REGULATING USA 'PATRIOTISM' vs ANARCHY
LAWS ON 'FLAGS' IN KANSAS EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES -
NO RED&BLACK FLAGS - FELONY -
(18 MONTH-3 YEAR STATE PRISON SENTENCE).
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REVOLUTIONARY RADICALISM
ITS HISTORY, PURPOSE AND TACTICS
WITH AN EXPOSITION AND DISCUSSION OF THE STEPS BEING
TAKEN AND REQUIRED TO CURB IT
BEING THE
REPORT OF THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
INVESTIGATING SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES, FILED
APRIL 24, 192C, IN THE SENATE OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK
PART !I
CONSTRUCTIVE MOVEMENTS AND MEASURES
IN AMERICA
VOLUME IV
ALBANY
J. B. LYON COMPANY. PRINTERS
1920
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SUBSECTION IV
Citizenship Training in all States Other than New York
CHAPTER XIV. Kansas page
1. State Legislation — Compulsion for Minors 3645-46
2. State Legislation — Minors of Employment Age 3646-47
3. State Legislation — Patriotic Measures 3647
4. State Legislation — Flags 3647-40
5. State Legislation — English Language 3650-51
6. State Legislation — Facilities for Adults 3651
Kansas,
pp. 3647-3650
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3. State Legislation — Patriotic Measures
Laws Relating to Education. Chapter 184. Malting it a Felony
to Display a Flag Distinctive of Bolshevisism Anarchy or
Radical Socialism.
AN ACT relating to the flag, standard, or banner of bolshevism,
anarchy, or radical socialism ; declaring any violation hereof
a felony, and providing penalties therefor.
Be it enacted hy the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. That hereafter it shall be a felony for any person
or persons, organization or body of persons to fly, to carry, 1o
exhibit, or to display, or to assist in carrying, exhibiting or displaying
in this state any red flag, standard or banner distinctive
of bolshevism, anarchy, or radical socialism, or any flag, standard
or banner of any color or design that is now or may hereafter be
designated by any bolshevistic, anarchistic or radical socialistic
group, body, association or society of persons as the flag, standard
or banner of bolshevism, anarchism or radical socialism.
Section 2. That any person or persons who shall violate any
provision of section 1 of this act shall, upon conviction of such
violation, be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary
for a period of not less than eighteen (IS) months nor more
than three (3) years.
Section 3. That this act shall take effect and be in force from,
any after its publication in the official state paper.
4. State Legislation — Flags
Laws Relating to Education. Chapter 274. Concerning the
Purchase^ Display, Custody and Care of the United States
Flag for the Schools of Kansas.
AN ACT concerning the purchase, display, custody and care of
the United States flag for the schools of Kansas; providing
for rules and regulations for custody, care and display of
Citizenship Training in Other States
such flag; making violations of this act a misdemeanor, and
prescribing penalties therefor; and repealing sections 9445
and 9446 of the General Statutes of Kansas for 1915.
Be it enacted hy the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1, That it shall be the duty of the school directors or
boards of education of every public or proprietor of a private
or parochial school in the several cities, counties, districts and
school districts of this state to purchase a suitable United States
flag, flagstafi', the necessary appliances therefor, and to display
such flag upon or near the public, private or parochial school
building or grounds belonging thereto in which school is held
during school hours, and at such other times as such school
directors, boards of education or proprietors may direct.
Section 2. That it shall be the duty of the said school directors,
or boards of education of every public or proprietor of a private
or parochial school in the several cities, counties, districts, and
school districts of this state to purchase a suitable United States
flag for each and every room of their respective school building
or buildings and to keep such United States flag or flags in
display in each such school room or rooms during the school
hours and at such other times as such school directors or boards
of education may direct.
Section 3. That the said school directors or boards of education
or proprietors of a private or parochial school shall establish
rules and regulations for the proper custody, care and display
of the United States flag, and, when the weather will not permit
it to be otherwise displayed, it shall be placed conspicuously in
the principal room in the schoolhouse.
Section 4. That it shall be the duty of the county superintendent
of public instruction in each county of the State of
Kansas to notify the principal or proprietor of such public,
private or parochial school, having charge of such school buildings
and grounds, to observe the provisions of section 1 of this
act, and if after such notification the said principal or proprietor
of such public, private or parochial school shall fail to comply
therewith for a period of thirty days, such principal or proprietor
of such public, private or parochial school shall be judged guilty
of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a
sum not less than $1 nor more than $5 for each thirty days
thereafter that he shall continue to neglect to obey the provisions
of this act.
Section 5. That sections 9445 and 9446 of the General Statutes
of Kansas for 1915 be and the same are hereby repealed.
Section 6. That this act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its publication in the official state paper.
Chapter XXVII — Patriotism.
Section 623. Duty to purchase and display of flag. That it
shall be the duty of the school directors or boards of education of
every public or proprietor of a private or parochial school in the
several cities, counties, districts and school districts of this state
to purchase a suitable United States flag, flagstaff and the necessary
appliances therefor, and to display such flag upon or near the
public, private or parochial school building or grounds belonging
thereto in which school is held during school hours, and at such
other times as such school directors, boards of education or proprietors
may direct. (Laws 1919, ch. 274, sec. 1.)
§ 624. Flag for each room. That it shall be the duty of the
said school directors, or boards of education of every public or
proprietor of a private or parochial school in the several cities,
counties, districts and school districts of this state to purchase
respective school building or buildings and to keep such United
States flag or flags in display in each such schoolroom or rooms
during the school hours and at such other times as such school
directors or boards of education may direct. (Laws 1919, ch. 274;
sec. 2.)
§ 625. Rules and regulations for care aiul display of flag.
That the said school directors or boards of education or proprietor
of a private or parochial school shall establish rules and
regulations for the proper custody, care and display of the said
United States flag, and, when the weather will not permit it to
be otherwise displayed, it shall be placed conspicuously in the
principal room in the schoolhouse. (Laws 1919, ch. 274, sec. 3.)
§ 626. Duty of county superintendents. That it shall be the
duty of the county superintendent of public instruction in each
county of the state of Kansas to notify the principal or proprietor
of such public, private or parochial school, having charge of such
school buildings and grounds, to observe the provisions of section
one of this act, and if after such notification the said principal
or proprietor of such public, private or parochial school shall fail
to comply therewith for a period of thirty days, such principal
or proprietor of such public, private or parochial school shall be
judged giiiltj of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be fined in a sum not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars
for each thirty days thereafter that he shall continue to
neglect to obey the provisions of this act. (Laws 1919, ch. 27-4,
sec. 4.)
Chapter XXVII.— Patriotism
Article II.—Patriotic Instruction.
Section 629. Duty of state superintendent. (9447) It shall be
the duty of the state superintendent of public instruction of this
state to prepare for the use of the public schools of the state a
program providing for a salute to the flag at the opening of each
day of school, and such other patriotic exercises as may be deemed
by him to be expedient, under such regulations and instructions
as may best meet the varied requirements of the ditferent grades
in such schools. It shall also be his duty to make special provision
for the observance of (in) such public schools of Lincoln's
birthday, Washington's birthday, Memorial day (May 30), and
Flag day (June 14), and such other legal holidays of like character
as may be hereafter designated by law. (Laws 1907, ch, 319.
•sec. 3.)
§ 630. Patriotic exercises. (9448) The state superintendent
of public instruction is hereby authorized and directed to procure
and provide the necessary and appropriate instructions for
developing and encouraging such patriotic exercises in the public
schools, and the state printer is hereby authorized and directed
to do such printing and binding as may become necessary for the
efficient and faithful carrying out of the purposes of this act.
(Laws 1907, ch. 319, sec. 4.)