. Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, , a biographical sketch with liberal quotations from his letters and other writings. emote descendants.—Macaulay. HE who is willing to forget the rock whence he washewn is a traitor to his blood. Dr. Schmaukhas given abundant evidence in his career thathe was no such traitor. In an address to Lebanon High School graduates,he says: We, the successive generations ofLebanons youth, who have passed throughits schools, are sprung from a singularstock. We are all of one race, for evenour Scotch townsmen and those in whoseveins courses the fresh blood of the Emer
. Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, , a biographical sketch with liberal quotations from his letters and other writings. emote descendants.—Macaulay. HE who is willing to forget the rock whence he washewn is a traitor to his blood. Dr. Schmaukhas given abundant evidence in his career thathe was no such traitor. In an address to Lebanon High School graduates,he says: We, the successive generations ofLebanons youth, who have passed throughits schools, are sprung from a singularstock. We are all of one race, for evenour Scotch townsmen and those in whoseveins courses the fresh blood of the Emerald Isle, arePennsylvania-Germans, as one of their esteemed repre-sentatives pointed out to the Lebanon County HistoricalSociety. The silent race—the dumb Dutch—unjustly reviledby Francis Parkman, John Fiske, and the author of Tilliethe Mennonite Maid, Helen Riemensschneider Martin,herself out of the heart of Lancaster county, and will-ing to sell her birthright for a whiff of fame; the raceof whom the historian Bancroft more justly declares,Neither they nor their descendants have laid claim towhat is due AS HISTORIAN 67 The man who is ashamed of his own town, and with-holds from his own nourishing mother her meed of well-earned praise, is either a recreant or a vagabond/ None could have been more conscious of the defectsand shortcomings, from a cultural point of view, of manyPennsylvania Germans than was he. He knew whereinthey lacked, and his endeavor to inspire in them a thirstfor knowledge and to open to them a larger world thanthe little self-centered one in which many were contentto live, is directly responsible for his activity as an edu-cator among them. He recognized the sturdy elementsof character that made them staunch and true and reli-able, and knew that when their dormant energies wereonce awakened, they would stand second to no racialelement in this country in intelligence and progressive-ness. The history of the Revolution proves it. Whenat the Semi
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