an impressive expression of a people's belief in a government organized on the basis of the Common Law. We celebrate tonight the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the granting of a Charter to the borough of Lancaster. What is a Charter? It is an instru- ment for permitting and encouraging the free

The Art o/ Photography in Lancaster By M. LATHER HEISEY W HEN Robert Burns said: "0 wod some Pow'r the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us !" he did not realize that one answer to his observation would be given to the world by the invention of photography. Until that time men saw their

ALONG THE STREETS OF OLD LANCASTER Vast changes in customs, manner and mode of living among the people residing along these streets of this colonial inland city of Lancaster have occurred over the passing years. There was music in the air — not from phonograph or radio — but from the street organ

Railroad and Bridge Builders of Lancaster By M. LUTHER HEISEY "They Builded Better Than They Knew" Transportation, ever a prime problem of the human race, received a mighty impetus in the second and third decades of the nineteenth century. It was then steam was introduced as a motive power, and

— the airplane. So Lancaster, in marking the twentieth anniversary of the first air-mail flight in the United States, celebrated the event on Thursday, May 19, 1938, by dispatching by plane the first air mail ever flown from a Lan- caster airport. At 3:14 P. M., five planes, bearing as many pouches of

How Lancaster Grew and What People Thought of It By M. LUTHER HEISEY Approaching the bi-centennial year of the establishing of Lancaster as a borough, it is well for us to turn in retrospective thought and consider what manner of town Lancaster was, how it grew, and what people visiting it for a

The Makers of Pottery in Lancaster County By M. LUTHER HEISEY "The wheel goes round and round, And where it stops nobody knows." S 0 RUNS a radio couplet, but the wheel of the old potter has stopped, and mechanized methods have stolen the romance from the mystic makings of forms in clay. The art of