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"Whatever your occupation may be and however crowded your hours with affairs, do not fail to secure at least a few minutes every day for refreshment of your inner life with a bit of poetry."-Charles Eliot Norton.

So, in line with Ur. n*a""'s good bit of philosophy quoted above, let us start this piece on this good day (it is being written on the Fourth of July) with a bit of doggerel that seems pertinent at the moment:

Some people say that the prospects are grey, And the future looks dark as a fog; And others will cry to the heavens on high, That conditions are all out of cog; While many declare that we're up in the air, Or sunk in the depths of the bog; Remember ! It isn't the dog in the fight That counts. It's the*fight in the dog.

And here's another bit of rhyming that was used very pertly as well as pertinently by the grand old actor, Lionel Barrymore. He was making a speech on advertising to an ad club, and he knocked the audience over with this one:

"There was a L; t our town. And he was wondrous wise, ffe swsre (it was his policy) He would NOT advertise. But one day he DfD advertise, And thereby hangs a tale, The ad was set in wee small type, And headed-'Sherifi's Sale'."

Like I was just saying, I'm tickling this typewriter on the Fourth of July, and since it happens that I've bien reading some Fourth of July facts, written by one of our greatest national historical authorities; and since I gleaned from this reading some very, very interesting matters hitherto unknown to me (or forgotten, which amounts to the same thing) it occurred to me that my reader friends might also like to brush up on some vital history. So I shall boil them down, and send them along. I believe that you, too, may add something to your store of important knowledge concerning the creation of this first great land of the free.

What do we celebrate on July Fourth? The adoption of the document which we call the Declaration of fndependence. But it is likely that the more memorable date with reference to the Declaration was in reality the SECOND of July. For on that day the second Continental Congress adopted a RESOLUTION that had been introduced by Richard Henry Lee on the 7th day of the previous month of June. That resolution called for the adoption of the Declaration.

John Adams, who foru ti. Jr,rrra o, the debate favoring Lee's resolution through the long hours of July L and 2, wrote a letter to his wife, dated July 3rd, in which he said: "Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America, and a greater, perhaps, never was or will be decided among men." The decision was reached, the die was cast on July ,XU.*

In another letter written by John Adams, he said: "The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. f am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by successive generations as the great anniversary festival." But the Declaration was actually adopted on July Fourth, and so we have celebrated that day, rather than the day predicted by John Adams.

Many important Americans think that the Declaration was signed on July Fourth. It has often been so stated in ringing words and phrases by Fourth of July orators. But it wasn't so. After the Declaration had been passed by resolution on July 2nd, and adopted on July Fourth, it was on July 19th that a resolution was made and adopted in the Continental Congress to the effect that the document be engrossed upon parchment for more permanent preservation. Then, on August 2nd, the Declaration was actually signed. But not by the entire Congress, for there were only 50 present that day. Six other names were added later. as follows:

George Wythe was added on August 27th; Richard Henry Lee, Elbridge Gerry, and George Walton signed their names on September 4th; Matthew Thornton signed on the following November 19th; and the name of Thomas McKean was added in the year 1781. It is often stated that there were 55 signers, but there were actualty 56. The story is told that when John Ffancock. was asked (which happened frequently) why he signed the Declaration in such a bold hand, he smilingly replied that he did it because he wanted King George to be able to read it without his glasses.

One of the most popular misstatements concerning the Declaration is that it says that "all men are created free and equal." The word "free" does not appear there. pa-

The Liberty Bell was not rung on July Fourth, as is com,monly stated. ft was rung on July 8th, when the Declaration was publicly read from the steps of the State House at noon. On July 6th the Continental Congress ordered the Declaration printed, and the public reading of same was its official proclama*tion.

The quotation from Leviticus that was cast on the side of the Liberty Bell-"Proclaim liberty to all the land and unto all the inhabitants thereof"-117as in no way related to the Declaration of fndependence, except as to philosophy. The bell, with that quotation on its side, was cast in Britain in 1752. The quotation and the Declaration were, of course, very timely. The bell was recast twice. in America, the quotation being retained in each case. The Journal of the Congress gives the facts concerning the ringing of the Liberty BelL *

The Declaration drew much criticism in the early years following its adoption, from both important Americans and British. Even John Adams, quoted above, declared he thought it too bitter in calling King George a "t5rrant." Others criticized its seeming radicalism, and still others questoned its originality of word and thought, as it came from the pen of Thomas Jefferson.

Concct to Be Held

In Fresno August 4

Secretary Bernard B. Barber, Jr. of San Joaquin HooHoo Club No. 31, Fresno, has announced that a Hoo-Hoo Concat will be held at the Belmont fnn, Fresno, on Friday, August 4. Application blanks may be obtained from the Secretary, 1833 Broadway, Fresno, Calif.

He also announced the date of the Third Annual Valley Frolic, which rvill be held on Saturday, Sepetmber 9, under the direction of Doc Snead.

Lumbermen Ask S. P. Ior More Ccns

The Northwestern California Lumbermen's Club, Eureka, drafted an appeal to the Southern Pacific Railroad, June 27, asking that more freight cars be allocated for shipment of lumber in that area.

The Southern Pacific's subsidiary, the Northwestern Pacific Line, can furnish cars sufficient to handle only 50 per cent of Humboldt County's lumber output, the club stated.

Visits Los Angeles Trqde

R. B. (Dick) Yates, manager of Chapco Sales, lis, Oregon, called on the trade in Los Angeles with Wm. M. Wilson and Frank Surbaugh, Los Southern California distributors of Chaoco Board.

One of the chief criticisms from Americans charged Jefferson with wholesale plagiarism from the political literature of Europe, as well as America. Jefferson made his usual powerful reply to such shafts, when he said: "Whether I had gathered my ideas from reading or refection, I do not know. I only know that I turned to neither book nor pamphlet while writing it. I do not consider it any part of my charge to invent new ideas altogether and to offer no sentiment which had ever been expressed before."

Corvalrecently Angeles,

Tom Jacobsen, Sr., Piedmont Lumber & Nlill Co., Oakland, is on a vacation to the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. lle is accornpanied by his wife and son, Bruce. The trip to Alaska rvas made by steamer from Vancouver, B. C.

But now that time rr", away the passions and prejudices of those violent days, there exists in my mind not the faintest doubt that the hand of Providence itself was guiding the pen of Thomas Jefferson as he wrote, and that it is without exception or challenge the greatest document that ever fell from the mind of mortal man. The charge of some early writers that it was too highly rhetorical, seems foolish in retrospect. Great thoughts must ever be couched in great language. And the finger of God was on Jefferson as he wrote. Never doubt it. The great things of the world don't just happen. There is a guiding F'orce. It was with the tall red-head as he wrote.

For various dates and ,J*.t have used in this piece, I am grateful to the writings of Frank Harmon Garver, historical authority of stature and dependability.

Next Dubs, Ltd. Meeting

luly 2l at S. F. GolI Club

The next dinner meeting and golf tournament of Dubs, Ltd. will be held at the San Francisco Golf Club on Friday, July 21.

Jim Needham, of Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, will be chairman of the day. Tee-off will start at 11 a.m.

With Martin Plywood Co.

Fred E. Kopplin, Sr. is now associated with Kenneth Martin in the Martin Plywood Company, Los Angeles, as manager. Mr. Kopplin has had many years' experience in the plywood and door business, and has been for the past several years with Cole Door & Plywood Co. as manager.

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