Show CONGRESS CONNE CONVENES NL S A new congress the in the history of the republic is conven ingin washington this week and i the e big news about this event will urill not be in the headlines not because the editors dont recognize the news but because it is news too big to be headlined the story began to bri break calt 11 t to 0 I 1 use newspaper shop talk a bot about t years ago and it has been a ai continuous story front from that time to I 1 the present the real starting point was the declaration of independence this led to the revolutionary war the colonists were victot victorious ious and the day cornwallis surrendered at yorktown the american people be 1 came the first really free people in the history of the world that was really big news but the crowned heads of europe laughed at it in the intervening years most of the crowns have gone yet those free americans have remained free the instrument of government which they established a government by representatives has endured the test and in washington ashington w this week there is being started a new chapter to the story which had its beginning more than a century and a half ago the chapter will be of vital interest to every american amerle an not only the headlines hut but the body of the stories will vill be filled with news it will vill be the news of ho how another congress is treating thap legacy of individual freedom left by the founding fathers the care of this freedom was left not to the e executive ec branch of the government not to the judicial branch but to the i ie branch the new congress that is convening in a world in which free nations are arc distressingly few |