Show THE TilE AMERICAN N FLAG O HONOR noxon IT AS SUCH NO REAL American needs to b be told to reverence and respect hi his hIs hIs' fleg flag No real American ever falls in showing respect to the Stars am and Stripes But sometimes a real American may fall in fa respectful treatment o ohis of I his flag from lack of knowledge that tha what he does is not respectful There is occasion to tu decorate Thirtieth of May July the Fourth WashIngton's Washington's Washington's Washing WashIng- tons ton's Birthday no matter atter what Mr American Citizen gets out a lo loof lot lotof of American flags and drapes hl his bis l place of business or his house He drapes the flags in rosettes in felI festoons fei fes- in crosses criss and circles I And he does It t because he thinks the American flag the most beautiful beautiful ful In the world and wants to honor the occasion with his hili flag nag It doesn't occur to him that he is doing wrong or that his pretty curlicues aud and Intertwined streamers are a desecration desecration des des- op his flag It is therefore Unfair to blackguard blackguard blackguard black black- guard him as unpatriotic or ridicule him him for lack of taste what Is to be bedone bedone bedone done is to educate him He is to be taught that the flag representing the heart and soul and ideals of th this a country Is never to be used as a decoration decoration decoration de de- de- de for something else elsel It must te to treated as a unit in Itself It must hang free or be stretched stretch d flat against a wall or house bouse never drap drap- td ed in rosettes or circles Tell fell the offender he e can use all aU the red white and blue bunting he lie wants in any shape his fancy dictates tell him he ho can an make his hla rosettes and hi his drapes of ot anything he pleases but that the Ire American flag flae Is The AmerIcan American American Am Am- Flag Ilag to be bo honored with the fn t place the finest flu out position the ut utmost utmost ut ut- most freedom and never naver to be twisted or tied or curled or draped no so that It becomes a mere embellish embellish- embellishment I ment meat to something else Nothing comes cornea ahead of the Flag |