The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-05

body of law-givers. They wrought
marvellously we'll. but not being pro-
phets. they could neither perceive nor
| foretell the conditions which we have
to meet and the circumstances by
| which we are surrounded. They never
dreamed that the great document
which they prepared was like the laws
OF the Modes and Persians. unchange-
able from everlasting to everlasting.
On the contrary, realizing fhll we'll
that conditions would change aud that
their descendants might desire to
amend their work. they placed in the
Constitution plan of amendment.
am fain TO believe that could they re-
turn to earth and realize the many
far-reaching and momcntuuS changes
which physical invention have worked
In human existence, they would be
tho first to welcome such amendments
to our organic law rs will amcliorate
the conditions under which we live
and tend to improve and perpetuate
our free institutions
Government is experimental
science. not an exact science. We have
not attained perfection. but we are
gradually, IL slowly. approXimating il.
The only way to approach it is to
make such changes in tho Constitu-
tion and laws our experience dem
onstrates should be made. To stand
still is to stagnate; 10 stagnatc is to
die. Every citizen should take a part
In politics. II | had one prayer for
this republic which knew would be
answered, ii would be that every
American citizen should be sufficiently
educated to read his ballot intelligent
~ and sufficiently courageous to cast
II as becomes an American freeman"
AS Mr.. Clark had to return to Wash
inEton carly in the evening. IL special
pageant was conceived il. his honor.
The thousand students of the summer
school gathered at Brooks Museum.
and grouped by states. marched past
the reviewing stand on the rotunda
steps occupied ny Clark and the dis
tinguished guests The Chariottes-
VILE Chamber 81 Commerce and the
local military company, the Monticello
Guard. under Captain I. p. Peyton,
also formed part of the line of march.
Two hundred Boy Scouts In patrols
and troops formed section of the
parade. Twenty States were repre-
scented by large delegations.
Nebraska had two representatives
Professor n. a. Bengston, of Lincoln,
and Mrs. Berdea Taylor, OF Grand
Island. They carried a Bryan banner
AS the various delegations passed
the reviewing stand they sang the
State songs.
Interest centred in the historic and
symbolic pageant given tonight on
Lambeth Field. The athletic grounds
were especially wired for the purpose.
and the production was staged upon
spacious platform.
In executing the conception of
America Victorious. the pageant was
divided into three divisions The first
section symbolized the military his
tory OF the republic, America vic
torious In strife. The spirit Of Amer
lea, Columbia, came first. and received
symbolic representations OF the twelve
cardinal virtues of our nation. The
American explorer followed typiticd in
Columbus; the landing ut Plymouth and
the Pacific colonsts appeared in turn.
The settlement of the West was sym
bolizcd in the pioneer. Daniel Boone.
Then came the Revolution. with its call
to arms, and the surrender. The spirit
of expansion found its expression in
the Mexican War. The climax of the
military history was reached in the
Spanish American War. Figures rep
resenting the North. South, East and
West issued the call to arms and rail-
lied their sons under the Stars and
Stripes Columbia. with the four fig
ures representing the sections of the
country, reviewed a parade Of soldiers.
marines, etc.
Americas triumph In diplomacy was
symbolized in the second division. Tho
division traced the diplomatic history
of the country from the signing OF the
first charter by King James until
America emerged as a world arbiter in
the Portsmouth treaty presenting
symbolically the Treaty of Paris. the
Louisiana Purchase. the Monroe Doc
trine. the open door TO China and the
Geneva Conference.
But the object lesson was found in
the third division, with its presenta-
tion of the fruits of peace. The three
sections symholiZed the economic
wealth of the nation, the government
service and the municipal service.
After the pageant costly pyrotech-
mic display brought the days program
to a patriotic close.