| Show NEW AMERICAN FLAG Utah ViiI Ailil a New S < air to Hesm tifnl Old Glory On tho Fourth of July next a forty fifth star will be added to the American flap The Stars and Stripes have seen many changes In 1795 there were fifteen stars and fifteen stripes But in 1818 congress passed a law directing that thenceforth there siiould be thirteen stripes in honor of the original thirteen states and that on the Fourth of July following the admission of every new state a star should be added to the blue union of the flag And since that act congress has never said a word about the flag it never directed what the size or proportions of the flag should be or how the stars should be arranged So the war and navy departments designed each their own flag arranging the stars to suit themselves Lately however the two departments have come to an understanding un-derstanding and hereafter there will be but one standard official flag The new star representing Utah is the one at the righ hand end of the third row from the bottom It was represented represent-ed on the official draft by an extra star cut out of paper and pasted on It was given this position because it balances best with the rest there Ihere is room for three more stars one each at the left hand end of the second and fourth rows from the bottom and one at the right hand end of the second row from the top These spaces were purposely left for the accommodation of New Mexico Mex-ico Arizona and Oklahoma when they are admitted The flag is made in the proportions of the new regimental colors just adopted namely 5 feet 6 inches long by 4 feet 4 inches wide with the union 28 inches SQuare These are not the proportions however observed in the flags of military mili-tary posts etc For the latter service flags of three sizes and shapes are provided pro-vided First there is the storm flag which is S feet by 4 1 feet 2 inches then the post flag which is 20 feet by 10 feet and last the big garrison flag for holiday holi-day occasions measuring 36 feet by 20 I feet wide In all these the union is one third the length of the whole flag These three flags with the regimental colors constitute the only official United States flags Flags made otherwise are not correct The big flags are all made out of American hunting the regimental colors are of silk fringed on the edge and mounted on staffs with tassels dangling dan-gling |
