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GEOR0E.WA5HINGTOH
THOMAS JEFFERSON
V OUR
NEED OF AMERICA
TRUE PATBIOTS
Pertinent Fourth of July
-Thoughts by Prominent
Seattle Minister
By KritiA Garfield
"Righteouaness exalteth a na
tion, but sin Is a reproach to any
people."
Thus was epitomized what Dr.
Randall, in a recent address, de
clared to be ; the highest type of
patriotism and citizenship, found
ed upon TiWhteous thinking and
clean Jiving, citing as examples
some of our greatest American
statesmen and public leaders. He
reviewed the disasters which have
befallen nations which have de
parted from righteous ways, citing
Sodom, Gomorrah, Ninevah and
Babylon, and the Grecian ijf'nd Ro
man empires as illustrations of
public and prirate corruption. He
also cornpared these with events
of the present day, pleading for
increased sense of responsibility
and awakened consciousness in
pur private and national life.
"When the soldiers of Valley
Forge had no shoes upon their
feeC e said, "and left; their
blood-prints upon the snow. Wask
ington was found upon his knees,
praying God for victory. And
when onr Constitution was being
framed, and the ideals embodied
in It were at stake, it was Benja
min Franklin who called the con
ventionalmost disrupted to
the place of agreeing upon our
Constitution, and they went upon
their knees in prayer.
"And the immortal Lincoln, in
the darkest hour of the Civil war,
prayed all night long that justice
and righteousness might triumph,
and that our nation might be one
again,
"So these men have been the
great leaders of our land, who,
The Spirit of 1776 Lives Again
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Pioneer Missionary Classed as One of Greatest Characters of
! Oregon Country; Accomplished Many Things
The question will be asked in future generations: "Who
was Jason Lee? And what can be said of his genealogy?"
Of ihe. early history of Jason Lee but little is known. His
father was Daniel Lee, who was a descendant of John Lee who
came to 'America in 1635 and settled in the Massachusetts
colony-where the Lees became in time very prominent, num
erous, influential and .wealthjr, taking a very decided stand In
favor of the colonies and against the mother country.
The Lees were a very old family, dating generations -back
' ' - ' - ' " ; in the annals of England.
OUR NATION'S BIRTH
The Spirit of 1776 lives again. moGernized, in the Pantheon de la Guerre, the famous Panorama of
the World war, now at Madison Square Garden, New York, under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation. This is a reproduction of a sector of the painting which is 45, feet high and 402
feet long. i "
Abandoned Cats Said
To Destroy Bird Life
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fuming loose un,6n the wide open
spaces of Kansas of the surplus
cat population of the cities must
stop'pr drastic measures must be
taken to preserVe the bird life of
the state. A s
This is the: ultimatum of J. B.
Doze, state fish and game warden.
"Chicken-hearted citizens unin
tentionally are aiding in the de
struction of bird life when they
dispose of the yearly litter of the
family tabby cat by dropping the
kittens . in the country," he said.
"Kittens rapidly become wild In
such surroundings. A full grown
cat will destroy from 200 to 4 00
birds a year..
CPT AMI
By WALTER C. W'HIFFEN
.LENINGRAD (AP) This
city, beloved capital of Peter the
Great and his "Window looking
towards Europe," better known as
Petrograd or St. Petersburg, seen
aft.er ten years by one who knew
it at the peak of its glory and who
witnessed the beginning of its de
cline, resembles' a tarnished brass
button.
Outwardly it is the same: the
contour and design are there, but
there is no glitter. There is much
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Hubert B. Lewis, Salem,
Corporal at West Point
Cadet Hubert B. Lewis, .class
of 1930, United States Military
Academy, West Point, New York,
son of Mr. Claude I. Lewis, 324
N. Capitol St., Salem, Ore., and
appointed to the academy from the
Oregon National Guard, was select
ed as acting corporal in the corps
of cadets in the announcement of
new cadet officers published im
mediately after tihe graduation of
the class of 1927 on June 14. .
'The appointment, although tem
porary (being revocable upon the
return of the permanent corporals
from furlough) is always consid
ered a highly desirable one, espe-r
cially since it is an indication that
other and higher cadet appoint
ments might be obtained later.
By Edna Garfield
One hundred fifty sacred years
Since our country, bathed in tears,
Was born! '
Imperilled by aggressor's hand.
The Valiant Patriots of our land
In righteous anger took their"
stand, one morn! ,
And through the years which in-
tervenedk'
While Justice bled, and Hate
' Careened 4a- war.
The world was taught a mighty
trutk
What Thirteen Colonies, in their
Youth, were fighting for!
Then LIBERTY proud rang her
bell.
Proclaiming our tyrranic hell
Was o'er;
And forth ,from tragic, blood
drenched sod,
There sounded from the lips of
God :
New Freedom, guarded by His rod
Forevermore!
(Copyrighted; Note: Adopted by
the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition,
Philadelphia 1926, for their of
ficial records.)
Nathaniel Lee " was horn In
1650, and although he died at the
age of forty-one, he was one of
the bestr known men in all Eng
land; was the second son of a
noted specialist. He received a
thorough collegiate education, be
came a dramatist, a tragedian,
and later becoming wonderfully
popular, died at the age of 42.
During the fifteenth, sixteenth
and the seventeenth centuries the
Lees ; h,eld very' Important and
honorable positions - In England,
and since their advent into- the
United States, they have . played
a very important part In out his
tory. In the American Revolu
tion, no name shone brighter than
the name of Lee, save that of
Washington.
One of the most prominent wo
men of her time, Ann Lee was
deeply religious. She started the
great Shaker movement, and al
though she died at forty-eight she
had put her religious Ideas into
such form that her organization
with some minor changes still en
dures and has done a great work
for humanity.
Richard IPenry Lee was born in
Virginia in 1732. Died at the age
of sixty-two. .Richard Henry Lee
was one of the strongest men of
his tim and was the originator
of the idea of a continental con-
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STORY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
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3ttn;frialtt5AjSierl4n colonies
had successfully . resisted the
,Tvnshend Acts, passed by the
British crown, to increase its co
lonial revenue and had obtained
.the repeal of all duties except that
on tea. i The colonists had plenty
of tea. but they smuggled it in
from Holland. The king lowered
the duty to a point where it was
cheaper to buy tea from England
than smuggle it, but the colonists
.still refused to buy. J When the
king sent three ships! laden with
tea to Boston a band of prominent
citizens, determined to prevent its
landing, disguised themselves as
. Indians,' boarded the j boats, and
dumped t the ; tea tntoj the ; harbor.
, In retaliation. Parliament closed
the port, noping to stirre the peo
ple into submission. ;
The passage of the Port Bill and
the Regulating Act which virtually
annulled the charter of Massachu
setts and placed a miltary gover
nor in power, served to create a
sentiment; of union, for it made
the colonists, all of whom, bad
grieVances against the crowni feel
that they were bound together in
a common cause.. , They sent food
and other necessary articles !to
Boston to help alleviate the dis
tress there and openly, but quietly,
defied the, king's authority. ' The
system of corresponding , commit
tees, which Samuel Adams had
started in 1772, became a Contin
ental Congress, holding , Its first
meeting in Philadelphia iiv Sep
tember, 1774," and drew np a Dec
, laration of Rights which was sent
to Parliament.
In 1775, orders came
from England to arrest
Samuel Adams and his
friend, John Hancock.
On the 18th ; of April,
Gen. Thomas Gage, learn
ing they were in Lexing
ton, sent S00 men to
seize them and the mili
tary stores which the col
onists had gathered- In.
, Concord. Dr. Joseph
Warren, divining the
plans, sent his messenger,
Paul Revere, to warn the
countryside, Hancock
and Adams fled and the
colonists hastily - gathered
together and defeated the
British at Concord.
f The colonists took their
first ' step in offensive
warfare on May 10, 1775,
when Ethan Allen, with
his Green Mountain boys,
captured the. fortresses at
Ticonderoga ' and Crown
Point, The Continental
Congress elected as its
president John Hancock,
whom the British com
mander was under orders
to arrest for treason.
Money was borrowed to
buy powder and on the
15 th of June George
Washington was appoint
ed commander-in-chief of
the army.'
While Congress' was ap
maklng regulations for
pointing officers a n d
the Continental army,
British re-lnforcements
landed in Boston, thereby
increasing - their number
to 10,000. The troops
were in command of Gen.
William Howew The Brit
ish General Gage decided
to occupy the. heights in
Charlestown, known ' as
Breed's ' and Bunker's
bills, commanding Boston.
The Americans, quicker
to act, erected fortiflca
- tlons on Breed's Jtfll.' In
the battle the - British
were "victorious, but they .
suffered nevay losses." -
By f 1776 three. of the colonies had
framed new; governments - in which' -,
the king played no part and then the '
Congress adopted a -resolution aris
ing all thfe other colonies to fornVplk
governments. On, the 7th of Jpne,
Richard Henry Lee of Virginia sub
emitted several resolutions i to i the
Congress,, declaring that "these Unit
ed Colonies .are, ' and of the right
ought to be free and independent .
States," -and that a "plan of confed-;
erationfbe prepared and transmitted
to the respective, colonies 'for their
consideration and approbation." On
the 2Tnd Of July came the final vote
on the Declaration, of Independence
and' Thomas, Jefferson ' of ; Virginlav
was. chosen to draft the document.
On the 4 th of July it; was published
to the world and the 13 colonies had
become the United States of America.
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