"I do not see why you should care about anything beautiful," replied the neighbor. "I can live just as well without taking the trouble to make things look beautiful."

"But don't you want other people to respect you?" asked Andrew.

"Yes, certainly, but what has that to do with beauty?" asked the neighbor.

"If you keep yourself and your home ugly, people will not respect you," answered Andrew. "It is the same way with an ugly city. If my friends find that our city is ugly they will not respect the city and above all they will not respect me. They will say that it is up to the citizens to make their city beautiful. If the citizen is careless about his own home and yard, he is to blame if the city is not beautiful.” "I thought that it was the city government's duty to make the city beautiful. Don't we pay taxes

for that, too?"

"Yes," answered Andrew. "The city does a great deal. The city keeps the streets clean and improves them whenever necessary. The city takes care of the trees in the parks. Whenever there are any bad buildings, the city orders them to be torn down. The city builds all public buildings. Our city has a group plan for the public buildings. The City Hall, the Main Library, the Chamber of Commerce, and

the City Auditorium are all grouped together in a way to make the center of the city very fine looking."

"Then we do not need to trouble ourselves about keeping the city beautiful, do we?" asked the neighbor.

"That is where you are wrong," answered Andrew quickly. "The beauty of our city depends mostly upon each citizen. He must keep his own yard and home beautiful. Even the poorest home looks well if the lawn is green and smooth and there are a few flowers."

"That is quite true," answered the neighbor. “I never thought of it in that way."

"Waste paper, refuse, and garbage scattered about,

all make the yard ugly. My children think so, too. They help me to keep the yard free from rubbish. And do you see those billboards across the street?

They mar beauty, too. I think we should protest against billboards of all kinds."

"Yes, I feel like beginning right away!" said the neighbor. "Now I can see how ugly everything is. I believe I agree with you on this question."

"A beautiful city makes beautiful citizens," continued Andrew. "By that, I mean citizens'with beautiful characters. And that is the most important of all."

PART FIVE

THE CITIZEN AND HIS WORK

LESSON 1

OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORK

In a large country like the United States there are many opportunities for work.

Nearly everyone has a chance to choose the work which he likes best and for which he is best fitted.

In the cities there is factory work, machine work, work in stores, office work, carpentry, shipbuilding, and business of all kinds.

If a citizen cannot find suitable work in one city, he can go to another city. Railroads connect the cities. The railroads are a great help to those who cannot find employment in one place.

In olden times people were forced, more or less, to stay in one place. It was a great hardship to move from one place to another because there were no railroads. People were very poor. many industries as to-day. living directly from the land. poor living.

There were not so People made their Often this was a very