The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 10, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 2 July 1936 — Page 7

THURSDAY, JULY X 1936

What Made July 4 Our Greatest Day gULY 2, in the year 1776, fell on a Tuesday. The Continental Congress, then tn convention in Philadelphia, opened its session at 9 a. m. in Independence halL The record of that day’s business, as set forth in the Journal of the Continental Congress, is brief and lacking in many details, observes Hal Borland in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Several letters, including one from General Washington, were read and disposed of. that of Washington being "referred to the board of war and ordnance.” Then the Journal says: "The congress resumed the consideration of the resolution agreed to by and reported from the committee of the whole; and the same being read, was agreed to as follows: “Resolved, 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 connexion between them, and the State of Great Britain, is, and ought to be. totally dissolved. "Agreeable to the order of the day. the congress resolved itself Into a committee of the whole; the presl-

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dent resumed the chair. Mr. Harrison reported, that the committee have had nnder consideration the declaration to them referred; but, not having had time to go through, desired leave to ait again “Resolved, That this Congress will, tomorrow, again resolve Itself into a committee of the -whole, to take Into their further consideration the declaration of Independence.” A few minutes later the session adjourned until “9 o’clock to Morrow.” • • • THIS resolution, agreed to many years ago, had .been presented to the Congress for action on the seventh day of the June preceding, almost a month before. It was drawn up and presented by Richard Henry I-ee. pursuant to a resolution of the Virginia bouse of burgesses adopted on May 15, the same year. It was seconded, when presented to the t'ongress. by John Adams, on behalf of the Massachusetts delegation. Consideration, however, was deferred until the following day. when It was referred to the committee of the whole, postponed again on the eighth, which was a Saturday, on the tenth of June a committee was appointed “to prepare a declaration to the effect of the said first resolution." That committee was composed of Thomas Jefferson. chairman: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin. Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman. This committee brought tn its report on June 28. with the first draft of the declaration. It was read and ordered to He “on the table. That was a Friday. The Congress adjourned that day until the following Monday, July 1. • • • THEN came July 2, with the passage of the resolution presented on the seventh of June by Mr. Lee. a but still without agreement on the text of the declaration Itself. July 3 saw a similarly fruitless ; discussion. But on Thursday morning July 4. differences hsd been smoothed out The Journal, in Its entry for that day, records: “Agreeable to the order of the day. the Congress resolved Itself Into a committee of the whole, to take Into their farther consideration, the declaration. The president resumed the chair. Mr. Harrison reported that the committee of the whole Congress have agreed to a Declaration, which he delivered In. The Declaration being again read, was agreed to.” The text of the declaration as agreed to finally was substantially as Jefferson bad prepared it • • • THE Declaration received the votes of all the Colonies except New York, whose delegates were not then authorised to commit themselves on the matter. A short time later they were so authorised and also sanctioned It. At the July 4 session, after agreement to the Declaration, the Congress ordered that it be printed and copies sent to the various Colonial As-

semidies and to the cvnimandlng officers of the Continental troops and that It be proclaimed “In each of the United States, and at the bead of the array." It was signed the same day by John Hancock, as president of the , Congress. The other signatures, h o wever, were not Inscribed on the original text That text was copied on

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'i parchment, and on August 2 the formality of signing took place. Fiftythree signed that day; three signed later In the year. Os the fifty-six signers, seven were not members of the Congress on July 4 when the Declaration was agreed to, and of those who . were present on. that historic day. L MTOS never signed the document. The Declaration was first proclaimed la public on July 8. when It was read by John Nixon from the platform built tn Independence Square tn 1780. • • • THK Declaration was not adopted by the Continental Congress until almost fifteen months after the War for Independence sorted with the engage wests at Concord and Lexington. They occurred on April 19. 1775. In fact, seven Important battles of that war bad been fought before the resolution of Independence Introduced by Mr. Lee •waa sgrssd to. They were, besides Concord and Lexington, Ticonderoga, on May 10; Bunker Hill, on June 17; Montreal, oa November 13; Quebec, oa Dtcaokber 81. fiU lq 17U, and Fort

CONCORD Mr. and Mrs. Guy Fisher and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dewart were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Beiswanger, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Buhrt attended the Neusbalm reunion, Sunday,.! at the Goshen Park. Mr. and Mrs. Park Losier, Goshen, visited Mr. and Mrs. Burton Howe, Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. linon Rookstool, Oswego, visited Mr. and Mrs. Cheater Stiffler, Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dean and family visited Mr. and Mrs. James Gilbert, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Auer and family, and Mr. and Mrs. George Tom visited Mr. and Mrs. Everett Tom, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Whirledge and family and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Tom and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Chester Stiffler, Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews vis-1 ited Mr. and Mrs. John Roop, Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Middleton. Syracuse, visited in the Silas Gilbert home, Sunday. James Dewart spent Friday afternoon at the John Roop, home. Mrs. Mildred Wyland is ing a guest from Indianapolis, this week. Dewy Coy visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold LeCount, Sunday afternoon. ZION. Mrs, Harley Miller was called to Toledo, Ohio, Saturday, due to the illness of her son, Chester, in a hospital there. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Deaton, Mrs. Marie LeCount and son Corlyss j were in Warsaw, Saturday. Ethel Bowser is caring for Mrs. Emerson Frederick, who is recovering from a recent operation. Mr. and Mrs. Eston Clayton, and Ms. Mary Gilchrist Visited in the George Strieby home, Sunday. Mildred Bunting spent the weekend in the Sherman Deaton home. Mr. and Mrs. George Stienbarger were in Albion on Business, Tuesday. Mrs. Florence Myers and daughters Doris and Marylin, Milford, visited Mrs. Davied Clayton, Tuesday. Jesse Grady cut the'first wheat in our community, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. L. Barnhart, and Mr. and Mrs. John Watkins, Lees*! burg, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Clayton, Sunday. Mrs, Clayton is recovering from bronchial pneumopia. Mrs. Wilma Rensbarger and daughter Lueila visited Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mock, Sunday. Moultrie, on June 28. 1778. George Washington had been commander-ln-chlef—though he was termed a genera) —of the Continental forces since June 15. 1775. At the time of the Declaration, Washington was In the field and bad been for more than a year. On the day It was formally adopted he he was In New York, preparing for what was to be the Battle of Long Island. Despite the deliberate action of the ■ Congress, however, there had been demands for a declaration of lnde;>endence. months before that July day In 1778. There was the Macklenberg Dec- 1 laratlon. passed on May 20. 1775. And on April 22, 1776, the freeholders of Cumberland county, Virginia, called for similar action by the Virginia convention itself, which met on May 8 and moved for the declaration which Richard Henry Lee presented to the Con- I gress the following month. Presidents and the Fourth Data of things that happened on the Fourth of July reveal that one I’resl ; den, Calvin Coolidge, was born on the Fourth and three Presidents, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, died on July 4. Adams and Jefferson dying on the same date in 18M

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The Hall of Progress at the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland will house scientific and governmental exhibits. The Exposition, which will run 100 days, opens June 27. This view shows part of the landscaping of the grounds with Lake Erie in the background.

SIDESLIPS I People are always investing money—foolishly. What Is being stilted? Saying “bologna" when you mean "baloney." | AH that prevents ua- from fore-' .telling the weather uerfectly is an insufficiency of facts? ODD BITS Cages in which babies may be placed to sleep outside are rented in Chelsea, Eng. A puff of cigarette smoke may contain as many as four billion dust particles. 5 An infra-red light has revealed censored lines In a book three hundred years old. More than 100 persons bear the names of Brown out of a population of 1,000 in Detling, England. i Scotland Yard of London claims that It has made 400,000 fingerprint identifications without a single error. In reprisal, voters in an Oklahoma town recently turned down all candidates for office over forty years of age. Three men who have been dead almost 300 years were named as defendants In a foreclosure suit recently brought, by the city on a vacant lot In Mt Vernon, N. Y. TRY A JOURNAL WANT AD

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SYRACUSE JOVHNAL

* SOMETHING DIFFERENT Scotland, famous for Its golf, has a town named Lundin Links. Cottonwood, Texas, has a well In the middle of Its main street Nourishing pancakes, tasting like corn fritters, are made from the pollen of cattails. A black leather belt still Intact after at least 52 years in the ground was dug I up by workmen at Rusk. Texas. — Every night half a dozen armed men with dogs watch a 400-year-old farmhouse In Lincolnshire, England, said to be haunted. In a recent home economics survey. 39 per cent of the husbands who were questioned said they helped with the dish washing. Just No Use “When a man takes a dislike to you." said Uncle Eben. “dere’s no use tryin’ . to square It If you do him a favor he i thinks he has you bluffed an* If you do him an Injury he Justifies hlmse’f ’ In his first impression.”

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Keeping Hand* Clean Important Keeping the hands clean probably helps more to promote health and to Prevent the spreading of diseases than do all other types of personal cleanliness combined. Where a King Married StlU standing in Limassol, Cyprus, is the old castle visited by King Richard I of England and Bereng ria, princess of Navarre, just before .hey were married there In the Twelfth century.

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Blida the Beautiful When Abd el Keblr fled from Spain tn the Fifteenth century to find an earthly paradise, he finally chose Blida. It Is a little walled town, famous for its orchards and gardens. Cause of Oasis in Desert An oasis in a desert is usually formed because of a stream rising from a subterranean spring. A combination soil 1 which holds water but prevents evaporation is sometimes found in a desert and favors the f<»rn»ition of oase&