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Show ROAD PATRIOTISM "Honor the flag: it is the symbol of your country. There is no better nor can there be one better." Thus are children taught, and truly. But they should also be taught that while no man may improve thf-flag, thf-flag, all men may strive to improve the country for which the flag stands-Why stands-Why should this, the greatest nation, na-tion, have the worst roads? Why should the children of the most en-Hgatened en-Hgatened nation, have the greatest difficulty of getting to the best Idea In education the world has ever seen the public school? The children of to-day are thej voters, the legislators, the officials one of them the President of tomorrow. tomor-row. Building an adequate system of National highways for the United States is not to he accomplished overnight. ov-ernight. Tt is a matter of years vears and education. There fore, teach children not only to honor the flag which all revere, but to make the country for which it stands even more worthy of honor, t-y building good roads through its tength and breadth, that all may have the social, moral, economic and humanitarian benefits which come from quick, easy, inexpensive and rapid transportation. 1 I |