North Carolinians Don’t Recognize Their Own State Flag, 1910

From the Thursday, June 23, 1910, issue of the Watauga Democrat.

Judge George P. Pell’s suggestion that the county commissioners keep a North Carolina State flag flying over the court house during the sessions of the superior Court was a good one, and we trust that the board will lose no time in following it. It used to be the custom to have a State flag draped behind the judge’s bench and that custom also should be revived. The people of the State should revere its emblem and, as Judge Pell stated, the sight of the flag is well calculated to instill and foster the sense of patriotism. Too few North Carolinians know their flag when they see it.