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First drafts of
TODAY IN HISTORY
Baytown Sun Weekly Survey
and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States;
powers.
39.0%
Yes
55.6%
out their substance.
Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts
Like Lee Greenwood, I’m proud to be
friends from the old homeplace. (Think
could sit on lawn chairs in the Browns’
And, yes, for purple mountain majesties day. And it is usually scorching hot.
SEE FINLEY • PAGE 6A
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In CONGRESS, July 4,1776
The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America
loving America and celebrating the Dec-
laration of Independence. I’m all for the
Declaration and what it stands for, even
WANDA
ORTON
Christmas, there’s no turkey, or football,
or bright lights, or chestnuts roasting on
an open fire. Except for nighttime fire-
works, it’s kind of a quiet, less exciting
JIM
FINLEY
them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their Cre-
ator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —That to
secure these rights, Governments are instituted among
Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed, —That whenever any Form of Government
confess that July The Fourth is not among
my favorite holidays. Please hold your
fire.
It has nothing to do with the large ma-
Wanda Orton is a retired managing editor of The Sun.
She can be reached at viewpoints@baytownsun.com, At-
tention: Wanda Orton.
This week’s question: “What should be on the Texas
Legislature special legislative session agenda?
Respond at www.baytownsun.com
tory, Daily Sun issues from June 4, 1937
and July 9, 1937 rediscovered among my
stashed away files.
In a previous column I wrote about the
June 4 issue and today it’s the 9th of Ju-
ly’s turn, circa 1937.
One of the top stories on that date was
the search for Amelia Earhart and Fred
Noonan, whose plane went down some-
where in the Pacific or on an island.
More news from the United Press, the
Sun’s wire service back then: President
Last week, Sun readers
were asked “Will
state’s new permitless
gun carry law make
Texas safer?”
Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Tri-
al by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pre-
tended offenses:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a
Roosevelt refused to consider a proposal to limit tenns of
US Supreme Court Justices. An amendment to the consti-
tution would require justices to retire at age 75.
Another story from the wire service describes a Repub-
lican’s rampage concerning tax returns. Rep. Hamilton
Fish of New York said the president’s wife Eleanor Roos-
evelt has a “smart little scheme” to avoid paying taxes on
income from her radio broadcasts. The First Lady gave
the money to charity.
In local news, plans were announced for the annual
picnic of The Baytown Chamber of Commerce at the
Bayshore home of Joe Douglas. Eddie Cox, Jack Saun-
ders, and Luther McDowell served on the picnic commit-
tee.
A reunion of the Robert E. Lee class of 1935 was set for
July 10, 1935, at the W.O.W. Hall on East Texas Avenue.
W.A. Read and his Hotcha Rhythm Boys were booked
to play for the event. Their instruments - in keeping with
“bam dance” theme-included a wash board and a wash
tub.
The incorporation of Pelly may no longer exist if the
citizens decide to “dis-incorporate”.
Bids were called for the construction of 64 units on
Sam Houston Fanns in Highlands.
Grocery News- H.T.Havis changes the location of his
food market from Pelly to Wooster.
Specials at Wehring/s (we deliver) market include Im-
perial Sugar in a 10 pound cloth bag for 49 cents...a dozen
oranges for 22 cents...a pound of bacon for 25 cents...a
bar of Lifebuoy soap for 6 cents...3 pound package of Ad-
miration coffee for 73 cents.
free. If you don’t count IRS/NSA espio-
nage.
COLUMN DIVERSION: Not that it has
anything to do with this story, but I once
met Lee Greenwood when I was an As-
sistant Congressional Executive (ACE).
I wonder if he remembers me? Probably.
Moving on.
It’s also true that I love America be-
cause of its beautiful spacious skies. Not
to mention those amber waves of grain.
column was first published on June 30,
2013.)
On July 4,1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.
On this 245th celebration of the birth of the United States of America, it is our hope that by re-
reading this amazingly brash yet powerfully moving statement will help us remember the reasons
and principles upon which our forefathers formed a new, American nation.
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blame them.
Their move, however, left a giant hole
in our holiday hearts. That’s still true to-
day. Like, as I so adroitly write this, I’m
still not sure what, if any, family plans are
scheduled. We’re always the last to know.
What is vivid in my mind is our July
4th three years ago (our first “Brownless”
one). It was the dullest holiday of all time,
and that’s a long time. I hope there is no
repeat.
It was so bad I was almost moved to
tears. So bad that I ended up writing a
piece about it. You may remember.
The downhill Fourth slide was brought
about in large measure because members
of our family were either already out of
town or packing and preparing to leave.
an American, where at least I know I’m jority of us - the IRS is NOT included
history from 193'
“Everything is copy” writer Nora Ephron used to say,
quoting another writer, her mother.
While it’s a great mantra for all writers, we may wonder
what happens when the copy grows old.
Got it: “Everything is history”..
Naturally, I think of “copy” in newspaper terms, and I
bet Nora Ephron did too, along with her screenplays and
books. She had a newspaper background (columnist and
reporter) so she likely was aware of the frequently quoted
statement, “newspapers are the first drafts of history.”
Lately, I’ve been reading two of those first drafts of his-
On this date:
In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted
by delegates to the Second Continental Congress.
In 1826, 50 years to the day after the Declaration of In-
dependence was adopted, fonner presidents John Adams
and Thomas Jefferson both died.
In 1939, Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees deliv-
ered his famous farewell speech in which he called him-
self “the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”
In 1960, America’s 50-star flag, recognizing Hawaiian
statehood, was officially unfurled.
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years on end we’d drive
to Lake Jackson to the
estate of great pals I.J.
and Annette Brown to
celebrate the F ourth. On
hand were many, many
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British
the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment Crown, and that all political connection between them
of their salaries. and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they
hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing and Things which Independent States may of right do.
Armies without the consent of our legislatures. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reli-
He has affected to render the Military independent of ance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutual-
and superior to the Civil power. ly pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our
He has combined with others to subject us to a juris- sacred Honor.
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of neighboring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary
the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to ren-
Government, laying its foundation on such principles der it at once an example and fit instrument for introduc-
and organizing its powers in such fonn, as to them shall ing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of
established should not be changed for light and transient our Governments:
causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring
mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suf- themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all
ferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms cases whatsoever.
to which they are accustomed. But when a long train He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us
of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same out of his Protection and waging War against us.
Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt
Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
such Government, and to provide new Guards for their He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign
future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation
of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cru-
constrains them to alter their fonner Systems of Govern- elty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barba-
ment. The history of the present King of Great Britain rous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized
[George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usur- nation.
pations, all having in direct object the establishment of He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive
an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to
Facts be submitted to a candid world. become the executioners of their friends and Brethren,
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most whole- or to fall themselves by their Hands.
some and necessary for the public good. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us,
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of im- and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our
mediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known
their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all
when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend ages, sexes and conditions.
to them. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Peti-
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommo- tioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our re-
dation of large districts of people, unless those people peated Petitions have been answered only by repeated
would relinquish the right of Representation in the Leg- injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by ev-
islature, a right inestimable to them and fonnidable to ery act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler
tyrants only. of a free people.
He has called together legislative bodies at places un- Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British
usual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of brethren. We have warned them from time to time of
their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable
them into compliance with his measures. jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the cir-
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, cumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We
for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity,
rights of the people. and we have conjured them by the ties of our common
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would in-
to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative evitably interrupt our connections and correspondence,
powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of
People at large for their exercise; the State remaining consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the
in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold
from without, and convulsions within. them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War,
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these in Peace Friends.
States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Natu- We, therefore, the Representatives of the United
ralization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to en- States of America, in General Congress, Assembled,
courage their migrations hither, and raising the condi- appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the
tions of new Appropriations of Lands. rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemn-
refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary ly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are,
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stately driveway and watch the city’s This left us feeling alone and abandoned,
spectacular fireworks show as if we were So how did we spend the day? (Hope
on site instead of about a mile away. you can stand the excitement.) We began
But the Browns moved to Georgetown by cleaning out my closet and discarding
though I think John Hancock, who now high school reunion here.)
owns an insurance company, was a show- Besides sharing friendships that never
off for signing his name so big. grow old (the people do, not the friend-
It’s just that unlike Thanksgiving and ships), there was food aplenty. And we
above the fruited plain. (What does that A number of things have also changed a few years back to be closer to daughter
mean, exactly?). I point all this out - I in my life regarding July 4th. Most impor- Debra and granddaughter Bailey. I don’t
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