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By FRANKLIN K. LANE
Secretary of the Interior
INE morning, as I passed into the land office, the Flag
/| dropped me a most cordial salutation, and from its rippling
i folds I heard it say: “Good morning, Mr. Flag Maker.”
“I beg your pardon, Old Glory,” I said. “You are mis-
Jj{ taken. I am not the President of the United States, nor the
' Vice President, not a member of Congress, nor a general
in the army. I am only a government clerk.”
“Well, you helped to clear that patent for the hopeful inventor in
New York, or pushed the opening of that new ditch in Colorado, or
made that mine in Illinois more safe, or brought relief to the old eoldier
in Wyoming. No matter whichever one of these beneficent individuals
you may happen to be, I give you greeting, Mr. Flag Maker.
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“Yesterday the Congress spoke the word which will open the door
of Alaska, but a mother in Michigan worked from sunrise until far
into the night to give her boy an education. She, too, is making the
Flag. Yesterday we made a new law to prevent financial panics;
yesterday, no doubt, a school-teacher in Ohio taught his first letters to
a boy who will write a song that will give cheer to millions of our race.
We are all making the Flag.”
“But,” I said, impatiently, “these people were only working.”
Then came a great shout about the Flag.
“Let me tell you who I am.
“The work that we do is the making of the real Flag.
“I am not the Flag, not at all. I am but its shadow.
“I am whatever you make me, nothing more.
“I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people
may become.
“I live a changing life, a life of moods and passions, of heart-
breaks and tired muscles.
DODD
“Sometimes I am strong with pride, when men do an honest work,
fitting the rails together truly.
“Sometimes I droop, and then purpose has gone from me and then
cynically I play the coward.
“Sometimes I am loud, garish and full of that ego that blasts
judgment.
“But always I am all that you hope to be and have the courage to
try for.
“I am song and fear, struggle and panic, an ennobling hope.
“I am the day's work of the weakest man and the largest dream
of the most daring.
“I am the Constitution and the courts, statutes and statute makers,
soldier and dreadnaught, drayman and street-sweep, cook, counselor
and clerk.
“I am the battle of yesterday and the mistake of tomorrow.
“I am the mystery of the men who do without knowing why.
“I am the clutch of an idea and the reasoned purpose of resolution.
DODO
“I am no more than what you believe me to be, and I am all that
you believe I can be.
“I am what you make me, nothing more.
“I swing before your eyes as a bright dream of color, a symbol of
yourself, a pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this
nation. My stars and my stripes are your dreams and your labors.
They are bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm with faith
because you have made them so out of your hearts, for you are the
sakers of the Flag, and it is well that you glory in the making.”
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CUSTOMS IN ARMY AND NAVY!
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be displayed when falling in with other
ships of war, or when near the land,
and when passing or ap-
{| proaching forts, lighthouses or towns."
especially
Explicit Regulations Govern the Dis-
play of the Stars and Stripes on
Land and Sea.
FEE ERE ER
OUR FLAG
By ROBERT C, WINTHROP.
—
Concerning “Flag Day” the following
from the Army and Navy Journal may
be of interest:
A correspondent asks as to the origin
of the custom of hoisting the flag on
board ship and at our army posts at
sunrise and hauling 1t down at sunset.
Some of our readers may be able to
add to the information give here,
The army hoists its flag at sunrise and
hauls |t at sunset. The navy
raises the flag at eight in the morning
and hauls it down at sunset. The flag
Is not flown at sea except for the pur
of exchanging courtesies with
other vessels, but a vessel making port
keeps the flag flying until she comes to
anchor, whatever the hour may be.
The fing is hoisted on board ship during
church service, with the church pen-
nant flying above it. The hoisting of a
flag below another flag is the token of
surrender.
The regulations ®equire that: “At
every military post of station the flag
will be hoisted at the sounding of the
flast note of the revellle, or of the first
note of a march, if a march be played
before reveille. The flag will be low-
ered at the sounding of the last note of
the retreat, and while the flag Is being
lowered the band will play “The Star-
Spangled Banner! The national flag
shall be displayed at a seacoast or lake
fort at the sommencement of an action
and during a battle in which the fort
may be engaged, whether by day or at
night.
“The national ensign on board a ship |
of the navy at anchor shall be hoisted |
at 8 a. m, and kept flying until sunset, | a language which was officially recog-
if the weather permits, Whenever a | nized by our fathers. White is for
ship comes to anchor or gets under- i purity, red for valor, blue for Jjus-
way, if there Is sufficient light for the | tice; and all together—stripes, stars
ensign to be seen, it shall be hoisted, and colors, blazing In the sky-—make
although earlier or later than the time | the flag of our country, to be cherished
specified. Unless there are gosd rea- | by all our hearts, to be upheld by all
sons to the contrary, the ensign shall | our hands.—Charles Sumner,
Behold it!
Listen to It!
Every star has a tongue, every
stripe is articulate.
“There is no language or
speech where their voices are
not heard.”
There is magic in the web of
it.
It has an answer for every
question of duty.
It has a solution for every
doubt and perplexity.
It has a word of good cheer
for every hour of gloom or of de-
spondency.
It speaks of earlier and of
later struggles.
It speaks of victories, and
sometimes of reverses, on the
sea and on the land.
It speaks of patriots and
heroes among the living and the
dead.
But before all and above all
other assoclations and memories,
whether of glorious men, or
glorious deeds, or glorious
places, its voice is ever of Union
and Liberty, of the Constitution
and the Laws,
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of the Jeading veterinary physicians,
and many years a leading politician
at Bolling Springs, is dead, aged 79.
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101,282 troops: Civil War, 2856132
troops; Spanish War, 274.717 troops
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The iris #2 supposed to be the fleur
de-lis, or flowerde-luce of the French
coat of arms, but really has nothing
to do with the design, this being of
recent application. The origin of the
design is not known, but it is gen
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of a spear; by others the flower ofva
lily, the floral emblem of France
The French Senate has just adopted
the bill, previously voted by the
Chambre des Deputes, granting a
credit of 1,500,000 francs to the French
Navigation Bureau to permit the con.
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traffic upon the lower Seine. It Wm
said to be unlikely, however, that the
new boats would be available before
the end of the war,