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182 of others as well as of yourself. That starts at home, when you try to help. It means being the best end man that you can if you can’t be the leader in a game, or in school. It means doing whatever you are able to help the policeman, the fireman, the street cleaner, the postman, and your teacher. Coöperation is Uncle Sam’s third requirement.

Suddenly Uncle Sam has a surprise for the boys and girls who are able to keep a law, to respect property, and to work and play together unselfishly. All children like to think of the important persons they will be when they grow up; judges, and teachers, and shop keepers, and manufacturers, and artists, and people who write books or make newspapers, builders, and soldiers and all the rest. You can’t be one of these, though, to-day. You will have to work and wait a good many years first. But Uncle Sam says you can be a most important person now, without waiting,a good citizen.

The boy or girl m an American home who obeys, is careful of all that is bought for the home, and works with the family for its good and the welfare of the community, is just as much an American citizen as is Uncle Sam’s soldier who fights to protect our homes, our people, and our property. You, and the soldiers, and all the other good citizens