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SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
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Older than the governments of Britain, iFrance or Spain; younger and newer than the newspaper you hold in your hand: these are the United States of America whose birthday we celebrate this week end. An indestructible Union of indestructible States . , . and, ap> parently, an indestructible Idea as : Wdll. . . _Virginia planters, Pennsylvania woodsmen, New York merchants, Massachusetts farmers! They sweated out the Constitution And hammered out the Bill of Bights while dukes and earls still gov• erned England by right of inheritance and a tyrant king ruled in Paris. For of all the free governr ments in the world, only the Swiss is older than our owns-—
Yet the American Idea, the American Revolution which gave birth to the United States, is one of the newest things on earth. It is a Revolution that is still going on. Jefferson's immortal Declaration still thunders down the centuries to stir men's souls front misery. Lincoln's “Government of the people, by the people, for the ■i--._1 m m «« <a • • -
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