“And so, we see, this poor old hat had done good service for four different kinds of men.  Remember this—­that every man who wore the hat was a useful man in his place.  Each one was a necessary man.  We must have him.  Especially is this true of the man who kept the streets clean, for he, just like the man who collects and takes away the garbage, helps to keep away the scourge of typhoid fever, and cholera and other dread diseases, by being willing to do the dirty work and to wear the old hat.  Why, just suppose everybody was a college president.  Who would wash our clothes?  Who would scrub our floors?  Who would clean our streets?  Who would cart away our garbage?

“Now, don’t you see that the street cleaner and the ’garbage gentleman’ are far more useful than any wealthy man’s son who doesn’t do a lick of work, who rides around in an automobile at his father’s expense and who spends his time at night in wasteful or sinful ways so that he gets to bed at one or two o’clock in the morning and sleeps until nine or ten o’clock the next day?  Why, bless your soul, the street cleaner and the ‘garbage gentleman’ are worth a dozen good-for-nothings like that!

“Then why look down upon the poor man—­the laboring man?  Why not be just as polite and respectful to him as to the college president?  God made them both, and each is filling his place in life.  Each man whose picture we have drawn belonged to a different class of people, just as God designed they should, and each, if he did his duty in life, had just as important a place in the community as the other.

“Abraham Lincoln said that ’God must think more of the common people than He did of any other kind, because He made so many more of them.’

“Surely, all this is reason enough for the best of us to be kind and considerate, respectful and polite toward people whose hats would not suit us at all!”

OUR COUNTRY’S FLAG
    —­Flag Day
    —­Patriotism

A Little of its History and of its Meaning—­Some Interesting
Facts.

THE LESSON—­That loyalty to the flag means the fulfillment of duty to God and to our fellowmen.~~

“Flag Day” suggests a patriotic demonstration, and this talk will harmonize well with your decorations and the other features of your program.  The talk calls for the drawing of four flags.  It is suggested that you prepare in advance of the talk all four flags of Fig. 102, as the drawing may require more time than you can spare during the talk.

The Talk.

“We have about us today some of the flags of the United States of the present time.  I believe you will be interested, though, in seeing some of the flags of our country of earlier days.  I will present them to you.