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Show celebrated the anniversary of their Independence. In-dependence. Emerging, with colors triumphant, tri-umphant, from participation in the World war, the Stare and Stripes have taken on added luster and today they float over the happiest and most prosperous pros-perous people on the earth. OUR COUNTRY DATE OF INDEPENDENCE DEMANDS FITTING CELEBRATION. We are told by historians that Bjorne Hergulfson, an adventurous Icelander, was the first to see this continent. This was In the year 98G and the land he saw was believed to be Nantucket, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Lief Erlckson, In the year 1000, In Bjorne's ship, set sail for Greenland, Green-land, landed In Newfoundland and later In Nova Scotia and still later on the shores of Massachusetts bay. The claim Is made that he was the first paleface to set foot on the American continent. Descendants of Columbus strenuously strenu-ously deprecated the . importance of the discoveries of "Eric the Red," but the Americanist society declares that Columbus himself knew of the voyages voy-ages and settlements of the Norsemen, having Informed himself thereof when he visited Iceland In 1477. Be that as It may, Columbus has the iBdvantage of tradition, of familiarity, famil-iarity, of the facility with which an at least apparent connection is established estab-lished between the man and what came after him. On June 24, 1497, John Cabot, an Englishman, saw the dismal cliffs of Labrador. That was 14 monthft before be-fore Columbus, on his third voyage, came in sight of the mainland of South America. Amalrle was the name which compacted com-pacted the old ideal of heroism and leadership. It meant "the man who ruled because he labored for all." This name the Norman French shortened to Amaury. In Italy the name suffered suf-fered euphonic changes and It became Amelrico, but the Juxtaposition of the two consonants "1" and "r" presented a difficulty In pronunciation and the "Ir" was changed to "rr" and finally to one "r." Down the centuries the name remained, and from Amerrlco Vespucl came the oyime of the new world. The Mayflower cast anchor in the wnters off Cape Cod on Novemher 21, 1621. The Pilgrims finally decided on Plymouth as the spot for settlement. The first settlement had been established, estab-lished, however, at Jamestown since 1607. Its early record was one of continuous con-tinuous misfortune from nn oppressive op-pressive government to famine and Indian In-dian massacre. The first legislative assembly convened July 30, 1719. On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of, Independence was agreed to and Matthew Mat-thew Thornton affixed his signature to the engrossed copy. On January 18, 1777, an authentic copy with the names of the members of congress was ordered and a copy was sent to each of the United States to be placed on record." ', This greyt state paper, "unequnled In eloquence and dignity," was the product, largely, of Thomas Jefferson I and Benjamin Franklin, and H Is said Thomas Paine, Franklin's friend, wrote the firs! draft presented lo congress. From that time to this the people t the Piiired States of Ami-rui" have |