Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01

Huence IN our institutions of educa-
ton, and we call upon both parents
and students to demand the freeing
of our schools and universities from
all connection with pacifism, So
called internationalism and what
ever other influences tend to under
mine the Government, bought with
untold sacrifice of blood and treas
ure of our forefathers and of the
present generation of patriots.
THAT we petition Congress to
| adopt such laws as may defend the
Government from disloyalty in re-
fusing to honor the flag"
X X X X
1t was in New York where a stu
| dent Of famous theological seminary,
while we were in the World War,
burned an American flag upon the
| street, and a professor of Christian
ethics, of the same seminary, became
so involved In strikes and dynamiting
of munition factories that he fed to
Germany, where he was decorated by
the Kaiser. His successor is now a
recognized leader of the I. w. w.
At another seminary-in Chicago
since last Christmas, out of 500 ffedg-
ling preachers 327 signed the slack
| ers' oath Of disloyalty, and 500 of them
10 minutes walk from the White
House, on the evening of January
%, a meeting of Communists cele-
br'ated the birth Of Lenin, and opened
their meeting with the ..Internation-
ale" in place of 1.-THE Star Spangled
Banner"
Yesterdays Evening Star published
an Associated Press dispatch from
Moscow openly declaring antagonism
TO he T,sk
| the ''proletariat" of all Central Amer
lea to rise and protect the proletarfat
| of Nicaragua against enslavement by
the United States"
One of the speakers at the flag
hearing yesterday made the argument
that since, in case of war, the Federal
Government would not wait for the
48 States to draft soldiers, neither.
should 1t surrender exclusively to the
States the protection of the national
| flag, "for we are at war today"--in-
sidious war wrought by enemies with
| In and without our boundaries. Wars
, never wait for declaration by Con-
gress; they reach the people before
they reach Congress. and open con-
tempt for the flag Is war against our
| Nation, Of which the flag is the enl-
blem.
| A QUESTIONABLE of the United States
| Flag Association discloses that prac-
tically all nations protect their flags
with heavy penalties for dissertation.
X X X X
| The question has been raised as to
/ the constitutional right of the Federal
| Government to legislate on the ma
tional flag, instead Of leaving the mat
ter wholly to the States, and the opin-
! ion of Attorney General Sargent was
| cited: 1.-The matter has been left to
| the States to decide. Should Congress
| wish to assume control, 1t has power
In case of Federal law, it would
F.! take precedence over State laws. if
their provisions interfered, but other
would operate. The question has also
been fully decided by the Supreme
| Court.
| Mr.. Justice Harlan of the United
| States Supreme Court, in writing the
decision of the court in a flag case
COS U. s.. All, used this language:
Indeed, it would have been ex-
| traordinary If the Government had
started this country upon it's mar
velous career without giving it flag
| to be recognized as the emblem of the
| American Republic. For that flag
every true American has not simply
an appreciation, but a deep affection.
| No American nor any foreign-born
| person who enjoys the privileges of
American citizenship ever looks upon
| 1t without taking pride in the fact
that he lives under this free Govern
| ment. Hence 1t has often occurred
that insults to a flag have been the
cause of war, and indignities put upon
| it in the presence of those who revere
! it have often been resented and some
times punished on the spot"
| And the Supreme Court Justice
speaks no reproval of such righteous
spot"
tcoDyrixh. 1897. by PAU Y. Collins,