Photograph by Paul Thompson 

 SCHOOL CHILDREN OP NEW YORK OBSERVING AMERICANIZATION DAY IN 



CITY HALE PARK 



In this wonderful assemblage, truly representative of patriotic Young America, there are, 

 perhaps, children whose forebears have come to our shores from all of the nations of the 

 earth ; and it is these children of alien races who are uniting and cementing a heterogeneous 

 people into an indivisible and invincible force which, under the Stars and Stripes, is today 

 battling for the liberty of the world. 



and salute it with a national salute of 

 twenty-one guns. The ships of the 

 United States Navy do not salute forts 

 and cities of the United States, and do 

 not fire salutes in honor of any nation, 

 or of any official of any nation, not form- 

 ally recognized by this country. It is 

 customary to fire salutes only between 8 

 a. m. and sunset. They are never fired 

 between sunset and sunrise. During the 



present war salutes have been dispensed 

 with as between allied countries. 



The United States today requires that 

 no ship of the navy shall lower her sails 

 or dip her ensign unless in return for such 

 compliment. A dip is made by quickly 

 lowering the ensign and without pause 

 quickly returning it to the peak. 



A flag or an ensign at half-mast is the 

 universal sign of mourning. Before be- 



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