NOTABLE ANNIVERSARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21114, 23 February 1932, Page 9

NOTABLE ANNIVERSARY.

BIRTH OF WASHINGTON'.

AMERICAN EULOGY.

FATHER OF GOVERNMENT.

INSPIRATION FOR TO-DAY.

MR. HOOVER'S SPEECH.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received February 22, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Feb. 21.

The President, Mr. Hoover, addressing a joint session of tho Congress on the occasion of the 200 th anniversary of the birth of George Washington, first President of the United States, said he had little patience with those "who undertake the irrational humanising of man." lie expressed an objection to the recent historical studies picturing Washington as more or less an ordinary country squire and delivered a high eulogy. " What we have need of to-day in this celebration," he said, "is to renew in our people tho inspiration that comes from George Washington a« tho founder of human liberty, as the father of our system of government, and as the builder of our system of national life. "Proudly we report to our forefathers that the American Republic is more secure, more constant, more powerful and more truly great than at any other time in its history. It is of primary importance that we of to-day shall renew that spark of immortal purpose which burned within him and that we shall know of the resolution and steadfastness which carried him forward to the establishment of uur nation."