What's in a Namet" 



blessings of our institutions, should be 

 made to stand in front of a lot of the 

 many patriotic shrines so numerous in 

 the North Atlantic states. It is rural 

 New England, however, rather than 

 her capital city, rich as she is in all 

 that stirs our pride, that must appeal 

 most powerfully to those who go to 

 worship there, and draw Americanism 

 pure and unadulterated from her hills 

 and dales, her mountains, lakes and 

 rivers, her rugged headlands, shelving 

 beaches, sea-girt isles and ancient elms; 

 and if we may now turn from town to 

 country which I am always more than 

 ready to do let us revert at once to 

 trees. 



In the sleepy old town of Ipswich, 

 with its venerable elms, its trim colonial 

 homes, its knitting factory on the 

 winding stream, its traditions of gener- 

 ations gone, there may be seen a 

 striking monument to the American 

 Union of States. Thousands of tour- 

 ists have hurried by it year after year, 

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