New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1927, Page 20

DISPLAY OF FLAG ON NENORIAL DAY Major Stack Emplains How “Oid Glory” Should Be Flown Questions concerning Old Glory ahd fts proper display, stirred up by ‘the approack of Memorial Day, are: ghswered for the benefit of a perplexed public in an “outline of flag -étiquette,” just received from Army headquarters by Major Wm. A. Stack, In charge of the Army Re- cruiting offlces at 86 Church St., New Haven, Conn. The “outline” is announced as a code of flag ethics based on good taste and certain fundamental rules of heraldry. It was designed to meet an evident desire on the part of the public to show its respect for the American flag through approved methods of display. The code fis merely suggestive, however, as the Army has no authority to prescribe | rules for observance by the public. Most of the apparently intricate questions of flag etiquette, the Army code says, are easily answered when it Is recalled Mhat the flag repre- sents the living country, it being it- self considered a living thing. As such it takes precedence over all | other flags, standards, and banners. After the order of importance, the greatest source of confusion to the public is the designation of the right and left sides of the flag. This fol- tows heraldie custom. In heraldry the right arm is the sword arm, and therefore the point of danger. Hence it is also the place of honor. the starry fiold is the flag's honor point, the staff edge of the flag is always designated as the flag's right. A simple rule is that the heraldic right ot a properly displayed flag is always the observer's left. Here is the Army's outline of flag etiquette: There are only two yvears to di play the American flag properly. One is to fly the flag freely unfurled from a staff. The other is to hang the flag flat, with its full horizontal or vertical length falling evenly. When hung on the wall the flag should be hung either horizontally or vertically, with the starry field at the top and to the heraldic right. which be it remembered, is the ob- server's left. At crossed staffs with another| At unveiling ceremonies the flag /mas! | r flag, the ‘American flag should be on the observer's left, with its statf In front of the staff of the other flag. In a cluster of flags, Old Glory should be in the center or the high- est point of the group. ‘Whep carried in 8 procession, the | American flag should either' be on the marching right of all other flags, or if there is a line of flags, the | National flag should be in front of {the center of that line. | On awtatt projecting from a win- {dow, the Americgn flag may be hung either horizontally or at an angle, with the starry field drawn | clear to the truck, as the peak of |the staft s called. | Suspended between two rows of buildings so as to hang over the | middle of a street, the flag should be hung vertically with the starry Ifleld to the morth in cast-and-west |streets and to the east in north-and | south streets. | Whether indoors or cut, the flag {should never be fastened over door- ways or arches, tied in a bow knot, or fashioned into a rosette or drap- ing. For these purposes bunting of the natioal colors is more appropri- ate, and since the starry fleld is the honor point, the bunting should be larranged with the blue uppermost. | On a speaker’s platform the flag, it not flown from a staff, should be ‘\dhfl)"fl)’éd flat and placed above and |behind the speaker. If on a staff |it should have the position of honor, at the heraldic right, or observer's |left. i When other flags are flown from |the same staff, the American flag is always at the peak. When flown from other staffs, the National flag /13 hoisted first and lowered last. | When flags of two or more na- tions are displayed, they should be flown from separate staffs and all flags should be approximately the same size. International usuage for- bids the display of the flag of one nation over that of another in time of peace. With several staffs in use, the ! American flag should be flown from the staff on the extreme heraldic right, or observer's left. In hoisting, the American flag should be run up briskly. It should be lowered slowly and_ceremonious- ly. The Army sees no objection to |tlying the flag at night over civilian property, if otherwise appropriate. 1t should not, however, be used for advertlsing purposes. When flown at half-staff the flag should first be run to the top of the staff, and then lowered. Before fin- ,ally lowering for the day, it should again be run to the truck. because O.Gs.are Everywhere you go these days, you see the golden Orp Gorp package . . . For O. Gs. are traveling right along . . . They’re a better cigarette . . . that's NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1927. {should torm a distictive feature of | | the program, but should not be used {as & covering for the statuc. As a signal of distress at sea the flag is displayed with the starry tield down. The use of the flag for athletic uniforms, handkerchiefs, napkins, | or other form lacking in dignity and | respect, while not strictly a violation lof law, are gross abuses of the Na- | tional orders and offend all persons | of patriotic feeling. | When the *flag becomes soiled, 1t ! may properly be sent to the laundry. | Laundering of the flag, however, | may be done with more reverence | {in one's own home. i | There is an old Army custom | { which affords an opportunity to do | reverence to Old Glory when dam- | aged and frayed flags are withdrawn | | from active service. According to | this custom the blue field is cut from | the flag. Then the separate pieces of | | the flag which is no longer a flag | |are cremated and the ashes scat- |tered over the parade ground. |Seeks Keys to Three | Children’s Diseases | - St. Louis, May 27 (®—The cure tor heart disease, rheumatism :md} St. Vitus dance among children may lie in one of the scores of test tubes in the laboratory of Dr. Edith Er- | vine-Jones, first Catlin research fel- {low at the St. Louis Ch °n’'s hos- | | pital. She s studying the possibility that | !{he diseases are caused by poisons | |given off by throat and sinus infee- tions. This may lead, she believes, | to disclosures about other-puzzling infections of children. Dr. Ervines Jones who was once on the faculty |of the University of California, was | born in Scotland. She a graduate | |ot the University of Edinburgh. 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