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THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS
WILLIAMSBURG RESTORED
The Stocks in Colonial Williamsburg.
Fascinating History of the Old
Center of the Colony of Virginia
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
WILLIAMSBURG since
its recent restoration has
been one of the most
popular historic spots in the Old
Dominion state. The restora-
tion is dedicated to the hope
and purpose “that the future
may learn from the past.” It is
designed to preserve and re-
create the symbols and memo-
rials of a creative and colorful
period of American history. The
compelling reasons for its res-
toration lie in the historic back-
ground of the city, and in the
intrinsic simplicity and allur-
ing beauty of its architectural
form.
Colonial Williamsburg grew from
the seeds of thought and purpose
which were planted by the devotees
of liberty. It is necessary, if you
would understand the significance of
the restoration, that you should
pause upon the portals of the city
restored, and appraise the educa-
tional and social values inherent in
its historical background.
A map of the territory given to the
Virginia company by King James I
Under the royal charter of 1606
would show that, it first embraced a
strip of land, from 75 to 100 miles
wide, extending along the Atlantic
seaboard from what now is South
Carolina to the present Canadian
border.
Within these bounds, or just be-
yond, it then was confidently be-
lieved, would be found the shores of
the great western sea which would
thence afford a near route to India
and to other eastern lands.
“Virginia” Had a Vast Area Then.
Neither gold nor the shores of
the Pacific ocean having been dis-
covered within this area, the char-
ter of 1609 extended the bounds of
the colony to the shores of the west-
ern sea, wherever those shores
might be. This territory in both
documents was named Virginia.
From time to time this area was
curtailed by subsequent royal char-
ters, or by ceded territory, so that
in 1753 the Virginia territorial
claims embraced the area now in-
cluded in the western part of Penn-
sylvania, and the states of Virginia,
West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indi-
ana, and Illinois.
The area now included within the
states of Michigan and Wisconsin
was added and the Virginia claims
were confirmed by the conquest, in
1779, of the Northwest Territory
by George Rogers Clark.
“It has been held,” says the au-
thor of “A Brief and True Report
. . . Concerning Williamsburg and
Virginia,” “that the History of the
chief City of a Country is, in great
Measure, the History of that Coun-
try itself. And if there be any
Truth in this Philosophy, it will be
left to the Reader to judge how
much greater would be that Truth
if the chief City should also be the
only City of Consequence in such a
Country: For, through those Years
of the Eighteenth Century in which
it was the Metropolis of the Vir-
ginia Colony, Williamsburg was not
only the Seat of Virginia’s Govern-
ment, but also the Principal Seat of
its Religion, Education, Society,
Commerce, and Fashion.”
Now in a National Park.
Jamestown, Williamsburg, and
Yorktown, located within a radius of
20 miles Upon the Virginia peninsu-
la, which lies between the James
river and the York, are inseparably
united. Williamsburg was the suc-
cessor to Jamestown, while the
fame of Yorktown grew out of the
high resolves initiated by the House
of Burgesses in Williamsburg and
similar action taken in Massachu-
setts and the other colonies.
These three places have recently
been embraced within the bounds
of the Colonial National Historical
park. Williamsburg, however, is not
owned or controlled by the National
Park service. They now are being
physically united by the Colonial
National Historical Park highway,
which has already been built from
Yorktown to the outskirts of Wil-
liamsburg and is designed to be ex-
tended to Jamestown.
The voices which echo from de-
serted Jamestown, from the wilder-
ness outposts of Middle Plantation,
and from Yorktown, must be heard
if the voices which speak through
Williamsburg restored are to be
understood.
The lone, ivy-mantled church tow-
er at Jamestown marks the be-
ginning of the long vista through
which Williamsburg must be viewed
if it is to be seen in true perspec-
tive, for its glory is reflected upon
Williamsburg.
Jamestown became the first per-
manent English settlement in
America when, on May 13, 1607, the
colonists landed there and named
their place of settlement for King
James.
There they built a church and
later a statehouse and simple
homes. There, in 1619, convened in
the church the first representative
legislative assembly held in the
New world. There they tried com-
munal government, which was soon
followed by “starving time.” There
they had dealings with autocratic
governors and took part in Bacon’s
Rebellion in 1676.
How Williamsburg Was Created.
During this rebellion Jamestown
was burned and Sir William Berke-
ley, the royal governor, who had
roundly damned education, print-
ing presses, and Bacon and his fol-
lowers, made the rebellion of 1676
the prophecy of the Revolution of
1776.
“Seasoning sickness,” and the
abundance of other trials and dis-
contents, culminating in the fire
which in 1698 again destroyed the
statehouse, brought to a climax the
thought of abandoning Jamestown
for a more nearly central location
for the capital of the colony.
Near Jamestown, midway be-
tween the James river and the
York, was Middle Plantation, soon
to become Williamsburg.
The seeds of this place had been
sown by the Indians on a rampage
in 1622, during which fully one-
third of the English settlers in Vir-
ginia were massacred.
Consequently, at a “Grand As-
sembly of the Council and Bur-
gesses holden at James City
(Jamestown), in 1633, it was or-
dered: that a palisade be built
across the peninsula from estua-
ries of the James River and the
York” (about six miles), so that a
region of safety for the inhabitants
and their cattle might be secured,
extending eastward to Old Point
Comfort, at the end of the penin-
sula.
College of William and Mary.
Meanwhile, Middle Plantation had
been chosen as the site of the sec-
ond college in what is now the
United States.
The College of William and Mary
was destined to play a dominating
part in the history of Virginia, in
the establishment of Williamsburg
as the second capital of colonial
Virginia, and in the culmination of
the thought of the restoration of
Williamsburg.
In 1693 Rev. Dr. James Blair,
commissary in Virginia of the Lord
Bishop of London, and also minister
of the church at Jamestown, ob-
tained from King William and
Queen Mary the royal. charter for
the building of the College of
William and Mary in Virginia. The
General Assembly ordered: “ . . .
that Middle Plantation be the place
for erecting the said college of Wil-
liam and Mary in Virginia and that
the said college be at that place
erected and built as neare the
church now standing in Middle
Plantation old ffields as conveni-
ence will permitt . . .”
And so the college was set down
near the church and its location
largely determined the site and
plan of the future city of Williams-
burg.
Three “Unfamous” Husbands
And Their Famous Spouses
No one needs a sense of humor more acutely or more constantly
than the gentleman who takes unto himself a famous wife. While he
may—or again may not—be No. 1 man in the privacy of his home, the
fact remains that at every public appearance, in every press notice, and
in the minds of all but his own intimate friends, he is ever and anon—
and undoubtedly ad nauseam, “Mr. Actress" or “Mr. Authoress" or “Mr.
Aviatrix" as the case may be.
Below is the former Ruth Bryan Owen, whom President Roosevelt
once appointed minister to Denmark. She arrived and fell in love with
a Dane, Boerge Rhode. Today millions of Americans still know her as
Ruth Bryan Owen, but only a scant few as Mrs. Boerge Rhode.
Gladys Swatthout, star of the Metropolitan opera and the movies,
shown with her husband, Frank Chapman, Jr., to whom she has been
happily married some time.
Dr. F. D. Griffin smiles graciously at the attention which he knows
is meant for his lovely screen actress wife, Irene Dunne.
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The Adventures of Peter Rabbit
cried Granny Fox excitedly.
But Buster Bear didn’t seem to
hear. And he didn’t seem to no-
tice how the flying sticks were
making the others dance and duck
and dodge. He just worked faster
than ever and threw sticks this
way and threw sticks that way un-
til the air was so full of sticks
that Old Man Coyote and Reddy Fox
and Granny Fox just had to shut
their eyes while they tried to get
away, and Peter Rabbit might have
run right under their noses without
them knowing it. Only Hooty. the
Owl, who, you know, kept his watch
from high up in a tall pine tree,
was able to see whether or not
Peter ran out, and even Hooty had
a hard time to make sure. You
see, it was so funny to see Old
Man Coyote and Reddy and Granny
Fox jumping this way and leaping
that way and dodging the other way
to keep from being hit by those
flying sticks that for the first time
since any one could remember
Hooty the Owl actually laughed.
But though he laughed so hard
he still kept a sharp watch for
Peter Rabbit. To Hooty’s way of
thinking, there is no pleasure so
great as the eating of a good dinner,
and he is not one to let his enjoy-
ment of a joke cheat him out of a
good meal. So while he laughed
and laughed and laughed he kept
sharp watch, too.
At last Buster sent flying the last
bit of brush under which Peter could
possibly hide, and there was—no-
body!
© T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service.
Informality Seems Order of the Day
In Modern Furniture as in Manners
- By BETTY WELLS
VTOUR butler will look down his
* nose at the casual furniture now
in fashion. If you have a butler.
But informality is the order of the
day, in decoration as in manners,
and current exhibitions of new in-
teriors stress this trend with a dash.
You’ll see maple, plenty of it, but
it’s done with a lot of contempor-
ary style. For instance, in a little
bedroom we noted the other day,
the poster bed and chest were of a
honey color maple and the wall pa-
per was a mellow little old diamond-
checked flower design with a good
deal of rose in it, some green and
an ivory ground. A white bedspread,
very crisp and starched looking,
white voile curtains and a quilt in
white and green, all carried out the
pleasant New England character of
the room. But for accent there
were two button back upholstered
slipper chairs in chartreuse green
finished with a cotton rope fringe.
And Aurelia Hunt, a friend of
ours, has just designed some ex-
uberant modern-provincial pieces,
also for a bedroom. They’re of
FOR SPECTATORS—About per-
fect for spectator sports is this sim-
ple frock of cream-colored aloha
cloth chosen by June Lang of the
movies. Brown composition leather
buttons are used to mark the front
closing and match a novel belt of
brown tooled leather which com-
pletes the ensemble.
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
D USTER BEAR had told Old Man
Coyote and Reddy Fox and
Granny Fox and Hooty the Owl
that if they wanted to catch who-
ever was hiding under the pile of
brush in the Green Forest which
they had been watching so long he
would pull it to pieces for them,
but they would have to come up
very close, so that whoever was
hiding there couldn’t get away. So,
little by little, each watching the
other sharply, Old Man Coyote, Red-
dy Fox and Granny Fox had crept
in nearer and nearer to the pile of
brush until they were close to it.
Reddy had chased Peter Rabbit un-
der there early in the day, so he
must be there now.
Only Hooty the Owl did not come
in close. Hooty remained right
where he was in a tall pine tree,
where he could see all that went
on and could swoop down when the
time came.
“It’s a lot of work to pull over
that pile of brush,” said he, “and
I don’t want to do it for nothing.
You must be near enough so that
when Peter Rabbit runs out he will
have no time to dodge before one
of you has him.”
At last the others were near
Swedish inspiration with modern
lines and painted decorations of
peasant origin in a brilliant orange
and a clear sparkling blue.
Another unexpected combination
of peasant with modern was a bed-
room with slender blond furniture
enough to suit Buster Bear. Hooty
didn’t know what it meant, but he
began to suspect that there was
some joke, and he leaned forward
to watch more closely.
“Are you ready?” asked Buster.
“Ready,” replied Old Man Coyote,
The butler may disapprove. . . .
complemented by a painted Swiss
chest, by a painted peasant decora-
tion on the alcove wall above the
bed and by the comfortably pat-
terned American hooked rug on the
floor. The walls were painted in a
dusty apricot color, with turquoise
wood trim; the curtains were plaid.
© By Betty Wells.—WNU Service.
and set his feet to spring swiftly.
“Ready,” replied Reddy Fox and
Granny Fox, and they, too, pre-
pared to jump at the first sign of
Peter.
“Watch out, then!” cried Buster
Bear, and straightway made the
brush fly in every direction. The
air was full of sticks.
“Oh!” yelped Reddy Fox, as one
hit him sharply across the face.
“Hi!” yelled Old Man Coyote, as
a big stick hit him in the ribs.
“Look out what you are doing!”
Hooty remained right where
was in a tall pine tree.
he
Corals slow growth -
It TAKES ABOUT 1,000 YEARS
FOR A CORAL REEF TO GROW
UPWARD ONLY 40 FEET _
AMAZE A MINUTE
SCIENTIFACTS BY ARNOLD
Inventions not
common -
Only one patent
TWO-MINUTE
DR. ARTHUR E. MORGAN
Recently dismissed as chairman
of the Tennessee Valley authority,
Dr. Arthur E. Morgan still remains
an educator and an engineer of na-
tional importance. He was bom in
Cincinnati but grew up in Minne-
sota where his father was an en-
gineer and surveyor.
Morgan spent three years in the
West as a farmer, logger and print-
er, between high school and college.
Later he returned to Minnesota to
enter his father’s firm. Brilliant
and quick to learn, he wrote a
drainage code for Minnesota when
twenty-seven. Then came drainage
engineering work for many other
states, and in 1920 Doctor Morgan
was called to the presidency of An-
tioch college, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
His work there is a record of
achievement. The school had been
founded by Horace Mann, but had
shriveled in size to an enrollment
of only 50 students. Doctor Mor-
gan quickly adopted a plan whereby
students would alternate between
study and actual field experience,
a process which attracted wide at-
tention. The enrollment swelled to
700 and Antioch was placed on the
map.
This achievement was responsible
for Doctor Morgan’s appointment to
the TVA directorship in 1933, when
he was recommended to President
Roosevelt by James M. Cox, 1920
presidential nominee.
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