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130 in our flag has been increased to keep pace with the growing number of states in the United States, the design has been the same. It has floated over battle-fields, and from battleships. It has been carried by old veterans and Boy Scouts. It flies from the school-house, all public buildings, and from every house in our land, almost, during war time.

Uncle Sam wants each boy and each girl in the United States to have as large and as beautiful an American flag as possible, but he wants it taken care of. The way in which a flag is hung or carried is not a matter that can be regulated by law; if is a matter of good taste and sentiment, But the United States Government has adopted certain customs in relation to the use of the American flag that boys and girls ought to