[258] Laws of New Mexico, 1921, ch. 172, p. 364. See law of 1912, page 52.
[259] Statutes of California, 1921, ch. 486, p. 739. See page 43.
[260] Acts of Virginia, 1922, p. 69 (amending section 702 of the Code). Virginia School Laws, 1923, p. 41; Public Laws of Rhode Island, 1922, ch. 2195, sec. 17.
[261] Laws of Utah, 1921, ch. 95, p. 284. Approved March 5, 1921.
[262] Laws of Nevada, 1917, ch. 146, p. 245. Approved March 21, 1917. This was less than one month before the United States entered the World War, and the avowal of service in peace or in war, therefore, acquires a peculiar significance. See page 81 for Nevada’s law of 1921.
[263] Compiled Statutes of Idaho, 1919, p. 269, par. 944. From the Political Code, 1901, sec. 1067, Vol. I, p. 329. See page 21 for the first discussion of the law.
[264] “In all public schools of this state it shall be the duty of each and every teacher to teach morality, for the purpose of elevating and refining the character of school children up to the highest plane of life; that they may know how to conduct themselves as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong and rectitude of life, ...” Statutes of Wisconsin, 1917, 40. 30 (5), p. 376.
[265] Statement of the Arkansas law. Cf. Oklahoma law passed in 1921, page 80.
[266] Digest of School Laws ... of Arkansas ... 1923, p. 166. Approved March 23, 1923, this law provides that no person can graduate from high school without at least one full year’s work in American history and civics. School Laws of Mississippi, 1924, ch. 283, p. 3; School Laws of Ohio, 1923, p. 41; Public School Laws of Tennessee ... 1923, p. 35; Acts of West Virginia, 1923, ch. 10, sec. 92, p. 40; State of Kansas, Senate Bill No. 13, repealing Sec. 72-1103 of the Revised Statutes of Kansas, 1923.
[267] Laws of Alabama, 1923, p. 87, approved July 27, 1923; School Laws of the State of Idaho (1923), p. 57; Acts of New Jersey, 1923, ch. 17, p. 17; Laws of Oregon, 1923, ch. 7, sec. 102; Laws of Utah, 1923, ch. 4, approved January 27, 1923; Laws of New York, 1924, ch. 64, article 26-d, sec. 707, approved March 24, 1924. School Laws of Delaware, 1923, pp. 62-63. The Public School Law of North Carolina Codification of 1923, p. 120.