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1 1 McCORMICK .MJBgSEyeEp, McCORMICK. S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY,49, 1^39 V#*v /*'*. *.V - # i»5(f»KVfljjf* ■ • .- •* ; Charming Designs i Are Fun to Make - f ONG winter evenings, when - L/ you’re home a lot anyhow, of- fgr a splendid time to get some ■ sewing done. You’ll enjoy it, when ; you use these simple designs, each • accompanied by a step-by-step sew chart for the guidance of be- • ginners. So start right now, with this bias dress, which is pretty as a picture and new as tomorrow morning! You’ll be delighted, too, with the apron set—two pinafores and a tie-around, all in one design. With Bias Skirt. The swirling dress with bias skirt is fashion news—decidedly. It’s so simple, and so lovely. The tiny waist, the square neckline, the puff sleeves and rippling skirt, all have the romantic charm Of an old-fashioned portrait. Make this of flat crepe, silk print or thin wool and trim it with lace or em broidery. 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If you make a habit of reading them care fully, you can plan your shopping trips and save yourself time, energy and money. New Book on Franklin Restores , Him to His* 'Grand Dimensions' in His 800-Page Biography of the Famous American, Whose Birthday We Celebrate on January 17, Carl Van Doren "Rescues Him from the Dry, Prim People Who Have Claimed Him as One of Them" and Tells What He Really "Did, Said, Thought -and Felt." O Western Newspaper Union. FRANKLIN IN LONDON From a portrait painted by David Martin in London in 1767 and now owned by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HIS year’s celebration of the anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth should have a greater significance to his fellow- Americans than ever before. Especially is this true if they have read a biography of him published recently. Perhaps it would be more fitting to refer to it as THE biography. A great many books have been written about him, covering every period in his long and remark able career and dealing with every phase of this “most versatile American.’’ But for the first time in three-quar ters of a century a biographer has undertaken to bring the whole of his Jife, with all the necessary details, into a sin gle narrative long enough to do it justice. The biographer who has done this is Carl Van Doren and his 800-page volume, published .recently by the Vik ing Press of New York, is un doubtedly the “last word,” the final full-length portrait of the man who was born 235 years ago—on January 17, 1704. The general outlines of Frank lin’s life story is a familiar one to most Americans. They know of his boyhood in Boston, his work as an apprentice printer in the shop of his brother, James, and his start as a publisher, at the age of 17, when James incurred the displeasure of the authorities and young Ben had the task of getting out the New England Cou- rant. They are familiar with the story of his quarrel with his brother, his going to Philadel phia, there to walk down the street with a huge roll pf bread Linder his arm and to be laughed at by pretty Deborah Read who later became his wife. Familiar, too, are the tales of his becoming forehian in the printing office of Samuel Keimer, his partnership with Hugh Meredith in publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette and his successful career as a printer and publisher which enabled him to retire from that business at the age of 42. In the meantime his career as 3 philosopher had begun—in his “Poor Richard’s Almanac,” which spread his fame through out the colonies, and in his forma tion of the* Junto, a club in which he and his fellows discussed all manner of philosophical ques tions. Science next attracted him and most familiar of all the sto ries about him is that which tells of his interest in Leyden jars. For that led to the famous incident of the kite, the silk handkerchief, the rainstorm and the charge of electricity which ran down the twine to the key tied on the end of it. Of course, Benjamin Franklin didn’t “discover” elec tricity, but he dramatized it, and when he wrote monographs on his experiments Europe began to take notice of this American colo nial. Americans know that he was also interested In politics and public affairs—that he served as clerk of the Pennsylvania assem- . bly and afterwards as a member of it; that he established the post al system in this country; that he first planted the idea of a union of the colonies with his famous “Join or Die” snake cartoon; that he was indispensable to Gen eral Braddock in securing the waggoners necessary for hauling that leader’s supplies on his dis astrous expedition; that he went to England to represent the col onies in the dispute over, the Stamp Act and thus started upon the career as a diplomat which was to bring him his greatest fame. And these are only a few of the activities of the “many-sided Franklin” which have been made familiar to his fellow-Americans mainly through his “Autobiog raphy,” which he began writing in 1771. But according to Carl Van Doren, just because Franklin is best known from his “Autobiog raphy,” he is too little known. For, says this biographer, “. . . In that masterpiece of memory and honesty he dealt with his years as a rising trades man and did not reach his more memorable years as imperial prophet, revolutionary states man, cosmopolitan diplomatist, scientist, wit, moralist, sage. He never found time to carry out the history of himself as he intended. But the materials which he would have used still exist, scattered in journals, letters, and miscellane ous writings through his manu scripts and his collected and un collected works.” So Mr. Van Doren set himself to the task of drawing these ma terials together and arranging them “in something like the or der he might have given them. Nor are they mere raw notes for a book. He seldom wrote a line without some characteristic touch of wit and grace. Most of these materials need no rewriting to make them match the unfinished story they continue.” Although the biographer thus makes his task sound simple, the fact is that it was a monumental one. More than 10 years have elapsed between the time he started .this biography and its completion. The very abundance of the new material which his re search unearthed added to his difficulties, since it led to the temptation to let his book run be yond a readable length. Howev er, the completed biography of more than 800 pages, “full as it is, is a biography cut with hard labour to the bone.” Not the least of the interest and value of the book is the new ma terial which the biographer men tions. Concerning it, he says in the preface: “Here first in any Franklin bi ography appear (in part) his ‘el egy,’ recently discovered and ap parently his earliest writing that has survived; information about James Franklin’s New England Courant based on the file kept, almost certainly, by Benjamin Franklin; an analysis of the hun dreds of sayings 0$ Poor Richard which Franklin left out of ‘The Way to Wealth,’ thereby much narrowing his reputation as a maker and sharpener of adages; various details of his business, domestic life, and personal ex penditures taken from manu script account books and adver tisements in the Pennsylvania Gazette; a more ekact discussion than has thitherto been printed of his surreptitious writings and of his ‘Reflections on Courtship and Marriage’; a critical exam ination of the kite-flying episode; the narrative of Franklin’s first diplomatic mission, to the chiefs of the Ohio Indians at Carlisle; the lifelong story of his affection ate friendship with Catherine Ray, with unpublished letters from her; his campaign as a sol dier, known in full only to read ers of a single monograph; his record in Pennsylvania politics as shown in the executive and legislative journals of the prov ince ; the insurance company’s de scription of his house in Phila delphia; an unpublished manu script in which he outlined his programme of opposition to the Stamp Act; a note on his meet ing with Baron Munchausen and Raspe his chronicler; a circum stantial account of the Grand Ohio company from which Frank lin hoped to make a fortune in land speculation; his acquaint ance with James Boswell; two fables by Franklin published in 1770 but lost sight of until 1936; a comparison of two versions of Wedderburn’s attack on Frank lin, one as printed by the British government and one as remem bered by Franklin’s friends; the neglected record of his activities as chairman of the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety; an unpub- lislied letter to General Schuyler written during the mission to Canada; an accurate report of the conference with General Howe given directly from the minutes; the amazing melodrama of the British spies who surround ed Franklin in Paris; new trans lations of three of his Passy baga telles, written by him, so far as is known, only in French.’* FRANKLIN IN PARIS From m portrait painted in France by Joseph-Sifrede Duplessis in 1783 and now owned by the New York Public Library. \ Although Franklin is best known for his prose writings, for his ability as a “maker and sharpener of adages,” such as those which he put in his “Poor Richard’s Almanac,” the fact is that his writing career started with a poem! It was an “Elegy on My Sister Franklin” which, Van Doren says, was “only re cently discovered and is now first mentioned in a Franklin biog raphy. The precise date of the elegy is still uncertain, as is the name of the sis*er-in-law whose death called it forth ...” The text of the elegy, as given in Van Doren’s book, follows: Warm from my Breast surcharg'd with Grief & Woe These melancholy Strains spontaneous flow Flow from a fav’rite Sister’s sad De cease Flow from the worthiest of the female Race . . . My dear my much-loved Sister!—O my Friend We in this World on nothing may depend: For soon as we esteem ourselves possest Of every needful Thing to make us blest Some Friend’s Demise (like hers we now lament) Casual Mischance, or tragical Event Like an intrudent Guest will intervene Frustrate our Hopes and mar our blissful Scene. How weak! how vain! how void all mundane Joys A Medley fraught with Nonsense, Shew and Noise O wtoat is Life which we so high esteem A Bubble,. Vapous, Shadow, Fleeting Dream From sordid Dust we sprang & surely must Or soon or late return to native Dust What mortal Man even in his best Estate All Vanity, Pride, Folly and Deceit . . . Crowns have their Thorns and Opulence its Bane And all our Pleasures their Alloy of Pain All the Vicissitudes of Life declare Uncertainty alone is certain here . . . No sublunary Blessings long endure And from Death’s Clutches nought can us ensure Who o’er all Flesh maintains a sovereign Sway And Millions fall his Victims every Day Nor Worth, Wit, Beauty, Wealth or Power can free From rigid Fate’s immutable Decree . . . Else might this worthy Saint whose way ward Fate We now deplore have claimed a longer Date Of circling Years her Kin to serve and bless Enjoy her Friends and Life’s good Things possess . . . And tho’ I humbly trust our Friend deceas’d Is wafted to the Saints eternal Rest Yet her sad Exit maugre my Resolves In Woe’s profound Abyss my soul in volves With Sighs & Groans my lab’ring Bosom swells And down my cheeks Griers mournful Stream impels May Heaven forgive me If I ought offend Whilst thus I mourn my dear departed Friend ' Sure Heaven forbids not for our Friends to mourn Nor to bedew with Tears their peaceful Urn FRANKLIN IN PHILADELPH A From a portrait by Robert Feke (?) or John Greenwood (?), painted probably about 1748 and now owned by the Fogg Art Mu seum of Harvard university. “These are perhaps the earliest surviving words of Franklin, written when he had not yet final ly decided between poetry and prose,” says his biographer. Use Shell Stitch for This Bathroom Rug Four strands of string or rags in three colors or in black, white, and a color worked in shell stitch, make this durable rug. 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He probably will tell you to con tinue with the Bayer Aspirin be cause it acts so fast to relieve dis comforts of a cold. And to reduce fever. This simple way, backed by scientific autnority, has largely sup planted the use of strong medicines in easing cold symptoms. Perhaps the easiest, most effective way yet discovered. But make sure you get genuine BAYER Aspirin. 15 e r FOR U TABLETS 2 FULL DOZEN 2Se After reading young Ben’s first literary effort (it was probably written when he was 17 or 18 years old), one can’t help being grateful that he decided in favor of prose! * • * In explaining why he has gone into such detail in this biography, Mr. Van Doren says it is be cause “Franklin led a detailed life which in a general narrative loses colour and savour. But the chief aim of the book has been to restore to Franklin, so often re membered piecemeal in this or that of his diverse aspects, his magnificent central unity as a great and wise man moving through great and troubling events. No effort has been made to cut his nature to fit any simple scheme of what a good man ought to be. “Here, as truly as it has been possible to find out, is what Franklin did, said, thought, and felt. Perhaps these things may help to rescue him from the dry, prim people who have claimed him as one of them. They praise his thrift. But he himself ad mitted that he could never learn frugality, and he practiced it no longer than his poverty forced him to. They praise his prudence. But at seventy he became a lead er of a revolution and throughout his life he ran bold risks. They praise him for being a plain man. Hardly another man of affairs has ever been more devoted than Franklin to the pleasant graces. “The dry, prim people seem tc regard him as a treasure shut up in a savings bank to which they h^ve the lawful key. 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