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Show territory of the West and Northwest. North-west. (To Bo Continued) I The Land of Liberty i4 tornational picture, with a victorious vic-torious Napoleon forcing Spain to cede back to France the unexplored un-explored Louisiana Territory. President Jefferson, visioning an expanding republic stretching from the Atlantic across the entire en-tire continent .asked Congress for an appropriation to buy Louisiana Lou-isiana Territory from the French emperor, and commissioned the diplomatic James Monroe to carry car-ry through the negotiations a-broad- Although the final price of $15,000,000 seemed a staggering stagger-ing sum to many unimaginative minds back home, in the light of later developments it proved one of the greatest real estate "buys" h world history. Fourteen Four-teen stars were to be added to the American flag from this vast 1 1 Four years ago the motion li picture industry was approach-1 approach-1 ed with the request thai it ) should make some contribu-; contribu-; i lion to the New York World's : ! fair and Golden Gale Exposi- tion in San Francisco. The picture, "The Land of ' I Liberty", for which Dr. James I T. Shotwell of Columbia Uni-1 Uni-1 ! versity was engaged to super v. J vise the historical sequence of the story, a comprehensive stu-: stu-: dy of the Great American ex- periment in democratic govern-i govern-i ment, resulted. Cecil B. De- Mille assembled the film from i complete photographic mater-' mater-' ial in Hollywood film vaults- I The picture created a sensa-' sensa-' lion at the fairs. As a result of j public expression of interest, i it has been decided to release the film generally, all sales i profits from the film to go to war emergency welfare. A synopsis of the film in j story form is being published t serially in the Bulletin. It is j interesting reading and will, j we believe, be generally appre- ciated. America's history is a saga of j struggle and achievement by mil-! mil-! lions of men and women who courageously labored to build a i home for freedom, where all, re-I re-I gardless of race, creed, color or '! position, might enjoy the pricc- less heritage of liberty. For one hundred and fifty years after landing at James- town and Plymouth, the Pilgrims and other settlers along the Eas-; Eas-; tern seaboard of the New Conti-! Conti-! nent were busy building homes ' and organizing governments-1 governments-1 They fought side by side with the I British soldiers in battle against the French and Indians for the 1 control of North America; they evolved a new commerce of the ' sea; and stoutheartedly they set ) out to develop new territory fur-i fur-i ther West. ! At the beginning of the turbu-I turbu-I lent 1770's, however, denial of the j cherished wish of the colonists I to determine their own taxation ! strained the bonds with England I to the breaking-point. When Gen. Gage closed the port of Boston ! and deprived the people of fur- ther civil rights, Thomas Jeffer-' Jeffer-' son and James Madison were a-! a-! mong the leaders who stepped I forward to expound the cause of .j the colonists and urge defense of their liberties-I liberties-I When Jefferson and Madison 1 appeared in open assembly to i state their case, and were round- ly cheered ,the governor of Boston Bos-ton treated their stand as a display dis-play of open rebellion, and dissolved dis-solved the assembly. British soldiers sol-diers began searching Massachusetts Massachu-setts homes, and to launch a new rule of force- Horseback riders carried news of these acts from town to town, and the resolve of t the colonists increased. Virginia ! and other colonies meanwhile I pledged their full support for in-j in-j dependence. i On a memorable day in St. John's Church in Richmond, Vir- I ginia, Patrick Henry gave a ringing ring-ing speech stressing the lack of any desire for cooperation from abroad and the inevitability of a break with the parent country, closing with the passionate words, "Give me Liberty or give me death!" While the Minute Men and other oth-er hastily organized American troops greeted the challenge to their liberties on the battlefields of Lexington and Concord, the first Continental Congress met in Philadelphia. There Thomas Jefferson Jef-ferson read to the delegates the Declaration of Independence, and a new era had been launched in the world's history. The battle was a gruelling and protracted one- While General George Washington and his ill fed, poorly clad "Continentals" were fighting for the cause of self-determination, Tory sympathizers, sympa-thizers, with an eye to future favor, were wining and dining the the British troops Undaunted, not knowing the meaning of defeat, de-feat, Washington fought on. In 1781 Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown to end the struggle, and give the colonies their bitterly bitter-ly contested independence- The war was over; the fight to establish a secure foundation for a great new country had just begun. The soldiers who had carried car-ried the cause to victory came home to face new troubles. Jobs were scarce, money worthless, selfishness and jealously rife a-mong a-mong close neighbors. A farmer carrying produce across the line from New Hampshire to Massachusetts Massa-chusetts would be stopped and asked to pay duty; if unable or unwilling to do so, he had to turn in his tracks and go home. Weeks and months of seemingly seeming-ly endless debate brought into being in Philadelphia the Constitution Consti-tution of the United States, to "Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common com-mon defense, and secure the blessings bles-sings of liberty " The Constitution Constitu-tion became the supreme law of the land, and 1783 the first Constitutional Con-stitutional Congress convened in New York City. As Benjamin Franklin and James Madison made major contributions to this gathering, Alexander Hamilton stepped forward to develop the currency and credit of the struggling strugg-ling young nation-While nation-While Hamilton was winning respect for the economics of the new government, and the framework frame-work for an American Navy was being rapidly developed, pioneers were directing their energies westward. Daniel Boone and other oth-er pathfinders charted vast new areas, into Kentucky and Tennessee, Tennes-see, past the Alleghenies and on to the Mississippi. Long before Jefferson became president in 1801, Americans settled sett-led along the banks of the Ohio and the Cumberland. They found it difficult to market their products pro-ducts through the natural water outlet at the base of the Mississi-pi, Mississi-pi, controlled by Spain. Then came a sudden change in the in- - |