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genius. That may, in a measure, be true. Nevertheless, if the conditions are created, the result will follow. As a means of creating the conditions, I will only suggest here that I hope in some way the stories and records of our hundred years on this coast may be placed in an available and interesting form before the youth of the state. I hope this may be one outcome of our centennial celebration. Our youth will then know what old Oregon was, and what their—Oregon or Washington—may be. They will find the "footprints on the sands of time;" not in some dreamy Acadie, or holy land, but around their own towns and farms. Then their imagination and judgment can make the meaning out for themselves.
H. S. LYMAN.
