Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 24 June 1921 — Page 3

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FRIDAiY JUNE 24, 1921.

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REVOLUTIONARY LANDMARKS

Upper—Where the first man died In the Revolytion. Wounded in the fig-fit on Lexington Common, Jonathan Harrington Crawled to the doorstep of his home and fell dead in the entrance just as his wife opened the door. The Harrington house, tChich has been Carefully preserved, is at Lexington, Mass. Left—Historic old-fashioned home of Raul Revere, from which the patriot started on his midnight ride to warn the people of Boston of the arrival of the British soldiers. The old house, situated in the North End. Boston, ts visited frequently by tourists. Right—Washington's headquarters in Georgetown. This quaint two-story structure was the headquarters of George Washington during 1750, when he was a surveyor. The structure was at that time a wayside inn of the main stagecoach road It 1b constructed of native boulders, and is said to be as solid today as when built.

How Great Struggle Was Wo

In 1765 the passing of an act of parliament for collecting a colonial revenue by stamps caused general indignation and led to riots. The first Colonial congress, consisting of 28 delegates representing nine colonies, made a statement of grievances and a declaration of rights. The stamps were destroyed or shipped back to England. In 1766 the stamp act was repealed, to the great joy of the col- - ©ntstsT but- the principle of colonial taxation was not abandoned and in 1767 duties were levied on glass, papers, printers’ colors and tea. This renewed attempt produced in 1768 riots In Boston and Gov. Gage was furnished with a military force of 700 to preserve order and enforce the laws. In 1778 the duties were repealed excepting a 3 pence a pound on tea. It was now a question of principle, and from north to south it was determined that this tax should not be paid. Some cargoes were stored In damp warehouses and spoiled; some sent back; in Boston a mob disguised as Indians threw it into the harbor. Britain Sends More Troops. It was now determined to enforce the .government of the crown and parliament over the colonies; and a fleet containing several ships of the line and 10,000 troops was sent to America ; while the colonists, still asserting their loyalty and with little or no thought of separation from the mother country, prepared to resist what they considered tile unconstitutional assumptions of the government. Volunteers were, drilling in every direction and depots of provisions and military stores were being gathered. A small force being sent from Boston to seize one of these depots at Concord, Mass., led to what is called the battle of Lexington, and the beginning of the Revolutionary war, April 19, 1775. The •Bi’itish troops were attacked on their return by the provincials and compelled to beat a hasty retreat. A congress of the colonies assembled at Philadelphia, which resolved to raise and equip an army of 20,000 men, and appointed George Washington com-mander-in-chief. On June 17 Breed’s hill In Charleston, near Boston, where 1,500 Americans had hastily intrenched themselves, was taken by assault by the British troops, but with so heavy a loss (1,054 men) that the defeat had for the provincials the moral effect of a victory. After a winter of great privations, the British were compelled to evacuate Boston, carrying away in their fleet 1,500 loyal families.

The British government now put forth a strong effort to reduce the colonies to submission. An army of 55,000, including 17,000 German mercenaries (“Hessians’’), was sent under command of Sir William Howe to put down this “wicked rebellion.” The thirteen colonies adopted constitutions as independent and sovereign states. On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution in congress declaring that “the united colonies are, and ought to be, free ami Independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, end ought to be, dissolved.” Birth of Declaration. This ^solution, after an earnest debate, was adopted by the votes of .the delegates of nine out of the thirteen colonies. A committee consisting ,of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston was instructed to prepare a declaration in 1 accordance with the above resolution; and the celebrated Declaration of Independence, written by Mr. Jefferson, based upon the equality of all men and the universal right of self-govern-ment, and asserting that “all government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed,” on July 4, 1776, received the assent of the delegates of the colonies, which thus dissolved their allegiance to the British crown and declared themselves free and independent states. Dark Days for Patriots. After the evacuation of Boston by the 1 British, Gen. Washington, with the remains of his army, thinned by the hardships of winter, hastened to New York. On July 2 Gen. Howe— being joined by his brother, Admiral Lord Howe, and Sir Henry Clintonfound himself at the head of 35,000 men; defeated the Americans on Long Island Aug. 27, 1776, compelled the evacuation of New York and secured possession of its spacious harbor and the Hudson river. On Christmas night Gen. Washington by crossing in boats among floating ice made a successful night attack upon a HeSsian force at Trenton and gave new courage to the despairing Americans, who recruited the army and harassed the enemy with a winter campaign. In the meantime Silas Deane and Benjamin Franklin had been sent to France to solicit recognition and aid. The recognition was delayed, but Important aid was privately given in money and supplies, and European volunteers—the Marquis de Lafayette, Baron Steuben, Baron de Kalb, Koskiusco and Pulaski—rendered the most important services. While. Washington was contending unsuccessfully against disciplined and overwhelming forces in New Jersey, Gen.. Burgoyne was leading an army of 7,000 British and German troops— with a large force of Canadians and

Indians—from Canada into northern New York to form a junction with the British on the Hudson and separate New England from the rest of the confederacy. After two sharp actions at Stillwater and Saratoga, with but three days’ rations left he was compelled to capitulate on Oct. 17; and England, in the midst of victories, heard with dismay of the loss of an entire army. The Americans gained 5,000 muskets and a large train of artillery. France recognized American independence and sent a large fleet and supplies of clothing, arms and munitions of war to their aid; and Gen. Clinton, who had superseded Gen. Howe, finding ids supplies at Philadelphia threatened, retreated to New York, defeating the Americans at Monmouth, N. J. Patriots' Hands Strengthened. Spain and then Holland Joined in the war against England and aided, the Americans. But the king and parliament were determined to maintain the honor of the crown and the Integrity of the empire. In 1780, 85,000 seamen and 35,000 additional troops were sent to America, and a strong effort was made to subjugate the Carolinas, where the war assumed a bitter partisan character and was conducted with spirit by Sumpter, Marion and other southern chieftains. Lord Cornwallis with a large army marched from Charleston through North Carolina pursuing and sometimes defeating the American general Gates. Worn out with his success he arrived in Virginia where he was confronted by the Marquis de Lafayette. In the meantime Admiral de Varney had arrived upon the coast with a powerful French fleet, and 6,000 soldiers, the elite of the French army, under Count de Rochambeau, while Washington hurried from New York. Cornwallis was obliged to fortify himself in Yorktown, blockaded by the fleet of Count de Grasse, and besieged by the allied army of Americans and French, waited for Sir Henry Clinton to send him relief from New York. October 19, 1781, he was compelled to surrender his army of 7,000 men—an event which produced such a change of feeling in England v as to cause the resignation of the ministry and the dispatch of Gen. Sir Guy Carleton to New York with offers of terms of peace. The preliminaries were signed at Paris Nov. 30, 1782, and on Sept. 3, 1783, England concluded peace with France, Holland and America. The independence of each of the several states was acknowledged, with a liberal settlement of territorial boundaries. In April, 1783, a cessation of hostilities had been proclaimed and the American army disbanded. New York, which had been held by the British through the whole war, was evacuated Nov. 25; on Dec. 4 Gen. Washington took leave of his companlops In arms and on Dec. 23 resigned Into the hands of congress his commission as com-mander-in-chief.

WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS AT TAPPAN.

Things We Think

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Rockefeller is taking to giving back the money which the people have entrusted to his kindly care for safe keeping'.* We would be pleased to re-

ceipt for our pro rata at any moment, “sweating $20 gold pieces.

Many people escape being criminals by never being tempted. As an example you never yet heard-of a newspaper men getting pinched for

More men fall from being lightheaded than because they can’t balance what they have in their upper stories. Fear of critism keeps a great many people from doing a lot of rash things.

If you want to stand well in the community, always give your street car seat to a woman. * * * A college professor proposes to do away with the coliege yell. The students have got a holler coming. * * * Religion makes a good cloak, but it doesn’t take the place of clothes when it comes to going to chutch. * * * How fickle is fame. An exchange speaks of former Congressman W. J. Bryan. * * * We have seen a lot of things that couldn’t be done accomplished by some durn fool entirely lacking in proper respect for the opinions of those who knew more about it than he did. * * * The folks who think it a sin to beat a public service corporation are not numerous enough to cause a jam on a street corner. -V * * * A new style of refining plant is necessary for Pittsburg’s steal Industry. * <» * The girl who wears three inch heels on her feet has something wrong with her head. * * * The price of goods seems to be regulated by the law of supply and demand—for promits. * * * Don’t stay out nights looking for Opportunity. * • 4> There are more men who live to be ninety-five before they are fifty than afterwards. * # • One who professes to have made an intimate study of the subject says kissing is as dangerous as the common towel and universal drinking cup and advises the use of paper squares to keep the lips of the kisser separated from the lips of the kissee. These squares are to be previously prepared in a sanitary solution. To steal a kiss with safety it would first be necessary to procure your square of paper, next it would have to be put through the sanitary bath, next slapped onto the face of the girl—but by that time a girl worth kissing at all would have become tired of waiting for one whose ardor was so lukewarm. ♦ ♦ * That temperance is a burning question is ably demonstrated by the woman who committed arson on her hubby’s wooden leg to keep him from going after booze. 4i 4> * By a typographical error an exchange advertises a complete line of 1921 dairies. If a milkmaid goes with each one they ought to make a hit with the young bachelors of the town. * * ’* On the grounds that they carry disease germs, male school teachers in an Oregon school have got to remove their whiskers and moustaches. A man’s got to be smooth to hold a job in that district, 4> * * Judging from the way most men chase after it, Opportunity must be feminine gender.—Exchange. No, if it was it wouldn’t prove so elusive. * * * It’s pretty exasperating to a fat man to have a lean man walk in his shadow on a hot day and laugh at him. * 4* ♦ They say that “what you don’t know won’t hurt you” but that’s no reason for a flighted education. Bibles are raising in price—and it costs more than ever to be good. 4> 4> • Once in a while you run across a man who talks big and can make good. * 4i * Hard luck never gets on a very intimate terms with a hustler. * 4> * Music and long hair seem to go together. Well, some music is hairraising stuff. * * * Barber shops are to be regulated. Next! * * 4i .'. Domestic science is all right for school days, but the mother find that no rules of book suggest anything for domesticating the nine-year-old boy who uses the west side of his trousers for smoothing off rough boards, tests the waterproof quality of his shoes in every mud puddle, and uses the toes of his boots where a sledge hammer, ax or pick and shovel would do much better. One of the most inconvenient things the new administration will have to put up with is the fact that every man who was eligible to vote at the recent election is eligible to a job now. 4> 4> 4> * There’s no reason for being unreasonable. 4> 4t 41 Things others Think, and What W$ Think of the Things others Think, * 4* * A man who can’t write his name is sometimes more likely to make hiq mark that the man who is a proficient writer. * 4> • A safe and sane Fourth of July and a lady-like game of foot ball are due to arrive at about the same time. 4> 4> * The American eagle is a bird „ prey—which may be one reason why so many worship the gold piece by that name. * * * It’s about time to get our reforms into some kind of form. * 4i 4i Men may not live longer than women, but they get old quicker. * 4> * The man with the most push soon has a pull. 4i * # The woman who cut too many ac quaintances has a hard time cutting much of a swath in society. 4i 4> 4> A husband is suing for a divorce because his wife spanked him every night. He now proposes to let her paddle her own canoe. , 4> 4> 4> It’s amusing to see the way an ordinarily sane man will act about his first boy. * • 41 It is your “duty” to understand the ' tariff question.

Strange Hotel. What Is probably the queerest hotel and restaurant in the world is that recently erected at Atlantic City, N. J, It takes the form of a monster elephant. Seen from a distance the resemblance of the structure to a live elephant is remarkable. As you approach it its huge size becomes apparent, but you quickly observe that it only a thing of wood and iron, but most cleverly contrived. It boasts of many beds, and a dining pavilion on the animal’s back capable of accommodating two hundred people. One reaches this novel restaurant by means of a staircase which %uns up through the animal's legs and body. Here and there windows give the necessary light. Needless to say the elephant hotel is causing quite an attraction, , and its owner bids fair do reap a good harvest as a result of his ingenuity.

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Judge William A. McClellan, .Candidate f0r ^ Renomination for .... CITY JUDGE . r- • .. - Subject to decisions of primary election to be held*

Tuesday, July 19, 1921

Virginia Still Holds Record. Even with the inauguratiop of an Ohioan as president next March assured, as nearly as human events can be, Virginia will still hold the record for native sons in the White House. The record then will stand: Virginia, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Wilson, 8; Ohio, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, McKinley, Taft, Harding or Cox, 7. Of Virginia’s sons five were of English paternal ancestry, two Scotch, one Welsh. Of Ohio’s sons three were of English paternal ancestry, two Scotch, one Scotch-Irish, We have seen no authorized statement of the paternal ancestry of Harding or Cox.

Experiments in Road Building. In order accurately to determine the durability of the various kinds of roadway, the government bureau has a stretch of roadway at Arlington representing all the different methods of road building, and over this a heavy machine is drawn back and forth by cable. This is supposed to reproduce the action of vehicles passing over it and the results are carefully noted and compared. The result of the operations will be used as a guide to the expenditure of nearly $800,000,000 which will be made under government auspices during the next three years.

STRIKE OF SOVIET WIVES

Berlin—All wives of Soviet offcials in the town of Tver have struck, repudiating their domestic obligations and duties, as a protest against the death of eighty “nationalized” children in an educational institution. The Red army commandant has stationed soldiers in the officials’ houses order to compel the wives to return to duty.

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Dr. Bunch and other Candidates will Speak PLENTY OF MUSIC i Bunch For Mayor Club

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Telephone Rate Making

The day of guessing is gone! Forty years’ experience has shown that telephone rates must be sufficient to afford a revenue that will pay all expenses as well as a reasonable return to the owners. The cost of a telephone plant is known, and so is the life of its various parts. Their replacement is a constant ex-

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The present rates do not measure up to the present day conditions. i , -m l Inadequate rates will not give satisfactory telephone service to the people of Muncie. They must be made adequate to continue to furnish a satisfactory service.

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