Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1926, Page 8

r = N R DDy A A A AT ——— ———————————— — ——————— ! 'DISTRICT UNITES TOMORROW TO .OBSERVE INDEPENDENCE DAY ALL-DAY PROGRAM AT TAKOMA PARK Community Celebration Be- gins at Sunrise Tomorrow and Ends in Evening. The citizens of Takoma Park will eelebrate the sesquicentennial anni versary of Independence day with a community affair extending from sun- rise to sunset tomorrow, starting with the hoisting of the ) The “Young America Parade,” picting the immigration and progr of Americanism, will start promp: at 9:30 o'clock from Park and Carroll avenues. The route will be Carroll avenue to Carroll street, to Cedar street, to Piney Branch road, to Dahlia street, to the Takoma Public School grounds, where it will disband The parade will be headed by the United States Army G. Sherman commanding, J. Stannard, director, and W drum major. The parade will divided into five sections as follows “America in the Making.” “The Birth of the Nation,” ‘“Westward sion, “Forces Working for “Ame canism” and “Future Immigration. Other Features Announced. At 1030 o'clock patriotic exercises will be held at Piney Branch road and Dahlia street, with Herbert D. Law- gon presiding. These exercises will conclude at noon with the sembly singing the National anthem and day light firewor consisting of salutes and feature shells. The athletic program will start at 2 o'clock on the field at the intersec tion of Maple and Philadelphia av nues. The program consists of a tug o' war, open to teams of eight men each and eight girls each; 30-vard dash for boys and girls under 8 years, 50-vard dash for boys and girls under 6 sh for boys and girls under vears, competition events by Boy Scouts, making of fire with flint and steel, etc.; sack race, three-legged race, competition between Camp Fire Girls and Girl Scouts, hoop race, shoe race, standing broad jump and concluding with a relay race for girls and boys between 12 and 16 vears of age. A burlesque base ball game will be staged at 2:20 o'clock on Hodge's field At 2:30 o'clock a horseshoe pitching contest will take place between indi- viduals and teams of four each. The annual water battle, which al- wavs has proved a feature of the cele dration, is scheduled, and, according to the committee in charge, it will be & real contest in every sense of the word. 1t will be betieen members of the Takoma Park Volunteer Fire Department and will take place at the intersection of Maple and Philadelphia avenues. At 4 o'clock the field events will be resumed and at the conclusion of the last event ribbons for first, second and third winners will be presented by Mayor Ben G. Davis and Maj. William F. Fischer. Program for Evening. In the evening at 7 o'clock and continuing until 8:30 o'clock a band concert will be rendered by the Mont- gomery County Community Band, un- der the direction of Albert Browning. on the Takoma Park, Md., Municipal Playgrounds. Night fireworks and historical tableaux from the pageant will be presented at intervals with the fireworks. ‘The night display will con- wist of a grand salute of aerial ma- s, fllumination of the groun 926 aerfal bouquet, radiant glory variegated meteors, mystic wheel ehell, morning rainbow, Japanese blossoms and many other interesting displays. The police and public order will be under the supervision of Preston C.{ King and John R. Adams. The fire prevention detai® will be from the Takoma Park Volunteer Fire Depart- ment. The community celebration com- mittee has extended an invitation to the public to participate in the cele- bration throughout the day. Auto- mobiles may be parked on Chestnut, Philadelphia, Maple, Park and Den- wood avenues as designated by the police. The committee also makes a | general request that the American flag be flown by every home owner | in Takoma Park. The general committee in charge of the celebration is composed of the following: Capt. Charles Johnson and Dr. E. Clyde Shade, honorary chairmen; Dr. William A. Hooker, general chairman: John W. Coffman, Dr. A. Owen Penney, vice chairmen; Ralph E. Gould, secretary erty custodian; Oscar E. urer; Dr. Guy Clinton and Winn T. Simmons, auditors; Rudolph Wilson, Christian Huff, electricians, and the chairmen and vice chairmen of the several committees. de. MOVIE-STRUCK FIGHTER SAYS HE WAS CHEATED Declares President of Corporation Took $750, But Never Made Him a Star. By the Associated Press. 2W YORK, July 3.—Coming from his sunny in to seck fame in the American movies, Joseph Garcia, a middleweight pugilist, like many a moviestruck girl, found pitfalls in the road to stardom tory was told in Police Court when Lewls ITrving Maisell, dent of the Velde-Maisell Picture Forporation, was arraigned on a charge of suspicion of grand larceny. Maisell, it was charged, accepted $750 from a's wife and sister-in-law last February on the promise that he would star Garcia in a picture. The women alleged t he kept the money, but never made any effort to star the boxer. They said he first demanded $5.000 Magistrate Flood 500 for hearing Jul held Maisell in 8. CARDINAL CITY’S GUEST. Archbishop of Paris Unveils Plaque to Champlain, at Quebec. QUEBEC, Quebec, July 3 (P.— Cardinal Dubois, Archbishop of Paris, who is in Quebec en route home from the Chicago Eucharistic Congress, to- day was given a civic reception at- tended by thousands of citizens of all ranks and creeds, who greeted him enthusiastically. After the reception -a plague in honor of Samuel Champlain, founder of Quebec, was unveiled by the cardinal URELY, there are 100,000 Washingtonians who will gladly send one dollar or more to honor the living and the dead of the 26,000 from th istrict of Columbia who served their country in' the armed forces in the Great War. Send to John Poole, Treasurer, District of Colum- bia Memorial Commission, Federal-American National Bank. ional emblem | i Official Celebration at 7 The one hundred and fiftieth anni versary of the signing of the Declara® tion of Independence will be appro- priately and elaborately observed to- morrow in the District of Columbia, although the actual anniversary Is | today. Taking community been arranged commemoration {ical event on the step Before this program however, the anpual Independence Day fireworks display will be opened on the Monument Grounds. The Capitol celebration will at 745 pam. with a concert by the combined United States Marine an:i Army Bands, to be followed imme- | diately by the presentation of awards to the six children winners of the o y contest on the Declaration of Independence by Engineer Commis: sioner J. Franklin Bell The fireworks display. beginning at 9 o'clock, will be on the Monument Grounds. A brief patriotic message to the citizens of the District of Columbla will be given by Representative Rath bone, Republican, of Illinois, who will be introduced to_the assemblage b United States Marshal Edgar Snyder, chairman of the committee on arrangements. Chorus of 500 Voices. athbone’ will be fol a chorus of 500 voices which will sing four American che increase t audibility of the J the Signal Corps of the Army has in stalled large amplifiers. Then *“The Story of America be given by 35 leading patriotic and civic organizations, with a t of at least 1,000 persons. Mr. through the amplifiers, will E synopsis of what is to follow. Marle Moore Forrest is the author of the pageant. Illumination by many colored lights will be a feature of this part of the am., The lighting plan was de- d by Harold Snyder, together with 8. est and the Capitol staff. The pageant is divided into three epi- sodes, “The Foundation of America,” second “The Progress of Ameriga,” and third “The Strength and Hope of America. Each episode will be introduced by symbolic dances, first “Primitive Forest,” second “Struggle and Achievement,” and third “Happi- ness and Joy,” a dance in honor of the flag. Program at Monument. At the Monument Grounds, begin- ning at § pa., the United States vy Band will play a patriotic con- cert of one hour's duration. This will be followed immediately by the fireworks display. The committee in charge has been working for an ex- hibition that would surpass all pre- vious ones. The end of the display will bring the. city's celebration to a close. During the forenoon the citizens of Takoma Park and the Michigan Citizens’ Association will hold observances. The former will open with a parade at 9:30 o'clock from Carroll avenue to the school grounds, led by the United States Army Band, in charge of Drum Major W. S. Ross. One hour later at Piney Branch road and Dahlia street the patriotic exercises will be held. Com- missioner of Immigration Harry L. Hull will deliver the principal ad- dress. Athletic events at the inter- section of Maple and Philadelphia avenues will be given in the after- noon at 2 o'clock. The Michigan Park celebration likewise will open Wwith a patrioti parade under the direction of M John A. Kiernan, at 9:30 o'clock Twelfth and Upshur streets. Led by the Washington Boys Independent Band, the parade will pass south on Twelfth street to Michigan avenue, thence west on Michigan avenue to Perry street entrance to the athletic field. Prizes will be awarded to the prettiest dressed child, funniest dressed child, best decorated baby car- riage and best decorated doll carriage or wagon. At the athletic field flag-raising ex ercises will be held. While the band is playing a patriotic selection the colors will be raised to a rifle silute. Seldon M. Ely, supervising principal of the fifth divison, Puble Schools, will give the pledge of allegiance, foliowed by the singing of “America” by the assemblage. Robert R. Faulkner, president. of the association will de- liver the principal address. B. B. Pettus will read the Declaration of Independence and Mrs. Kiernan will sing the “Star Spangled Banner.” Following an intermission of 30 minutes, during which the assemblage will partake of basket lunches, the assoclation will serve refreshments without charge. Mrs. James F. Cos- tello will be in charge. Twenty-two athletic events for children then will be held and a base ball game between “Crandalls” and “Kid Kellys” will conclude the celebration. The com- mittee on arrangements consists of Chairman Pettus, M. J. Kilerlane, treasurer; Franklin T. Howe, J. W. Connelly, Mrs. Kiernan, R. R. Breen, E. J. Brennen, Mrs. Costello and S. H. Hoddinott. Parmenter Addreses Legion Post. Assistant Attorney General Bert M. Parmenter adressed Sergeant Jasper Post, "No. 13, the American Legion, field day and excursion held at Marshall Hall, Md., yesterday. The committee In charge, of which Comdr. J. Thad Baker is general chairman. arranged a base ball game between the United States Veterans’ Bureau team and the War Department, both members of the Inter-Departmental League. Stephen J. Garrity, chair- an of the athletic committee, spon- sored a number of contests, and the Independent Boys' Band furnished music throughout the day, beginning its program on the boat as it left the Seventh street wharf. Isadore Feld- man was in charge of the Charleston contest. The entire staff of the Dis- trict of Columbia Department, the American Legion, had been invited to attend and serve as judges of the several events. 'The other members of the post who assisted Comdr. Baker in completing plans, are Wil bur C. Pickett, Lawrence B. Dunn, 2smond H. Callahan, John J. Orlosky, Thomas E. Walsh, Paul C. Robbin, Hiram W. Hummer and Henry B. Searcy. Participants in Episode I of the pageant at the Capitol, “The Foun- dation of America,” include a group of dancers of the Caroline McKinley Studio, directed by Judy Lyeth, with Tace Etman, Martha Fisher, Roberta January, Ruby Miller and Dorothy Par- sons appearing in _the opening Dance of the Primitive Forest, followed by the Improved Order of Red Men and the Degree of Pocahontas in the scene of the American Indians. Then will follow a group of Norsemen, pre- sented by members of the Veterans’ Bureau of the Government Printing Office, under the leadership of George Bowman, including H. C. Smith, Mor- ton Beeman, A. F. Good, M. J. Bow- man and G. H. Aschenback, Mr. Bowman appearing as Lief Eric. cson, Christopher Columbia and the Spaniards will be presented by members of the Daughters of America, led by Capt. J. M. Futrell; the cavaliers and students of Colum- bia Junior High School, led by Thomas McDonough, including James Bradley, John Mattern, Edward Kiatta, Leonard Smith and Lucien several have precedence over celebrations _that is the city's official of the great histor- Sf the Capitol. is completed, open Mr. R: lowed 1 hours Featuring 1,000 Persons in Pageant, Takes Prece- dence Over Local Affairs—Fireworks in Evening. ‘'THE SUNDAY ' STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. JULY 4, 1926— PART ° 45 p.m., Before Capitol, Stager; the Pilgrims by Daughters of America and members of the Interna- tional Association of Art and Let- The Dutch will be led by Hen- Hudson (Dell Floyd of the Shake- Society), under the direction of Marie Towle and a group of Y. A. girls Pere Marquette (Arthui be presented by a Y. W. and the National Cupital Barry K. Helwi Leonard Blush, Kenneth Klinger, directed by A. k. Griffith; and the Quakers, led by Wil- liam Penn, will be presented by mem- bers of the Socfety of Friends, with | Mrs. G, Janney Brown and Mrs. Al bert Stabler as chairmen i The Sons of the American Revolu tion will give the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, with A. D. Call as Thomas Jefferson, and will join with the Minute- men and the Daughters of the American Revolution in the scene of . Washington resigning his com- sison before the Continental Con- , with Col. M. A. Winter appear- ing as Gen. Washington and Maj. Ralph Case as Gen. Mifllin. Officers of Washington's staff will be enacted by Maj. Arthur M. Poynton, Capt. D\ W. Thaver, Capt. John J. Costinett land Capt. Peter’ Latterner of the! Minutemen. Episode iffith), will A. group Players, 1i, “The Progress of Ameri will open with a Dance of | Strugsle and Strensth, divected by | Judy Lyeth, followed by the Chil-| dren of the American Revolution as | the carly Presidents and their familes | and members of the International As- | Sociation of Art and Letters as writers of their early days in America; then | Will come the fathers of the Ameri- can Navy, presented by the Arts Club with Conrad Young, T. Weed Harvey and Frank Kemon appearing as John Paul Jones, Decatur and Truxton, with Mrs. Maud Howell Smith as chairman; the Lewis and Clark group will be given by members of the Order of Red Men and Degree of Poca- hontas; Daniel Boone and his_ follow- ers by E. A. Griflith and,the National Capital Players; the old-fashioned American_Family, by Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McQueeney and their children, and Westward Ho, by members of the Eastern Star and the Pollvanna | Club, including Miss Nettie Hender- | son, Miss Hazel Garretson, Mrs. Howard Gossage and son Howard, C Kruger and daughter Ruth, and Andrew Black. The Great Triumvi- rate will be glven by members of the Shapespeare v, with Julian Dickinson as Clay, Lesiie Waudby as John C. Calhoun and Wil- liam . Bryant as Webster, and with Mr. Waudby as chairman of the scene. Denls E. Connell will appear as Abraham Lincoln, followed by a group of Civil War veterans, as the finale of this episode. Dr. Pettus is chairman of the veterans. Dance of American Flag. Episode 111, “The Strength and Hope of America,” will open with a Dance of the American Flag, directed by veth %f the Caroline McKinley . and will be followed by large marching units, forming a colorful tableau on the Uapitol steps, including flower girls by the Order of the East- r (M Harriet Stull, chair- man); reapers, farmers, fruit bearers and milkmaids from the Department of Agriculture. Boy Scouts, Troops 40 and 41, led by coutmasters Herman R. Hunt and King; Girl Scouts led cout Capt. Mrs. Conrad H. Young; Daughters of America, District of Columbia Chap- ter, American Red Cross (Mrs. Harry Barnes, chalrman); Army School of Nursing from Walter "Reed (Miss Elzabeth Melby, chairman); the church, represented by Dr. W. L. Darby of the Washington Federation of Churches, Father Murphy of St. Peters’ Church, Dr. Harvey Baker Smith of Columbia Heights’ Christian Church, and the Rev. Meade Bolton MacBryde of the Episcopal Church. The Young Women's Christian As- sociation will follow; then will come Daughters of Civil War Veterans and the Women's Relief Corps Auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic (Mrs. Caroline A. Gury and Miss Anna Hage, chalrmen). This last group will be followed by troops of the United States, Lieut. P. H. McRae and Head- quarters Company, District of Wash- ington, U. S. A.; Lieut. A. V. Cher- bonnie, U. 8. M. C, and detachment from Marine Barracks, and Chief Petty Officer A. G. Rost, U. S. N., and detachment from the receiving ship at S. Navy Yard. Then will come ‘‘America,” with Mrs. Maud Howell Smith as Liberty, with Mrs. Ethel Byrd Kemon as her attendant and with the flag group surrounding her as the big cast stand at salute and the Marine Band plays The Star Spangled Banner. Will Tmpersonate Characters. Members of the Internatlonal As- sociation of Aras and Letters will im- wrnest Littleton, ! Todward Morri$ and | personate characters who were the producers of literary works from the time of the settlement of America. The characters and their_ imperson- ators follow: Gov. Bradford, Victor Rus sell; Capt. John Smith, Maj. Ewin; John Winthrop, Dr. Anston; Miss- tress Anee Dudley Bradstreet, Mrs. M. H. Irish; John Eliot, Charles Cot- tingham; Gov. Berkley of Virginla, Col. Cooper; Samuel Sewall, M. H. Irish; Cotton Mather, Col. E. F. Heron; witches condemned by Mather, sentenced by Sewall, Miss Virginia Price, Mrs. E. A. Lalecheur, Miss Ruby Nevins, Miss Katherine Hopson; William Byrd, cavalier of Virginia, first stylist, Maj. Charles Douglas; Mary Rowlandson, Mrs, Emma Hughes; the Hartford wits, Dwight, George P. Bogue; Trumbull, E. A. Lacheur; Barlow, the Rev. Mr. Cheetham; Mrs. Sarah E. Hall, Mrs. Dean Cherrier; Robert Beverley, first American born historian, Mr. Green; Sarah Kimball Knight, Miss Mabel Goodhue: Benjamin Franklin, Charles Slater; Thomas Godfrey, dramatist, friend of Franklin, Bernard Foley; Mrs. Mercy Warren, wrote two dramas of Revolution, Mrs. J. D. Sul- livan; Anne Borden, Miss Fannie Cooper; Mary Freneau, Miss Amy Fairless; Mrs. Agnes Freneau, Mrs. Emily Fairless; Susan Rawson, wrote “Charlotte Temple,” Mrs. Jane Man- derscheid; Sarah Wentworth Morton, wrote “Power of Sympathy,” Mr. K. J. Fenton; Charles Brockden Brown, first American novelist, John Sulli- van; Mrs. Caroline Warner, wrote “The Gamesters,” Mrs. Thos. Lovette; Washington Irving, Maj. Charles Fer- ris; George Bancroft, Harry Cox; Jane Austen, Miss Elizabeth Tol- dridge; Mrs. Lydia Huntley Sigour- ney, Mrs. Clara McCrone; Catherine Sedgwick, wrote “Redwood,” Miss Clara Manderscheid; Edgar Allen Poe, Mr. Harold Stoddard; Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mrs. Sarah Nevins; Henry Wadsworth .Longfellow, Oscar Grover; Margaret Fuller, Mrs. Grover; Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dr. John Hardy: Alice Cary, Mrs. Wil- llam M. Crocker; Phoebe Cary, Mrs. B. L. Perkins: Francis Parkman, Francis Torreyson; Maria Brooks, Mary Torreyson; Lydia Child, Ada Kershaw; Helen Jackson, Miss Isabel Furban ino Coolbrith, Mrs. Louis Heath Louisa M. Alcott, Miss O’Brien: Walt Whitman, 1. Povelson; James Fennimore Cooper, James O. Miss Caroline Gries; Mrs. E. D. A. Southworth, Miss Harrlet Dixon; Miss Warner, Miss Elfrida Saunders, and Bret Harte, W. O. Hart. ans. Miss Corinne | N CHARGE OF DISTRICT’S INDEPENDENCE DA Upper, left to right: Commissioner J. Franklin Bell, general chairman; Mrs. M. M. Forrest pageantry, and Willlam Knowles Cooper, chairman of ‘decorations commitee. St chagei el Lower, left to right: Dr. William Mather Lewis, chairman of Declaration of Independence essay contest for school hildren: Brig. Gen. 8. D. Rockenback, chairman bands and military co-operation; David Ly irma of seating distinguished publio officials and invited guests. i L G LONDON PAPERS BURIED NEWS OF JULY 4th DECLARATION American Independence Treated Editorially as In- significant Affair, Event Being Sandwiched Be- tween Ads and Social Items on Inside Pages. BY HAYDEN CHURCH. London Correspondent of The Star and North American Newspaper Alllance LONDON, England, July .—One hundred and fifty years ago tomorrow American journals published the news of the Dec ation of Independence. The principal English newspapers, however, gave thelr first pages as usual to the theatrical news, lett to the editor, financial advertisements and casual gossip. )t until five weeks later were they to learn that the most important col ony of the British En ipire had re. nounced allegiance to the pig headed and slightly addled German who ruled the far-flung dominion: When, on August 12, the news finally reached the mother country, the event which was destined to af. fect vitally every government in ex- istence and to become one of the great episodes in the history of mankind, was given three lines on an inside page of one of the greatest English journals. “Advice is received,” said the Morn- ing Post, “that the Congress resolved upon independence the 4th of July, and, it is said, have declared war agalnst Great Britain in form."” The Morning Post, the Morning Chronicle and the Dalily Gazeteer, 1t tle four-page, tabloid s newspapers of the time, were unanimous in their editorial judgment on the event—they sandwiched it between items of ships® news and odds and ends of society gossip. Political Experts Err. The Morning Post alone commented on the event editorially—in one para- graph. Political experts then were no more nearly omniscent than they were when a minor nobleman was shot down in Sarajevo in 1914. “Though the Congress have at last carried out their favorite point, in Voting, by a small majority, the United Colonies free and independent States, it will prove the most impolt- tic measure they could have devised it has already driven most of the dis- passionate members from their coun- ¢ils and caused a general desertion through their camps: if their declara- tion of independence was founded on view of forming allles with some pow- rful ISuropean, the absurdity of the idea will soon be manifest.” The absurd idea became an actual- ity immediately thereafte: “In those revolutionary days, the record time for news to cross the Atlantic was about three weeks; this it it was carried by a British man- of-war with everything in her favor. Four or flve weeks was about the average, but a wait of nine weeks for intelligence was not exceptional. Tlence, though it was on the 19th of April, 1775, that the first blood of American independence was spilled at Lexington and Concord, it was not until May 30 that the people of Brit- Ain read how “the embattled farmers tood, and fired the shot heard round the 'world.” Washington became commander4n-chief of the American ‘Army on July 2 in the same year, but it was only on Monday, September 4, that England knew with whom her plg-headed King was to fight his dis- astrous duel. And though it was on the glorious Fourth of July, one hundred and fifty year ago, that the American Congress adopted the epochal Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jef- ferson, not until August 12 did the Londoh newspapers carry the news of it. Declaration Condensed. On the following day the London Gazetteer delivered itself thus: A correspondence, we are assured, has been carried on betwen the dele- gates of the American Congress and Sur natural enemies the French and Spanish and that it was in conse- quence of the latter promising to give the former every assistance in their power, that the Americans de- clared for independence. “As soon as the colonies declared themselves independent States, two forelgn vessels, which were at Phila- delphia, slipped their cables, and salled with the Intelligence to the above courts.” For a few days thereafter one finds no mention of the Declaration of In- dependence in any London paper. But then, on August 17, they all carrled the full text of the historic document, but still without “featuring” it in any way. They captioned it “Advices from America. In Congress, July 4, 1776. A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in Gen- eral Congress assembled.” And then “ran” it, in some cases on middle and back pages, as unconcernedly as if the utterance that became the charter of revolution throughout the world, and that formally decreed the loss to Eng- land of her most important colony, held no more significance for the wmother country than the report of a | dull session of Parliament or a de- seription of a second-rate fire. paper it appeared next to from a new cook hook! The Morning Post even condensed the ringing words of Jefferson. observ- ing tersely: “Following is the sub- stance of the Declaration of Independ- ence by the Representatives of the United States of America in General Congress assembled.” Considered Tmpolitic Act. 1f the editors of the London news- papers realized, as the statesmen and publicists of other European coun- tries were quick to recognize that this was one of the greatest expositions of princlple ever committed to paper, they at least gave no sign of doing %0. Presumably they regarded it as an empty gesture, as an ill-advised act of deflance on the part of rebels who must be and inevitably would be crushed. And if so they were not without excuse, for there were even members of the American Congress who were resolutely opposed to the Declaration, and one of whom, John Dickinson, asserted that it “would not 1dd a’ sinzle soldier to the armies.” 1f anything, the effect of the Decla- ration upon the minds of London newspaper writers appears to have been to emphasize the necessity for stamping out the movement for Amer- an liberty once and for all. So long as the thirteen colonies had been merely fighting against the tyranny and unjust taxation of King George the Third, the sympathy of the British press appears to have been almost wholly with them. But severance fram the mother country was a different matter altogether. Once it was definitely resolved upon, the London newspapers at least be- came unanimously condemnatory. Thus we have the Morning Post observing, on August 17, the same day on which it published its condensation of the declaration: “The Congress have acted with the utmost impolicy in declaring the United Colonies free and independent States, for after such an avowal of republican principles every Euro- pean power must abandon them to the }mlnichmonv. due to their villainy and oll 0 much for the Declaration of Independence, of whose imminence there was no hint in the London news- papers published on the 4th of July, 1776. Now let's see what news those Jjournals did contain. New York Threatened. First we have intelligence of his majesty King George the Third. Then residing at Kew, some 10 miles from London, he had, it seems, come in to the Palace of St. James on the previous day, “at a quarter before 1 o'clock, when there was a full levee, considering the season.” Prob- ably his majesty and his advisers were in high spirits on this occasion, for the “advices” from America were, from their point of view, distinctly good. Boston had recently been evacuated by the colonial forces, and Gen. Howe, with fresh troops from England numbering more than 30,000, was threatening the annhilation of the wretchedly equipped little army, shrunken from 8,100 in April to less than 6,750 men—with which Wash- ington was precariously holding New York. “The next news expected from America,” sald the Morning Post on July 4, 1776, “Is that either Gen. Howe is in quiet possession of New York or that he has been under the necessity of laying that beautitul city in ashe “Accounts are recelved by private letter,” declared the Gazetteer on the same ‘day, “that a party of provincial militia on the march to join Gen. Arnold were cut off by a large party of Indians at the instigation of Gen. Clinton, and that a certain regiment stood the unaffected spectators of the massacre of thelr Protestant breth- ren."” The Morning Chronicle on July 4, 1776, gave most of its front page to a long_letter from an_individual who ~ _ ) For Years the Natlon’s Favorite] .. extracts | At Barbers and Druggists BumsteadsWormSyrup “To children an angel of mercy.” When di- rections are followed IT NEVER FAILS. Despite scarcity and enormous cost of SAN- TONIN, it contains full dose. Stood sixty years' test. Sold everywhere, or by mail, 50c a bottle. Est. C. A. Voorhees, M. D., Philadelphla, In one | was able to tell his majesty’'s govern- ment exactly how the campaign in Amerlca should be conducted. He signed himself “A Veteran of Seen Service.” And the same newspaper had the following item: “Yesterday was launched at Black- wall the Swiftsure, a curious bomb man-of-war on a new construction. She is going in his majesty’s service to America, with two bomb beds, mounts 40 guns and carries 240 men.” Other General News. Turn we now to the general news, much of which is, oddly enough, either from America or about Ameri- cans. Says the Morning Post: “A gentleman who came from New York says t , having two horses to dispose of, he advertised them to be sold for sh, as he was leaving the country, on which he was sent for to alter his advertisement, as it was a reflection upon the paper currency of Congress."” And the following anecdote, re lated with absolute gravity, is to be found in the Morning Chronicle of the same day: “A certain American lady, being in company last week, with great seem- ing anguish said she was vel cer- tain that the regulars and provincials were at that instant in battle. A member of his majesty’s cabinet pres- ent asked her her reason for such a declaration, to which she replied “Why, sir, to be serious with you, I know it by the shooting of my corns, which I have found on every similar occasion to be equally authentic with your Gazette. Now, sir, wait the event, and you will certainly find that your dispatches, whenever they come, will confirm of my corns.’ “This happened on Wednesday last and the minister took down the par- ticulars in his commonplace book im- mediately.” The foregoing tit-bits are sand- wiched in between accounts of hold- ups by footpads, of which there had been two on tha previous day; a de- scription of a sanguinary duel arising out of a dispute about America, and other “local news." The record of the affair of honor, which is given in fullest detail in the Gazetteer of July 4, Is as follows: “A remarkable duel happened lately in Bedfordshire. Two gentlemen, dis- puting about American politics, grew warmer in their argument as the bot- tle went around, till at last one gave the other the lie. The expression was jmmediately returned by throwing a bottle half full of wine at the other’s head, which grazed his temples. They immediately retired and procured pis- tols and fought before they were sober, when the gentleman who had given the lie was shot so dangerously in the shoulder that his life is de- spaired of. If he dies, he will leave a widow and seven young children.” Much Entertainment Available. So as vou will see, apart from the rather languid public interest in the war with the colonies, life in England in July, 1776, was proceeding on the accustomed lines. That there was entertainment for everybody accord- ing to his _means and inclinations, from cockfights (a particularly at- tractive ‘cocking main’ was _an- nounced on July 4 for the followWing day) to_ theatricals “of the highest class,” the newspaper advertisements make plain. At the Theater Royal, in the Hay- market, a comedy called “The Maid of Bath” was being performed, ap- parently with huge success, by *Mr. Foote" and his company, and at the Royal, Richmond Green, there was to be forthcoming on July 6 another comedy, yclept “Love in a Village,” to which it appears was to be added “Bon-Tnn, or High Life Above Stairs. Simultaneously the Marylebone Gar- dens announced: “This evening, the 4th instant (the weather having been unfavorable Tuesday night), the ele- gant ballroom erected for the Grand Festival di Campagna will be illumi- Send na ior FreelJZO Highway 2« and Resort Map of Ontario the testimony HIGHLANDS OF ONTARIO {nated in the most superb and mag- { nificent style. That the English news. both grave and gay, of July and August, 1776, is thus available is due to a famous character of that time. He was Dr. Charles Burney, musiclan and author, who was born in 1726 and died in 1814 at the ripe age of §8. Dr. Burney, who was sire to the yet more renowned Fanny Burney, the diarist, and a friend of that impas- sioned advocate of American inde- pendence, Edmund Burke, painstak- ingly collected the London newspa- pers published during the latter years of his life and as carefully preserved them. They formed part of his fine library, which, after his death, was | purchased by the British Museum for | 13,500 pounds. And at the Museum those old London journals may be | studied today; and the more readily as in the compact volumes into Which they have been made all the news- papers of the same date are bound together. 7 Of the dally newspapers which were being published in London in 1776, only one, the Morning Post, still survives. It was founded in 1772, the year in which newspapers were first permitted to report the proceedings | in Parllament. The now venerable | Times did not come into being until | 1785, nine years after the Declaration of Independence and two years after | ite tardy acceptance by treaty. | They are a quaint contrast to newspapers of the present day. “'F torfals,” like real headline: re absel from them, the place of the former being taken by letters from corre- spondents, generally addressed, not to the editor, but to the printer of the journal. As for the views of the edi- tors themselves, these are set forth in the briefest fashion in the ordinary news columns, wherein we find only such unexciting captions as “Advices | from America.” or from Russia or Spain, as the case might be. Provided Spicy Reading. But if these journals were not thrill- | ing, they certainly provided spicy reading. There was a distinct ab sence of prudishness in those times and dectdedly naughty anecdotes, and reflections upon the morality of public characters, women particularly, fig- ured regularly in the journalistic bill of fare. All the London morning papers con- sisted of four pages of about the same size as those of the tablolds of today. The price of the Morning Post and Gazetteer was twopence half penny (5 cents). This seems high, considering the value of money in those days, but you have to remember that news- papers-in England were subject to a tax on every copy they issued. At the beginning of the reign of George the Third the tax on newspapers was | 1 penny a copy: in 1776 it was raised to 3 halfpence; by 1815 it had in. creased to 4 pence and the price of | the newspapers themselves to 7 pence, or 14 cents in our money. In reading through these old files one gets a truer picture of life in England when George the Third was King than is obtainable from any his tory of England ever written. the | Spelling Always Unique. The essential quaintness of what was gravely chronicled by those | efghteenth century scribes is helght- | ened by the antiquated spelling, with | most of the “s's” turned into “f's.” | A description of a solar phenomenon | witnessed at Philadelphfa just before | the battle of Lexington and Concord, which was regarded — mistakenly enough, as it proved--as foreshadow- ing more cordial relations between England and her American colonies, s reproduced in this form. It is thus reported in the Gazetteer of May 29, 1775: By a letter from Philadelphia dated April 3 we have advice of a phenomenon having been feen there | and aftronomers have delivered it | as their opinfon that it prognofticates | a union of America with the Mother Country; an event more to be defired | than expected. | “A few davs before the above date, about 11 o'clock in the morning. an' eccentric circle appeared round the fun and another paffing through its per- iphery and the fun's center. Both | thefe circles were luminous, but the outermoft edge of the largeft centric crcle, which pointed toward the north, w: very broad and bright: on each fide eaftward and weftward upon its edge appeared to fpots. It is faid that there are thofe who faw foon after the fun's rifing two funs and three circles. (Copyright. 1926. by North American News- paper Alliance.) 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Pointing to what he considered the waning enthustasm for liberty throughout the world and the “dis respect and even econtempt” into which national parlfaments have allen, the Ambassador asserted tha: the problem of republics is to “‘make representative institutions so simple and effective in executing the popular will that the body of pecple will have neither the occasion nor the tempta- tion to resort to irresponsible dicta- torship. Dictators Passing Fad. Ambassador Schurman said, how- ever, that the recrudescence of these “outworn agencies of government,” was merely a passing phenomenon of the post-war period. Since the Roman Empire, nations have always turned toward dictators in times of distress. At the same time he admitted that the will of the people is not necessarily and adequately expressed through parliaments or representative institue tions as they are organized at present. Discussing the American revolution, he said that it had caused jubilation in France and in Germany. Lessing Goethe and Kant particularly hailed it as promoting the idealism of hu manity. Americans Repudiate Jefferson. “There are today many people who think less of individual freedom than of State control which {s their panacea for uplifting the masse: he con tinued. “Candor compels me to add that the American people themselves« hawe found the Jeffersonian doctrine of liberty somewhat too rigid They have deemed it necessary to qualify in the fleld of economic activity, hoth the right of individual liberty ‘and the right of individual ownership by public supervision, regu lation and control “But the American people stand squarely opposed to state socialism and still more opposed, if that be pos- sible, to communism, being convinced at the community of property al ways results in community of poverty Not governments but individuals have been the creations of human progress.” Semsev FERRY Motorists to the Seashore AVOID DELAYS—save 60 miles and several hours. 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