The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-12-14
HAS YOUR HOME
A SERVICE FLAG

If YOU HAVE HUSBAND, SON OR
BROTHER IN ARMY OR NAVY
YOU SHOULD FLY ONE.
Banner Invented by Former Mon.
tanan Seen in Many Thousands OF
Homes and Busin IS Houses AL
Over the Land as Token of Pride
in Those Who Have Gone to Fight.
There is one man who is making
fortune out of the war, whose &C
tivities in all probability will not be
regulated by the government, and it
is somewhat curious fact that the
more men are sent to the front the
more money he will make.
This man, l.. Queisser of Cleve-
land, o., was formerly in the mining
business at Helena, and also for a
short time resided in Butte, where
he was employed as a mining expert.
He is the originator of the service
flag, which he patented, and on every
flag sold in the United States he
receives a royalty of 10 per cent.
The service flag is the emblem
which has become so familiar the ma
ton over, consisting of white flag
with red border all around it, Any
family that has given son, father or
other male member for our army is
entitled to use the flag, placing red
star in the white field for every men,
Der of the family in the army or navy.
Employers also are entitled, to use
the flag and to place red star in
the white field for every employe of
the concern that has Joined the mill
tary or naval service.
Hundreds of Montana families
have bought service flags that hang
in their windows, an emblem of the
pride they feel in the boy who has
gone to the colors to fight in the
great war for freedom and for hui
mainly.
Hanging from pole in front of
great business house on Broadway,
New York City, is huge service flag
that boasts 1000 stars. In touch
ing poem, Damon Runyon, the Colo
RADIO writer who is known to many
Montana newspaper men, has called
attention to the fact that these g.
900 stars mean no more in devotion
and duty than the little one-star flag
that is seen in many home. His
verses follow:
The Little One-Star Flag.
BY Damon Runyon.
Oh, used to hear the family
In the house across the way
A father, and mother, and child.
And, Oh, the noise they used to
make;
They'd keep the neighborhood
awake
/ sometimes used to think they'd
drive me wild!
glanced across the street the
other day;
1t seemed too quiet over there, by
far.
And hanging in the window of the
house across the way
Is little flag which bears single
star!
There's a Service Flag in Broadway,
And it flaunts two thousand stars.
Oh, it swings there to the glory
OF the soldiers and the tars.
But no star there in its beauty
Tells of stronger Love and Duty
Than the little one-star flag across
the way.
Oh, l used to see them waiting
In the house across the way
The mother, and little girl, so
sweet.
And, Oh, the way they used to
shout:
And, Oh, the way they'd hurry out
When they saw Daddy coming up the
street.
Now I miss the noise they made
there as they played;
It seems too quiet over there by
far
Oh, they're watching from the win
dow of the house across the
way.
By the little flag that bears sim
gle star!
There's Wonder Flag in Wall
Street,
Flying from dizzy height,
Like gorgeous patch of Heaven
That was ripped from starry night.
But no star there in its beauty
Tells of stronger Love and Duty
Than the little one-star flag across
the way!
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