Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-04-20
Your Duty to the Flag

is played, stand mp, no matter where
you are or what yon are doing.
Never allow the flag to be insulted,
if in your power to prevent.
The flag can be insulted as follows:
By allowing it to touch the floor or
ground.
By using it to cover up the flower
beds.
When removing it from building
where it has been used as decoration,
by throwing it over the shoulder onto
the ground or sidewalk. In such a
case, first pick up the flag, then punch
the head Of the person throwing it.
BY using it for a horse blanket, or
tying it on the harness so it touches
the horse.
BY fastening it on your wagon or
automobile and then when the wind
breaks it loose, allowing it to remain
in the street, where it fell, for your
self and Others to run over and tram
pie in the dirt.
By not saluting it.
BY treating it in any other manner
than you would your mother, sweet
heart or wife.
Remember your flag is dearer to
you than any other thing in this life
except your God, and treat it accord
ingly.
In hanging flag in a room or on a
wall, always place the blue field to the
north or east. This is imperative.
e. In using bunting decorations, al
ways put the. red edge up.
If the flag becomes dirty, send it to
the laundry, it will wash beautifully.
Never allow a flag to fly that has
been whipped to pieces by the wind SO
only few shaded strings are left. 1t
is an insult to it. /
Hoist the flag after sunup, never
before, and take it. in before shutdown,
fold it carefully, and place it in safe
place until wanted again in the morn
ing. 1t is an insult to it to allow it
to remain out over night.
If you find flag lying on the
ground, pick it up, no matter whether
it be large or small, old or new, and
do something with it. Never allow it
to lie there.
Never use the flag for advertising
purposes. There is law against it
with a heavy penalty attached, be-
sides it isn't right anyhow.
The right to be covered with the
flag, after death, is a great honor,
which is accorded only to those who
have won it on the battlefield. If a
funeral is passing and the flag covered
casket is visible to you, stand at at
tention and take off your hat. BY so
doing you honor the flag and dead at
the same time.
Our flag is the symbol of all the
ideas and institutions Of our country.
1t is the result Of 1000 years of
struggle and effort of mankind.
1t stands for the principles that
caused the French revolution and the
recent revolt in Russia.
For those same principles our fore
fathers fought and died during the
Revolution.
Those principles are the freedom Of
thought, speech, worship, the press,
and the right to secure happiness &C
cording to the dictates of our own con-
science. In other words, our own per
sonal liberty. d.
Our country stands second only tC
our God, in our hearts and our lives
We love our mothers, our sweet
hearts, and our wives. We would
fight to the bitter death if anyone
should insult them.
Without our country we could hav'
no homes, no mothers, sweethearts o.
wives, therefore our country stands
above these.
Let ms forget our personal affairs
let us be big and broad, and let u
protect the heritages given up by GU
forefathers, who fohght, and bled ant
suffered and died for them. Fire
Press.
Red Cross Society is Formed