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In expressing admiration for a beautiful landscape, a beautiful
picture, a beautiful poem, we often hear the remark, “That is
mere sentiment”. Take out of human life all sentiment and
what would follow? Loyalty to home, loyalty to country, and
loyalty to great ideals would perish. The American Flag expresses
a sentiment dear to the hearts of all our people. It symbolizes
courage, sacrifice, love and human freedom.
What of the future of this Flag? Everything depends upon
American ideals. At present our Flag, the Stars and Stripes, is
the hope of the world. This flag is more than a battle flag. It
typifies “equal rights to all and special privileges to none”; it
means union, co-operation, fellowship, brotherhood. It is there-
fore important that our youth master the story of this Flag and
enthusiastically cherish its teachings. Even in the hands of
children it should not be a toy. On Gala Days it should be
something more than an ornament for decorating the wheels of
automobiles, bicycles and motor-cycles; something more than an
advertisement for a lemonade or ice cream stand. The Star
Spangled Banner is not a fitting symbol in the hands of fakirs,
gamblers and the exploiters of men, women and children. In
sacredness it ranks next to the Bible. It should be used to
express aspirations for civic righteousness.
THEREFORE, I, Woodbridge N. Ferris, Governor of
Michigan, do issue this Proclamation and enthusiastically urge
the observance of Monday, the fourteenth of June, 1915, as
Flag Day.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State,
this eleventh day of June, in the year of Our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and of the
Commonwealth the seventy-ninth.
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By the Governor: Governor.
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Secretary of State.

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