Show WHAT DOES THE FLAG MEAN TO YOU 7 committee for our fourth of july cele it was a happy thought of the bration to get away from the one long talk explaining the meaning of this most significant of american holidays and substitute for it tour four short sentiments dealing with the topics of the spirit of america our flag hands across the sea and our nations birthday able speakers treated those subjects and the most impressive of the sentiments giving food for much thought was that on our flag rendered by judge H N hayes the speaker in his usual stern logic showed that the flag as such has but very little mercenary value and stands tor for just what the peoples over whom it is waving are standing for so that if the cannibal races of inner africa had vl a flag it would stand stana for cannibalism in the fidai islands it would stand for fetishism and so on the ideal value of the flag is exactly the value of the people it protects to make it glorious the people have to work for its glory and the most important question and deciding factor therefore is what does the flag mean to you all who well understood the speakers eloquent remarks were no doubt set bet a thinking and we think it would be a great lesson to hear what our flag means to the best element of our citizenry for this reason the reaper decided to ask our citizens the pertinent question what our flag means to them and to publish their answers in our columns in concise form over the signatures of those who care to reply the question is asked now please answer |