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Show This, That And The Other BY LES DAVIDSON Sunday, July 4, marked the 167th anniversary of the greatest thing that ever happened. We refer to the signing of the Declaration Declar-ation of Independence; the re- nunciation, for all time, of the shackles which a drunken, bigoted, bigot-ed, egotistic monarchy, had tried to fasten upon those people who had manhood and hardihood enough to leave the old countries and carve for themselves homes in a hitherto uncharted world. During these years there has appeared ap-peared on the screen of human events, men who had the foresight, fore-sight, the humanity, to perceive what this country could become in future years. We, as true Americans, Amer-icans, owe it to our offspring, to ourselves, to our neighbors, to live and act as true Americans; to cast the shackles which wily, soft spoken, oratorical politicians, would bind on us and lead us into slavery which is only different differ-ent from the slavery which caused caus-ed the civil war, because it is dressed in flowery language. ( Two hundred years ago there was chronicled the birth of one, who in the years to come was destined to be leader of men, though not on the battlefield. Thomas Jefferson, once a wealthy Virginian, a patriot who had in his soul the good of all who be-lived be-lived in freedom, the architect of American principles, the declaration declara-tion of Independence, the author of the bill of rights, and the third man to be elected to the high office of-fice of president. He devoted his entire life to the benefit of mankind, man-kind, those who love freedom l'r.nn church and royalty. The artist, Barry Faulkner, in his detail of the large mural in the National Archives, pays this tribute to the author of American freedom. "The truth set forth is fundamental. fundamen-tal. Any person who does not love and cleave to his natural, God-given God-given right is a craven, any government gov-ernment that denies to its citizens the free exercise of these rights is a despotism; any party, system, sys-tem, or association that denies or challenges the exercise of these rights is a menace to free government." gov-ernment." He was practically penniless vhen he passed away, but his works live after him and create a monument that will not pass while there lives on this earth a man who belives in the principles princip-les of liberty and freedom. Consumation of a poet's dream was effected Sunday, July 4 It seems that many things happen on that date when a glider load for Russia was delivered in London Lon-don after a trip of 3500 miles from Montreal, Canada. U-boats will not deter these flying boats and Hitler or his satalites have not the control of the air that they at one tme enjoyed. The load was drawn by a twin-motored Douglas Doug-las C-47, a transport called a "Dakota" by the inhabitants of the British isles. The journey occupied oc-cupied 28 hours, the distance covered cov-ered 3500 miles. It was the fulfillment ful-fillment of the poetic dream of sixty odd years ago when he penned pen-ned these words, before even an airplane was thought of. "And the heavens were filled with commerce, Argosies of magic mag-ic sails, Riders of the purple twilight Dropping down with costly bales" Quite a distance from the ox drawn freight wagon of the earlier earl-ier days, eh ? -Tennyson's Locklesley Hall, 1842. Congress has taken a hand in the making of Jackson Hole one of the most beautiful spots of America, and the refuge of the fast disappearing game into a playground for the motorist who desires to get away from the enervating en-ervating heat of the East. This was done by Presidential edict clearly against the powers of Congress, and against the w'll of the people who braved the perils of the frontier to dee".op this wonderland. A committee has been appointed to enquire into this flagrant absorption of the rights of Congress, and we bet that when they get through there will be an absolute renunciation of the edict. |