State of the Nation

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Pedaling serenely home from a 667-mile bicycle trip through Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, Federal Judge George A. Welsh wheeled up to his Lima, Pa. doorstep with news that men had heard before but hope always to hear again: "Whatever may be in store for us, you can count on the people. They will not fail us."

A month ago, Judge Welsh set out on a bicycling vacation to see whether the old Republic had actually changed so much since he first biked along her roads half a century ago. He used Walt Whitman's sources: mechanics, paperhangers, plumbers, Governors. At journey's end he had seen how it was with the country and the people; the U.S. looked O.K. to him: "Down beneath it all, we are still the same good people."

The Judge's report moved Harold Faller of Saranac Lake, N.Y. to Whitmanesque verse:

. . . By God, there should be more Judges who take up bicycling

And take a look at the land.

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