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Show Returns Wax Flag Early this month a delegation nam the State cf Iowa journeyed t ivlon.gomery, Alabama, to "correct "cor-rect a mistake of three generations ao" and return a flag taken during dur-ing the war t.iat almost wrecked the nation in the last century. State Senator B. C. Whitehill, of Ij.a, used tne phrase quoted tuxve in presenting the flag to Ala-oii.a Ala-oii.a and a veteran of the Union Ar.i.y, fiom IoAia, sat oh tne stage With four ConfeoJerates, as Governor Gover-nor D.xon, of Alabama, j-raised the "tine, gracious and generous gesture." ges-ture." Such incidents demonstrate the difference between the United States and certain areas in Europe. Here a great war was well-fought and tiie South was whipped. After a period of unpleasantness, which is unoerstandable, the people of the sections involved .have taken numerous num-erous occasions to demonstrate the end of the division. In other lands, there has been a tendency to keep alive old hates and look to the future fu-ture for a resumption of the fight. |