simply obeying the laws and paying his just taxes. There is a call for community service, coöperation in Boy Scout work, Red Cross, Civic Clubs, Associations of Commerce, Civic Welfare associations, the city beautiful movements, and in fact all enterprises that make our city a better place in which to live.

When a worthy cause is promoted money is the easiest thing to give, but the best citizen gives also of his time and thought. Every exceptional city, every big institution, college, library, or church has as a part of its history the story of a man or woman or of a group that had a vision of greater service to their fellow man. Perhaps at one time the realization of this vision seemed impossible, but the same determination that produced the Constitution and the fundamental institutions of America dominated the effort to realize it. To-day we can rarely visit an American city, however small, without seeing evidences of such leadership.

This, then, is the spirit that we have inherited and it remains to be seen how well we accept the challenge. There would be little occasion to be concerned about the future of our nation if every boy and girl in America to-day were a living example of these words of Daniel Webster:

"I shall know but one country! The ends I aim at shall be my country's, my God's, and truth's."

"I was born an American; I lived an American; I shall die an American, and I intend to

perform the duties incumbent upon me in that character to the end of my career.'

To-day, more than at any other time in our history, we need a nation of such Daniel Websters who will perform the duties of American citizenship with determination and without prejudice.

Justice and idealism have always followed the American flag as an inspiration to the patriot and as an emblem of hope to the oppressed.

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The story of our flag is a story of the nation Flag. itself, its noble aspirations, and the achievements of its people.

Henry Ward Beecher said, "A thoughtful mind when it sees the flag sees not the flag but the nation itself."

Around the flag cluster thoughts of loyalty and of personal sacrifice which have enabled us to move forward from the day when each struggled for himself alone.

The flag is fundamental, yet it represents an expanding, growing nation. Its stripes represent the thirteen original states. Its stars indicate the existing states and point toward the future.

The flag represents varied ideals in the hearts and minds of its citizens in accordance with their experiences and deepest emotions.

To the foreigner who comes to our shores it means hospitality, freedom, equal opportunity to compete with his fellow man, free education for his children, the right to own property and improve his station in life.

To the vast majority it means that "our government shall stand between labor and capital, between the weak and the strong, between the individual and the corporation, between want and wealth, and give and guarantee simple justice to each and all.”

To the ex-service man it has a strange and precious meaning of supreme sacrifice, of battles he hopes to forget, of deeds of heroism to save a nation or to establish further ideals.

To foreign countries and down-trodden people it has brought our spirit of democracy, our principles of personal freedom, and relief to the oppressed.

To the citizen traveling or residing in foreign lands it means that the far-seeing eye of the government back of our flag will look into the remotest parts of the world and demand his safety. He knows that if necessary our flag will come, backed by the resources at its command, to show to all mankind that disrespect to a citizen is disrespect to his flag and to the nation for which it stands.

To-day it goes on a world mission creating good will; to-morrow it may go on a stern mission demanding justice.

Yesterday a President recognized the value of the Boy Scout movement and gave it national sanction; to-day Congress recognized equal rights for women and settled for all time the question of woman's equality in government.

It is a wonderful flag that does glorious things for the benefit of humanity.

The government represented by our flag is ever

on the alert to guard the rights of its citizens native and naturalized, offering increased opportunities to every one regardless of birth, race, or social conditions.

To the Pupil:

QUESTIONS

1. Define good citizenship.

2. Discuss the responsibilities of citizens in a democracy. 3. Show how keeping physically fit is largely a matter of habit.

4. Why should a government be concerned with the health and education of its citizens?

5. Discuss the home as a maker of good citizens.

6. Why is it becoming increasingly more important for a young person to make a study of the vocations before making a decision? Why should the government be interested?

7. Show how new laws are made and indicate the part the good citizen has in their making.

8. When laws are made, what are the obligations of the citizens?

9. Show how the person who thinks of himself and his own

interests first is not a good citizen.

10. Memorize the words of Daniel Webster quoted in this

chapter.

11. Discuss each of the following topics and show how each contributes its part in forming the habits necessary to a good citizen: (a) Saluting the flag; (b) Rising when the National Anthem is played or sung; (c) Ability to intelligently discuss current events; (d) Obeying the rules and regulations of the school; (e) Coöperating in carrying out and supporting the wishes of the majority in your own club; (f) Evaluating newspaper material and reading editorials; (g) Accepting the decision of a referee courteously; (h) Discouraging acts of organized re