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JEFFERSON'S 616 PUKED IMPOfflT ROLE IN HISTORY OF EtRLK IERICI • Is On Exhibition At Philadelphia. Sage of fefontieello' Had No t Idea of Writing Famous . J*aper 1"h,e following information regard ing the,writing and adoption of the Declaration of Independence, written by Girard of the Philadelphia Inquir er, is of special interest to students of the early history of the United States. Quite amazing the amount of mis information .scattered about in refer ence to Jefferson’s gig. Thousands of people were informed that Jefferson brought to Philadel phia in that old vehicle the original draft of the Declaration of Indep enoenee. i he trutn is mat ne brought to Philadelphia not one line of the Declaration, except in his head. When the !%»Ke of Monticello drove up front Virginia to this city in the spring of 177C he had no more motion that anything like a declaration would be required than had any congress man. Jefferson himself left a detailed record of how, when and where he wrote the declaration during June, 177(5. He did all the work in the second-story front room at the corner of Market and Seventh streets. And he did not begin the work un til after he had been selected in June chairman of a committee of five, in cluding Franklin and Adams. The desk upon which he wrote the , declaration is still in exxistence, Jeff erson ordered it made according to his own notion of what a desk should he. And he sat upon a swivel chair— ‘ ~a flew idea at that time. The desk was years afterward pre sented by Jefferson to a member of his .own family, and he wrote a letter saying thut posterity might regard it ns some vulue. Eminently right! The question of where and when he wrote the declara. ' t on came up during his own lifetime. He wrote out all the facts he could recall, mentioning that it was in (.raff’s house he did the work. Graff was a builder, but his was by no means in 177(1 the swellest boarding house in Philadelphia. Market street west of Seventh was hut thinly settled in that day. Ther» ' were fields beyond Broad street. * * * Jefferson was able to settle the question of when and where he wrote the declaration. He was not able to •convince everybody when the signers ^did their part. Forty years after July 4, 1776. some of the signers insisted that no body signed on July 4. Jefferson and Adams exchanged leters on chat topic. They both de clared that everybody signed on July 4th. Many little legends surround the ac tual signing. School hooks say that John Hancock as president of con gress signed first in that historic bold hand so often mentioned he said: “There, 1 fancy John Bull can read thnt without spectacles.” And Franklin got off his usual wit ticism as he signed: "Now we must all hang together or most nssuredly we shall hang sepa lately." * * * Another good story about the mom ents which preceded the signing—if signing there was on July 4—was re lated long afterwards by Jefferson. He had written the declaration and presented it to congress. Then con gress begun to tear what he wrote to shreds. During the long and heated debate over the question of independence, Jefferson, only 23 years old, never once arose to debate. And while criticism fell fast and furious upon certain parts of the de claration he had sweated so hard to produce, the author of it said not a single word in its defense. Jefferson on July., 4 sat in congress beside Franklin who was 70 years old, and almost like a grandfather to many of the other congressmen, in. eluding Jefferson. Franklin was the only man in con gress who already enjoyed a world reputation. And Jefferson wrote how Franklin tried to soothe the former’s feelings as .his literary product was being so harshly handled. * * * Nearly a third of what Jefferson wrote in the declaration was cut out that day. But Franklin suggested, so Jeffer son wrote, that sometimes a thing could be improved by brevity. It was then he related the story about the hatter and the lengthy sign: “Robinson makes and sells good hats for cash.” One word after another was delet ed as unnecessary until just “Hats” remained. Franklin left the infer ence that cutting out useless words greatly improved the sigp. Young Jeffergon was to understand that brevity might improve his de claration. » * » Many wondered at the tijne and since why Franklin had not been chosen to write the declaration. Franklin was easily America's fore most writer at that time. He was j known on two continents fpr the work ofhla pan. lfiverybody called him Doctor, since he had been decorated by various col leges with honorary degrees. Why did not Franklin write the declnra tion ? Some of Jefferson's friends said long afterward the reason was that' Franklin would have put a joke in the declaration.” But Frunklin. who for years had been an editor, said he had long made it a rule to write nothing vyhich had first to pass the censorship of others, i * # *' «’ ! A cool day was July 4, 1776, as I recently explained in detail. It was ten degrees cooler than the average Fourth in Philadelphia dur ing the past fifty years. Seven of the men out of the fifty six who signed, were buried in Old Christ churchyard. Caesar Kodney, of Delaware, who had ridden eighty miles from Dover to vote for Independence on July 2, was a very ill man r.t the time. He was renlly dying of cancer. John Adams wrote his wife next day that Rodney was the queerest looking man, "with a face no bigger j than an apple.” We now have u society of the des. eendants of the signer*. We think of the act of signing as the supreme evidence of patriotism. The signature to no other document in all history compares to this one. But in 1776, the congressmen themselves regarded the act of July 2, when they voted for independence, as the critfial thing. Would thnt not be the case today? Would not the final passage by con gress of some revolutionary law be viewed with more terror or hope than the act of signing the law two days afterwards? Well, the truth is that at first Coo tinental Congressmen regarded July 2 as the epochal day. John Adams at the time wrote that it should forever be celebrated wit.li ring of bells, fireworks and othei evidence of jubilation. But as the years passed, the sign ing ami the signers loomed forth a* the colossal evidence of American patriotism. —Girard. A Ford “Six” Next The Pathfinder. Recent nuto price cutting indicates renewed competition among the map. | ufacturers. Used cars continue to be I a drug on the market. Dealers are I striving to market new models. A few concerns have increased produc tion and sales enormously f,*?* many others are in a slump. The talk of the trade is the de crease in Ford sales. The Chevrolet’s new bid for popularity—over 260,000 being sold in the past five months— and the lowered cost of other cars hurt the flivver. The trade says the June reduction in Ford prices, aver ! aging $45, and recent “beautification of the Ford car is not enough. Rum ors are now current that Henry Ford plans to supplant his present model with a six-cylinder and gear shift car selling at about the same price. The net profit on the present Ford is esti mated to be $24. The Buick is said to be about ready to introduce a sleeve valve motor of its own design. Auto dealers complain that intro duction o fthe “drive-ii-yourself” sy.i tem has hurt their business. John P. Hertz, of Yellow Cab tame, heads n new $30,000,000 venture in this line. A new and more elaborate attempt is being made to introduce in this country the cheap “bug” car so popu lar in Europe. The new cai is known as the Whippet. Before the war an effort to popularize a small two-seat ed car ended in failure because users did not take kindly to the dust. Re nault and Peugeot arc said to be be hind the new move. More than 20,000,000 autos were in use in this country in 1025, the bu reau of public roads reports. This is one motor vehicle for every six per sons. New York leads in registration, though California, Ohio, Pennsyl vania and Illinois each have over 1, 000,000. About 1,500.0(10 cars were junked last year. The industry claims that the average life of a car is now eight years, though users are inclin ed to cut this figure in half. Loud paint colors and sport road sters with “rumble seats” are in great demand just now. But the open ear is disappearing. Ninety per cent of all pleasure cars now manufactured arc closed models. In 1916 closed cars represented less than two per cent of the total. Then people were afraid to ride in them. Irens Idea of It One theory of compensation is that a person should be paid for his work according to its difficulty and not ac cording to the skill with which he per forms it. A certain Washington wo man was a convinced adherent of that theory. She was about to engage a maid. It seems to me, she said, that you ask very high wages, seeing that you’ve had not experience. Oh, no, ma’am, said the girl earn estly. You see, it’s much harder work when you don’t know how. Astounding Eli Rienu-r is a patient at the local hospital with a broken leg. as a re sult of a fall at his home. Fifty years ago the same limb was amputated.— Marion (Ohio) Star. A Modern Samson The Rev., Frazier will preach Sun day evening, after which the church will be closed for necessary repairs, —. Town Live, Columbus, Ohio. Insurance Man Gets Promotion On Job Gastonia Gazette. Ike H. Gantt, for the past eight I years manager of the local district ot fice for the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance company, will on August 1, become manager of the Western North Carolina business office in Asheville of his company. He will move his family to that city on 01 before that date, it wap disclosed Sat urday afternoon. Following the death of Mr. T. S. Franklin, of Charlotte, who was manager of the offices for Jefferson Standard in this part of the state, a conference was held in Greensboro which was attended by Mr. Gantt. Messrs. L. W. Brooks, of the Char lotte branch and Gantt, of the local office, were found to be on an equal footing for promotion. Beginning August 1, Mr. Gantt will have sup. ervision of all the offices in North Carolina west of Gastonia. Mr. Brooks will have the office in the Charlotte territory. Mr, Gantt has been in Gastoftto for the past eight years. He started with the Jefferson Standard corpora tion here with only one salesman aiding him. Hjs business grew rapid ly and he is pow a member of Jeffer* son Standard's Julian Price club, Mil. lion Dollar club, etc. Ha is manager of the office, here, covering the terri tory in Jjaston, Cleveland, . Lincoln, York and Chester, ,S. C., counties. -i* * Talk Up Your Town —You Live In It “Now the town in which you live in is your own; your business is here; yoitr job is here; your property is here. Do you think you are going to make your business any better or add to the value of your property by standing around and roaring about what a rotten town it is? If you do you’d better see an alienist about yout mental condition. As a matter of fact, every time you ‘run down' your town you are hurting your own business and detracting from the value of your property. “Even though you may have no pride in your community, you ought to have sense enough not injure your own interests. Every business con cern, in addition to a stock of goods and plant, has intangible assets of the greatest value. Among the as sets is its good name, its reputation for square dealing. When you hurt the good name of such a concern you injure it more than you would if you should burn down its plant. Besides its business and industrial institutions, its homes, schools and all other kinds of property, every town has intan gible assets which must be protected. “When you talk down your town you are injuring its good name and thereby giving it a blow of the most serious kind. If you want your busi ness to be better, if you want your property to increase in value, if you live in a better town, forget your grouch and begin to talk for yoqr town instead of running it down.” Pointed Toes And High Heels Coming Boston.—Two-inch heels and point ed toes for men, with round toes and plainer effect for women, are some of the new styles shown at the New j England shoe and leather expostion and style show here. Lizard skins will not be confined to the “lounge” type but will be gen erally worn my males is the belief of some of the exhibitors. The higher and narrower shoes will complement the decidedly less wide trousers which other, makers think will be the vogue.. There were diamond studded heels on painted silver slippers and gor geous afternoon high boots with little pockets to hold perfume bottles and cigaret cases for Milady, but in gen eral, the experts said, women’s shoes would be simpler and smarter. Defines News Henry Justin Smith, managing edi tor of the Chieogo Daily News, gives the following ten definitions of what constitutes news: News is synthetic food delivered for the purpose of satisfying a great human hunger. News is a revelation of things which a few people know about, made fot the benefit of millions who would not otherwise know about those things. News is the telescope and micro scope in social laboratories. News is an unrhetorical essay on life. It is poetry without form and art without artistic intention. News is like the explosion of a hidden mine on a peaceful section of ^ battle front. News is a record of the good and the bad, but hardly ever of the indif ferent. News is a statement, not always of the new, but sometimes of the new made old; a statement not merely of the unusual, but often of the cruel. News, which sometimes spoken of as history, is rather an ingredient of histcry, and one which does not al ways stand the test of science. News is ah implement wielded by a profession which is no respector of persons, but tries to be a respector of human conventions, according to the standards of a given time. News at its best is the pompreben-, sive credible, tbs enterprising bu: judiciops, the eternal circumspect, but above all the fundamentally fearless disclosure of what the human race has been doing for the last 2-1 hours. |Dr. Wall To Preach To Colored People (Special to The Star) . • Rev. Zeno Wall, D. D., the very ef ficient pastor of the First Baptist church, of Shelby, and one of the greatest evangelists of the South, will preach at Roberts Tabernacle. C. M. E. church July 11, at 3 p. m. There is a real treat in store for every one. Dr. Wall is a great preacher and soul winner. The congregations of all churches are expected to be present. There will be special music rendered by our choir, and other musical talent of Shelby. It is expected that quite a number of Shelbys best white citizens v/ill be present. There will he reserv ed seats for white people. Every body is invited to hear this great pul piteer at 3 o’clock Sunday. W. O. Miller, pastor. A. H. Roberts, recording steward Disillusioned "But, dear,” a fond rpother inquir ed of her newly wedded daughter, “what mukes you think your husband would be poor protection?” Well, was the naive reply, the other night i thought I heard a burg lar; so I woke Fred up and we both l'stened. And sure enough we could hear someone prowling around down stairs. So 1 became frightened and told my husband that I was going to crawl under the bed ? What did he say, dear? Better stay where you are, darling; I don’t think there’s room for both of us under there. Wanted: Sesqui Field Son" Meet me at St. Louis, Lotiie, Meet me at the fair! Don’t tell me the lights are shining Any place but there! We’ll see the hoochy-eoochie, I’ll be your toosy-wootsie, If you’ll meet me at St. Louis, Louie, Meet me at the fair! There, in pulsing, lyric syllables, is what made the exposition of 1904 such a great success, and there, in a nutshell, is just what the current af fair in Philadelphia lacks. How can we have an exposition unless we have a song about it? Let this song be composed at once. Let it sing of the flag, and make it rhyme with “grand old rag,’ let it bring in the red, white, and blue, and rhyme these colors with “tried and true;’ let it allude at least once to the Liberty Bell, and rhyme this with “Sesqui-cen - enni - ell;" let the last line be: “And you can put your John Hancock on that!" We nominate Mr. George M. Cohan, as our outstanding authority on the flag, to do the job. Lei hi income out ot his retirement at once, for time grows short, and, if we cannot sing about the Sesquicentennial, it is in danger of being a flop.—New York World, A detour may be the roughest wav ■ home, but don’t forget that it’s tne j ofily one, too. a" u % u THEY SAY OF FLORIDA— f j That on that flat j peninsular the eye j starves to death. j The vision needs foqd» as the stomach needs nourishment. Which thought brings us along to the Affleck prop- t prfy a t Cleveland j Springs. On a hilltop, these lots—all 29 of j them — command a i view of land and sky, , mountain and valley Veiled and tranquil distances, and nearby homey touches of the peace of rural farms. That soul satisfying view is an asset to this property o f incalcu- ! lable value. i * i j See your realty broker TOpAY and make arrangements to buy one of these lots while they are GO ING. When they are GONE you will regret it. Phillip G. Affleck, I Developer. , ’ July And August Are the months during which great care must be taken tp keep meats fresh and wholesome. It is said to our credit that our supplies are fresh during the hot months es during the cold. That’s because we fake especial care of all the products we handle. Buy here and be confident of fresh and tasty meats. Sanitary Market — PHONE 48 — Insure Today Tis better to be insured and suffer no loss than lose all you have by spying premiums. Because—v“ He that has insurance and laughs, laughs best.” We write all kinds of ifijurpnce, Fire, Ac cident, Automobile, Rain, Wind, etc. Why not let us write ypur insurance re quirements? Cleveland Bank & Trust Company Shelby, N. C. Its Too Hot For the women f ofc to stand oyer tubs and ironing boards thjese Jujy days. It is our job to do tbe cleaning and the scouring of garments^ toiled by hot yregth er wear. We are equipped for it j do it with the minimum of effort—apd altp the ipini mum of cost. Pass up the job of oleapipg clothes these days, and bring the garments to us. We guarantee an expert job. Shelby Dry Cleaning Co. BEAM SLOCK. — PHONE 113 — Special Tax Notice All persons who have not fcoujrht their City License Tags are requested to do so at once as we have instruction# to #tpp all car s and require the owner to purchase a tag or be cited to Court. We now have a license tax on all business establish ments, including stores which were not taxed last year. The year begins June 1st and Is payable in advance, so call and pay this tax also, as it is a viodation of the law to conduct your business, without first having procured a license. B. O. HAMRICK, Special Tax Collector. James The Red Headed Guy At The Star Wants A Well, By George—Speaking of hot weather—We want yp|i to know that we a f e telling Leonard Refrigerators, Ice Boxes, Porch and Lawn Furniture to beat the band—An4 we have a few left of each. Come around and look ’em over. The best place in town to buy Furniture, Home Furnishings and Other tli^fs. — THANK Y0U — The Paragon Furniture Co. “ON TH£ 3QU4RE.” Shelby’* Leading Furniture Dealer* and Undertaker*. “ON THE JQB DAY AND NIQHT."
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