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26 what you, his boy and girl pupils, do to improve his schools. That means, in the first place, improving yourselves. Show high class standing, pass with honors into another class, make a good record in the manual training and the cooking rooms. Get along so fast that Uncle Sam, should he come on a visit to your school, will not find you, because you may be in High School or in your State University.

You can better your school, also, by planting and cultivating a school garden, and by trying to make your classroom beautiful with wild flowers and bright leaves in their season. You can help to provide good pictures and a flag for your room. You can learn Uncle Sam’s favorite songs, "The Star Spangled Banner," "America," and "Columbia"; his patriotic speeches; and read his Declaration of Independence over and over again.

Our Government builds the schools; but it needs every boy and girl in the United States to keep them up to the standard of the Stars and Stripes.