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 PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE. VIOLENCE IS BARRED 
 OUT BY THE BALLOT. 
 
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 Loyal Citizenship 
 
 Messages From Great Leaders. 
 
 Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every 
 American mother to the lisping babe that prattles 
 on her lap; let it be taught in schools, in semi* 
 naries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, 
 spelling books and in almanacs; let it be preached 
 from the pupits, proclaimed in legislative halls and 
 enforced in courts of justice, and, in short, let it 
 become the political religion of the nation. 
 
 — Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 This is a democratic government, and the voice 
 •f the people, expressed through the machinery 
 provided by the Constitution for its expression and 
 by constitutional majorities, is supreme. Every 
 loyal citizen must obey. This is the fundamental 
 principle of the government- 
 
 — Ex-President William Howard Taft. 
 
 OATH TAKEN BY YOUNG ATHENIANS WHEN ASSUMING 
 RESPONSIBILITY OF CITIZENSHIP. 
 
 We will never bring disgrace to this, our city, by 
 any act of dishonesty, or cowardice, nor ever desert 
 our suffering comrades in the ranks. We will fight 
 for the ideal and sacred things of the city. We will 
 revere and obey the city’s laws and do our best to 
 excite a like respect and reverence in those above us 
 who are prone to annul and set them at naught. We 
 will strive unceasingly to quicken the public sense 
 of civic duty, and thus in all these ways we will 
 transmit this city, not only not less, but greater, 
 better and more beautiful than it was transmitted 
 to us. 
 
 This leaflet compiled by W. F. Crafts. All who receive 
 It asked to aid In Its circulation as an educational anti- 
 dote to lawlessness. Also tell us how to Improve It, *r 
 give us your endorsement of it as it is. See address, p. 8. 
 
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Enforcement Officials. 
 
 We hear a good deal about what is commonly 
 called the “lid.” When they talk about taking off 
 the “lid” on Sunday, what do they mean? They 
 mean to let the law be broken with impunity. If 
 we take the “lid” off the Sunday law, can we 
 not with equal propriety take the “lid” off the lar- 
 ceny statute and the murder statute? Then we 
 would have anarchy and no government at all. Let 
 me tell you the greatest breach of good government 
 lies in the fact that laws are not enforced. — Gov. 
 Jos. W. Folk (who compelled St. Louis, St. Joseph 
 and Kansas City to obey law.) 
 
 Every patriotic and honest citizen must admit 
 that all the laws on the statute books should be 
 obeyed and enforced; no citizen has a right to select 
 what he will obey and what he will not obey. If he 
 fails to obey, he is not a good nor a patriotic citizen, 
 and an officer who has taken an oath to enforce 
 ordinances and laws, and fails to do so, should at 
 once be removed. The lack of respect for law is one 
 of the evils of the times. No form of government 
 can exist without law, and no republic can continue 
 except on the foundation of strict obedience to law 
 and a proper administration of justice. The dig- 
 nity of the law must be maintained or the republic 
 will decay. — Gov. J. M. Patterson, Democrat, of 
 Ohio, to Gov. W. T. Cobb, Republican, of Maine. 
 
 No greater honor can come to any man than to 
 be a law-abiding citizen of this nation; and good 
 citizenship, after all, is nothing more than a will- 
 ingness to obey and defend the laws that have been 
 made as guide posts for society. — Ex-Gov. Arthur 
 Capper. 
 
 A judge, with an eye single to the public weal, 
 can, in the discharge of his official duties, do much 
 in support of the great moral and civic reforms of 
 his time. He has a certain oversight of the officials 
 under him and can do much to compel unwilling offi- 
 cers to do their duties. — Judge J. C. McWhorter. 
 
 Laws can be enforced in large cities and towns as 
 well as any place if the officials want them en- 
 forced. An official can not get around enforcing 
 the laws on the ground that public sentiment does 
 not support the laws. Public sentiment is sup- 
 porting the law or the law would be repealed at 
 the State Legislature. — Gov. Folk. 
 
 The idea that a mayor or chief of police is at 
 liberty to permit any law or ordinance to be vio- 
 lated is monstrous. We choose executive officers 
 to enforce laws and not to repeal or suspend them 
 at their pleasure. Such questions are for the legis- 
 lature and the council. To find fault with an offi- 
 cer for enforcing the law is to repudiate our s>'^ 
 tern of government, and to vote against a candi- 
 date because he is pledged to enforce law is to 
 associate one’s self with lawbreakers. — Ex-President 
 Benjamin Harrison. 
 
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The Citizen’s Part. 
 
 In the unending strife for civic betterment, small 
 is the use of those people who mean well, but who 
 mean well feebly. The man that counts is the man 
 who is decent, and who makes himself felt as a 
 force for decency, a force for clean living, for civic 
 righteousness. That is the man that counts. — 
 President Theodore Roosevelt. 
 
 A dozen aggressively righteous men can bring 
 about law and order where lawlessness and disorder 
 have prevailed. The business man who fears to 
 give his support to any movement towards law en- 
 forcement lest it should injure his business, is just 
 as much a coward as the soldier on the battlefield 
 who turns his back to the enemy and flees for safety. 
 — Gov. Folk. 
 
 Educational Work Still Needed. 
 
 The signing of the prohibition amendment, even 
 were it done by a thousand pens, is not the declara- 
 tion of final victory. We must continue to make 
 right sentiment. Ours is the danger of the fatal 
 relaxation that overtakes the victorious army when 
 success seems assured. Public meetings should be 
 held now even more than formerly. A continued 
 wide and effective distribution of literature "should 
 be part of our plan . — Missionary Review. 
 
 Editor 
 
 The Stars and Stripes, the official publication of 
 the United States Army, edited by an army officer, 
 published an outrageous cartoon reflecting on the 
 prohibition amendment to the Constitution, which he 
 had sworn to defend with his life. A red-blooded 
 Y. M. C. A. secretary dumped the bundle of papers 
 intended for his hut into a canal, and instead of 
 meekly submitting when charges were brought 
 against him, he brought charges against ihe editor 
 of the paper on the ground that he had attacked 
 the Constitution he was sworn to uphold. The tri- 
 bunal in the case took this common-sense American 
 view of it and the officer lost his place as editor, 
 and the Y. M. C. A. secretary was exonerated. 
 
 A Straight Look at Bolshevism. 
 
 What is this Bolshevism, that is spreading from 
 Russia to Hungary and some other lands, and even 
 venturing on our shores? It is the newest form 
 of imperialism, successor of Alexander, Csesar, and 
 the Kaiser in ambition for domination of the world. 
 This time it is not one man that is to rule the 
 world, but one class. The proletariat are to monop- 
 olize political control in each land, and jointly in all 
 lands, by sheer brute strength as the majority, or 
 the masses. It is the very opposite of democracy, 
 which is the government of all the people, by all the 
 people, for all the people. Bolshevism is government 
 of all the people by and for the most ignorant class 
 of the people. Voters have no right to resort to 
 violence, least of all the workmen, who have a clear 
 majointy of the votes and so are bound to find 
 redress of .'grievances by the orderly processes of 
 politics. ■ . 
 
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Choosing Politics for a Profession. 
 
 Wholesale abuse of public men, more than aught 
 else, precludes us from getting the very best men 
 into office. This does not render it right for good 
 citizens to decline office. No more useful career 
 is possible for good men in this age. We need that 
 hosts of thoroughly able and moral young men, well 
 trained in political and social science, including 
 ethics, should set politics before themselves as their 
 life work. To succeed, one must religiously cultivate 
 the hard side of his nature: nerve to face wicked 
 men, kindly to endure lies, libels, and the whole 
 contradiction of the wicked against him; to give 
 blows, of course, always in the spirit of love — as 
 well as take them. — President E, Benj. Andrews. 
 
 Religious Leaders. 
 
 The final work of this religion will not be accom- 
 plished till a perfect society is universal on the 
 earth, under the sovereign rule of Him who chose 
 the poor for His friends, and peasants for His apos- 
 tles, who honored woman, loosened the fetters of 
 despair from the slave, and set the aureole on the 
 head of the child. And that ultimate society will 
 accept, complete, and bless all civilization; it will 
 be rich in arts, vocal in literature, ab\mdant in gar- 
 nered wealths from the past; but it will, also, as 
 moulded by Christ, be like Himself — sweet in s>Tn- 
 pathy, pure in holiness, vital with love. — Richard S. 
 Storrs. 
 
 There is need of thinking much of a kind of civic 
 life that is not yet, but that might be, and that 
 ought to be and that must be if there is a God in 
 heaven; a city whose officers shall be peace and 
 whose exactors righteousness; a city whose homes 
 shall be sacred and secure, whose traffic shall be 
 w’holesome and beneficent; whose laborers shall go 
 forth to their cheerful toil unburdened by the heavy 
 hand of legalized monopolies; whose laws shall fos- 
 ter no more curses, nor open the gates to whatso- 
 ever worketh abomination or maketh a lie; whose 
 streets shall be full of happy children, playing in 
 safety and learning the great lessons of civic piety, 
 and whose citizens on any shore shall find their 
 thoughts turning homeward with a great longing. — 
 Washington Gladden. 
 
 All Errors Flow Into Human Society from 
 One Source. Namely, the Burial by Men in Ob- 
 livion OF THE Life, the Precepts, the Lessons, of 
 Jesus Christ, and Their Neglecting to Apply 
 THE Same to the Actions of Every Day. There 
 can be no doubt, then, that those who labor, as the 
 St. Jerome Society does, for the diffusion of God’s 
 holy Gospels, are rendering a serrice most useful. 
 We strongly desire, aye and exhort that your Society 
 may not reap this fruit only — the widest possible 
 diffusion of the Gospels — but may achieve another 
 end also, which is among the chief est aspirations of 
 our sotd: I mean the entrance of these most holy 
 books into Christian households. That All the 
 Faithful Shall Become Habituated to the Daily 
 Reading and Study of the Same, and thence 
 Learn Well to Walk Worthily, in All Things 
 Pleasing God. — Pope Benedict XV, in letter to St. 
 Jerome Bible Society, October 8, 1914. 
 
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The Boy Scout Movement As a School of 
 Citizenship Has No Superior. 
 
 The Boy Scouts of America is a corporation that 
 goes to make character and good citizenship. 
 
 It is obligatory upon the Scouts that they cultivate 
 COURAGE, LOYALTY, PATRIOTISM, BROTHERLINESS, SELF- 
 CONTROL, COURTESY, KINDNESS TO ANIMALS, USEFUL- 
 NESS, CLEANLINESS, THRIFT, PTOITY, HONOR. 
 
 The aim of the Boy Scouts is to supplement vari- 
 ous existing educational agencies and to promote 
 the ability and desire in boys to do things for them- 
 selves and others. 
 
 It is not a military organization, but so cultivates 
 hardiness, readiness, and courage in the boy as 
 to better fit him for war or peace, or, indeed, any 
 emergency of life. 
 
 All Scout troops consist of not less than eight 
 boys, and all members are twelve years of age or 
 over. These are directed by a Scout-master, the 
 adult leader of the troop, who must he at least 
 twenty-one years of age or over. The Scout-master 
 takes his directions and lessons from the Scout-, 
 master’s Manual, prepared by the National Council 
 of the Boy Scouts (200 5th Ave., N. Y.) 
 
 The movement is founded upon a steadfast ob- 
 servance of the Scout Oath and Law, which are as 
 follows : 
 
 The Scout Oath : 
 
 On my honor I will do my best — 
 
 1. To do my duty to God and my country, and to 
 obey the Scout Law; 
 
 2. To help other people at all times; 
 
 3. To keep myself physically strong, mentally 
 awake, and morally straight. 
 
 The Scout Law: 
 
 A SCOUT MUST BE— 
 
 TRUSTWORTHY. 
 
 LOYAL. 
 
 HELPFUL. 
 
 FRIENDLY. 
 
 COURTEOUS, 
 
 KIND. 
 
 OBEDIENT. 
 
 CHEERFUL. 
 
 THRIFTY. 
 
 BRAVE. 
 
 CLEAN. 
 
 REVERENT. 
 
 The program of the Boy Scouts of America calls 
 for a week of camping for every Scout, where possi- 
 ble. Frequent hikes into the country on observation 
 trips. Study of woodcraft. First aid, life saving, 
 and safety-first. Study of animals, birds and t/ees. 
 Sturdy games of skill and strength. Outdoor fire 
 building and cooking; everything pertaining to 
 campcraft. Signaling by code. Knot tying. Swim- 
 ming and sailing. Outdoor life to the full and doing 
 
 A GOOD TURN EVERY DAY TO SOME PERSON WITHOUT 
 PAY. 
 
 Pupils Trained for Police. 
 
 Every citizen of our republic is a potential execu- 
 tive of its laws, subject to instant call by the proper 
 officers. This entails military and police obligation 
 and makes individual physical fitness and collective 
 training a prerogative of the government. Far be 
 it from us to advocate such training as will cultivate 
 German militarism or caste spirit. There is, how- 
 ever, a tremendous need everywhere for honest men 
 of judgment and prowess to enforce law and re- 
 strain evil doers. Education and training for these 
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occupations, militia, sheriffs or police, is not only a 
 function of government, but a necessity for organ- 
 ized society. These callings should command our 
 utmost respect and a wage far above the average, 
 with liberal pensions for accident and old age. Our 
 present inadequate means of law enforcement are 
 a great reason for the common disrespect of the 
 law, and society must have many more, and far bet- 
 ter trained and paid officers, if crime is to decrease. 
 Every commonwealth in the union needs an organ- 
 ized body of fine mounted or motored police, such 
 as Pennsylvania and New York already have, if 
 bank robberies are to be stopped, illicit liquor dealers 
 caught, and automobile thieves arrested. 
 
 The Ruler of America — “We, the People.” 
 
 Before Commodore Perry visited Japan an Ameri- 
 can vessel had been shipwrecked on one of the Jap- 
 anese islands. Her surviving sailors were all im- 
 prisoned for that crime, and were in prison when 
 Perry arrived ■with his squadron. One of them, a 
 lad from Oregon, hardly twenty-one years old, had 
 then learned the Japanese language. So the Jap 
 government had a convenient interpreter, when a 
 diplomatic accident of great importance surprised 
 them. 
 
 In an interview -with some American officer on one 
 of Perry’s ships, the Japanese officer on public duty 
 slapped the American. He was not shot on the spot, 
 but he and his were tumbled off the ship in disgrace. 
 The crew went to quarters and war seemed im- 
 pending, when the higher Japanese officials came on 
 board with an humble apology, and the insult 
 seemed atoned for. But it put a black cloud on the 
 negotiation. The Japanese government wanted to 
 know what they had done — how high an officer had 
 been insulted; so they sent for young Oregon and 
 asked him. 
 
 He said he supposed the officer was a captain from 
 what they said of his uniform. If he were, he said, 
 he commanded lieutenants, and lower grade mid- 
 shipmen, masters, quartermasters, boatswains and 
 seamen. All of which the Japs ■wrote do^wn. 
 
 Then they asked who this officer had above him. 
 “Well,” said young Oregon, “if he were a captain, 
 the commodore is above him.” And they ■wrote that. 
 “Who is above the commodore?” 
 
 “The Secretary of the Navy,” said Oregon. 
 
 “And who is above him?” 
 
 “The President.” 
 
 “And who is above him?” 
 
 “The PEOPLE,” said Oregon. 
 
 But in his narrative, afterward, he added: “Of 
 
 this they could make nothing.” 
 
 That story speaks well for the training boys got 
 in the log cabins and slab school houses of Ore- 
 gon in pioneer days . — Edward Everett Hale. 
 
 The Literary Digest of May 17, 1919, gave an 
 interesting and most suggestive epitome of replies 
 from teachers all over the land to a questionnaire 
 inquiring what changes in educational plans the 
 World War had produced. We make a few extracts, 
 following, and advise all to read the article. 
 
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Education. 
 
 War has thrust upon teachers, as the most im- 
 portant of educational obligations, personal respon- 
 sibility for the training of pupils in civic duties. — 
 Principal Winner, Pittsburgh. 
 
 We have begun to train men to live for the com- 
 mon good instead of telling them how men used to 
 live. — Supt. Moore, Leavenworth. 
 
 War-service showed that in a national crisis the 
 school is a natural-drill-ground for civic virtue and 
 service. This was the original American idea lead- 
 ing to free schools. For this, and not for grammar 
 or geometry or scholarship or college preparation, 
 the public, in theory, taxes itself. To produce a 
 citizen was the idea Washington, Franklin, Jeiferson, 
 and the other original proponents of free schook 
 had in mind. — Sup. Francis, Columbus. 
 
 Let us pay more attention to the rights of others 
 and more to civic duties of ourselves. It is duties 
 that should be the aim of teaching. — Prin. Zabria- 
 kie, N. Y. City. 
 
 So long as subjects, not character, remain the 
 aim, the schools will be anti-democratic. This crisis 
 has forced upon the schools the salutary influenca 
 of doing things directly for the common welfare. 
 That is the essence of citizenship. — Supt. Philips, 
 Birmingham. 
 
 The frequent exhortations to school spirit and 
 class spirit for their o^ti sakes should be supplanted 
 by the cultivation of a larger town or city spirit, 
 leading schools to deliver tangible public benefit; 
 organized cobperatioa with park departments and 
 street cleaning departments; planting of trees, 
 flowers, etc. — Supt. Bush, Erie. 
 
 There is no assurance that a man who knows 
 what his duty is will do it. Schools must do more 
 than teach what citizenship is; they must train in 
 habits of public service. Habit has to be trained 
 by exercise. — Supt. McIntyre, Muscatine. 
 
 “We have introduced a new course which we call 
 ‘citizenship,’ ’’ “we have a compulsory course in 
 Americanism,” “civic obligation is now taught,” 
 “community interests are now studied regularly,” 
 such are the statements in many letters. 
 
 Superintendents in many leading cities stress the 
 thought that duties and obligations of the citizen 
 must be emphasized above all other things and 
 taught during compulsorj^ school attendance. 
 
 Patriotic mottoes are in front of every class in 
 every school in the country. Schools every^vhere, 
 salute the flag daily and recite a patriotic pledge 
 every day. Principal Snyder, Brooklyn, introduces 
 a special course to prepare girls for the franchise. 
 
 Biographical essays have become attempts to tell 
 what some designated patriot did that can be imi- 
 tated by us in these later days. 
 
 Loyalty pledges op teachers and pupils are 
 
 AMONG THE SCHOOL INNOVATIONS WHICH MIGHT W^ELL 
 BE UNiraRSALLY ADOPTED. We quote as a sample one 
 by Superintendent Lull, of Ne^vport. The State 
 Board of Education prescribed it. In the presence 
 of the mayor and eight notaries, the teachers signed 
 it under oath, each sigpiatory declaring: 
 
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The Teacher’s Oath of Allegiance, 
 
 “I, as a teacher and citizen, pledge allegiance to 
 
 the United States of America, to the State of , 
 
 and to the American public-school system. 
 
 “I solemnly promise to support the Constitution 
 and laws of Nation and State, to acquaint myself 
 with the laws of the State relating to public edu- 
 cation, and the regulations and instructions of my 
 official superiors, and faithfully to carry them out. 
 
 “I further promise to protect the school rights 
 of my pupils, to conserve the democracy of school 
 citizenship, to honor public education as a principle 
 of free government, to respect the profession of 
 education as public service, and to observe its ethi- 
 cal principles and rules of professional conduct. 
 
 “I pledge myself to neglect no opportunity to 
 teach the children committ^ to my care loyalty to 
 Nation and State, honor to the flag, obedience to 
 law and government, respect for public servants 
 entrusted for the time being with the functions of 
 government, faith in government by the people, 
 fealty to ^e civic principles of freedom, equal 
 rights, and human brotherhood, and the duty of 
 every citizen to render service for the common wel- 
 fare. I shall endeavor to exemplify in my life and 
 conduct in and out of school the social virtues of 
 fairness, kindliness, and service as ideals of good 
 citizenship. I affirm, in recognition of my official 
 obligation, that, though as a citizen I have the right 
 of personal opinion, as a teacher of the public’s chil- 
 dren, I have 7w right, either in school hours or in the 
 presence of my pupils out of school hours, to ex- 
 press opinions that conflict with honor to country, 
 loyalty to American ideals, and obedience to and 
 respect for the laws of Nation and State. 
 
 “In all this I pledge my sacred honor and sub- 
 scribe to a solemn oath that I will faithfully per- 
 form to the best of my ability all the duties of the 
 office of teacher in the public schools.” 
 
 Student’s Pledge for Public Service. 
 
 (Prepared by Alice Howard Spaulding.) 
 
 Because I believe that the ideals of democracy 
 are right; that every man is personally responsible 
 for the maintenance of these ideals; that every man 
 is under obligation to render public service; that 
 every man is in duty bound to train himself to this 
 end: 
 
 Therefore, I pledge myself to prepare myself for 
 service to my country and humanity by attending 
 school regularly and devoting myself to my studies; 
 by upholding the standards of the school and sup- 
 porting its activities with enthusiasm; by seeking 
 the occupation — intellectual, artistic, economic, or 
 ethical — for which I am most suited, and by en- 
 deavoring to excel in it; by co-operating in every 
 possible way with those who are striving for honest 
 business, clean politics, wholesome society, and pro- 
 gressive government; by carrying out in my life ths 
 principles of honesty, loyalty, and service. 
 
 This copy presented by the International Reform 
 Bureau, 206 Pennsylvania Ave., S. E., Washington, D. C. 
 Extra copies $2 per 100, postpaid. To Individual ad- 
 dresses, $4 per 100. 
 
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