Birthdays

It is not the “ALL-IOWA” issue of Beacon Lights, but the month of February that reminds us of birthdays.  According to my calendar, in our country this month, we celebrate the birth of Thomas E. Edison, the inventor, on the 11th, that of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of our United States and liberator of slaves, on the 12th; and that of the first president and father of our country, George Washington, on the 22nd. Already in ancient times it was a widely spread custom to celebrate the...