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There is a man in a blue uniform with silver buttons and wearing a big badge who stands all day on the street corner across from the school-house. It is a congested part of the city. Great motor trucks, express vans, automobiles, and cabs crowd the street. There is danger of being run over in crossing the street, but every noon and every afternoon as the boys and girls march out of school, this man, the traffic policeman, clears the streets for them.

He raises one hand in its white glove and not a vehicle may pass until he signals. Sometimes he stoops down to lead one of the kindergarten children, who is too small to keep up with the others, across in safety. The policeman is one of your best friends in the city. He does not use the big club that hangs from his side nearly so often as he uses his white gloved hand to help us.

Some children think that a policeman’s main business is to arrest some one, but he only sends a lawbreaker to court when he is obliged to. His daily work is life saving. Uncle Sam’s army of soldiers is likely to be moved about the country Rh