Show r Old Vindicated i 1 J By the Rev hey Thomas Gregory From Plymouth Rock nock to lo the Golden Gate Gale and from rota tine the Gulf to lo time the St St. Lawrence every evel patriots patriot's heart feels a new love and profounder el respect for forth forthe th the Supreme erne I court of or time the United States It has vindicated the emblem of or tho the nations nation's power against a aln l the hoodlums who hiO would heap upon it il Innumerable in indignities Certain liquor dealers out In Nebraska Nebi-as- Nebi ka took it into their villainous hea heads s that the they would sell Il a good deal more moro beer by h having ln the tue beer bottles decorated dec orated With the national colors s and nii suiting the thought to lo the deed leei tile the they forthwith proceeded to cover tho the bottles hot hot- 1 ties with labels whereon hal had been heen stamped stampe l the Starry Bann Banner r with its HI- venerated Red White t and Blue flume There ere some sonic people in Nebraska s- s ka ha who loved 10 th their lr country countr an and felt fell felta fella a certain measure of or pride In-Ide In its flag and the they took tool tho the matter to court From court to court Jhc the battle raged until finally In tho the Supreme court of o tho time state It was decided that the booze booz venders enders had no case that In the thenet net act of oC putting pulling tho the Hag on Oil their thell beer hollies they were going beyond their 11 right ht and antl that they mustn't do O it any mor more C But Bul tho the gentlemen who vho made malo a living lhIng liv liv- ing log by hy dealing out their theil liquid l darn darn- nation h had hone one more resort they resort they could go So to tho thu highest tribunal of or all all the Supreme court of oC tho the United States Stale To 10 that tribunal thoy they went nn and got what they didn't want vant a ruling thc li l kl 1 V r making It unconstitutional to putt put the picture of or the nations nation's flag Hag upon their V o beer I h V Now that that the hl highest he t voice olce In life lie I V country has ha spoken polon anti and spoken en in no I V uncertain tone wo we will wI see ee If there then is hi r respect for fol it Il In the hearts of or 1 the American t people lo to cau cause c them to lo loobey i 4 V obey II St V Le f LeOne fOne One tiling thing Is certain certain certain-as as certain as ns l anything can bo ho In all alt this wor world orld when the time people cease to venerate c their heir country's country nag Hag cease o to lo be stirred V by the sight flight o of the lied itel White While and V Blue and amid no mini longer thrill at the tho th V f thought of the tho immortal truths and iri 1 2 principles for wh which leh tho those e beautiful i colors stand stan the day will vili not be far V f I distant nt when time the nation will begin heln Its I decline V I Ve Wi have havo got ot lo to have a n certain J amount of oC In our hearts or V we will degenerate Into the time con condition of things s wherein there thero will be nothIng noth- noth y ln log Ing worth voth living for V V T To be sure the Hag flag l h IH simply an n emblem e m hi ern hut but b ut It i t Is an nn emblem n of o the tho V V J things thinS's that cast about our lives whatever what over ever of oC dignity un and glory Glor they may V 1 happen to possess and tuat to be able to look up UI nt at the emblem emblom without any V sort ort of 01 emotion without an any thrill V of or patriotic pride Is In an Indication of ot V Jt the fact that our out reverence for tho the V V things s brick ot of tho time emblem 18 Th nearly gone rulle V V Then catching up the word wor sent 0 forth for from rom the Supreme court of or the nation let bet us rally roun round the flag JIng J Jand and Keep keen it from tills this time line forth safe 1 th a. a h |