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DR. SHAW'S TRIBUTE TO THE AMERICAN FLAG, GIVEN MANY TIMES.

"This is the American flag. It is a piece of bunting and why is
it that, when it is surrounded by the flags of all other nations,
your eyes and mine turn first toward it and there is a warmth at
our hearts such as we do not feel when we gaze on any other flag?
It is not because of the beauty of its colors, for the flags of
England and France which hang beside it have the same colors. It
is not because of its artistic beauty, for other flags are as
artistic. It is because you and I see in that piece of bunting
what we see in no other. It is not visible to the human eye but
it is to the human soul.

"We see in every stripe of red the blood which has been shed
through the centuries by men and women who have sacrificed their
lives for the idea of democracy; we see in every stripe of white
the purity of the democratic ideal toward which all the world is
tending, and in every star in its field of blue we see the hope
of mankind that some day the democracy which that bit of bunting
symbolizes shall permeate the lives of men and nations, and we
love it because it enfolds our ideals of human freedom and
justice."

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In 1917. "It is because we love our country so much and because
we are so anxious to give ourselves entirely to the great service
of winning the war, that we want the freedom of American women
now. We suffragists would be thrice traitors if at this time of
the great struggle of the world for democracy we should fail to
ask for the fundamental principles here which America is trying
to help bring to other countries."

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When Dr. Shaw received the Distinguished Service Medal from Secretary
of War Baker she said: "I realize that in conferring upon me the
Distinguished Service Medal, the President and the Secretary of War
are not expressing their appreciation of what I as an individual have
done but of the collective service of the women of the county. As it
is impossible to decorate all women who have served equally with the
Chairman of the Woman's Committee, I have been chosen, and while I
appreciate the honor and am prouder to wear this decoration than to
receive any other recognition save my political freedom, which is the
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