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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and ite Legal Chronicle

Hats Off! The Flag Is Passing By

Hats off! Along the Street there comes

A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,

justice are marching • . . The American Way is on
parade.

flash of color beneath the.sky:

Hats off! The flay is passing by.

From "The Flag Is Passing By"

By Henry Holcomb Bennett

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HAT a picture it makes. A precious gem
of star-spangled bunting that carries in its
folds all the aspirations of America . . . it means
more to 135,000,000 Americans than all the gold
buried under Fort Knox, all the skyscrapers from
New York to San Francisco.

And along the Avenue as the flag goes by, hearts
beat faster ... pride grows stronger ... Liberty and

The American Way . . . the way of peace and jus-
tice. The American Way . . . threatened today by
foreign-inspired "Fifth Column" groups seeking
to create confusion, inaction and panic ... to disrupt
our national unity by setting race against race, class
against class, religious group against religious
group.

As dark clouds hover over the world, our flag is
more precious to us than ever. Stronger than
traitors ... it is our bulwark against foreign armies
and foreign "isms." Stronger than Communist,
Nazi or Fascist ... strong as democracy itself.

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Our hats are off, our hopes ride high, our hearts go with it, as the flag goes by.

IN HONOR OF FLAG DAY THIS TRIBUTE IS SPONSORED BY

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Grand Army of the Republic
United Spanish-American War Veterans
Disabled American Veterans of the World War

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Jewish War Veterans of United States
Catholic War Veterans of United States
Veterans of Foreign Wars of United States

Contributed by Department of Michigan Jewish War Veterans of the United States
Endorsed by the Hon. Luren D. Dickinson, Governor of the State of Michigan, and

the Hon. Edward J. Jeffries, Mayor of the City of Detroit

