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"The love of country is the noblest emotion of the human mind. Synthetic in its nature, it tates from every passion its purer portion. As passionate as love, it is more unselfish. As tender as friendship, it is more enduring. With religion's faith, it has yet a broader charity. Under its sacred infuence the partisan becomes the patriot; the soldier, the hero; the scholar, the statesman; the prophet, the see'r."

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We have in the past month, throughout the United States, paused to do homage to the Constitution of the United States, on the 168th birthday of that blessed document. *** ft was called by the great Gladstone the mightiest document "ever struck off from the intellect of man at a single blow."

It has been named .r ,;";.;ble occasions "the brightest dream that ever fired the enthusiasm of man."

That its Bill of Rights is the cornerstone of the liberties of the American people, has been told in song and story countless times'

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Abe Lincoln said: "I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution."

The Constitution pro.,il."*ahia "rry abridgement of the rights of an American citizen is an act of usurpation. ft turns upon those who would violate those rights with a fierce and thunderous-"ffues Shalt Not !" ***

Within the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, and within them alone, will the safeguards of freedom survive. ***'

It is therefore most fitting that during a certain week of each year this nation shall pause to consider the blessings, the unstinted blessings, that this Constitution has brought us.

Would that every American, great and small, young and old, of high or low degree, should have drilled into their mentalities in abiding fashion, the story of the Constitution, what it has meant, what it means, and what it must continue to mean if this government of the people,

BY JACK DIONNE

All men, even the strongest, are more or less malleable, while those of our children in their formative period are entirely impressionable. No American child above the age of 6 should be without simple knowledge of the Constitution,'and their dependence thereon. ***

They should know, as should their elders, that this most bountiful land that the sunshine of God ever fell upon, got that way because of the protective infuence of the Constitution, and that its greatness will continue so long as we have that sacred protection. *tFtF

They should understand that while this Constitution remains fool and enemy proof ; that while God reigns and the human race endures, this nation, born of our fathers' blood, and sanctified by our mothers' tears, shall not perish from the earth. *** ffe was born on September 24th, 17 55, and served as the fourth Chief Justice of the Suprerne Court for 34 years. That he saved the Supreme Court from destruction several times during his tenure of office, is history. ***

It is interesting that the month of September brings us, in addition to the birthday of the Constitution, the birthday of the man who did more to defend and explain the Constitution than any other man during the first generation of its life-John Marshall.

He was a central power man, while his cousin, Thomas Je,fferson, was a states rights man, and there was much bitterness between them from the time when Marshall issued the opinion that -"a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law."

Certain it is that the majority of the fathers who wrote the Constitution had little thought or inticipation of the ascendancy of the Supreme Court in our national affairs. It was that strong man, Marshall, who brought that about single-handed. ***

Naturally, good men and true, have always differed in some respects as to just what the writers of the Constitution meant at various points. ft is, no doubt, a compromise between the advocates of a strong central government, and those who favored the states rights, with the central government prevailing only in matters not strictly intrastate afrairs.

Jefferson said that the business of the National government is simply to "maintain order and security, to compel

To some extent and in several directions, the central government idea has prevailed, especially tfirough the past generation, when strong men strove to stretch and change it to fit certain philosophies of their own.

The Los Angeles Ti-": "lnJr,"rr, declares that: "The commerce clause in the listing of the powers of Congress has been so enlarged by the interpreters that Federal ofiEcials may come into a.state and make rules for local window washers." True. The line of demarcation between intrastate and interstate business*has Erown very dim.

Nevertheless, the Constitution, while it has bee4 somewhat changed in application through the abortive science of definition, is still the basis of Americanism and the strength and hope of all Americans, and, God willing, will so remain "to have and to hold" through all the ages to come.

Goodwin Buys Into Jqcobs Co.

Eureka, Calif.-Fred Goodwin has purchased a partnership in the George C. Jacobs Co., effective September 1. His share in the well known and enterprising retail building materials company is the interest formerly belonging to the late Donald E. Larson, who died this summer. The Jacobs Co. rvas the subject of a feature story in The CALIFORNIA LUI\IBER MERCHANT earlier this year.

WELCOME!

In this issue, we welcome these new advertisers the family of California Lumber "Merchant-isers":

Arrow Mill Company (Page 24).

M&D Display Manufacturing Corp. (Page 20).

Pacific Wood Products Co. (Page 9).

S & S Lumber Company (Page 67).

Peter J. Van Oosting (Page 35).

NHLA's 58rh Convenfion October | |

Chicago.-The National Hardwood Lumber Association will hold its 58th annual convention here October 11-13, announces Secretary-Manager Joseph L. Muller.

The keynote speaker at the first morning session will be Clarence Manion, Notre Dame lJniversity, following Presideht T. M. Millett's annual address and the annual report of Executive Officer Muller. Deloss Walker will speak on "Opportunity Knocks" and Roy Halliday, president, Canadian Lumbermen's Assn., will be the guest speaker from Canada. Clyne Crawford, president, National Assn. of Furniture Manufacturers, also speaks on the opening day, and Harry Kopcke, chairman of the Inspection Rules committee, r,r'ill present his report and rules-changes recommendations which are vital to all hardwood men.

Charles A. Rinehimer, president of the new Architectural Woodwork Institute, addresses the sgcond morning session, after which formal business will be transacted' The business sessions will be mornings only. The grand banquet and entertainment will be October 12.

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