The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-13
URGE cH|CKASHA
PEOPLE To SHOW
FLAG TOMORROW
American Legion Post Calls Atssn'
tIen 70 Fiss Day and Asks Every
Home and Business House
Here Display colors.
GIVE RULES FOR USE
OF NATIONAL EMBLEM
FIae should Never es orspsd; What
to % When coIors Pass; How
Should Cover Bier; What
Days to Ply Old Glory.

Officials Of the Raymond T. Hurs
post OF the American Legion and thu
A. l.. A. unit today urged that Chick
asha observe Flag Day by display
Ing the national colors tomorrow
I'm every home In Chickasha and IN
every business house the flag should
occupy prominent place tomor
row." said one OF the LegionnaIres
The American flag. the emblem OF
our country. is the third oldest ma
tionai flag In the world. II is known
as "0ld Glory" "The Star Spangled
Banner" and the Red. White and
Blue"
In her latest bulletin TO the vari-
GUS American Legion Auxiliary units
in the state, Mrs. Blanche Freeman,
department commander OF the A. l..
A. OF Oklahoma. refers TO the flag
as follows:
The flag contains thirteen stripes,
alternate red and white, represent
ing the thirteen original states. and
star for each state in the union.
The field OF the flag Is the stripes,
and the union is the blue and the
stars. The colors OF the flag are
red. representing valor; white. rep
resenting purity, truth and home;
blue, representing loyalty. sincerity
and JUSTICE and It's stars represent
ing the federal union.
How to Respect the Flag.
THE flag should be raised at sun!
rise and lowered at sunset, 1t may
be raised at other times but never
left out over night, except when It.
is under the fire OF an enemy. On
Memorial day the flag should be
displayed at half mast from sunrise
until noon, and at peak from noon
until sunset.
"The flag should never be allowed
to touch the ground. When the flag
is passing on parade, or in review,
il you are walking, halt; in sitting
rise, stand at attention and uncover.
"The flag should never be worn
as the part or whole of costume,
as badge 1t should be worn over
the left breast, In decorating the
flag should never be festooned or
draped, always hung flat, If hung
horizontal, the union should be in
the left upper corner.
"The flag should never be placed
below a person sitting, 1t should
never be used in any way in which
it might become soiled. When the
flag is placed over bier or casket
the blue field should be at the head,
If used as an altar covering the
union should be at the right as you
face the altar, and nothing should
be placed on the flag except the
Holy Bible.
Woodrow Wilson said: 'The flag
which we honor and under which we
serve is the emblem of our unity
our power, our thought, our pur-
pose as a nation; 1t has no other
character than that which we give 1t
from generation to generate ION.
Though silent it speaks to US;
speaks to .us of the past; of the
men and women who went before
us, and of the record they wrote
upon 1t.
"As descendants of the men who
wrote the history Of this flag and
fought for its supremacy through
the various wars in which 1t has
been carried, first in the Mexican
war Of 1S46, the Civil war, the sew
eral Indian wars, the Spanish war,
the Philippine war and the World
war, and has never known defeat,
may we, the present generation, the
molders of the lives of our children,
create in them proper love and
respect for the emblem of their
country. Show your patriotism by
displaying the flag on the following
days: Lincolns birthday, Feb. IL;
Washingtons birthday, Feb. %;
Mothers day, second Sunday in May;
Memorial day, May 80; Flag day,
June Ia; Independence day, July 4;
Armistice day, Nov. IL"