[593] The National Security League, “Report to Members for the Month Ending November 15, 1925.”

[594] Constitution Anniversary Association, “A Statement of the Expanding Activities.”

[595] Ibid.

[596] Ibid.

[597] Constitution Anniversary Association, “Bulletin Number 10.”

[598] Ibid.

[599] Constitution Anniversary Association, “Bulletin Number 9.” The first prize in the Second Annual Contest was $2000, and was awarded to Robert Sessions of Birmingham, Alabama, a boy of fifteen years. See Constitution Anniversary Association, “Bulletin Number 10.”

[600] Atwood, Harry F., Back to the Republic, the Golden Mean: the Standard Form of Government (Chicago, 1918), p. 20. The italics are in the original.

[601] Ibid., pp. 36-40. Mr. Atwood draws ten parallels to autocracy, democracy and the republic from religion, domestic life, food, drink, music, thought, sleep, light, moisture, and the number of wheels most serviceable on vehicles.

[602] Atwood, Harry F., Safeguarding American Ideals (Chicago, 1921), p. 34.