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Show j GEN. PERSHING WANTS FLAG RESPECTED Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing, commanding com-manding the military department of Mindanao in the Philippines, has issued is-sued a general order designed to enforce en-force proper respect for the national flag. "The nation's flag," says he, "is the supreme symbol of that lofty patriotism without a controlling measure of which the republic could not long endure. "Both in war and in preparation for war, the high duty of the army to stimulate and develop love of country among the people should ever prompt a faithful adherence to the external ex-ternal forms and ceremonies of respect re-spect for the national colors. "When an individual pays the prescribed honors to the flag in a careless and perfunctory manner his patriotism at once falls under just suspicion. It is therefore ordered that during the playing of the national na-tional air at retreat wherever troops are stationed silence will be maintained, both work and play will cease, vehicles will, halt and officers or enlisted men therein will alight and stand at attention. "Civilians, of whatever race or nationality, within sight or hearing of the flag and music at retreat, will be courteously enlightened, should they fail to stand in respectful attitude and, In case of disrespect, the offender will be promptly escorted off the post." r I |