Parables for school and home .. . ital, and so on. But they are both ghosts: Capital never earned a dollar in his life, and Labor never did a days work. There is another ghost called the State, andwe are told that if the State only owned all theland, and owned and managed all the railroadsand all the telegraphs, everybody would be hap-pier and better off. But there is no such personas the State. The State is, first, all the inhabi-tants of a country; then it is the Legislature for 70 T^VILIGHT AND DAWN making the laws; and, finally, it is the officers—Governor, judge, sheriff, policeman, postm
Parables for school and home .. . ital, and so on. But they are both ghosts: Capital never earned a dollar in his life, and Labor never did a days work. There is another ghost called the State, andwe are told that if the State only owned all theland, and owned and managed all the railroadsand all the telegraphs, everybody would be hap-pier and better off. But there is no such personas the State. The State is, first, all the inhabi-tants of a country; then it is the Legislature for 70 T^VILIGHT AND DAWN making the laws; and, finally, it is the officers—Governor, judge, sheriff, policeman, postmaster—for executing the laws and carrying on thepublic business. It is sometimes convenient tospeak of the State as it is of the Government, orCapital and Labor, or Nature, or Art; butthe Statehas no business of its own, no hands of its own,no goodness or badness of its own. It is only aname for you and me trying to live peaceablytogether, and doing the best we can with thewisdom that we have and the good will one The Capitol at IVashingtofi. VIIITHE FLAG. AS we go up and THE FLAG AS we go up and down the country nowadays,-^~^ we notice that almost every schoolhousehas an American flag flying over it or near itwhile school is in session. Perhaps we are look-ing for the building and it is hidden from view;but if only we see the flag floating above thetrees, we say to ourselves as we walk along,There must be the school. In this way theflag becomes the badge of the school, and savesthe trouble of painting or carving the wordSchool on the front of the building, as is oftendone. When I was a boy and lived in the city,nearly every family had its name—Smith, orJones, or Robinson—fastened upon the door ofthe house in which it lived. This kind of signwas called a doorplate; and the flag serves asa doorplate for the schoolhouse. They mighthave chosen a white flag with the words PublicSchool printed upon it in dark letters, but theychose instead the Stars and Stripes
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