National Affairs: Green Flag

To protect Wichita, Kans. school children while crossing streets, older and more responsible children are organized into Junior Traffic Patrols. They direct their smaller charges to safety with little red flags.

Last week the red flags were taken away from them; little green flags were substituted. Reason: Wichita's Daughters of the American Revolution remembered that red flags were symbols of Communism, decided that they should not be associated in the child mind with law and order.

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