receipt. If certificates are lost, stolen, or destroyed, notify the post office and new certificates will be issued in their place.

The postal bank sells postal savings stamps at ten cents each. A savings card with ten stamps attached will be accepted as a deposit of one dollar.

At any time, without any previous notice, a depositor may withdraw all or any part of his savings from the postal savings bank holding his account.

THE PROPER WAY TO ADDRESS AN ENVELOPE

Care in Sending Mail.-You should be very careful in addressing and preparing letters and parcels for mailing. Millions of such articles are undelivered every year because they have not been properly prepared for mailing or because they have been carelessly addressed.

Be sure to write fully and plainly in ink the name of the person addressed, his street and number, city, and state. Mention the post office if the mail goes to a place where there are no street numbers.

Then, too, if you are sending the mail, place your name and address in the upper left-hand corner of the envelope or parcel wrapper so that if the person addressed cannot be found the mail will be returned to you.

It is required that sufficient postage stamps be affixed to the mail matter before it is mailed.

Forwarding Mail.-When moving from one place to another, it is advisable to call at the post office and notify the clerk of your change of address. By so doing any mail sent to your old address will be forwarded to the new place.

Fines for Defrauding.-Persons who try to defraud the Post Office Department are liable to heavy fine or imprisonment.

1. Can our city establish a post office? Why not?

2. Who employs the mail carrier?

3. Who is at the head of the Post Office Department?

4. Do you know his name?

5. Where is his office?

6. Tell what business you can transact at our local post office.

7. What is registered mail? What is the charge for this

service?

8. What is parcel post?

9. When is the Government responsible for the safe delivery

of parcels?

10. What is the special-delivery service?

11. What is C.O.D. service?

12. What is a safe way of sending money?

13. What must you do before you can purchase a money

order?

14. What are the two forms of money orders?

15. What is the safest bank in the world? Why?

16. What interest is paid? When does interest begin?

17. Who may become a depositor?

18. What payment opens an account?

19. Can a man interfere with his wife's account in the postal savings bank ?

20. Why should you be careful in addressing mail?

21. In order that undelivered mail may be returned to you, what must you place on the envelope or wrapper? 22. When you move from one place to another, what should you leave at the post office?

23. What happens to persons who defraud the Post Office Department?

Without looking at the list above, name the important days to be remembered as holidays in our state. Tell all you can about each date.

CHAPTER XVII

THE UNITED STATES FLAG

There is a flag in every land,'
There is a flag of every hue,

But there is no flag in any land

Like our own Red, White and Blue.

The first flag of the United States was made by Betsy Ross, in Philadelphia, at the request of Washington. It was adopted by the Continental Congress on June 14th, 1777.

Look at the flag. There are thirteen stripes, alternate red and white. How many red stripes are there? How many white ones? In a field of blue in the upper left-hand corner there are forty-eight white stars.

The thirteen stripes represent the original thirteen states, which, you remember, formed the Union. In this way the flag tells a part of the story of our country.

The forty-eight stars represent the present forty-eight states forming the United States. If, in the future, a new state should be added to the Union, then another star will be added to the flag on the July 4th following the admission of the new state.

Sometimes you will hear people refer to the flag as "Old Glory" or the "Red, White and Blue," representing freedom and justice to all.

June 14th, the anniversary of the flag's adoption, is known as Flag Day. On this day American flags are displayed everywhere, and patriotic exercises are held.

You will find the Stars and Stripes waving over every school and over every Government building throughout this country and in many places all over the world.