Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-16
America Sells Flags.
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| ave export from this country to En-
Gland" said a New York flag maker.
..preat numbers of the smaller printed
| cotton flags, ranging in size from f1aSs
of two by three inches to flags of twen-
| ty-four by thirty-siX inches.
.Of small flags of American manufc-
tire there were sold in England at the
time of the jubilee celebration thou
sands Of gross. We shall sell them
thousands of gross for the coronation
celebration.
with their cheaper labor they can
make bunting flags in England cheaper
than we can make them, but when IT
comes to machine printed cotton flags
| we can make them here and sell them
| in England cheaper than they can
make them for themselves.
1--WE sell bunting yacht flags to
number of yacht clubs in France, this
trade having come about originally
thru the purchase of flags by Ameri-
can members of these clubs.
ITO Canada we sell considerable
quantities of flags, British flags and
flags of the Dominion. The greatest
proportion of these are of printed mus
lin such as we sell to England, and are
bought in Canada, as in England, In
large numbers on the occasion of any
celebration which calls for display of
flags But to Canada we sell also silk
flags, and some bunting flags, too.
Mexico buys perhaps 25 per cent of
its flags of all sorts in the United
all its flags, and we sell flags in the
u. ;ell 1f Ta,,, too tn, No
other British island possessions in this
hemisphere.
Australia buys the greater part of
all its flags cotton, silk and bunting
flags of Great Britain and of it's own
commonwealth in its country. 1t is
more than likely that the British or the
Australian flag seen floating in Mel
bourne or Sydney or elsewhere in the
island continent was made in America
and bought In New York
There are more flags sold In proper
ton to the population in republics than
in countries under monarchicaI form
of government, and there are more flags
in proportion to the population sold in
long-settled than in more newly settled
regions. Thus there are more flags to
the population sold in the United States
than any other country on earth, and
more sold in the east than in the west.
This doesn't mean that the west is
less patriotic, but that it is still more
or less busy getting settled. There are
other things it needs before flags.
But the aggregate consumption of
flags in this country is steadily increas-
ing, and it is increasing proportionately
faster than the population. In more
and more homes has the flag come to be
considered a necessity, that is to say,
an essential part of the household
equipment, for use upon occasion, and |
the spread of country within which the |
flag is thus held is all the time widen
ing.
IF their patriotism can be reckoned |
by the display of flags they make. then |
the three most patriotic cities in the
are Philadelphia, New York
and Boston. On regularly recurring
holidays of national observance calling
forth patriotic sentiment, as the Fourth
Of July and Washingtons birthday,
makes a more liberal dis
play of flags than New York. But on
great special occasions, awakening deep
feeling, New York puts out the greater
number of flags by far.
"The latest thing in flags is found in
he handsome little silk flag that is now
so often used for decorative purposes,
IL for a souvenir, at banquets OF pat
'iotic or social or military character.
These little silken flags, national flags
n miniature, are now to be had in rep
.esentations of the flags of fifty or more
lations.''