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Rh The word united means together. The United States is a huge family that keeps together as well as it can. You can ride on the same railroad through several states. A good many of the states believe in doing the same acts of kindness to horses and dogs in the streets. They all honor the Stars and Stripes, use the same money, speak the same language, vote for the same President and honor him, and have their own particular stars in Old Glory.

So Uncle Sam has made us the great United States that we are by his plan of coöperation.

There are three ways, then, by which boys and girls can help Uncle Sam very much indeed, at home, in a game, at school, or out in the street. Somebody who knows more than you, who is older and who has had more experience makes a rule. It is your father, your teacher, the baseball couch, the town alderman, or Uncle Sam. By keeping this rule you are living up to Uncle Sam’s first requirement for citizenship, which is to obey the law.

You must remember that your neighbor’s home, a library book, a public garden, a mail box, or your school materials are the property of others, in which you share. Respect them; and thus conform to Uncle Sam’s second requirement for citizenshipto respect property rights.

The third way of helping Uncle Sam is by