. Washington and Lincoln : Colorado anniversary number. PREPARED FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS BY HELEN MARSH WIXSON STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION FEBRUARY1912 WASHINGTONS COAT OF ARMS. George Washington, the first chief magistrate of theUnited States, bore arms, a reproduction of which is shownupon the cover of this book. This coat of arms furnishedthe idea from which the United States flag was designed. That Washington used a coat of arms refutes theopinion, held by many, that the heraldic idea is incon-sistent with republican principles. His own views on thequestion he states in the f
. Washington and Lincoln : Colorado anniversary number. PREPARED FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS BY HELEN MARSH WIXSON STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION FEBRUARY1912 WASHINGTONS COAT OF ARMS. George Washington, the first chief magistrate of theUnited States, bore arms, a reproduction of which is shownupon the cover of this book. This coat of arms furnishedthe idea from which the United States flag was designed. That Washington used a coat of arms refutes theopinion, held by many, that the heraldic idea is incon-sistent with republican principles. His own views on thequestion he states in the following words: It is far from my design to intimate an opinion, thatHeraldry, Coat-Armor, etc., might not be rendered con-ducive to public and private use with us; or that they canhave any tendency unfriendly to the purest spirit of Re-publicanism. On the contrary, a different conclusion isdeducible from the practice of Congress, and the States;all of which have established some kind of Armorial De-vices, to authenticate their official i ;?.:?..-. . FIRST SCHOOLHOUSE ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER. The blue arch above us is Libertys dome;The green fields beneath us, Equalitys the schoolroom today is Humanitys friend-Let the people the flag and the schoolhouse defend! Tis the schoolhouse that stands by the flag;Let the nation stand by the school. Tis the school bell that rings for our Liberty old; Tis the schoolboy whose ballot shall rule. The first schoolhouses on the outposts of civilizationwere built of logs, with dirt roofs, split logs for seats, andunplaned boards for desks. The school here illustratedwas erected in Kansas about 1865, and was the onlyschoolhouse within a territory of 31,734 square miles—or 134 square miles more territory than the states ofConnecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hamp-shire and the District of Columbia combined. To main-tain a school in this building for three years, taxes werelevied and collected over a territory re
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