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Show Change in Basic Law Discussed Washington Congress assebles next Monday and President Coolidge at one of the early meetings will deliver his annual message. The probable contents con-tents of the message and the probable legislation by congress have supplied the bulk of the political discussion in the newspapers for some two weeks past. This condition in other years would provide the text for reflection on a change in newspaper custom. Possibly a statistician would compare the number of times newspapers of an earlier day used the past tense, with the number of future tenses in a modern mod-ern paper. Older persons would deplore de-plore the era of "the journalism of anticipation," an-ticipation," and would emit cynical rec ollecttons about a time when the pride of a newspaper was the quality of its descriptions of what took place, rather than the abundance, if not the accuracy, accu-racy, of its forecasts about what is expecfed. To this argument point would he added by the tact that much of the anticipatory discussion about the coming session focuses on one aspect as-pect of It and that the most distant in time; namsj; whe'her there will be an extra session of congress |