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FLAG ETIQUETTE YvYY '.' . - It is an American and especially a Southern habit to be courteous, re spectful, reverential in the presence of age and honorable service. Our flag is as old as our nation, as honor able as the sons who have fought and died in defense of American prin ciples, yet we fail wof ully to pay that respectful, reverential courtesy to our flag which is her due. ' That we may all know to the end that we may practice flag etiquette the following official rulings are presented. The Code The flag should never be placed be low a person sitting. The field of the flag is the stripes; the union is the blue and the stars. When the flag becomes old or soiled from use it should be decently buried. When two American flags are cross ed the blue fields should face each other. In decorating, the flag should never be festooned or draped ; al ways hung flat. The statutes of the United States forbid the use of the flag in register ed trademarks. As an altar covering, the field should be at the right as you face the altar, and nothing be placed upon the flag except the Bible. The American flag, the emblem of our Country, is the Ihird oldest na tional flag in the world. It repre resents liberty, and liberty means obedience to law. When the flag is displayed from a staff the blue field should be in the upper corner next to the staff. From private poles the flag may fly at all hours, day and night, with due respect to the colors. In crossing the American flag with that of another nation the American colors should be at the right. When the flag is passing in parade, in review, or is being raised or low ered, the spectators should if walk ing, halt; if sitting, arise, uncover, and stand at attention. When carried in parade or when cross with other flags the Stars and Stripes should always be at the right. The flag should never be worn as the whole or part of a costume. As a badge it should be worn over the left breast. There are three standard stees for the flag provided by the War De partment regulations: Garrison flag 20x38 feet; Post flag 10x19 feet; Storm flag 5x9 1-2 feet. In handling the flag it should not be allowed to touch the ground, and never allowed to lie upon the ground as a means of decoration nor should it be laid flat with anything upon If you hang the flag from a winnow it should be suspended by the same edge which is ordinarily attached to the pole, and if two flags are hung together the cantons should be placed t ogether. If the flag is draped across the street the blu canton should be up. In draping the flag against the side of a room or building the proper po sition for the blue field is toward the north or the east. When the flag is used in unveiling a statute or monument it should not be allowed to fall to the ground, but should be carried aloft to wave out, forming a distinctive feature during the remainder of the ceremony. Always stand when The Star Spangled Banner is being played or sung, and protest when used in a medley. The flag contains thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, representing the thirteen original states, and a star for each state in the union. When the flag is shown horizontally the blue field should be at the upper left hand corner to the observer; when vertically the blue should be at the upper right corner; when in either position the flag should be fastened only at the top. When the flag is flown at half staff as a sign of mourning it should be hoisted to full staff at the conclusion of the funeral; in placing the flag at half staff it should first be hoisted to the top of the staff and then lower ed to position. Whenever our flag and any other are hoisted on the same staff, the Star Spangled Banner must float from the top. In the heart of every American ' citizen the American flag must have the first and highest place must be supreme. L. A. W. swer the question of a cross-examiner until their inmost bastic beliefs are dragged out to the light for all to see. Also, the plight of Henry is intruc tive vindication of how pacifism comes about. Most pacifists lack, his candor and childlike confidence in his own ab surdity. They conceal their unreason beneath a wealth of philosophic gen eralization mingled with' grief over the wounds of war. . Not Henry. Calmly be sits on his throne and dis penses a new wisdom, his own per sonally invented fifty-million theory of the universe. History simply isn't so. It isn't true, let us say, that this peaceful, pious country of ours has fought six wars in a matter of a century and a half or one every thirty years on the average. (This is omitting the Indian wars alto gether, of course.) Henry knows bet ter than all the wise minds of the past, better than all the annals of recorded time. So quite naturally and simply Henry resolves all his contradictions into the one immortal pacifistic para dox, which we may define as follows: All war is murder except my war the war I would have to correct all of God's work at once and settle everything my way. The "Deity Complex" is what the Freudians call this cheerful omni science built on colossal ignorance. An individualism gone mad might be its social explanation. Would a mild insanity be too severe a term for the affliction of such pacifism? YOUR WAR VS. MY WAR (New York Tribune.) Henry Ford sitting on the universe Is deliriously , naive and omniscient .and preposterous. The cleft between . bottomless. But let no one lose sight ot the fact that, essentially, the fal lacy of Henry, Ford is the fallacy of ;,H pacifism., Every pacifist believes, jaX bottom, jexactly ' the two . opposite and contradictory faiths thst he does! Tie only Terence is that most r" " r- i ""I t i it A CANDID FRIEND OF THE COVE- NANT ILLINOIS WOMEN WILL BE ACTIVE IN THE CAMPAIGN The first state gathering of the Illinois Republican women was held in Chicago recently. District chairmen already appointed by Col. Frank L. Smith, of Dwight, III., chairman of the Republican state central committee, were called to a luncheon and conference by Mrs. Fletcher Dobyns, state chairman. Plans were formulated for so thorough ah organization that event ually a "block system" will be per fected to assure an accurate canvass in each community. As soon as the list of district chairmen is completed county chairmen will be named who will in turn be assisted by township and city chairmen. Thus, by early, winter, it is planned to have at least' 45,000 Illinois women actively en gaged in the Republican campaign. Mri. Dobyn's View ' Politics demand the same whole- souled support as did the war, in the opinion of Mrs. Dobyns, who was an ardent worker in the Red Cross and headed the speakers' bureau in Liberty Loan campaigns. "The greatest antidote for bol shevism is the patrotic interest that home-loving women, as well as men, can display in their use of the bal lot," she declares. Aside from the women chairmen there will be no separate organiza tion for women in the Republican ranks, the leaders believing that the heartiest co-operation, is secured through a "fifty-fifty" working basis. THE TIME TO BUY Is When You Can Y?v'i; YYrY Yi?:'' Y ' Yy-'"-'" '-YY'-y. YY'Y Get the Goods! (Asheville Times.) Several months ago a great joint debate was staged with the proposed league covenant as the proposition to be debated. The debaters were two of the ablest men in the United States, and great interest was taken in the discussion. The thing that seemed to surprise everybody was the very large degree of agreement which the speakers manifested. As was said a few days later, one of them damned the covenant with faint praise, while the other praised it with faint damns. This is typical of a very large body of intelligent opinion in this country. Of course, there are a few extremists. President Wilson, for in stance, wants the covenant just as it happens to be at the precise moment at which he is speaking, being ap parently oblivious of changes made in the past and intolerant of changes proposed at the present. Col. George Harvey, on the other hand, although he is the original Wilson man, is ut terly opposed to this or any cove nant for a league of nations. But these extreme positions are the excep tion among the bigger men. For in stance, the Review of Reviews guard edly advocates the covenant, but shows no vast amount of enthusiasm. After a careful discussion of the mat ter, in which it freely admits a large number of serious errors on the part of President Wilson, that magazine reaches the conclusion that "it does not follow however that the peace conference has done fatally bad work." With this admirably cauti ous statement of the covenant's ablest defender, we find ourselves pretty well able to agree. We further agree with the Review of Reviews in the following state ments : "Most of these men (the so-called experts whom the President sent to Paris) , in the political sense, are not representative, and the country un fortunately does not know who they are, and does not indeed know that they are there. In our judgment it has been a profound mistake that Re publicans like Mr. Taft, Mr. Root, Mr. Knox, Mr. Borah and Hiram Johnson, have not been either members of the formal group of five delegates, or else advisory members of the American body, serving upon the great commis sions, helping to shape the league of nations, to adjust economic problems, and to determine the proper lines of future action for this country. "It seems to us that President Wil son's method of choosing and organ izing the American personnel at Paris, has been unfortunate from the polit ical standpoint, as well as from that of the world's business reconstruction. "That copies of the full treaty should have been in the hands of bun-' dreds of subordinate Americans at Paris and of some Americans in this country, while no Senator had been officially permitted to see a copy, was not, only an exasperating circum stance, but a public misfortune of dangerous and far-reaching char-.' acter." . .; YYYrY - Y1-: If all other advocates of the pro posed, covenant weuld be as refresh ingly frank a tpis the discussion' would be easier tban: it is. ' - ,,Y , ITALIAN CLUB FORMS WOMEN'S AUXILIARY The Roman Republican Club, Inc., of Brooklyn, New York, has a flour ishing women's auxiliary to their big club of more than 200 members, and, to insure good candidates at the primaries, have agreed to sign no petitions for nominations unless authorized by the organization itself. The Roman Republican Club, the largest Italian political organization in the state, sprang up four years ago with the idea of elevating the ideals of the Italians, and its mem bers have, during this time helped many Italians to become citizens of the United States and encouraged them to attend educational institu tions. Their new women's auxiliary was formed by and with the co-operation of the Italian young women of East New York. How About Your Goal? The Boston News Bureau says: "Warning of danger of coal shortage, C. E. Lesher, an official of the United States Geological Survey, told House Committee on Rules that while 50,000,000 tons of antharacite coal were available at this tihie last year, there is now only 40,000,000 tons. Bituminous supply is also short, there being available now only 220,000,000 tons, against 294,000,000 last year at this time." We have some on hand now $8.00 While It Lasts Hendersonville Laundry, Ice & Fuel Co. - PHONE 142 es,;Tr have plenty of 'coal, on yard;' all - we went Is chance f J t-vs yon. T. C rc"n C'A 1 f r PLACE HENDERSONVILLE, N. C. Monday, August 11, 1919 Out-Door Performance Shakespeare's Delightful Comedy Yora .like ft" HORTENSE NIELSEN as ROSALIND Assisted by 50 Asheville High School Students Best Trained Students in the South Magnificent Production ! Special Music! Enlarged Orchestra! ENTIRE PROCEEDS DONATED TO CHARITV a filature, jail seats, SO cents. Right 50 Celts A Few Seats Reserved $1.00 Do i a . re
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