding his election is necessary to give st proper perspective on these facts. When Andrew Jackson was ready to lay down the reigns of power which he had held for eight years, he decided that Martin Van Buren of New York, who had helped manage his second campaign and who was later •his secretary of state, should be his successor. Although the Whigs, under the leadership of Gen. William Henry Harrison, had put up a valiant fight in the campaign of 1836, Van Buren was elected and the Jacksonian Democracy was destined to rule for four years more in the White House. But the campaign of IS4O was a different matter. With their shouts of “Tippecanoe and Tyler; Too,” the Whigs swung into their famous “Log Cabin and Hard Cider” campaign with an enthusiasm that had rarely before been displayed. And the popular appeal of this military hero, something of the same sort of appeal that had helped elect Jackson, enabled Harrison to defeat the “Little Magician.” Van Buren, and put the Whigs in power for the first time in history. Then Harrison died, soon after taking office, and John Tyler, the vice president who had been elected as a Whig but who soon proved that he was not a dyedhin-the-wool Whig in principle, became President. As the campaign of 1844 approached, it was apparent that Tyler would not be the Whig candidate but that that mantle would fall upon Henry Clay, Jackson’s old enemy who had cast envious eyes at the White House since 1824. Van Buren was the logical Democratic candidate but his opposition to the annexation of ’Texas, which shared with the dispute over the Oregon boundary the honors for being the leading political questions of the day, was destined to lose the nomination for him. When the Democratic convention met in Baltimore it was apparent that Van Buren would have a majority of the delegates. And then the second morning of the meeting the celebrated “two-thirds majority” rule was passed. After what seemed a hopeless deadlock between Van Buren and Lewis Cass, Van Buren's name was withdrawn. Then followed the first convention stampede in American history and James K. Polk of Tennessee, who had been a prominent can-

In plan it resembles an Oxford or Cambridge college, and is bigger than most of them. It stands in a great park which, with its age-old oaks and beeches, ferny glades and hollows, and its herds of deer, is a fairyland of beauty. There may be, here and there, larger houses, though not many, but what is almost unique about Km.le 1s that it still contains all the furnishings which have collected there since

Tudor times. They are said to be worth a million pounds, and may well be worth more. But whatever they are worth in terms of money, they are of infinitely more value in the house to which they belong than if they were dispersed.— From the Continental Edition of the London Daily Mail. Melt or Burn Werner Janssen, the young jazz composer, was talking about the box oflice men in New York theaters who

'V didnte for vice president, w; s non noted ns the first “dark h< rse” nominee for ti e Presidency. In an exciting campaign i.i which ti.c annexation of Texa* : nd the di pute over Or< g m (with the first faint cries of “54 49 or Fight !” being rais< d) Polk defeated Clay and to >k office with the pron ite that he would not s^k nor accept the office again- one of the two Presidents who made that promise and kept his worth Although Polk was almost unknown when he went into the White H< use. he soon showed that he was "in some sort n man < f iron." He wanted California for the United States and laid his plans to get it. Despite* the popular clamor about Oregon. Polk had no intention of embroiling the country in a war with two countries, for he s;iw that war with Mexico was inevitable. While many historians have d Harer] that the i war with Mexico w;s unjustifiable and have severely criticised Polk for the role ho played in that affair, others have justified his course on the grounds of the “manifest destiny" of this nation. At any rate, history has written down James K. Polk as the President under whose administration more square miles were added to the territory of tin* United States ti an any other executive* except Jeff rs<m by I s purchase of Louisiana. It was Polk who gave to the United States California and the great Southwest by conquest and the Oregon country by compro- | mise. The third President who will be honored. If the “Plaza of Presidents" project goes through, is one who has suffered much injus ice from history. Andrew Johnsen, who rose to the White House from the obscurity of a tailor’s shop in eastern Tennessee, was. like Jackson and Polk, born in North Carolina. Os him it has been said. “His early poverty was deeper Ilan Lincoln’s, in's family as obscure, his educational opportunities far less. He was in boyhood i white skive, and his master advertised for him when he ran away as though he were a negro. He learned to read and write after his marriage; a few years later was the one man in congress speaking intelligently and forcefully on a constructive policy he had espoused. He was a tailor and as he worked he was read to by a youih he had rmployed for the purpose.” During the Civil war. at the request of President Lincoln, he gave up his seat in the senate to become military governor of Tennessee and in I 18C4 he was chosen as the vice presidential running mate for Lincoln in an effort to hold the border states. He became President upon Lincoln's assassination and when he tried to carry out tiie reconstruction policies which Lincoln had intended to follow, he was bitter y assailed by the radicals who were determined to grind the defeated South into the dust in punishment for its secession. Johnson’s determination to follow the generous policy which Lincoln had planned brought down upon him an avalanche of hatred which is difficult for present-day Americans to understand, am] an impeachment trial at which, happily for the country, iie was acquitted. Modern historical research has done much to revise the once popular estimate of this “most maligned President" and if, as one recent biographer has said, “He was the most courageous and consistent statesman of his day. . . . No American ever more richly deserved what lie was given, the flag as a winding sheet and a copy of the Constitution as a pillow,” then no one of the three Presidents'whose memory will be honored in the proposed “Plaza of Presidents” I is more worthy of that honor than Andrew Johnson.

make SSOO a week and more out of Lcket scalping. “Some of these men, he said, “have got rich from the bonuses that the trade gives them. I heard a story about one of them, a mean chap, the other day. An actor said to him: “ ‘What are you going to do with all your money George? You can’t take it with you.’ “And then the actor gave a loud laugh and added: “ ‘Even if you could it would melt.’ ”

Preacher Surely Had Right to Be Annoyed E. S. Harkness, the philanthropist and patron of the arts who recently gave $250,000 to the New York Memorial hospital for the purchase of four grams of radium, was talking at the University club agaitist speculation. Speculation is demoralizing.” he said “There was once a <-ountry preacher who speculated in oil stock. A deacon asked him some rime afterward: “‘Well, doctor, what have you done with that oil stock of yours?’ “ 'Done? I've Iwen done. Got cheated out of it. the preacher said. ••‘No!’ said the deacon. ‘No! How come?' “‘Why, said the preacher. ‘I thought the stuff was valueless, you see. and so I unloaded ft on a greenhorn for a song. But it turned out to be worth thousand;, ami that swindler who bought it from me knew it all tire I time."—Kansas <’ity Star. Shifts Earth Quickly Material could be lifted to the top of a ten story building by a giant j electric shovel, largest in the world now being constructed, says Popula> i Science Monthly. Placed in the cen ter of a football field. It could oig out the entire field without moving । from one fiosition. and de(»osit the : dirt in the stands. Its 12«>-foot boom I will be terminated by a dipper sti k I eighty-two feet long, and a scoop that ! can pick up fiftten cubic yards ot earth or coal, weighing nearly twen ty-four totis. at a single stroke The mammoth shovel will be used in the i open pit mining of coal at Danville, j 111. Treat for Radio Fans Not to be outdone by England broadcasting the song of a nigbtin gale. Australia has Just succeeded in I sending far and wide the mirthful nraying of Jacko. a pet kookaburra or laughing Jackass, so famous in ' that part of the world. “When Jacko was brought to the radio studio for a rehearsal." accordi Ing to a<lvlces from Melbourne, “his laughter could not be subdued. He nughPfl nt every one ami everything and he did not suffer 'mike' fright." Roman Relics in England One thousand •■ight humlreti years I ago Itoman women suffered from ' ntirmitles of the feet. Evhlence of ‘.bls has just btsm foun 1 at Eounjers court, Lothbury. London, where excavations for a new building are deing earth'd on. The sole of a I womans leather shoe, in which the i mark of a corn nt the base of the little toe can clearly ta» es'n. was 1 discoxert'd. A few H'mains of Itoman i . glass of the most exquisite cohtrlnc I am! patterns were found <»t> the satpe I I ,'ot. Old London Slum District Seven Dials, often mentioned in the I "moks of Dickens. Is a lo< ality in | st. Giles. London, between Trafalgar r'pmre and the British museum, for : tr-erly noted as the resort of criminal ard tiegraded classes. A clock pillar wt*h seven dial faces formerly stood ■ th<rv. Maybe So Th* cosmetic movement is a cosmic moviMveut. —Womans Home Compan ; ’.on.

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