WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1888
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, ORE.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Thin In w rl 1 1 o n on the
Fourth of July which
prninpli II ( ii'Ml Ion :
Whiit In tho 4th of July?
ONE fenrs nl Hums Hint too
miiny people think of It
in JUST ANOTHER HOLI
DAY.
Tliut Isn't morally true
On tho fourth (In y of July
In 1770 tho 13 colonic! of
Grout Brltuln In AmitrlcH do-
clurod their Independence of
tho mothor country mid aot
themselves up na nn Indopond
ent nutlnn - thu United Slntca
of America.
In ninny wuyi, Hint li tho
most Important dnte In mod-
em history.
IIOW did they come to do It?
The iinswcr In slinplo:
The people of the 13 col
onlei came to Amcrlcn to find
liberty. Their neiirrh for III)'
crty win hiimpcred by u lies
potlc uoverniiienl In the ninth'
er country. Their resentment
drew until In 177S u conven
tion was en 1 1 i'l In (he colony
of Viritlnln to discuss their
Krleviuuea. At this conven
tion, I'utriek Henry proponed
Unit the Vlrillnln Mllllln be
AHMED for ilefeinie of the
colony uitulnat KnKliind.
In aupport of hla proponnl,
lie uttered these pnsslnnnte
words: "CilVK MK I.lltKHTY
OR GIVE ME HEATH." Short
ly afterward, the first ahota
of the Itevolutlonnry Wur
were fired at Lexington and
Concord.
riMIE buttle of Lexlimton and
Concord occurred on April
10, 1773. More Hum a year
Inter, on June 7, 1770. Rich
ard Henry Lee of VlrKlnlii
moved In the Contlnentiil (-'undress
that "these united col
onies aro and nuiiht to he
FREE AND INDEPENDENT
STATES."
Hla words spnrked AC
TION. The Contlnentiil Con
gress appointed a committee
to draft a declnrntlon of Inde
pendence. Thomna Jefferson
devoted 18 duya to wrltlnic
and pollahlnx tho declnrntlon.
llenjnmln Frnnklln and John
Adorns, added their sukkcs
tlona. The Continental Con
gress aa a whole went over
It, cutting out sonic lines,
changing others and adding
a few.
IillE final draft of tho Dec
laration of Independence
wna formally adopted on July
4, but It waa not until three
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
COMIC JOE E. LEWIS confided to Scribe Herb Stein thnt
he's writing a book tentatively called Horscj to Lose flu.
"Rnco horses," point out Professor Lewis, "are more than
2000 years old -especial
ly the ones I bet on. Do
you know thnt Noah's
Ark contained two race
horses and 300 jackasses
to bet on Uicm? Tho first
famous homo player In
history was King Richard
of Britain, who called in
his court handlcupperand
begged, 'A horscl a horse!
My kingdom for a horse.'
So the handicappcr hand
ed him n plug that enmc
In ninth."
Vcnlria Colwoll saw a row of kids sitting in front of her neigh
bor's garage one afternoon, a look of happy expectancy on ail
their fncea. "How come nil you kids are sitting thoro ao qulot
ly?" Inquired Mrs. Colwclt. "Wo'ro waiting to listen to my
father," explained ono child, "when ho comes homo and sees
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or four dnya Inter that It wna
first rend In public. Copies
oi It were printed mid hrond
cunt all over the i;i colonies
1)ERHAPS It should be point-
cd out hero thill tho word
"broadens!" la a little decep
live In these, dnya of almost
1 n a t a n tanooua communion
llona. Hack In 1770, It look
wecka for these coplea to be
distributed.
But the dnte of July 4, 1770
the day on which tho finnl
draft wna adopted by tho Con
tlncntal Congrcsa, la the for
mal and accepted duto of tho
Declaration of Independence
and It la July 4 that we cole
bratens Independence Day.
fJMIE essence of the Dccla
ration of Independence la
contained In this concluding
pnriigruph:
"We, therefore, the Repre
sentatives of the United States
of America, In genernl con
grcsa assembled, nppciillng to
the Supreme Judge of the
World for the rectitude of our
Intentions, do, In the name
and by tho authority of the
good people of these colonies
solemnly publish and declare
that these united colonies, are,
and of, right ought to be, free
and Independent states, that
they aro absolved from all al
legiance to the British crown.
". . . And for the support
of this declaration, with a
firm reliance on the protec
tion of Divine Providence, WE
MUTUALLY PLEDGE TO
EACH OTHER OUR LIVES.
OUR FORTUNES AND OUR
SACRED HONOR."
IT WAS In that spirit that
the United Stiitiw of Amer
ica waa founded. If wo MAIN
TAIN that spirit, there la
nothing wo can't accomplish.
GROWTH POTENTIAL
New York - (IIPD - Prcgnnl
ed plastics Is one of the new
est Industrlca In tho country
lentlal. Sales of SI million In
1034 climbed to $20 million
last yenr.Pre-prcgnatcd means'
reinforcing p'asllc materials
In advance instead of by hand
Inyup In final production of
end products. Thla Insures
greater uniformity and
strength.
SPIRIT OF '76
Chicago -flJPt- Music tcuch
er Leo Llghlncr said his Aua
trallan parrot, which flew
away Independence Day,
wniauce "Yankee Doodle.'
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QUALITY AT
LOWEST PRICESI
Hotels at Airports Become
Big and Different Business
New York - IIII'll - Running
hotels nl airports not only Is
big business, It's a new and
different business, says hotel
man William B. Rnsor.
Hasor Is vlco president of
Knott Hotels, the nation's old
est chain which runs the big
International Hotel at New
York's Idlcwild nlrport. It is
one of seven new nlrport ho
tels Hint serve tho IB million
passengers who use Idlcwild
and LaGuardla airports year
ly. "At Idlcwild, we also aro
mi i v ; r -yj
1 I rr-?l I I It. X M IL l 1
neiir two huge racetracks,
Itanor snld, "which compli
cates the operation. As a re
sult, tho International Hotel la
the strangest phenomenon in
our company's 71 years of ex
istence. Anything can happen
at the International and does.
Soon after we opened, for ex
ample, 123 honeymooning
couples descended on ua in
one night. Then we discovered
we only had 00 double beds."
Rusor said tho activity at
the International - whicn has
only 320 rooms with another
ill J M 1 7 V Jill
I 1 A V I II I.' 1
200 to be added as soon .is
possible - Is fully equal to
thut of a downtown hotel of
1,000 rooms.
Rusor soon dlacovercd after
tho International opened that
100 per cent occuponcy didn't
mean a thing. In the course of
any 24 hours, the hotel was
liable to be 110 or 120 per
cent occupied. That forced
something hitherto almost un
heard of in hotel practice -part-time
rates. People stop
ping at Idlewild can rent a
room for overnight or for six
houra or for 10 hours during
tho daytime at vurylng prlcea.
Virtually tho entire airport
hotel buslneas now has adopt
ed this Idea.
H.crsallon Facilities
The airport hotel Is not Just
a bedroom hotel, though. It
has all the community and
recreational facilities of the
downtown hotel. Knott even
is adding a 300-seat ballroom
to the International, as quick
as it can be built, for conven
tions. Rasor warned against over
building of airport hotels, but
the boom In them Is in full
swing. Vice President Spearl
Ellison of Hilton Hotels said
not long ago Hilton plana a
string of 20 large airport ho
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