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Show PRIZES FOR PATRIOTIC ESSASY The schools of Washington, D. C, are offering a prize for the ' best essay written by the children of the various grades on the Declaration De-claration of Independence. The best essays are to be read and the . prizes are to be awarded on the steps of the National Capital on Independence Day. The children of the schools are said to be entering cordially into the spirit of the contest, and there will be an unusually large number of contestants. Here is a patriotic and educational idea which will hear some repetition. Nothing so stimulates the average youngster as a prize for .a) competitive effort, and the honor of having an essay read on July Fourth, the day of all days, to the average youngster would make the idea all the more attractive. It is true that Washington is the only city in America which has a National Capitol where the prize essays can be read, but the other cities and towns have courthouses and public halls, which are as important in the local civic life as the National Capitol is in Washington's Wash-ington's civil existence. There is an organized effort in the country now to make anti-patriots anti-patriots out of our children to teach them that we should believe in internationalism rather than patriotism, that the flag is the symbol sym-bol of oppression, and not of righteousness. The place to combat this insidious propaganda is in the home and the schools, and the idea being tried out at the National Capitol this year is worthy of serious consideration. |