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usefully for broader public conception and understand- 

 ing, if it inspires personal participation in the intimate 

 problems of the nation as a whole. 



In last analysis, a nation, like its people, stands 

 solidly on land. 



So far as possible, the statistical information in 

 this book is that of the last fiscal year before publi- 

 cation. If later readers want the latest figures, a note 

 to one or more of the Departments of the United States 

 Government in Washington will secure the last annual 

 report, from whose tables changes may easily be iden- 

 tified. If readers become interested enough to keep 

 abreast of the deliberate growth of the Government, 

 one of the chief objects of this book will have been 

 accomplished. When its citizens think nationally, this 

 nation's future is secure. 



