Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 221, 28 June 1919 — Page 14

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THK RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY. JUNE 28. 1919 War's Greatest Hero Urges Government Declaration of Independe IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 To Help Returned Veterans Buy Homes

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Sergt. Alvln York officially chosen as the greatest hero produced by the war, recently urged the U. S. government to take stps to make ownership of their homes easier for the returned soldiers and Bailors. He delivered his plea at the "Own your own home" meeting at Nashville, renn. Governor Roberts of Tennessee called the meeting at the suggestion of L. R. Putman, regional director of the town your home section of the U. S. housing corporation.

America's First Fortified Frontier

TEXAS

U. 3. "army posts" along the Mexican frontier.

Completio not forts and housing accommodations along the Mexi

can border, recently undertaken by the war department for the comfort und protection of American patrols, will give the United States its first .$al fortified frontier. Regularly established army posts along the in-

ernational boundary now total more than two score, with probably as

nany more outpost positions, each accommodating a troop of cavalry or

in infantry platon.

fright on the grass while the lion ate Shep and the wagon, and then

turned and began licking Billy's

face.

Billy suddenly jumped up from

under the apple tree and rubbed his sleepy oyer,, and throwing one arm over Shep, who had been guarding him while he slept, said softly, "Oh, Shaggy Shep, I'm so

glad it was you licking my face in stead of the lion." Selected by Helen Smith. 6A, Hibberd School.

The Strange Ride of Billy Brown Billy Brown was surprised to see Shaggy Shep, his dog, all harnessed and hitched for a ride. "Come on and go for a ride, Bjly," Shep Bald, suddenly. "I'll be right there," said Billy

Billy climbed on the wagon and way they went through the woods. :hep saw a squirrel and went wlfter than ever. Billy held on o Shep's neck. The squirrel acted unny. It just ran on and on where iere were hundreds of trees all round that it could have climbed nd gotten away from the dog that vas chasing him. Suddenly the voods were full of things. Rabilts came hopping out of hollow tumps, bears Jumped from behind hick bushes and in the distance Jllly saw a great yellow beast of onie sort. It looked like a lion .ie had seen In the zoo once, but . urely there weren't any lions in he woods. But the beast roared nd Billy nearly lost his balance ;nd fell out of the wagon, for nothng but a lion could roar like that, ihep had seen and heard the same

hing, and had turned and started . BLUNDERER!

nmn ranter than he had come, but I rinsq ftn nfllw hov1 Tfprp'

e wasn't fast enough; for the lion I don't want you. I rang once twice, .vertook them. Billy fell out ofj Boy: Oh, I thought you rang :tie wagon and lay trembling withl twice once Boston Transcript.

As a result of a German gas attack, a leather glove belonging to an allied officer, was found to have shrivelled to one-fourth its original size. Certain poisonous gases have ruinous effects upon leather Df all kinds.

HORTIKULTUR. Into my garden Came a pup, And now my radish seeds Are up. Detroit Free Press.

WIIKN, In the course of human events, It becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers' of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes Which Impel them to the separation. Wo hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are Instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish It, and to institute a new government, laying Its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing Invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, It Is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies ; and such Is now the neces-. slty which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated Injuries and usurpations, all having In direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. . He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of Immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended In their operation till his assent should be obtained ; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected t Attend to them. He has ifcf used to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation In the legislature a right Inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them Into compliance with his measure. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with munly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, Incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remulnlng, In the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of Invasions from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the laws tor the naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of Justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has kept among us In times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.

' He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us ; , For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which Uey should commit on the Inhabitants of these States; For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world ; For imposing taxes on us without our consent; For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury ; For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offences; For abolishing the free system of English laws In a neighboring province, establishing therein nu arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute rule Into these colonics; For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering, fundamentally, the forms of our governments; For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves Invested with power to legislate for us In all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He Is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled In the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic Insurrection among us, and has endeavored to bring on the Inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions. In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress In the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A prince whose character Is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of afree people. Nor have we been wanting In our attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them, .from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity; and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would Inevitably Interrupt our connections and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of Justice and consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce In the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies In war, In peace friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our Intentions, do, In the name and by the 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 are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between, them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that as free and Independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which Independent states may of right do. And, for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

THE FOURTH OF JULY

To the Bages who spoke, to the heroes who bled. To the day and the deed, strike the harp strings of glory! Lot the song of the ransomed remember the dead, And the tongue of the eloquent hallow the story! O'er the bones of the bold Be the story long told. And on Fame's golden tablets their triumphs enrolled; Who on freedom's green hills freedom's banner unfurled, And the beacon-fire raised that gave light to the world!

They are gone mighty men! and they sloep In their fame: Shall we ever forget them? Oh, never! no, never! Let our sons learn from us to embalm each great name, And the anthem send down "Independence forever!" Wake, wako, heart and tonguo! Keep the theme ever young: Let their deeds through the long line of agefl be sung, Who on freedom's green hills, freedom's banner unfurled. And the beacon-fire raised that gave light to the world. Selected.

AT SCHOOL. We took our plants home "to plant In our gardens. They were dandy plants too. We had some fun out of gardens in another way. We divided our children into three armies and then ran a race to see

which would have all the children's gardens spaded first. The one who beat would get a poster. The one who beat was the captain's army. Tracy. 1A. .

unrgenerated. "Ah say, Mandy, ef yo' had yoh pick, which would yo' rather dolive, or die an' go to heaven?" "Ah'd rather live." "Why, Mandy, yo' scan'lous chile! Sunday school hain't dono yo" no good, whatsomever." EJvery-body's.

Wlille visiting at her grandmother's for a few days, by little niece was presented with a new dress, which had been made during her stay there. Upon receiving it she cried delightedly: "When mother sees that she will let mo come again.

During the month of May, 4,347 new Girl Scouts were registered at National Headquarters, 170 new troops were enrolled, 187 captains and 125 lieutenants were commissioned. There is now a totr.l of BO,913 Scouts In the United States, as compared with 24,239 in May, 1918.