“The sheet-anchor of the Ship of State is the common school. Let no youth leave the school without being thoroughly grounded in the history, the principles, and the incalculable blessings of liberty. Let the boys be the trained soldiers of constitutional freedom, the girls the intelligent mothers of freemen.” The accompanying gravure makes an especial appeal because of its simplicity. There is no posing in this group. The utter unconsciousness of the children, standing agaze before Washington’s portrait, is evidence enough of the deep-rooted feelings that hold them there in silent contemplation of the Father of their Country. PREPARED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MENTOR, VOL. 6, No. 10, SERIAL No. 158 COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION, INC. THE MENTOR · · JULY 1, 1918 DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY _The_ CRADLE _of_ LIBERTY By ALBERT BUSHNELL HART _Professor of Government, Harvard University_ _MENTOR GRAVURES_ FANEUIL HALL BOSTON, MASS. OLD NORTH CHURCH BOSTON, MASS. THE LINE OF THE MINUTE MEN LEXINGTON, MASS. _MENTOR GRAVURES_ SIGNING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE By John Trumbull THE LIBERTY BELL CHILDREN OF LIBERTY [Illustration: LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD The Statue of Liberty is 151 feet high, standing on a granite pedestal 155 feet high. It was designed by the French sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. The cost, over a million francs, was subscribed by the people of France. The pedestal cost $250,000, raised by popular subscription in the United States. The statue was unveiled on October 28, 1886.] Entered as second-class matter March 10, 1913, at the postoffice at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1918, by The Mentor Association, Inc. Singularly enough, the freest people on earth are not the happiest (using the word “free” in the broadest sense). The Esquimaux and the Australian “black fellows” know no hours of labor, no restriction on their movements, no courts to punish offences; yet, by all accounts, their lives are filled with danger, disease, and famine. Real liberty comes into being only when men feel the contact of freemen with freemen. Liberty flourishes where men are gathered into communities, because every man must accept some abridging of that perfect freedom which the lowest savages enjoy. The essence of liberty is to recognize other people’s liberty--and that means some restrictions all around; thus arises the system of balance and elastic government which we call democracy. [Illustration: PLYMOUTH ROCK The granite boulder enclosed by this memorial shrine is a fragment (broken off in 1774) of the large flat rock where the Pilgrims landed--which lies near the sea and is now covered by a wharf]