Putnam patriot., 1920-06-04
MONDAY, JUNE IA
 WILL BE FLAG DAY
Proclamation Issued By Gov
 ernor Marcus B. Holcomb
The Birthday of the Flag to Be ob-
 served Throughout the State

SI0VefnOf MafcuS II. uOtComn haS issued a proclamation declaring Mon day, June I4th, as Flag Day The proclamation is as follows:
 In compliance with our statute l hereby designate Monday, the four teenth day of June next as Flag Day, to be observed in our public schools with suitable exercises to impress our children, who are to succeed to the re- responsibilities of government. with the vital necessity of maintaining the ideals this Nation represents; to teach them that the Stars and Stripes" is the flag of the first republic in the world to make the people supreme un- der the law, that 1t is the flag of the union of sovereign states indissolubly united in sovereign nation; that it is the flag of justice and not of conquest and oppression; that it is the flag of the United States of America under which our soldiers successfully fought in the great World War to preserve human liberty, and that it will pre- serve to us individual rights and liber- ty under law so long as We are faith ful to the principles which it repre- sents, and that he who is disloyal to it is traitor to his country and to hu- manity.
 Birthday of the Flag
 The following concerning the birth of the flag is from Souvenir Taylor: Editor of The Patriot;
 Kindly allow me space in your in teresting paper to say few words in honor of the Il3rd birthday of our glorious old flag, on Monday. June IA. II is we'll known by the members of the Legislatures of the past third of a century, in particular, that "old Glory" has been my favorite souvenir. It is the best Keep Your Memory Green on earth and dearly love It. Space will not permit me to give an historical sketch of our dear flag-the Stars and Stripes of red white and blue. The sentiment it has conveyed for these 143 years was appropriately expressed by Washington in these words: We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country. separating it by white stripes thus showing that we have sepafatea from her, and the white strlpes snaii % down to postefity representing ,;hoy.v" Our loved flag was well Nsi "Gld Glory" in 1862 by .ap- tain William, Drives of Nashsn'e. Tenn GloryNever bright ana isei @ : e,o,v of stars and crimson bars eioin ef ra>, fife in d new world Tn all ,hese 143 years orv flag has never ssaa, ~ t,ailed in de sats neither has II sssu ,'';,,,,nbad in tytarsls. Americas nag ;s what the inspired people maue i'' youth should always respect IL, n'a t,r;tv should love it; old age shou'o ,1ass if God gives this best nation OH aa,th D mower to keep the symbol or i,,,n,a,, homes in the van of human nroeress. mankind reading on ''s starry folds: n I'll
 "Al, for each and each for all, Lip~ ertv. Justice and Fraternity.
 In closing allow me to respectluis u,qe that all patriotic people on flag Day should proudly; Fling it from mastand steepfe
 Symbol OCT land and sea
 Of the life of happy people,
 Gallant and strong and free.
 Proudly we view it's colors
 Flag of the brave and true,
 With the clustered stars and stead
 fast bars,
 The red. the white, and the blue. '
 Souvenir William H. Taylor.
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