Show Showing Shoving The Flab A fine fino old custom scouts seelUS to have pretty well van van- vanished vanished from the tho land It is that of showing shO tho flag not only from the tho roofs of public and business but front from the tho porches of homes the tho humble no les less than Hum the tho opulent Then on festive oc- oc occasions occasions lc white blue wit red i blue and bunting was used as a decoration Few e 1 of us have havo seen bunting in ill runty years There Thero was II a sense of pride in country behind all this The Tho flag was thought of as the tho symbol of many of things a free freo people i of a world power of ofa n a land lanel landof i of opportunity whatever the faults mal and ills night might bo be I of the tho rights and obligations of both both the individual and the tho body politic alike Ol Old customs customs fallen largely into disuse can bo be revived d and given givon new lIew lifo life and breath The rho country will observe Flag mag Week Yeek during tiro tho Juno 15 1015 period It would be good if flags flow flew everywhere in time the old way and if bunting graced time tho speakers tables and amI and rostrums These flags will be blown so soto soto to speak by the tho winds of change but us as they banner out they will stand for the tho perman- perman permanence permanence ence of a nation based on the tho di und and freedom of ruan ma 1 on the implacable resolution of a people to stand for what they believe o to bo be right no matter what may come |