Show a Q o od d- d dA A r s st t sI I Tit t 9 r r i a d r T i iAd I rt t 1 r w wI rif if Ad k J w S i r t C vt WA tA Zia y M Yo Y r r S x Ay I 1 o K OO I iT 7 By ELMO SCOTT T WATSON I ll h of the llie American flag dig is lS all nil of us do on June 14 I Ef I i T which Is Ilag I In lag day dav and we think of the nation national LEf L al nl emblem with Its thirteen W alternate rc red ind white ss sty lpes Ipes and Its Us IS 48 white stars on a afield afield afield field of blue Hut But this tills flag which Is variously and tl known n as Old Old Glor Glory the Stirs Stars and Stripes es and the Star S Banner Binner Is not the only banner which calls for forthe forthe forthe the respect and loyalty alty of ot ill all Amer sass For there are some some ome other AmerIcan flags flag which have ha their place In our national tradition even een though they are not so well known as the the the lied Hed White hite and Blue rust First of all nil there Is the President s stIng tIng flag the personal banner of the Chief Executive e of the nation Some da day It If you see living Iving ln fl from a short f hort staff attached to the radiator cap of an automobile a blue flag edged with white and yellow v silk sill fringe bearing the United States coat of arms In the center with Ith four white stars In each corner of ot the flag you w wont on t need the cheering of ot the cowd to tell you that thal the President of ot the United States Is riding In that cir car Or It if you see a flag flig of the same came design Ith perhaps a n sll slight ht difference as to the floating 0 over oser er a house or snapping In the breeze from the bow bo boot ot of a ship It will 1 bring the came same mes sage sage tl at the President Is in that house bouse or Is riding on that ship But the President Is not the only high official who has his own 0 n per personal flag If It the secretary of war ar Is making an official visit there Is dis displayed pia played cd a red flag bearing the United States coat coit of ot rims with Ith some minor differences from that shown shon sho n on the Presidents President s flag and four white stars In the corners It If It Its s the secretary ot of the navy naTY It Its s a blue flag flig with a white anchor In the center and the four stirs stars It If It Its s the secretary secret ot of the treasury you will see cee another blue flag but the design on it Is e even en en more complicated Two cros crossed ed anchors are surrounded ba bv by a ring of ot thirteen white stars In front of ot the of the anchors Is a shield bear bearIng bearIng lag Ing in the top half halt a pair of scales ot of the balance b ance type and In the lower half baIt a n key kev he The s symbolism of ot these Is of ot course coure clear The 1 he secretary ot of the treasury holds the key ke he to the na- na nation ni tion s strongbox and from the earliest dais s the balance scales 1 were ere used In iii weighing precious metals The secre tart of ot commerce also has i l blue flag 1 with Ith the four white stars but In the center Is a white shield at the top ot of which sll sails a three mast three three-masted d sessel essel and below a lighthouse casts lighthouse casts Its beams abroad The flag flig h has lIas had an Interesting History insofar as the question of ot a proper design for tor It has resulted In a series ens of ot heated con tro contro over oser 0 er se several eral points point of her hel heraldry aldry molted Involved Its history lustor Ins haS been one Ion long record of and re rector tor until finally In WIG 1916 under Pr President Woodrow W there c ed the residents resident's I flag as it Is today toda Before that time each preci president dent hid had the rl right ht to select the d design n for his Ius own 0 n flag and most mot of ot them did But the Presidential i Hag flag used bt President W llon on has lias been used bt b bOUr OUr Chief Executives es since that time timeA A distinctive e nn flag for tor the had bad Jt Its orl origin ln In the na J nav On April 18 Gideon W ells v ells secretary of oC the issued 9 a set of natal DIMI regu lations regulations re pr proscribing prescribing that on the oc- oc oc casion occasion of ot the visit licit of ot the Pre on board a man of war the American ensIgn should be lie disputed 1 ed at the main 1 his was the first order to designate a fla flag denoting the pre since of ot the President nt a n na n national ship A chan chaise charie e was as made mide the neat when hen year the rectangular UnIon Jack Juch of ot dirk dark blue bearing hOrizontal ro rows ros s of white stal stars s one olle for each state was as adopted us as the President s flag when on board a national Although this tills wig was the first e flag eliab for tor the the President President It was as nn an un tin fortunate unfortunate choice In the nary y navy the UnIon Jack Jacl at the foremast I is u a sIgnal with for tor r pilot plot Thus in Sn the sate cie of a ship only one m mast sst t the display of ot the President UnIon Jack ml might leht ht mean either elther t the the ota ofa or pilot In the case of ot a two two master master the signal would be con confusing tubIng fusing and Rince nt that time a Jack at l the rigging was waa aB a n signal of ot distress PATRIOTIC NEGLIGEES I The photograph shows show left to right Eliza Elizabeth Elizaboth both beth with the secretary of wars war's flag Helen Appello with the Coolidge flag Mary Devenny with Old Glory Helen with the Taft flag and Anna Corcoran with the Roosevelt flag These Presidential and army flags are arc all manufactured at the quartermasters quartermaster's depot in Philadelphia Its use for the thc President was hardly one complimentary to the highest officer In the landIn landIn land landIn In Ilowe however er the national en ensign ensign ensign sign was again designated as the President s flag lIag and It remained thus untIl 1882 when hen William E C Chandler secretary of the na nary nav issued an order which was wis lS approved ed by President Chester Alan AIm Arthur that the flag lag ot of the President of the United States shall consist of ot a blue ground with Stith Ith the arms of the United States In the center It was as not until IG 16 years ears later however honeter ho hoe e eer er that the army toll followed owed the lead of the na v na v by adopting a e flag for tor Its commander In chief and when lien It did Its action marked the tile beginning of ot a series of contro 1 which were ere to last for nearl two d decades Cades Under a n general order I issued larch 23 from the general generals s office once by direction ot of the secretly secretary of war lr the President President dent s flag for the army was noted as a flag of scarlet bunting 1 Ith white stars in each of the four cor corners corners corners ners and In the middle of ot the field a large blue star outlined in white and bearing In the center the United States COlt coat of ot arms Around this tills cen central central contral stir star were ere other stars rep representing representing representing resenting the st at stites of ot the Union During the Spanish American 1 war warthe lr the army arm Presidential flag was as hun hung upon the wall hall all of ot the cabinet room In Inthe Inthe the White hUe House symbolizing s the po- po position position po position of ot President 1 as corn com commander Lander mander In chief of the arm ands and was s the first ear flag of ot Its kind hind that hail had thus ever eser e er been used But for sonic some unknown reason on the navy nary Pre Ire flag which chichi would symbolize S his post tion as commander In chIef of ot thenan the nan nanas was sins not thu thus displayed displaced The army Presidential flag flig was as first e e e publicly at the lie peace jubilee celebration In Chicago o in and again at a similar celebration In Later both the arms arm and ind the thenay nary y fla flags s sele were ele twice t hung In the main halh a of ot the White House during armand army arm and nas n receptions but the army irmy flag flig was wis He never Heer er hoisted until March larch 4 A 1901 1001 when h n It flew over oser the residential Presidential re rele reviewing renewing le leIng Ing stand at the second of The first contro controversy ers over oser 0 er the Pre Pres PresIdential flig came cime up in 1 cm The tit ar department dep order of ot ISS had directed tint that the official coat of arms on the central sta- sta should be is as I determined delei detel mined 1 by bs the State St department and the al arms aims ms referred to are rl those shown n on tile the great greit seal Sal ot of tile the United St Stites its which v Is In the of If the Department of State te t 1 he shield thereon had a ahia always 1 n s this 1111 plated ell sewn seven red and sl I white bars alternately red and white which tins 1 In accord lace ince with this the th act ot of con congress 1 es of June 20 O 1782 establish h hIng lag Ing the great greit seal seil In 1899 shin v hu the equipment o officers ceu atle at New le Nework ork and bre fare Island where here figs digs for foi the hats na ire nude made el e furnished flag books for the voir vear they called atlen tion to the fact that the shield on the President s flag flig en en displaced cd seven se white and sic sl red stripes In ste Id of the rev res ei Cl cise se e It was wis lS discos ered th thit lt the design n hind had been en copied from a n publication of the State dep merit ment entitled Ih the Seal of ot the States State 1 The he matter nutter was talon tal en up ly 13 Ith tin the State and ended with Ith an admission lon from from I ot of tint that department that there sr-is sr s sno no 1 reason eason 1 for the re reE E of the colors which vis nas s presumed to he be bethe hethe the re result of ot an nn arbitrary heraldic licence in 1002 1902 the acting secretary ot of the nosy nl Issued a memorandum that the State Slate tate department certifies that the shield has be seven been en white and six red bars alternating white and anel andred red and It Is ordered that such shall be the seal on the President Presidents s flag Meanwhile the army continued to tomake tomake make Its flag with the seven red and six unite tI bite stripes on the shield In InI November 1002 It was ns decided that U something should lIQuid be done to recon reco reconcile r die cite the differences in the design o the shield A committee from the War Ivar department laid the Nosy Nivy department called on President 11 Roosevelt elt and suggested su that since other nations had but one flag for Its chief It waS wa'S sva not consistent for our President to lun hate e two So it was as decided to adopt l a new ne flag closely patterned after the tho older na navy y flag flig but with Ith Sc eral modifications A short time later orders were Issued by the secretarIes ot of the two departments tint that the colors on the shield a as certified by the State depal se seven seen en white and six reI red I bars be ue followed follo ed and OnO on O Oember os ember 21 1 1902 1002 it was officially announced that the controversy contro ers between the t 0 I departments over oser 0 er the design of ot the 1 Presidents PresIdent s flag flig was as at an end Tha only other change was to make mahe the eagle stitched in black Despite the agreement however howe the flags used LJJ by b the two tiro t 0 branches of ot the service sen Ice were sere not yet et the same rue both used the same de device deIce Ice as to the tho eagle and the shield but the nas mn v clung to Its blue field and the army to Its red field It was not until the thenet nest t administration that thit decided steps towards uniformity were sere taken On June Junc 24 1012 1912 and again ln on October 29 20 1912 1012 President Taft Issued executive tl th tive tle e a orders that the color of ot the field of the President s flag flig shall be blue but tile the arms arm did not Immediately con con- conform conform con conform form and a difficult situation arose at atthe atthe atthe the inaugural ceremonies of President In hr larch 1913 1013 The review re reviewing I ing box bot In front of ot the lute House sins HIS decorated with two Presidents President s flags pros pro provided b the War ar department and the J a sav department The y a departments s was sins as blue but the War departments department's was as red I This re revived reused I the old contro and when hen again in 1915 there was a I double display of ot colors the matter a serious aspect It was pointed out to Pr President 1 Wilson lIson ilson that an agreement should be made and a standard flag lIag adopted for tor both branches branche of the sef service Ice The President called in Lieutenant By- By Byron Byron By Byron ron aide to the secretary ot of the pass na and requested him to prepare pre pre- pre pre-pire pare re a design for the Presidential standard the new ne fla flag was as to consist of a blue ue field with four white stars In tile the corners since the flags of ot an admiral and of ot i l general bear beir four stArs as a sl sign n of command and aud the President is the highest ranking admit admiral 11 and general Instead of ot an ane ev e elet let reproduction of ot the great reat seal Pre President W ilson expressed n a desire to lease have Ins Ills personal seal ceal a 1 tion of the great seal used on the stationery in In the White Ilou e on the flag flig This sell seal differs from the great greit sell seal in that the cagle eagles s head Is furred to the sinister Its its left and the stars aho arose above e the eagle are tre differently arranged The 1 he new nets del design n sins wis lS prepared by bythe bythe bythe the bureau of construction and lId repair under the direction of Commander and antI was wis cd bv bs the in an executive e e order dat dated h M is 29 20 O WIG 1916 o So o at list last the con tro was as ended endell and a residents s flag uniform for both branches of the thesel sel selIce Ice Ice came Into being But thought though the army navy v contro ers 0 over oser er the President s b flig ilag w lS is thus ended there are those e who isho ho are not vet set t satisfied is th the President ilag The Thies point out the fact that flint the seven se white ln and ind i sh red burs bars on the lucid even cien Cn though It does have hate the Indor indorsement of the tin State department Is not in conformity Ith th the arrange arrange- arrangement arrangement e- e ement ment of th these S is lS prescribed pre lu in inthe tile the act lct of ot congress of Jun June LO d adopting the great greit sell seal of the United I States tes t nor liar as prescribed liv h the lie act att of congress of April 4 1 ISIS 1818 prescribing lag Ing alternating red and white stripes In establishing the tile American flag But more serious th tint It tills thus accord accordIng hag 1111 to lIer c experts Is the fist that on the President s flag the ea eagle le s shed shead head he is turned II towards to ards tile the mister that Is a awns 1 from the flag flig pole 11 Is one of the indent ancient rule rule- of or heraldry the say siy tint that no bird or animal er e es ei look away assay from the staff for If sucha such uch I a flag Is carried Into battle the heat thus turned would make It look as though tile the bird were ere retreating from Itlie tile the enemy On all nil other flags as on which the ea eagle le appears Its head nl- nl nl ways faces the staff regardless of whIch side tide of ot the flag one ut at |