The Kusko times., 1926-06-26

United States was framed, claims the heRor of being the birtahplace of the. Nation It is a: fitting place to holdi an exhibition of the progress of the United States inn art, science, indus try, and in thea development of pro-. ducts of the air, soil. mine, forest, and sea during the course, Of 150 years. The amount hereby contrih- uteda to, the Exposition by the Cow ernment iS' quite essential, to the end , that the exhibit might be held with suitable grandeur and tlignity& *s ,"
 The Declarations of Independence IS indissolubly connected with Thomas Jefferson, it's author He. wrote that. famous document when he was com parativeIy young man of & years red-headed son of a Virginia pIani- ter. He strongly believed in the doc Urine of equal rights, politically, so- cially and relgously. He had been the author of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and caused it's passage by the, Virginia Assembly, l Part of it reads as follows:
 "Whereas Almighty God hath ere ated the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by. temporal punish- ments or burthens, or by civil inca- pacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness and are a | departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion. who being ] Lord of both body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by eoercionS on either, as was in His Almighty power to do, and so on for, another page of magnificent, eloquent, and glorious defense of the principle of mental lib- erty, ass even more important than ] physical freedom"
 1t is the forerunner of all Amer ! ican documents that make for reli
 gious freedom. It was the Smooth Stone from the Book of Truth which he, like David. hurled at the Philis- tines of higotry and the Goliath of intolerance.
 By participating in this Exposition and celebration we again affirm our faith in Jefferson and the statute
 The. Declaration of Independence sounded the tocsin note of freedom and aroused, as had no other docuA ! ment, a people to realization of their oppression. It was the alarm clock that awakened the sleeping cen .turies. It was as radical as anything l'that has ever come out of Russia.
 When the true history of our faith CTS shall have. been written, | incline to the belief that, Jefferson will have -equal place with Washingtuu.l He was one of the most versatile men of his t;times. Besides hsNing. been q. Mann l Der of Congress, twice. Governor of | Virginia, Minister tCo France, Secre- 1 tary of State. to' Washington, founder of the University of Virginia, and l twice President, he could calculate an i -eclpsey survey an estate, plan an edi- 1 flee, try,a ease, break a horse, dance Ia minuet, and play the fiddle. He was a sort of an Edison, Burbank, Fin stein, all rolled into one. If he were 1 living today he would know all about radio, aviation and the automobile. He probably would have been a baseball fan and his wife a golf widow. He built and equipped Monticello, his lovely home, which partakes of ''the glory that was Greece and the gran deur that was Rome." Monticello is
 now national shrine of democracy. John Adams, second President of the
 United States, and his friend, de-
 scribes how he was welcomed to the :. Continental Congress, as he brought
 with him reputation for literature,
 science, and large talent for com- :. position. He understood Italian, French and Spanish, and had been learning German, and. intended to
 learn Gaelic.
 Withal he had afine sense of
 humor. Too often this is lost sight of,
 and one rarely finds any streak of his
 humor in the tones that have been
 written about him. The common eon-