Observatory comments, p.4

Observatory comments, p.4

"Last weekend thousands who had planned their joyous holiday vacation are in some state of grief this weekend. Some with the “it couldn’t happen to me” attitude have lived to find out it actually could happen, others will never know. Many people have many different ways in which they celebrated the fourth of July. The reason for such varied celebration is results that the sense of its meaning has failed to sustain in the minds of the majority. From an editorial in a recent issue of Life magazine, here are a few points of view on what the fourth really means. In part it said, “ the signers of the Declaration of Independence shared a strong sense of historical uniqueness of what they were doing”. It as the thinking of Abe Lincoln that the declaration “gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hopes to the world for all future time”. The editorial continued. “The idea that all men are created equal, and are endowed by [ill}. Created with unalienable rights to life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the sole purpose of government is to [ill] these rights-that is surely one of the [ill]-est ideas in the history of human thought. The editorial states, and we agree, that[ill] Declaration of Independence has lost [ill] in recent years, many Americans [ill] ceased to maintain, and perhaps have ceased to believe its literal and universal truth. We do not celebrate the constitution’s birthday nor feel any mission to make [ill] dispensable document a universal model of mankind.”
This is a year of great decisions [ill] time has come for the leaders of this great nation to be chosen. In concluding [ill] editorial stated. “The next president [ill] to be a man who believes so firmly [ill] declaration that he will find practical applications of it everywhere and recognize fixed or fated limits to its truth.”"

Earl Lee Davy

Arkansas State Press

1952-7-11