Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1906 — A Fine Flag For The Public Schools. [ARTICLE]

A Fine Flag For The Public Schools.

February is the month when patriotism gets it greatest impetus iu the school room. The lives of Lincoln and Washington grow familiar to even the smallest pupils and everywhere are seenjevidences of the teachers’ skill in training for for that great result—good citizenship. Flags and bunting are everywhere and portraits look down from the walls. But anew and additional interest to the celebration ot Washington’s birthday wasadded this year by the presentation of a beautiful flag to the school by the ladies of the Relief Corps. Owing to the fact that the school has no assembly hall large enough to accommodate all the pupils, arrangements were made to assemble all the children of the grades in the lower hall way of the new building. There, in the presence of children, teachers, and many guests the ladies of the Relief Corps presented the flag. Mrs E. W. Irwin, patriotic instructor of the Lodge, with an appropriate address hand-, ed the flag to Supt. Warren who, in behalf of the school, accepted it, and raising the flag iu the air called upon the children to give the flag salute. Then followed the singing of two of the. National airs, the beauty and spirit of the children's voices delighting all who heard it. Such exercises are very impressive, and it is believed most helpful in the teaching of patriotism iu the schools.