Sun-Journal from Lewiston, Maine • 6

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Giaour agttetkm spread rapidly Vtfrgtela- epe of tho first to eegget a Continental Congress Thio- waa got-vaned la Philadelphia aad deiegatas from twelvqf tha colonics sasmblcd In Cnrpcatcrt Hall In that elty New York akme decliaad to take a part at that tlma This Con gram mot la 1776 and a petition was at once sent to tho Ming containing thin aentenee: us to bo -free an yourselves and wo shall over ootoom a union -with yon to ha onrgreatant glory and our greatoot -f Ever? effort of th colonists In vain Tha monarch redoubled fcte odlons and tyrannical arito aad la lTTA mat tho orgaa-taottoo tjt the Minute Men Fox and Barkri again waned' tho King' of the (paaequeaeea buf their efforts were treated wKh-lgaomlay and contempt Benjamin Franklin appeared la Parliament and pleaded for the colonists to have Just treatment Imt -he woo received with cant courtesy In 1771 pamri the eHmax Gen Gage received orders to erreat Samuel Adams and John Hancock and then tho shot was fired that waa heard round tho world On the ltth day of April Gage sent ho trodfce to Lexington hoping to surprise the town in tho night This waa blocked by the midnight ride of Paul Revere The rest of the story Is a achqpl boy's tele and need not bo repeated hare Tho second Continental Congress assembled In Philadelphia -in May and George Washington was appointed commander-ln-chlef ot tho American forces In that Con gram were come of the meet famous bien that this country hoe ever produced Franklin Adams Hancock Henry Jay Randolph all wore titan and with one voice they aoundeil the' death kneU of doapottom One morfa iietitlon was sent to George III but like Pharaoh of Egypt It only served to harden his heart The battle of Bunker Hill woo fought on the 17th of June and this ripened the public mind for independence History wee now rapidly made Tho Xing contracted for 70666 Hessian or German soldiers to guppAps the rebellion aad this woo the last act that forever hrqio tho allegiance of tho American colonies All thru June the matter was discussed fa the Continental Congren and on the 6th day of July came tho Immortal document known os tha Declaration of Independence This waa written by Jefferson and after a few changes aqd Amendments woo adopted on that date White all of our people are familiar with that epoch-making document we believe that it should again ho read at thio time: "When hi the eeurso of human events It become neesmary for One people to dissolve tha political hands which have connected them with another and to assume among the- powers of tha earth the separate and equal station to which tho tews of nature and of God entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the eauaes which Impel them to tho separation Lewiston la to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the ctfnilng fourth of July ina manner befitting the 'Industrial Heart of Maine The occasion Is nlso one that' wilt he used to demonstrate the truth of words at Gettysburg that a nation of the people by the people anil for the people ahall not perish from the earth It will be an occasion of rejoicing Indulging in festivities and cxprctwlng in words of solemn meaning thq sentiments that to-day are welling up in every true and loyal heart It will be a rdebratton of those who love our flag and only true Americanism will be expressed in semg in music or in speech At this time it seems to be endMntly fitting that few words should be devoted to flic history of tnF time and the events that led up to the separation of the American colonic from the mother eoiinlr) At Jliui time the best blond of Knglsnd wss flowing thru the veins of tlicir people but tyranny and injustice hud accomplished their work and brought about a time that tried men's souls The cHmax was reached and then the inevitable occurred The Mood of thousand of patriots enriched the ground where the tree of liberty was pluntednd developed into sturdy growth It waa In the fkll'of 1710 that George III ascended the British throne and George Greenville was selected us his prime minister The King was narrow-minded and bigoted and it was Soon' seen that he Intended to oppress tho American colonies Greenville waff a pliant tool and one of his first acts was to secure-a law from Parliament prcVienting the colonies from importing sugar from the West Indies thig had Just fallen Into the possession of England Then followed -in quirk succession a long series of oppressive measures that completely exasperated the people or New England In the spring of 1761 came the famous stamp act which compelled every person to place a stamp on every commerrlil transaction Bo great was the excitement over this act that It was repealed In two years but not until the seeds of hatred hod been sown From that time act after act caused the colonists to become more earajged until tlie Incident of throwing a cargo of tea Into Boston Harbor started! he King to fresh exertions of revenge In the Parliament Burke thundered his warnings against inciting revolution In America but all In vain Gen Gage with four regiments of British soldiers were sent to enforce obedience and Massachusetts was placed under military law I Mmi INDK- THOMAS JEFFERSON WHO WROTH DECLARATION OF FENDENCB mobile i A reception committee from Lewiston will be at the Union station Portland when the train arrive to meet the city's distinguished guest Following breakfast the party will come to Lewiston by automobile arriving between I and o'clock decretory Daniels as is very generally known Is editor of a newspaper down in Macon Ga In addition he has the reputation of being one of 'the -beat public speakers In trie -eeuntry Thin together with the fact that he in a inejnber of President cabinet and-head of the navy will make everybody interested to bear him It la not known at this time exactly what the Secretary's subject will be but It Is expected be will talk on the needs thoee of the navy In particular and discuss the preparedness propaganda City In Dressed Up It Is rather unnecessary to say that Lewiston Is all togged up for the big time A walk up and down Lisbon street thru Main and the other thorofares will show that such la the case Beginning lust Monday a week ago decorators have been hustling to get the city In an all dolled-up state of appearance Red white and blue bunting and American flogs have formed the ground work of all the decorations so that it can truthfully be said that Lewiaton la swathed Hi flags and bunting In anticipation of the biggest event In yearn As might well be expected some of these decorations are extremely elaborate Scarcely a store or building can be found In tho heart of tho business section which Is not dressed up In some form Some had confined their decorations to tho windows only making very elaborate and striking use of hunting and flags to beautify their show places Others have placed theirs on tha outside In some cases the ornamentation begins at the roof top and proceeds down to the ground while In others only the outalds has been put In holiday attire and' that only up to the second floor In every ease It makes no difference how elaborate or how modest the Idea has been It has been given an appearance of an proprlateneae which makes everyone feel that the whole decorative Idea is Just right The city hasn't been backward In aiding the dressing up program As a result of this Lisbon street surely preaente a holiday appearance riuch as It has not carried in a good many years Those In charge of this work have taken advantage of -the ornamental light poles and fixtures along lJsbon Main Ash and Pine streets and the wire supports of the electric railroad trolley wire to drape flogs and bunting very effectively at both idea or the street The result Is very attractive Remarkable Athletic Atuuetfoaa 1'nlcss all signs foil the track and Held athletics on the fitate Fair grounds wil'l be tlie most remarkable ever held In Maine i -To go over tho list of record athletes who have signed to come and take part In the program must make the eyes of sport followers stick out Ted Meredith Jack Eller the Brooklyn cop Homer Baker and others are all going to try for new records in- their especial lines Such men have never come to this State Vary Orator of the Say at ImriMah W' -life i are by their Creator with certain are life liberty and the pursuit righto governments are Instituted from the consent of the governed government becomes destructive people to alter or abolish It and to its foundation en ouch' principles form as to them shall seem meat happiness Prudence Indeed will established should not bo changed for accordingly all experience hath to suffer while evils are sufferable abolishing the forms to'whleh long train of abuses and usurpations absolute despotism It Is their such government- and to provide Such has been the patient sufferance Is now the neemelty which eon-strains systems of government The history Britain Is a history of repeated Injuries direct object tho establishment states To prove thfa let facts he then recited and the document of the United Metre of hied appealing to the Supreme of our Intentions do inthe good people of these Colonies these United Colonies are and of States that they are absolved Crown and that all political connection of Great Britain lo and ought to ffee and independent States they peace eontraet allianeee establish arits and things wklch independent ths'aupport ot this Declaration with Divine Providence we mutually fUrtuere aad our sacred honor" flfty-eht membere In nil altho not affixed hie signature ha remarked all hang together or eosuredly a callable flag aad many suggestions bannsro had bean need previous a rad flog bseriiog fa- tho nppar tree' oa white Mid Tho Continental stripes corresponding to tho number over 'tha headquarter! of Washington As tMs flag aloo bare tho red St Andrbw It waa no tensor considered repubtte hot formed the modal of waa Assigned by Philadelphia home in that city lo otlll wo now nil love no welt which It symbol isao that wo are of July Is almost ooerod la our Independence should bo rand In every the tend and the dog that have patriots That flag has been made Ha terrlfele baptism on a thousand flag floats to-day there It must tattered ensign dojrn That flag free eonaeience free thought and for on school one language one Mill Iona of bravo men stand awful chorus of bursting ohells brutal and despotic Spain to hut other sad coming similar events endo rough how them ao we may to-day le whether liberty of- despotism raea That It will bri settled to doubt Long before this other whan their people have forgotten hops that a happier fata Is ours will flourish os long as wo live that flag Against such an edifice That spirit of freedom whldh Independence still bests in the hearts a benediction and a stream of time Its advocates have walked humanity might be lifted up and tho trackless deep and planted and a nobler civilisation It Pilgrim foot to Plymouth Rock It and hallowed It with woman's eeleetlal faiitam the llpo of in defense of human liberty It at Valley Forge Inspired Constitution of his country aad epagna eharta of hewnqp righto us to-day On tho wings of their Elyelan bowers and they are alone Is loyal to tha genius of his wherever It has been placed by our oaks of humanity let It bo exalted celebrated In our midst there weetern skies and prayers arise here thy life is revive no more frill from morning star Aurora's ear lllumo nII''iMMTr year by year self-evident that all day half tho peoplp grasp th rmpcqtenee of good clean athletlct 1 wonder If there ore many people who realise that the Mg men of today In business and government are those wljo take interest In athletieeT It ta true The man who la a good athteto te mighty certain to prove himself a first class business man doctor lawyer or preacher The training counts You have a cup winning athletic without brains and brains te what counts in business or tho professions Brains without good bodily health worth a great deal in the etryiuoue -rush of business there times "Athletic sports track and field games develop1 the physical being and train the mind to guide and control those exertions "Tho idea of tho celebration le to encourage patriotism and build up the love of country If the young men eee there sports here It will encourage them to take part In the games of to-morrow and In that way we will faro done much toward giving to this country a better race of men in the First PMfMiwdtecre Parade To Lewiston and its Fourth of July celebration will also ha accorded the distinction of having the flint preparedness parade In Maine While a lot has in tho past six weeks boon written concerning thte demonstration it will he impossible tq got an adequate conception of what lt JaL te be sitint is seen Tuesday Th military feature ot th I parade alone will ta one of the iioet imposing ever seen fa Lewiston Ten companies of tho Coast Artillery Corps under command of CoL William a Peterson of Port tend will take part Of there three ill be local Lewiston and Auburn companies while tho other seven will be from various other places fa the fftat In addition there will ta tho two naval reserve divisions which will add mueh to the military division of the Mg parade In tho etvte section will ta a hundred at least membere of the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce headed by fa P- Langley its president The Elks will portlet pate os will other lodges of tho elty The nuroas from Bt Mary's General hospital are to march ao are the members of Mary Dillingham Chapter Daughters ot tho American Revolution Tho clerks from tho Grerit Department store dressed in white and the young ladies carrying sunshades will also ta a feature! In all probability no section of the eivta part of tho parade win attract more attention then -tho Sandman's club Thte te tho iwtstoJ Journal's own pot oragntaatlon Is composed of hove sod girls who' take on Interest In the Bondman stories printed each night and qlio writ letters to the paper and are In tarn thought a whole lot of by the Journal TNesa little folks will march In the parade They won't go the whole distance tor that would ta too long a for them hut they Wlir go doten Lisbon street and go before tho reviewing stand so -that Secretary of the Navy Daniels Governor Curtis and staff and vMting mayors and eounelto can get an Idea of tha kind of boys and girls Lewiston and Auburn are raising After looking thte band over the dignitaries will ta able to go homo and my to their folks got to travel mneh to sxeeed Bondman kiddies of tho Lewiston Journal All tho youngsters will cqrry a balloon Plenty of Mtedn A feature which' has not been overlooked for tho Mg day Tuesday is tho musical program' Nothing will make or mar any celebration more than plenty of or look of musie This boo been well realised by the eefabration committee and tho sub-organisation 6f tho general committee hoe given thte mUBh attention Dr Laftad la chair man ot thte sub-committee and the number of hands which will ta seen In the parade will demonstrate hew effective he has been fa getting that port of the day's program attended to Thruout th day and evening thorn will ta bond eon certs for the entertainment' of home people and the gneete from awoy The whole eetebration will elooq with a grand fireworks display as said on Loo Park and a balloon ascension by Prof Bennetts the Veteran aeronaut and parachute Jumper This will ta a night aaOcnstod with flrawnrkP-' sr- LEWISTON GOING GELEBRRATE ry American flags Ne part of the Mg parade will ta prettier than the Sandman dob 'division Little girls in their stiff white dreesea with holiday faces and carrying the stare and stripes will make a dainty line and a throng of tho Sturdiest lads In Maine will -show th crowd that the young folks will make ao good grown-ups os their fathers and mothers are Just give them time The Sandman will distribute tho balloons to Ms little friends In front of th Pork street section of tho Lewiston Journal building Those who will march In the parade are expected to ta on Park street near Main at eleven o'clock Tuesday morning Don't make any mistakes as the first five hundred who coma end get dn line will the lucky five hundred who will have the balloons Policemen will be on hand to keep everything In order While the Sandman will have an efficient corps of grown up helpers to assist In forming the line of hoys and girls ready for tho march Eleven o'clock Is the time and Park street near Main la the place where the Lewiston and Auburn and out of town boys and girls will meet to prepare for tho parade If any of you want to ore tho Sandman and hie thousand little peo- pie Just to learn what sort of youngsters there ore In Maine watch out for them In the Mg Fourth of July parade I8 BRAXN III the Fourth of duly CUrtaoUwi Core WBceowapoeeofleeeececaceoicaoaoecBOBoafeeoecsoaosg CKLKBRATH WITH lUUOfa HMD America should celebrate this Fourth with serious mind it la time of crisis Greet world problems face us Are we prepared to meet them 1 and to discharge tbs fall duty of a nation not only- to our own cltiacna tat to mankind? Adequate military and Indus-trial preparedness there must be but -ultimately ouF readl- mbs to meet emergencies and to discharge our full duty -act a nation depeodFopon our spiritual end morel forces-! -There arc the foaadetlone of Ml reel power end outward action Our nation Is strong -only os It Is composed oft strong mre and women who ore davoted duty end readv for-sacrifice Willingness to see- rifles oven to life Itself IV the only heals power- Good Soldiers etnmi te ot weak Indolent eel Rah msiwf Devotion to ussejflsh service i te-the' aa mound as a nation la remise sure paly sure "measure elf fuir preparedness 1 This Cheractri ICiallnaid hold tliesr truths to bo in the peat One champion may have come for a meet but not half a down and more That is what makes the thing so remarkable what Is making tha entire country interested in the sporting events of the Fourth in Lewiston That three men am eomlng le due tq the energy and determined effort of Ooach'Mlks Ryan of Bates Who hod- the unanimous booking of 1 hie associates on the athletic -oporto committee Ryu did not content himself With writing around end In vlting star men to coma Bo want after thorn flo soon as tho eetebration waa settled fact and know ho woo on tho committee ho chucked some extra eoUara and shirts Into a iris bopped ou a train and hooded for created equal that they are endowed Inalienable rights that among them of happlnsa That to secure them among men deriving their Just powers that whenever any Torn of of them ends It Is the right of the institute a new government laying and organising its powers in such IHicly to effect their safety and dictate that governments long light and transient pauses and shown that manklnAre more disposed than to right themselves by they ere accustomed But when a pursuing Invariably the same right it Is their duty to throw off new guards for their future security of these colonies and such them to alter their former of the present King of Great and usurpations all having in of an absolute tyranny over these submitted to a candid A long list of oppressive sets were closed with three words: therefore the representatives America In Genrirai Congress a seem Judge of the World for tho reettUide name and by the authority of the solemnly publish and declare: That right ought to be free and independent from all allegiance to the British' between them and the State he totally dissolved and that as have fun power to levywareonpludri commerce and to do all other states may ot right do And for a firm reliance on the protection ot pledge to each other our lives our Thio document woo signed by nil that day When Benj Franklin we must now we shall all hang It then be earns necessary to adopt were made Several different to thte- time one of which woo corner the green figure of a pine army had a flag of thirteen of tho colonies and this wavod and on the ships of Paul Jonea cross of St George and the white of appropriate for the new tho stare and stripes This flag matron named Betsy Roes and her aa the bUthplaco of the banner that It is thte flag and the victories now about to celebrate Tlie fourth history Tho Declaration of home and our faith again plighted to been drenched with the Mood of acred lu our day aad generation by fields of blood Wherever that forever remain Aye! tear not that stands forfree speech free press free education That flag stands country one republic and one God ready to defend that flag amidst tho and hlmlng bullets The downfall of tho shadow that to coot before Thera is a divinity that shapes our The great problem to be decided ie to be the destiny of the human and settled right there la no reason republics Have- arisen and gone down the duty to their flag Let us Our country will live and our liberties true to tho principles typified -fay the storms oft hatred will heat In vain gave birth to the Declaration of of men to-day Its history falls like tender light serosa the darkness of in tho shadow of despair that ennobled With Columbus It plowod upon these shores the aeeds of another was the same spirit that led the reared the cabin of the pr cetera pioneer leva It touched with more than Patrick Henry and noosed the nation upheld the arm of tho noble Washington the Immortal Jofforeon to write tho transmit to unborn generations a new Tho spirits of thooe heroes ere with fancy their voices are borne from whispering in our ears that he country who defends hat flag brave soldiers and sailors For tho and let its natal day be Immortal freedom! 'neath For thee our fondest hopes Too well we know when Thy radiant spirit will Hweet ao the beami that To light the pathway of nfay thy silvery rays In ever widening circles After otara An Indian on a trail never hung with more persistency then did Ryan to those stars and then book earns' telegrams announcing he had oigned thorn to homo here tor thq fourth It woo Just his datarmlnatton and go after It policy that put Lewiston right np 'front with tho best meets of tho country on thte Fourth of Jnly Boom might think thorn tire a selfish motiva bohind- this work: of RyaWa Perkaps no- tat It fa one whteh tbia entire section end State onght' to applaud Mike Ryan he Uve thla meet will do more to promote sehpol athteUca-thaa any pas thing whlch Matas has! had in many yoaro If It does It in worth many Imre tbs effort reader Will ALL BE THERE No Feature of Big Preparedness Parade WilJ Attract More Attention Than They The Sandman is coming to Lewiaton to march with his boys and girl! in tho Mg Preparedness Parade on July 1th 'Who is the does some grown-up person ask? Just go home and ask any of your mail sons and daughters 1500 of whom belong to the Lewiston Journal Sandman Club and they will tell yon what a distinction It Is to have the old man of dreams ready to help Maine celebrate Somewhere In the long line of tho procession with gay balloons afloat and with flags waving In tho braeae a thousand of the children from Lewiston and Auhurn and Mechanic Falls and Rabat is and Turner and from a score of towns in Androscoggin county will testify to the allure of the Sandman And at the head of there thousand little people will march a queer llt- MAYOR LOU Of Lewiston Gnaws! Chairman of tie old man with peaked cap and golden slippers with twinkling eyes qnd fluttering Mack beard bearing oa his shoulder a huge bag of dreams Whore ta Is there will the children be They all know the Sand-nun and know that It ta thte strange -old fellow who brings the rend st night time to put In tired eyes And then leaves pleasant dreams to last tjie whole night thru Just at present the Sandman te located lrt Lewiston where ta has a club of nearly five thousand boys and girls He teacbeS' ihem' to do their Share and hasocgoiiloed than into one big band whore motto is to something foe eomeone every To show the oler people that patriotism ta truly! tn the hearts of young Amerlca the 'Sandman and hta children will mareh iu the- pre-parednere parade' each prepared to da hie part now and always' tho Bte Briyffr band to lead tho line The Headman -division of the parade relit form a thousand strong" The Sand mot Baseball League teams will march fa Uniform In a -spectel plaeu-pf honor near the SandmaO A group1 of Httlri girls fa wMte will carry a' huge American flag then further hack a group ot tays wlU'ateu eefaya Sandman Club bannare wllT bo fa evidence AH along tho' -Tta elub pony BAM will march in honor decked with flags a mas-oot far the proeesaion Five hundred oftheetab members -wtileorry balloons which the Lswlotoa Journal hie presented to the Sandman far bla of Mf TO FOURTH fHe Ural hu1 oT-iuly relebrntlotf waa auggeated in Lewiaton an attempt was made to secure President Wilson as the Mpeuker The President wanted to come He said so andeguve post five assurance that buf for the fact that he had previously promised to apeoje in Washington on Independence Day he would have been here But the President could not come a member of his olflclul funtU could Hon Jnsephua Daniels aecretary of the Navy will- be the speaker Secretary Daniels will come thru by train from Washington reaching Dewlston during the forenoon of Tuesday He-will arrive In Portland shortly after I o'clock Tuesday morning on the New York train but Instead of coming thru to Lewie- ton by train he will coine by auto- when back more yearn than HhyoM around theae digtlng can jS'WwH the flrat celebration of our WMoial birthday waa hld In thoae -Ivihi yean the' oration frequently bat the reading of tho Declaim Uoa of Independence It waa mighty MLqood etufi too It could be rrad in many quartern of thin land to-day VCJ without injury to the patriotic epirlt if the natlqn Aa tha country grew ffythe orattona took on a dtffarent wm Alan who had reputations aa speakers cams before the 'Lj3xrthered eitiaene and dlacourned up-WM the needs of the nation and ao tho yaara rolled aloiigrtt became Jltsi4' fixed purl of all such celebration itkattlaM should be aq oration will have one on the mor- Jfcmbrr of rraddeafe Cabinet ''Vtai first tho subject of a Fourth r- 9f j' 1 1 E- WS Jots euroslvM tc no- party that does not carry the flog ad keep stop to the ora- le- of- the Union Choate-- 1 -44 Thr flaraoot -rvgoolM 'tavoii -shortest risj 'And after-dreams! of horror CQWl Tha weleomo morning wltks ye of peoca 4 1 wiUlam Cullsa 'ooaeot be developed to ilt can created ronly oby! dellrv raadlneaa tq i rerva and sacrifice far theu fa every Oalp bo Vki is' hut Rov First Afatej Aohonij- Jfck lSbKTENftKNCK HAU PHILADELPHIA WHERE DECLAHAION 'i rrr tr OF INDEPENDENCE WAS SIGN- ont it nxxaamnrin common welfare sphere ot Ufa fatthfdl Is th faithful hi jvsreeltet Chureh.