Has rural mail delivery had the effect of causing road improvement in your county?  If so, give instances.

From the office of a local newspaper find out about the work of the Associated Press or similar news agency.

Why does the work of a newspaper reporter carry with it great responsibility?

Who was Samuel F. B. Morse?  Who is Alexander Graham Bell?  Marconi?

What particular advantages has the telephone brought to your community? to your home?

Is there a cooperative telephone company in your community?  If so, how is it organized?

If possible, visit a telephone exchange and report on what you see.

Write a theme on “Modern means of communication and the growth of a world community.”

READINGS

In lessons in community and national life: 

Series B:  Lesson 10, Telephone and telegraph.

Series C:  Lesson 1, The war and aeroplanes. 
          Lesson 9, Inventions.

The development of writing: 

Picture Writing of the American Indians, 10th Annual Report of the U. S. Bureau of Ethnology, 1888-1889.  This is profusely illustrated and very interesting.

The volume may be in the public library.  It may be difficult to obtain, otherwise, unless through a representative in Congress.

Tylor, E. B., Anthropology, chaps.  IV-VII (D.  Appleton & Co.), and early history of mankind, chaps.  II-V (Henry Holt & Co.).

Given, J. L., The making of A newspaper (Henry Holt & Co.).

Annual Reports of the Postmaster General of the United States.

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1918, pp. 13-24, 29-31, for a discussion of the necessity of eliminating illiteracy and teaching English to foreigners.

There is much magazine literature on this subject.  Americanization, a publication issued regularly by the United States Bureau of Education, is useful in this connection.

CHAPTER XIX

EDUCATION

DEMOCRACY DEPENDS UPON EDUCATION

Both the efficiency and the democracy of a community depend upon the extent and the kind of education it affords to its people.  Autocratic Germany had a most thorough-going system of education, but a system that made autocracy possible.  The common people were trained to be efficient workers, and thus to contribute to the national strength; but they were trained to submit to authority, and not to exercise control over it.  The kind of education that develops leaders was given only to the few.  The leaders of the German people were imposed upon them from above; in the United States we are supposed to choose our leaders.  In a nation whose