The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-04-12
HONOR FLAGS WILL
DOT ALL AMERICA
(By Max Cook.)

fly the Liberty Loan Honor F1ag.
That the proper spirit of patriotic
competition may be developed be-
tween towns and cities throughout the
nation, the Liberty Loan Organiza-
ton has adopted the Honor Flag and
Honor Roll system, which has been en-
dorsed by Secretary McAdoo.
It is to be used as an additional in
centive for every town, county and
city to ego over the top" with their
quota and thus gain the right to I'm.
furl an Honor Flag when the National
Honor Flag is unfurled over the
White House in Washington, D. c.
The greatest honor that can come to
any town, county or city in the United
States in this campaign will be the
right to unfurl the first Honor Flag
in the United States. This right will
come when the quota of that partic-
ular locality is reached.
All the insignia and equipment for
use in connection with the plan will
be supplied by the Treasury Depart
ment and distributed through the
Liberty Loan Organization.
1t consists of specially designed
Honor Flag for Communities, win
dow sign bearing a reproduction of the
Honor Flag, large Honor Roll, to
which is to be attached the names of
all subscribers in each community, a
large Honor Flag to be awarded to
States, and National Honor Flag to
be unfurled in Washington.
The Honor Flag to be awarded to
communities is SO by 81 inches and
constructed from good quality mater
ial like that used in the Navy. 1t has
a red border and white center with
three vertical blue stripes indicative
of the Third Liberty Loan Campaign.
This flag will be awarded to each
community that subscribes the sales
quota set for it by its Federal Re-
serve District Liberty Loan Commit
tee. AS an additional Honor emblem,
a blue star, to be sewed into the white
field of the flag, will be awarded to
communities every where they in
crease their quotas by hundred per-
cent.
In other words, If towns quota
is 100000, it will be entitled to an
Honor Flag when its subscription
reach this amount; when its sub
scriptions reach 100000 it will be en-
titled to blue star, and for each adj
ditional 100000 it will receive ano-
Their star.
The window card will be seven by
8 inches and will bear reproduction
of the Honor Flag and a space for the
subscribers name. When a bond is
sold the name of the purchaser should
be written in by the bond salesman,
or it can be written in by the sub
scirber himself. The subscriber then
will be expected to place this card in
the window of his residence or place
of business.
The Honor Roll will be Is by 38
inches and bear large reproduction
of the Honor Flag and these words:
"Help our Town to Win the Right to
Fly This Flag" and "These are the
people of our town who are helping to
win the war by investing in United
States Government Bonds of the
Third Liberty Loan"
A space is preserved at the bottom
of the Honor Roll for attaching lists
of names of subscribers. Local COM
mittees may substitute the names of
their own communities or other des-
ignation for the words "our town" if
they so desire.
Next in Importance to winning the
right to fly the first Honor Flag in the
United States is to have the privilege
of unfurling the first Honor Flag in
your State. Even if you do not win
this second honor all hope is not lost
for you still can be the first unit in
your section of your State to win the
right to fly the flag; failing again, you
can strive to gain unit honors in your
county. Lastly, you should try to win
this right before the local unit that is
your keenest rival for honors of al
kinds.
Every subscriber to the loan, re-
CARELESS of the amount of his sub
scription, is entitled to window sign
Liberty Loan organizations through
out the country are planning drives
that will "paper" every home in the
nation with Honor Cards and will senc
Honor Flags flowing from the flag
poles in every community.
In most sections house-to-houst
canvasses to detect the Stacker whe
has no card in his window, will be con
Quoted.
Are you, Mr.. Citizen, going to b'
one of those slackers?
Of course not!
We know it. You are going to SEE
if you cannot be the first man in YOU
community to place one of those small
cards in your front window and thei
have the satisfaction of watching
your neighbors race for theirs.
And that will be quite some salts
faction, will it not? But it would no
be very satisfactory if YOU saw
card in your neighbours window first
and had to race to beat your othe
neighbors for your card, would it?
And that is only one very small
reason why you are going to be tn
first in your community to place al
Honor Gard in your window.
The one BIG real reason that yo1
are going to have that Honor Gard il
your window right away--if yo
haven't it there already-is becaus
you have put your whole heart an
soul into the thought that you ar
not going to leave a single thing un
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