The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-05-28
Flag Day Address
Urges Flag Display
American Flag Association Is
sues an Appeal for Flag
Day Observance.

aa
The National Flag Association has
issued the following in regard to the
Observance OF Flag Day.
b The American Flag Association,
agreeable TO its custom for the past
eleven years. respectfully reminds
you that Sunday, June IA, 1908, will
be the 121st anniversary of the adop-
tion of the stars and stripes as the
Flag OF the United States, and that
Flag Day will be celebrated this year
on Monday, June Is. The increas-
ed public recognition OF Flag Day as
national anniversary would seem to
make unnecessary any reminder, to
secure your cooperation in securing
the widest possible Observance this
year.
The governors of not few of the
States. have by their proclamations,
called public attention to the day and
have ordered the flag to be displayed
on all state buildings, and have invit-
ed their fellow citizens to celebrate
the day,
Mayors of cities, in years past, for
recognition OF this anniversary have
ordered flags TO be displayed upon the
municipal buildings of their respec-
tive cities. and by formal proclama-
ton or otherwise, have invited their
fellow citizens to do the same upon
their private buildings,
Editors of newspapers have by edi-
torial comment and the publication of
historical articles upon the subject of
the Flag. called attention to the day
and called upon the public to display
the National colors on Flag Day.
School officers and teachers have
arranged for patriotic exercises APP
propriate to the day.
American patriotic societies,
through their officers and members,
haye stirred up popular enthusiasm
by public appeals through local me-
diums and by observance of the an
,nlversary.
The American people have, from
year to year, more and more with
growing enthusiasm celebrated the
day.
All American citizens are again
earnestly invited to join In the public
recognition OF the birthday OF the en-
blem OF our nationality. In many of
the States, pursuant to law, the pub
lie schools and also voluntarily in pri-
vate schools, exercises will be con-
Quoted in celebration OF Flag Lay.
Let US extend this practice. Tell the
story of the nag; what it represents,
and have the young people pledge
their fealty and loyalty to Il.
On the 14th day of June, 1877,
Congress renacteda That the flag of
the thirteen United States be thirteen
stripes, alternate red and white; that
the Union he thirteen saIs, white. in
a blue field, representing new con-
stellation. !" The number of the stripes
having been increased by the admts-
sion of new States, the possibilities
of the nations future development
dawned upon our fathers, and the
original thirteen stripes were I'M
changeably restored by the act of
Congress on April 4, 1918, when it
was enacted: "That from and after
the fourth day of July next, the flag
of the United States be thirteen hori-
zontal stripes, alternate red and
white; that the MON be twenty stars,
white, in a blue field, and that on
the admission of new State into the
Union, one star he added to the I'm
ion OF the flag; and such addition take
effect on the fourth day of July next,
succeeding such admission"
Since 1918, twenty stars or sover-
cign States have been added to the
Union, making forty-five in all.