Show TilE THE J LIVING FLAG When Wilen you vOU come to think of oC it that I idea of oC a living flag fag is mightily im ins- Hundreds of or children are t being drilled cal dally daily and when hen the tho annual annual annual ant an an- nual parade of oS the tho Grand Arm Army of or orthe the Republic shall take place tho flag fag composed of or these hundreds of or little people will wi welcome the soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers with the most costly and precious emblem m within the power of ot humanity to arrange The red white and blue of or th the flag fat will wi be typified b by girls in pretty dresses of ot th the required cl color r. r Children Chi Chi- Chil Chii- dren from Crom our hom homes s sI will I be beth tho stars stan and tho the stripes Into Ino the composition of at that great flag will wH enter the thc very cry flesh fesh and and blood blood of or the Salt Lake people peo peo- plc And Utah's welcome to the veterans veterans veterans vet vet- erans will wl be the living hiving moving breathing hoping loving human beIngs beIngs beings be be- ings who coie come from fron tho the h hearts arts and the homes of ot all al the tho people and will wH return there when the tho hour of honorIng honorIng honoring honor- honor Ing the Grand Army Armr shall have ended Man Many a veteran in that parade will wH remember the little girls who strewed flowers towers before the ithe soldiers soldier as they marched away In wartime Many of I them will ivill wi remember the presentation of oC flans flags the girls sirls and women made mad h I r a tl for Cor their brothers and neighbors t to crr carry through the carnage of wa war Anti And Ant thc they will wi bo be carried back b by th this greater flag faS this moro more precious bantier ban ban- tier ncr to the thA days das of their young oung manhood man man- hood We o e do not kno know who originated th the tho Idea of a a living fag flog flag Tho The author is worthy worth of much honor And AmI th the highest compliment a people can pa pato pay to tho the soldiers Is to copy the tho form Corm and color of tho the nations nation's naton's standard i in inthe 1 I tho the life and and movement of or a peoples people children |