Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1917 — HAS IT NOW COME TO THIS? [ARTICLE]

HAS IT NOW COME TO THIS?

Press dispatches yesterday stated that Paul Hopkins, aged 18, a student at the Marion Normal institute, refused to wear a small American flag given him. Other students at the institute promtply decorated him in red, white and blue paint. An employe of the Ruthenher Motor company at Marion, whose name is being kept secret, called the flag a “dirty, thieving, lying rag." Other workmen attacked him with hammers and he was rescued with difficulty.