Elementary Community Civics

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Allyn and Bacon, 1922 - 474 páginas

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Promoting Individual Health
53
What Our Government Does for Health
60
Making Us Feel Safe
65
Putting Out Fires
71
Preventing Fraud and Dishonesty
79
Managing Police and Fire Departments
85
Public Agencies to Protect Life and Property
91
TRAINING THE GROWING CITIZEN
97
How the Schools Are Supported
104
How They Do It in Other Countries
111
Educational Agencies Outside the Schools?
117
Public Educational Agencies
124
What Is Recreation?
130
Parks and Their Services
137
Social Settlements
143
Who Shall Be Responsible?
149
Planning in Smaller Communities
155
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159
Street Lighting
164
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165
Buildings and Their Appearance
171
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172
Who Is Responsible?
177
A Lesson in Cleanliness
179
The Grand Central Railway Station New York
186
The First Real Highways
187
The Railroads and Their Expansion
190
An Electric Engine Drawing a Transcontinental Train
192
Problems of Public Utilities Today
197
Old Style Street Cars
198
Opportunities for Water Traffic
203
Vessels at Anchor in the Delaware River
204
The Telegraph and Telephone
209
Wireless Station
211
The Movements of Our People
215
The Coming of the Immigrants
218
LAYING UP WEALTH
221
Lifting Heavy Materials
225
How the Government Encourages Industry
229
The Patent Office Washington
232
Conveniences of Trade
235
Problems That Wealth Brings
241
The Farmer as a Wealth Producer
248
Saving and Spending
260
Preparing for Usefulness
267
Private Agencies for Relief
274
The Blind and the Deaf
278
Those Who Are Unwilling to Work
284
Churches and Their Teachings
291
An Appeal for Cleanliness
347
Our Relation to Other Countries
349
Signers of the Peace Treaty of Versailles 1919
351
The Home of the League of Nations
353
Themes and Exercises
355
The Capitol at Washington at Night
362
The Part of Committees in LawMaking
363
Interstate Commerce Commission in Session
367
The Presidents Part in Government
369
President Harding and His Cabinet
372
United States Marines in Egypt
375
Clerks at Work on the Census
377
Testing a Law
378
Hall of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
383
Administering State Laws
384
The Battleship Connecticut
385
Administering Local Laws
388
An Example of the Referendum
391
Getting Good Government
394
The Municipal Building New York City
395
Why Voting Is Important
399
Registering Voters
401
Part of a Pennsylvania Ballot
403
When Officers Are Chosen
405
Part of an Oregon Ballot
406
A Presidential Nominating Convention
407
Political Campaigns
411
A Campaign Meeting
412
A Virginia Court House
415
NonPartisan Elections
417
A Massachusetts Town Hall
419
A Long Bridge in the City
423
Kinds of Taxes
424
An Unpaved City Street
425
Grading of a Street Completed
427
Correcting the Tax Lists
428
The Custom House at Philadelphia
430
Other Sources of Income
431
Lilac Sunday Rochester N Y
434
A Chance for a SingleTax Argument
437
Supporting the Government in War
438
The Arlington Amphitheatre
439
Buying Liberty Bonds
441
A Manual Training Class at Work
444
The Good Citizen in Later Life
445
APPENDIX CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
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INDEX
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