Advertising on the Flag

ADVERTISING ON THE FLAG. There are loyalists and loyalists, Canadian and American. Of the true-blue American and republican variety is the New York Commander of the Loyal Legion. This body, at a recent meeting, passed a resolution pelting upon senators and representatives to support a bill in congress to prohibit the printing of advertisements on the United Stated flag. It appears that some enterprising persons in New York and other cities have from time to time emblazoned on the national banner the names of various goods, wares, merchandize, so that when gazing upon it, whether by the dawn’s early light or the sunlight’s last gleaming, just to make sure that it was still there, the gazer would read such mottoes as “Castoria,” “Sapolio,” “Sozodont,” “Cosey Flats,” “Try our 25 cent Tea,” and so on. And this has proved too much for the Loyal Legion. In Canada, the flag has been used a great deal for advertising of an even less credible sort. But here it is not the loyalists who protest; it is the “trooly loil” who do the advertising. By a free use of this novel medium some job lot politicians succeeded in this province in making a very advantageous disposal of themselves.