MEL AM am the ef mr 6 A arm asa 1 sh ah a in Idall mah I 1 A mana n M Z abir TO COMMAND A may j th C ct e CIC ae it n S C V 1 ell 10 r ap all r et 0 I 1 lede cn C to I 1 tl 0 N 0 t LIS ASA 0 1 lot t 41 a C ire 1 er C ati jr az 0 IT JUM T a r I 1 T 41 M 16 fn an nav X A A 41 tz 4 V vr alp ajl pictures fram JACKSON in an cylc in in homespun br bj gerald NV IV johnson Jol eo conr j texy clinton 11 inton dalch and coniner Conin nr 4 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON IHK announcement of ifie alie purpose 0 of f the party this year ta to revive the annual jackson day dinner after a lapse of some seven years has its political IAL significance may be e more than pass pais r asya ing IDS Ini interest erest for nit americans K for biag it recalls once morel more an american hero of long iong ago whose name h has a a become associated not only with certain political symbols symbol but ina in a bronder broader sense with something fundamental in the government of this republic his name name and fame at an also recalled in a book boob andrew jackson an aple in home pun by gerald NY Y Jo linson recently published by illston alenio n balch and company of new york which reviewers are including among th the e outstanding biographies of the year jackson day la Is january 8 the anniversary of the mattle battle of new orleans not only is this en i ga gement unique in history in thatis that it was ivas fought r after dilce peace had been deZI declared ared between the two nations concerned in it but it la Is important in american history for at least two reasons one of them as set forth by shenew jackson biographer declares that in winning this battle old hickory saved the self respect of tile the country ue he elaborates on that theme as follows after three years of calamity and dl disgrace grace herr herp at last was victory with honor an Anie american rican force orce v lk halmet had met a larger british force end and hud had beaten it fairly and squarely avery every nation has some bad generau gere rals lose ft an armayor a campain n now and then but as the war of 1812 dragged i to its dismal end americana were were apparently faced with tho the intensely humi humiliating linting necessity of having sac to admit that their generals w were ers all bid bad ilar har y rison indeed could beat a horde of naked savages agee and even a mixed force lot 0 Brids and indians buche but he was the bet jve we hd had to offer on january 7 1816 1815 it was bof not proved tha thero lived a single american meer who cluid cociu stand up aga again ansta sta british regular r off officer iter com commanding man dl i ular troops but january 8 prayed that chaty tone man could stand up andrew jackson craved no andrew jackson could ace alre the p thit that brol broke iboleon more he could give biern odds odda 0 two to one and beat them A 1 to a country that had almost comple completely iely lost falth faith in itself toab to a country that had almost i learned to ti cringe this oils apis neva canie came like a reprieve t f to a man upon tha galla gal gallowitz lowIt T A cl etwas was literally crazed with joy and in its avi jaum it filing the nama nam jc of andrew andre apart the stars t ila more re than that uila country did t get its hero herd a few bears years later when vhana vh cna a president was to be elected and SO s the second reason for i the importance of the battle of new orleans to Is that it put andrew jackson in th eWhIte house tile the signi fleance of that la Is summed up in a recent editorial in the new gew york world as ai follows andrew jackson was a victorious general and a man of honor but his chief contri contributions butTons to his country rest on neither ot of fact ile he will be remembered p partly artly because one of his first presidential acts was to free the th country ito from rn tho the tyranny of bureaucracy and to establish d democracy a mo cracy when W hen hi he enferd the white house b found ibok dom dominated ignited by a bureaucracy of constantly increasing numbers and expanding powers it was his task to set act things right br ing ine a soldier and hard boiled he be showed succeeding rene rations of americans the only of dolnar so ile fired bred job holders ile he may li likic iare been barsh and merciless s but he h satisfied a gres are t n need ed when he be was through the country was restored to its original plan and tho all powerful bureaucracy was an unpleasant memory dut but if tt it Is difficult for us OB to realize the heights to which the herov hero v worship or of jackson we a cen tury ago agg or even eren if we are not especially im pressed by jacksons connection with the origin of et certain politico poll tica traditions in this his country tye we 11 annot fall to be interest d in the story of ala career foran for an amazing career was that of this hero of ajit s hat the new biographer happily calls an epic in homespun both north Caro carolina llna and south carolina claim him as n their own awn since the rude log cabin in which he wag was born I 1 stood pear near the line between two colonies and there ha has long been a dispute as to whether it stood on the north noah or south Ci carolina irolIna side of that boundary this dispute was revived only last A november when news hews dispatches carried the story about the finding in an old trunk in arf an attic in craddock va of at letter signed by jackson in 1810 1820 in which lie Tiec declared lared tle definitely finitely that he was born in 1 south Ct carolina irolina tennessee too calls calla him her 0 own since if was she who tent fit him in forth to tile the wara in which he won glory who gave him to tile the na nation ifon as aa its president and who today preserves his home the near nashville as her dearest shrine louisiana also has bag a claim on him and the celebration of his greatest irl triumph on 1 its anniversary which Is a legal hol holiday addy lik in that state Is one of her roost most cherished traditions but because andrew jackson was waa what he wis was and did what he did he belongs to all americans and for that reason january 8 Is 1 more than a date to be observed by one state or by one political party jt it should be a red letter date on 1 ohp calendars ofell of nil citizens of the united states familiar as are most of us with the tha school book facts of jacksons career there Is yet much for us to learn about jackson the man in tha the light oi of new interpretations r of his bis career in the first chapter of johnsons biography which tells how mr jackson contrary to all known rules persists in living such nn in interpret interpretation aaion is offered in these words k the man is a popular hero iii id the strictest sense pt of the word ire la is the hero of the people not of the intelligentsia the people still delight in i the legends og bis prowess of his lurid language of bf his imperious and dictatorial te temper inper abs tbs of ilia hla usurpations dos does not appal t them he in asty t J 4 lights them for americans americana have always lovea d 1 really raly int masterful ister I 1 ful roan man if jacksons spiritual heir should appear now there la in every reason to believe america of tho the twentieth century would hall him as an rapturously and follow him a an blindly as it hailed and followed the hero of a hun nun dred yeats ago aeo therefore he remains a significant figure hid faults stand out ut with startling vividness ills r bors are plain to the purblind his weaknesses are obvious his follies patent his inescapable but the man will not collapse nis his fame Is still dear to the hearts of the p ale therefore the prudent man will search diligently for some boma residuum after the faults faulta error fand and 0 follies have been taken into account for lean if arr other appears with such qualities even handicaps as ae gig gigante anle as those under which jackson labored cart cannot prevent his sweep to power aej and the wise denof that thai day will be those thaile who rec hint early and align themselves with lit him m not against him it Is this that gives given him a severe ly practical significance in the century that tb ha succeeded his bis own but to the impractical idealist to the dilettante to the curious seeker after the bizarre the quaint 1 the colorful Jack poli makes as powerful an appeal its aa to the student of public affairs s for ho he wax was above all else lie he wasa was a gim geat t actor and on the nations national I 1 scene he staged the most moat gorg gorgeous hous colorful and romantic show in american AmerIc fils tory wi when nen he be firse came to washington cira tain nn senators were informed by alarmed friends that he had sworn to cui ftfe their ears eara lie ile L left the city pensively regretting his failure to elther shott henry clay or to hang bans john C calhoun yet during his tenure of power he neither homicide nor dr mayb mayhem americans americana have never known how to resist a man who could talk like a pirate and act rike like a presbyterian and Jac jackson iceon could boboth do both to a perfection not approached by any of hla his successors eucce orB until the days of theodora roosevelt and he ha had ad one great advantage over roosevelt namely a record before he came to the pica jackson bad both ahna ed and shot men and all the vyrlle he wa was a in thi the white house it was wa thrilling thrill in gly uncertain nhep when he might carry out morris home of f h hla a threats literally ire he was a canny man and it la Is possible that there never was ft a moment when he actually would have hanged calhoun but there were several moments when the country believed that it if the president could but lay hands on the vice president th lat latter da day 7 a would be numbered yet the rejoicing galleries had bad more serious arlous cr lous it if i perhaps n no 0 better r reasons abona for their plaudits pl audits than simply the entertainment purveyed to them by andrew jackson jacksom he did throw down the b bara at a that hedged them from effective participation aaion in the conduct of the their irown own government ile he did destroy ik sifi later alliance between politics and finance that was swiftly reducing them to economic serfdom me he did shatter the nullification on movement thereby postponing tor for twenty years the he day when halt a million of them had to fo dlo dl jor for the preserve alon of the union all AH these works were impermanent benti no doubt but they were effective tor for the time and the place 9 no he richly earned the loyal loyalty tyr that common men gave him jackson as an it small email boy comes re reeling belinc into american history with a sabre cut on his head and as the years yeara gather gathe upon him they gleam with a steel and blood it was a roaring career resounding reso to tb the roar cheering multitudes multitude 3 of musketry of artillery etwas it wait a theatrical career in the style of callic roi romance nance astonishingly liko ilku taj th career that 11 rostand imagined or cyrano de bergerac berjerac Ber gerac he was a great duelist a treat great soldier and a crest lover ile ha was fiery quixotic lul lotic honest honeas and loyal he ha w was s curiously romantic and incessantly dramatized his himself s if and his surroundings m often to the exquisite e embarrassment of more prosale men so we see andrew andrer jackson jacksom I 1 in the e aa of a hundred years cutting and slash slashing ing his w way 3 r to power a raucous fellow an explosive heavy handed banded fellow but withal a mate man who had a code and lived up to 11 ac lie he hated and loved and swore swore with a magnificence beyond all american experience but he did not crIn cringe je he did not fawn fawl I 1 ho did not carry water on both should shoulders erv when he lost loaf and he lost heavily and frequently he paid without whimpering it he loved a woman arid and lost her and of all hla his innumerable wounds that hurt worst and longest against admiration respect and pity one must pile up mountains of crims crime if they are to in inspire spirG no affection Affect affection lon for or andrew jackson Is in im po 11 sable to io avoid it if ono one snowa his story for let hla his enemies say what they will here was waa one american who carried himself with an air unlettered uncouth unskilled in the graces of polite society but none the less a chevalier ire he la is almost the only man who has haa figured in american public lic life ife of whom it la Is imaginable that he might save bava quit the earthly stage with the iho thea theatrical trinal grace of ceranos Cy closing lines when I 1 enter enter gods house my J 3 bull sweep the blue threshold with something free f front rom creases free from stains which 11 1 I shall carry in spite of all of you my iny plume although this biographer writes of events and personages of a hundred years ago in the light of present political and economic conditions in the nation the career of andrew jackson as he suggests has bus a severely practical significance today it if we believe that history rep repeats eats itself and that great events occur in cycles as pane believe they do then it may be no idle prophecy that if Jacks Jackso ca uj spiritual heir should appear now there la Is every reason to belk of tire twentieth century would hall him im as rap Ju Jur rouy and follow him hs hn blindly as it hailed a and i nd followed the hero of a hundred years ago 19 there in the united states still in obscurity perhaps perli tips but no greater obscurity th than rin that which once dofice veiled andrew jackson jach son a 0 hero of the not net of the intelligentsia whom the united states will send to the white house because americana american s li have a e always loved a really masterful roan man 7 who knowd hut but that tile the united united Stil State aln tills this year IM 1028 Is on tile the eye of nit a great a change as it 1828 when the frontier fron democracy put oneff its own kind in the wh white ito house ard that another type rt of democracy demo erdey mill arise to give us a new conception of a forthe people by the people and of tile the leopla