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Show tion emblems will be of silk. Operations Op-erations employed in the manufacture manufac-ture of Army flags include both mechanical and hand work. Much of the cutting and trimming is done by machine, though the delicate deli-cate embroidery work is a hand operation. Over 10,000 Flags For the Army! Probably the average reader un. derstands that the Quartermaster Corps of the Army is charged with the important responsibility of supplying and equipping the American soldier with is food, clothing, housing, and transportation. transporta-tion. But how many, we wonder, know that the Quartermaster Corps also provides flags? And so a recent bulletin from the Office of The Quartermaster General stating that over 10,000 flags, for use by the various branches of the Army, will soon be manufactured by the Philadelphia Philadel-phia Quartermaster Depot, calls attention to the fact that the American Am-erican Army has important use, at all times, for Old Glory. From large Red Cross bunting flags, six by nine feet in size, for the use of general hospitals, in keeping with the provisions of the Geneva Convention, to small bunting bunt-ing flags, air-auto, about a foot and one-half by two feet in size, this huge order of 10,633 flags will be completed as quickly as possible. possi-ble. Most of the 13 classifications enumerated in the order specified bunting as the material to be employed. em-ployed. However, a few organiza- |