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' .pparently the committee doesn't ae- i ept the theory that a real estate holder j win downward to the center of the j arth and upward to the moon. ,Congress talces a recess, leaving the ' looted question, To beer or not to j eer?” left unanswered.Whatever other effect the announce- j nent of the Boston Maine that freight ates on all branches within a GO-mlle | adlus of Boston will be drastically cut. ! o enable the road to oompete with inde- ; endent trucking concerns, it won't ln-rease the price of anything we buy.The coal dealers keep saying that here will be no reduction In tHe pflce f anthracite, and probably they know.The decision of Secretary Mellon, In onference with Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair, to withhold the much-alked-of regulation until Congress acts n the Anti-Beer bill may have been ased on the conclusion that the suf-erlng elck won't be any worse ofT then hey have been for some time past.Poor Senator Reed, talking for nearly lght hours against the Anti-Beer Mil, nth only a cup of coffee and a bottle f milk to relieve the dryness of his hroat!An Interesting thing about fhe The dfe, a new Chinese weekly paper in 'hlcago, Is that Mrs K. C. Mui, an Iberlln student, set all the type by hand rom a 16-foot case, which contains an -bbrevlated alphabet of only 1000 charters, Instead of the entire 40.000. How nuch better off Larry the Llnotyper Is!There was a time, it appears from hose published letters, when the late Walter Hines Page, Ambassador to Ireat Britain under the Wilson Admin-stratlon from 1913 to 1918, would have ked to see Mr Bryan knocked Into a ocked hat.Henry Ford Isn’t worried about motor-ruck competition so far as his railroad » concerned. He plays both ends.The work of delimiting the boundary ’etween Panama and Costa Rica, It ppears. Is still to be done. Chief Jus-lce Taft gives notice that he has ap-io in ted two American arbiters, Costa llca has announced the selection of its epresentatlve, and the Government of Manama Is expected soon to select its urblter. The presumption Is that the kmerlcn arbiters will be able to con-rol the other two.GEORGE WASHINGTON Presiding Officer at the Constitutional Convention and First President of the United States.(From a portrait by Gilbert Stuart)The man in New York who was fined 1 for selling Soviet rubles at 6 cents iplece may have made considerable aoney at that. If he made many sales.So Bud Fisher has made another iddltlon to his rapidly growiqg stable, laving bought Sporting Blood, at a irlce understood to have been in the lelghborhood of $60,000. Will Mutt and eff have anything to say to that?What a relief it must be to the Presi. lent to be free for 30 days from Congress !What does Mile Lenglen call hay ever In French—flevre de foin?Malden's new tax rate of $33.70 seems mall to Methuen.IT has been truly written that behind every document there was a. man.Sometimes the man is easily found. Stephen Langton is bound Inseparably with Magna Carta, and Thomas Jefferson with the Immortal Declaration cf Independence.But the man behind the great American Constitution—the man from whose brain came one of the mightiest political inventions in the history of man— has remained almost unknown. Here in his native land his name means nothing, Is never mentioned, save in a limited circle of historians and students of government.Yet Pelatlah Webster, born In Connecticut, graduated from Yale in 1746, and one-time preacher in the meetinghouse at Greenwich, Mass, gave to the American colonies, and through them to the world, an absolutely new system of Federal Government.It was easy enough for thos? colonies to declare their independence of Great Britain, but quite another thing tor ihem to maintain their statehood. Ex en before the Revolutionary War was ended the 13 States had agreed upon a constitution—Articles of Confederation—and formed a Federal Government of the United States.But there wasn’t a new Idea In this confederation. There had been confederations before the time of Christ, and there may be new confederations In the future. They differ chiefly in the number of their defects.Under the Articles of Confederation the Federal Government of the United States was a tremendous Joke—or tragedy, depending upon the point of view.Congress was a glorified debating society, with very few powers.Its main weakness was that it could not raise money directly to finance Governmental operations. It had to appeal to the Individual States for contributions. If the States felt so inclined, they gave. Very often they be-1 came stone-deaf to the appeals. Connecticut and New Jersey as much as told Congress to go whistle for its money.The Congress became the laughingstock of America. With certain exceptions. the really important and able men of the States refused to accept membership in It. Even those whohe was captured while heading for Boston with a cargo of flour and iron In one of his own vessels and, imprisoned at Newport by the British. Later, In 1778, he was confined for several months In the Philadelphia Jail by orders of Lord Howe.Webster was one of the ablest political economists and deepest thinkers of America of that day. He saw, perhaps sooner than any other man, the grave defects of the Confederation system under which the States were trying to do business.And he was the first bold enough to urge, as early as May, 1781, that the Articles of Confederation be scrapped in their entirety and that a Continental convention be called to set up an absolutely new type of government.I was fully of the opinion,” he wrote afterward, “that it would be 10 times easier to form a new Constitution than to amend the old one.So this man of clear vision set to work. And on Feb 16, 1783, from a printing office within five blocks of the Chamber where the American Congress was In session, he published a pamphlet setting forth for the first time a plan for a Federal Government such as the United States has today.That pamphlet—A Dissertation on the Political Union and Constitution of the Thirteen United States of North America”—was the first draft of the present Constitution of this country and a beacon light in the world's political history.”It proposed that a structure of government be bullded such as never had existed before—a Federal Government with the power to tax; a Federal Government divided Into three departments, executive, judicial and legislative; a Federal Government with two legislative chambers; a Federal Government with a Federal court with power to nullify unconstitutional laws; and a government that operated directly upon the individuals, and not, as under Confederations, only upon the States.As attributes of a Federal Government,” says Hannls Taylor in his masterly volume on the Constitution, these five were ‘absqlutely new.’ ”When Webster’s pamphlet appeared there were in Philadelphia, as members of the Congress, two young men whose names were destined to go down in American history—James Mad-i ison and Alexander Hamilton. And43 I LIVE , |Hlt; iafter Three mottth? at THErR*Qtnrrw me* in ifCSfyrtfM, «*». by Herbert John*NATIONS REPRESENTED BY SALEM PLAYGROUND CHILDTen Thousand See 3500 Boys and Girls S American Flag—Reception to Gov CoxSpecial Dispatch to the GlobeSALEM. Aug 26—One of the most successful carnivals In the history of the 11 public playgrounds was conducted this afternoon and evening under the direction of the Park Commission. The opening feature was at 2 p m, when 3500 j boys and girls paraded Essex and other J streets. The Natons were symbolized j by the following playgrounds;North Salem, Japan; High st, Italy: Ropes Point, Holland; Forest River, iChina; Castlehtll, Spain; Bridg dla; the Common, Scotland; E America; Gallows Hill, Irela Point, France. Many of the line were of striking design. ' cession proceeded to the i where in the presence of 10,(X the children saluted the Amerl A creditable agricultural and i exhibition, the product of pit children; a baby show, and ex pets, dolls and animals, were o tures.Gov Cox arrived early this and following a dinner with t Commission and others at th Club, was tendered a public i In the exhibition tent on the CLeland H. Cole was chalrma reception committee. The caml gram this evening Included a by the Cadet Band, followed 1 dances and sports.The Sentinel of the Secret PondMARRIAGE INTENTMarriage intentions were filec Hall Annex Registry yesterdaj lows:Tip-up the Sandpiper was angry. Here iDaddy Green-crest was accusing him of ; having led the ducklings Into a trap I where a sly old coon was waiting to i catch them—after all the trouble he’d taken to show them the way to his j Secret Pond! Angry? Didn’t he Just have a right to be?Albert A. Leighton, shoe worker.F.mma E. Ford, widow, operative, s-t, Hoxbury.Arthur D. O’Neil, fireman, 48 F snd Helen B. Mahan, correspondent,Pi.Harry H. Palmer, brakeman, Do;I aura B. Sklltshlre, operator, 76 Ce John J. Lewis, messenger, 22 ; Somerville, and Mary 0, Rooney. Armandlne st.Charles Mallotle, manager. 35 H and Mary Tamlolafcls, Lynn.Ernest R. Hunt, divorced, sales; Morton at, and Anna L. Burgess.at.Msrlo PelargonJ, operative, Camb Assunta Fuccelll, Immigrant.Jamea P. Hugos, printer, 12 Jnlli Grace J. Cox. operative, 12 Rutlan James F. H. Fox, widower, Bri Norfolk St.. and Theresa C. Kelley.
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