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Volume 9 June 30, 1911. Number 26 
A Nation’s Birthday. : 
July Fourth is the anniversary o1 
the birthday of the American Repub- 
lic, the anniversary of the success- 
ful inauguration of a free govern- 
ment upon American soil. In that 
ancient assembly our forefathers 
wrestled with the great social prob- 
lem of humanity, the creation and 
maintenance of a just and equitable 
government ‘‘of the people and for 
the people and by the people’’ to use 
the immortal words of Abraham 
Lincoln. The establishment of a 
free country is the product of ex- 
perience. There is no authority that 
can give unto a nation an orderly 
and well planned method of govern- 
ment. The Nation grappled with the 
problem of humanity and wrested 
from its experience a governmental 
code with much the same determin- 
ation that our ancestors reduced the 
forest land to tillage to gain a live- 
lihood from its virgin soil. Upon 
their experiments rested the destiny 
and hope of free government. Their 
burden is our inheritance and where 
they left off a new generation must 
begin its labors and not fail, for 
America must solve the problems. of 
self government for all nations. 
The nation’s progress must not de- 
ceive. It is still young. For when 
the land was a trackless wilderness 
and the red man wandered at will 
in her ‘‘woods and templed hills’’ 
.. G. BE. WILLMONTON ... 
-Attorney and Counsellor at Law- 
many an ancient government had 
advanced to a stage of civilization 
equal if not surpassing in many re- 
spects the civilization which is now 
ours. Along the green shores of the 
Nile, “‘that carpet of green set down 
into the heart of the Sahara,’’ rose 
the queenly spirit of Egypt. The 
Pyramids of Gizeh and Colossi of 
Thebes were the ‘‘mute inglorious”’ 
evidence of her past glory. Chaldea 
had risen and fallen. So also As- 
syria with all her boasted heraldry 
with mound on mound lifting aloft 
their luxurious palaces; but they 
are all gone. Babylon had thriven 
and fallen and Birs Nimrud lay a 
heap of ruins, a catastrophic symbol 
of Babylon’s ruined institutions. 
They will rise no more! Where is 
the glory of their citizenship? What 
have they left to the modern world 
to solve the problem of citizenship 
and government? On the East 
coast of the Mediterranean the He- 
brews built up a land of Palestine 
and on one of her hills, Jerusalem, 
‘“‘the city of peace,’’ thrice rose and 
fell and of its ancient glory not one 
stone stands upon another. The he- 
roie national labors of Moses, Isaiah, 
Jeremiah and Daniel have perished 
and their children’s children have 
sought an asylum at the ends of the 
earth. 
Spanning the sea the Acropolis 
became the seat of civilization, a 
marvel of Greek skill and art. Her 
walls and sculptures were chaste 
and beautiful and her citizens were 
her matchless glory. Homer, Plato, 
Demosthenes and Eschylus! Where 
is their contribution to modern gov- 
ernment? Their voices are silent 
and degenerate language is spoken 
in the market place. The field 
mouse makes his home beneath the 
fallen ruins of the ancient world and 
the jackal and the night owl add 
the touch of the weird and the ro- 
mantic beneath the shimmering glow 
of a pale moonlight. Where is the 
nation of Herodotus, Sophocles and 
Kuripedes? Fallen from foes from 
within, Greece grows old. From the 
Acropolis to the Forum was but a 
bound, for still westward moved the 
course of empire. Out of the wilder- 
ness, upon the seven hills arose a 
victorious people to move out to 
conquer the known world. Her tem- 
ples, the work of men’s hands and 
her literature the product of men’s 
minds made her the proud mistress 
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of the world. Lucretius and Catul- 
lus, the poets, sang to her! Where 
is the genius of Sallust, Horace, 
Ovid and Tacitus? They are all 
gone! The world looks in vain to 
them to solve the problem of self 
government. The ancient world can 
do nothing for us while Europe and 
all its peoples are bound by the 
limitations we know not here. Here 
or nowhere must the problem of 
government of the people for the 
por and by the people succeed or 
‘ail. 
Well may the nation be proud as 
the years roll on. The faithful citi- 
zens of our land are at work upon a 
mighty problem, centuries old, and 
fortunate is the man, whose gifts 
and courage grant an opportunity to 
give his life to the weal of the Com- 
monwealth. At the best we have 
only discovered the way out and it 
remains with the nation to work out 
with patience and determination the 
knotty problems of statesmanship. 
The leading of Providence is unmis- 
takable, but humility must be the 
hand-maid of power and _ progress. 
For the light of liberty must not 
pass from our land. 
‘‘Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, 
An humble and a contrite heart; 
Lord God of Hosts be with us yet, 
Lest we forget! Lest we forget! 
‘‘Lo all the pomp of yesterday 
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre; 
Judge of the Nations spare us yet 
Lest we forget! Lest we forget!’’ 
Air Navigation. 
The mechanical conquest of the 
air has been a novel and spectacular 
achievement. It has involved both 
faculties, discovery and invention. 
Some of the principles have been 
stumbled upon by experimenters 
and the principles revealed have 
been worked out with indefatigable 
patience. Before the bird men had 
successfully tried their wings, their 
achievement was theoretically prov- 
en possible by mathematical caleu- 
lations. The North Shore has not 
seen much of these activities. The 
workers have been, however, indus- 
triously working out their problems 
nearby. The coming season it is 
thought will find the daring aviators 
guiding their intricate mechanisms 
in mid-air over the Shore from Bos- 
ton to Cape Ann. The level open 
area of the Essex County Club af- 
fords an  unsurpassable landing 
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