. Loyal citizenship. spaces in back yards, the proceeds to beused in buying or helping to buy some object to beautify the school-room. The class might, as a project to conserve civic beauty,undertake the removal of some unsightly object in the vicinity of theschool; but permission should first be secured. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOURDeaelopmknt of Communications The need for easy transportation and communi-cation. To get the greatest benefit out of our widelyspread natural resources—to conserve them throughright use—we need the best possible means of trans-portation. We need, too, the highest developme


. Loyal citizenship. spaces in back yards, the proceeds to beused in buying or helping to buy some object to beautify the school-room. The class might, as a project to conserve civic beauty,undertake the removal of some unsightly object in the vicinity of theschool; but permission should first be secured. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOURDeaelopmknt of Communications The need for easy transportation and communi-cation. To get the greatest benefit out of our widelyspread natural resources—to conserve them throughright use—we need the best possible means of trans-portation. We need, too, the highest developmentin mail, telegraph, telephone, cable, and wirelessservice, in order to promote the free interchange ofideas. The better our means of communication, theeasier it is to make and keep the American people asocial and political unit. The Romans understoodthis principle and acted upon it when they followedup each new extension of their territory by buildinga good road. Highways. The veins and arteries of the economic. American Musciiin of Nat. Hist, Fig. 109. Progress in ocean transport. The Mayflower of 1621compared with the Leviathan of 1921. 264 Development of Coniniunirations 265


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