Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1901 — The Flag in Decoration. [ARTICLE]

The Flag in Decoration.

Writing of “Civic Festivals and Processions,” in the Century, Charles R. Lamb says on the subject of the flag in decoration: “The Stars and Stripes, though not the most successful piece of decoration, can still be so treated as successfully to combine with any scheme; but to do this it should be massed over doorways or stands, or, if used separately, qhould be hung repetitively from the windows along the entire line of parade, preferably on one of the upper stories, so as to give a continuous line of red, white and blue from house to house. “The American flag is not Impossible of successful treatment; we have already begun to imitate the French manner of raying small flags in an upright position from a common base, and repeating these groups at intervals; but the tricolor bunting is one of the most difficult to use satisfactorily, because the equal proportion of red to blue is not a fortunate colorcombination. It would therefore be advisable that the committee in charge should select those symbolic colors which would be appropriate, and use them in such quantity as would give a definite color-scheme to the entire line. The suggestion made by the National Society of Mural Painters that the naval colors, blue and white, re-enforced with gold and natural green foliage, should be used in the Dewey reception parade was probably the first recognition given of the necessity of other colors than the patriotic red, white and blue.”