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Show OPPOSE CHANGE IN FLAG ! . i Despite agitation fur a chango, tbe arrangement of tun In the blue field pt the American flag will remain It la If prominent officers of local patri-btlc patri-btlc associations bar their way. These have nprnird their disapproval disap-proval of the Idea of Representative J. r. Bhafroth of Colorado as embodied In hU bill Introduced In cnngreaa, on the grounds that It la too formal and would lack permanency. In this design de-sign the thirteen orliflual elatea form circle around a atar made up of entailer stars, each representing a Ham H. ('arson, past commander of E. II. Wolrott poet. No. 1. "nor shouH the stars In the flag. The dealgn before be-fore congress Is too set, and that of the Philadelphia man would cause tho etstea last admitted to occupy poal-ttnns poal-ttnns at the end of the tall, so to speak. There la plenty of room In the field for sll new atatea according to the present arrangement, and the deelgn should not be changed." Mrs. Thomas H. Urown, president of the Daughters of the American Revolution, ssld: "We love our flag Vogl and Shafroth Plana for Arranging the Star Representing the Various Statee in the Proposed New National Banner. state, while the territories stand waiting wait-ing admission to the larger star. The compoalte flag proposed by Harry Vanettl Vogt of Philadelphia, Is alio condemned. It Is said that the arrangement would give certain atatea preference over others In point of position. "The stars In the blue field of thi beavens are not arranged according ' to a geometrical design," said Dr. WII- because It la as It Is, and no change could compensate for the lues of those chsrarlertatlrs which have endeared It to us." "I favor the present arrangement." said Mrs. Charles Catlln. president of the Daughters of the War of 1H12, "and would not express a preference for any design until I ssw that wa oould no longer retain the flag as It la." Indianapolis News. |