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Show STUDY THE nrioN. (By Dr. Merrill E. Gates.) It is no small thing to bo a citizen of tho world's greatest republic! It is a great responsibility to bo a voter here. You want to know your privileges privi-leges and your power as an American voter; and you want to know your duties and responsibilities, as well as your rights under tho Constitution Think them out, for yourself, as you read and study the clear provisions of our great fundamental law. Wo cannot all be learned constitutional lawyers. But every American citizen man or woman, young or old, may nave and should have an intelligent idea of our form of representative government "of the people, by the people, for the people." Every one of us should k,now and should value tho security it guarantees to each of us in guarding for us our enjoyment of "life, liberty, and tho pursuit of happiness." Lot each of us have a copp of our title-deed to our rights as. American citizens. Let us read, think about, and discuss with our friends, the Constitution Con-stitution which is the charter of our national life. Study its principles. Know itl Then we shall love it. Do not fancy that you can play well the great game of American, life, without knowi.ng the Rules of the Game! One flag, one country, one nation! Let .us love our own country, honor our own flag! Not for us the red flag of a false and anarchistic internationalism; international-ism; but the Red, White and Blue for which our fathers and brothers and sons havo died; under which, pleaso Jod,we will live a,nd for which, if need bo, wo will die faithful to the brotherhood broth-erhood of tho whole human race, by being first of all faithful to our own home, our own family, our own community, com-munity, and to the land wo lovol |