The Winslow mail., 1923-06-29

"The present annual federal expenditure OF sew
enty to eighty millions for public roads was un
dreamed of. Some years were to pass before we
undertook the reclamation of our arid lanos
through federal agencies. Rural free delivery ndu
not even entered upon the period of academic us
cussiOn Federal land banks unthought OF
except in the minds of few students OF Iorelen
agricultural credits. Women voted In genera
elections nowhere in the Union save in my State
of Wyoming and the Eighteenth amendment ia"
not been thought Of"
Independence day this year will nave ne"
feature in its celebration: the honorng OF James
Monroe, fifth president of the United States anu
author of the Monroe Doctrine. Senate joint res
oution 274 in the last congress- to provide TOT tie
participation of the United States in the obserV-
ance of the hundredth anniversary OF the
enuncaton of the Monroe Doctrine and OF tne
ninety-second anniversary of the death OF JalleS
Monroe, is substantially follows:
Resolved, ETC., That there is hereby estaDnsheo
the Monroe Doctrine Centennial commission
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the
sum Of $122,5 800 to be expended by the congress
sonal commission The sum of $67,5oo may De
expended in cooperation with the James Monroe
Memorial Association and Foundation, for the
purpose of contributing to the purchase and res
toration of the former home of James Monroe III
the city of New York. permanent memorial
and the creation Of memorial foundation, the
income from which shall be used for purposes OF
f,lrthering progress amity, and good will among
the peoples of the Pan-American republics. Fifty
five thousand dollars may be expended In coop
GRAFTON with the National Committee OF CeleDra-
ton for the purpose of participating in a general
program Of public celebration of the one hundredth
anniversary of the enunciation of the Monroe
Doctrine to be held in New York and Washington
and in the places of the birth and Of the burial
of James Monroe; and participating IN memorial
services to be held in New York, on July 4, 1923
the ninety-second anniversary of his DEATH NO
expenditures shall be made until the James Mon
roe Memorial Association and Foundation has ex-
nended or contracted to expend at least the sum
of S67 800 for the same purposes
When Clemenceau was here he put in his 1ttn-
erarv two must" things: To place wreath at
Tinc0ln's tomb and to touch the Liberty Bell lie
did both. And in this connection, Representative
F B. Gernerd of Pennsylvania was moved In the
last congress to retell the story Of the famous
Journey of the Liberty Bell to Allentown, Pa. dur
ing the Revolution He said in part:
at was after the battle of Brandywine, Sept. II,
1777, that General Washington ordered the trans
fer Of all military stores to Bethlehem, Pa Even
before that critical hour had arrived, the Pennsyl
vania assembly awoke to the gravity of the situa-
tion and passed a resolution on the sixteenth day
of June authorizing the removal of all bells, as
we'll as all the copper and BRASS in the city Of
philadelphia to some place of safety the Liberty
Re was not taken from independence Hall until
after General Washington's order had been given.
II constituted part of the military train Of 700
wagons which carried the whole of the heavy
baggage of the army, which was escorted by 200
Virginia and North Carolina soldiers under the
command of Col. William Polk of North Carolina.
That famous caravan proceeded along the banks
Of the Delaware river to Trenton, and from there
Travelled through wild and rugged country to Beth
lehem arriving there the twenty-fOurth day of
September 1777. After the military train had
reached Bethlehem the wagon upon which the Lib
erty Bell was loaded broke down in the street.
"The next day the bell was placed on the wagon
of Frederick Leaser, who, together with John
Jacob Mickey, escorted by small guard of sol
diers brought 1t and the chimes of Christ church.
eight in number, to Allentown, where they were
placed in the basement of the German Zions Re
formed church, where 1t was kept in hiding until
the following spring, when the British army eyac-