Show careful W study 0 of f th nation hibb ia Is patriotic patrio al c duty agy of ave eveia ry american by DR P P CLAXTON Commits commissioner ioner oi of of states state all A american mer ican cit citizens biens should know more of a tile the history of their cdon country try alia than n can be learned froni from the meager outlines out linea of the textbooks books usain in our elementary and high schools that a lar largo gd cumber of people should hola have hae such general and comprehensive 1 knowledge now ledge of its life and growth and the form and spirit of its institutions as can be gained only irom from reading reading ati at least s of the standard sta histories Mi tories is essential to the welfare of the republic at every pati national ohal elect election ibn and at A many state and municipal elections the people arc called upon to vote on policies which cannot be intelligently determined without such knowledge legislators ard and other representatives of offlie the people are constantly cons tanily indeed of it only out of alie th e history of the past can come bome an under understanding stand w in of the prin principles i p 1 e s by which cil ahey beguiled be guided lif if they are to io work wisely wise ly for t the le future to read extensively and deap deeply ly in in the history of file the country becomes therefore a patriotic duty only thus c can anon one elove love his landeith land with wl love ove jar far brought from out but the storied past used within tile the pr present F c t and transferred through future time by power of thought though 0 those mose who have learned to read history find itaho it the most interesting form of literature the story of any aily country or of any great eat movement t of any people fitly told is interesting especially when the reader has learned to understand the relation to id each other odier of the thought and feeling and purpose and action of tho the people no country has a more inte interesting cresting history than the united st states aies which from its iti be beginnings ginning i 8 an n the scattered settlements of i immigrants from european shores three li hundred years agnand ago and less has grown through colonial and national life till aill it has become the greatest grea wealthiest anil and most powerful and most mast prosperous rous the freest th q most self controlled and self elf restrained the most cosmopolitan and the most firmly united nation the world has ever known the story of the united states is the wry story not of dynasties and courts but of the people their indus industries their aspirations and the democratic institutions through which they have sought to io attain these t b aspirations and every line of the I 1 story throbs with present interest and J future ture meaning i r |