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10 canism.” The hearty assistance and loyalty given in this work by over eight thousand Reserve officers in the States of Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, together with the active support received from the press, have encouraged this wider effort to get the message home to the youth of the whole country. Our boys of today will tomorrow be holding the helm of the good ship Destiny, America, Unltd., and every good American should do all he can to insure fair sailing.

If these pages may arouse some added fulfillment of the need for intelligent, well directed, and sustained effort to instruct over youth in the value of their great heritage, thus insuring a sounder basis for the forming of true individual American opinion on all the great questions where these successively arise as the years roll on, then will they have accomplished the author's fondest hopes and desires.Chicago, Illinois, January 1, 1924.