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Show Your Flag If possible always hang jour flag by means of a staff or mast. It should not be tacked to the side ot a porch or house. In general a flag should not Lu- hoisted before sunrise or left hanging hang-ing after sunset. However, the idea that the flag must be hoisted as early as sunrise rather a difficult one wheni the sun rises as early a:s it does now 1 Is erroneous In most military' posts; the rule is that the flag should fly from sunrise to sunset. In some of the public buildings in Washington floats from S o'clock to sunset in government buildings where the hours for work rre short the flag is hoisted at 9 and lowered at half past t Of course, a flag should never be hung so that it drags on the ground It should be hoisted reverently and carefully. En man) households it la a good idea to have lh" children allowed al-lowed the privilege of raising the flag. In mtiking use of the flag as a decorative dec-orative fetture you should alwaye r member ihat the flair should never be arranged so that anything fan be placed plac-ed on it or so that it can be trodden upon. For this reason it should never be draped on a table or box v. here you might desecrate it in this way. There are really not well formulated formulat-ed rules for the use of the American flag. And for this reason it is perhaps per-haps rather unkind to blame those who U6 the flag in any way tor decoration.! For Instance we are told perhaps, by j some military man that the flag should j be hunt: from a mast or staff In front of a building. Then we see building's in state rapitalu and public buildings In other cities with flags gathered into butterfly shapes plastered over their facades, and with flags hanging f rorn j window Bills and parapet So perhaps the best thing is for each of us to formulate his own rules about the use of the flag. It is easy to distinguish dis-tinguish in your own mind between dignified and undignified ways of using Old Glory. |