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STARS AND STRIPES STAND FORAMERICAN IDEALS AND IDEASThirty Historic U. S. Flags Show Periodic Changes Which Have Taken Place inEmblem Since 1776.Washington. D- C-. April 11.—To- tions, being older than the presenday probably several million American flags are waving serenely in the varied breezes of our spacious land, KiKuinuant of the calm and dignified,British jucK, the Preach tricolor anc the flag of Spain and many yeanolder than, the flags of Germany anc Italy, some of which are either peryet deep and lusting patriotism ofisooai Hags or those of the reignin? the American people. Be this our | families.native lyiul or adopted country, we pledge allegiance to that flag, uncover na we pane, and wear it Sn ininiiilure an a token of our loyally. And yet what do we know about Its I origin, fin meaning and ita history. !A lecture trip to the United Statue ! National Museum in Washington, itin* National depository of AmericanThe flag of tho highest historic and sentimental value to the whoh country i» in the National collection!*, It i« the oricntU. Stai Spangled Banner which flew ov«i lrorL McHenry In Baltimore Marino during the bombardment on Septem her 13*14, 18M. and was the inspira Uoti of Francis Scott, Key’s itrmiortai relict*, wiii i«di you much of the flag |poem, now sung an our National Naturally there were many formal Anthem. This flag, exhibited in th? of early risen, especially Colonial! Museum Arts and Indus* Hob Build types used by the individual colo-jinn, also known as the Fort McHen pier-, and militia regiments, beforejry Flag. Is of the Kesf.sr-and-Htrip the fins of the United Btafcs was!type, adopted after the admission o eslsldished In- mir Continental Con- Vermont and Kentucky by an act apj grrsi} lt;*u July Ht 1777, now r^lfibraF ;*ul art Flag Day, Thla nr.t required ‘ Utf,\ Hu? flag of t}iFnifod SUU38prover} by . PrwUtenl Washington January 13. 1784. Th* Star Spang Jsrt Jlannor*’ moMireB nhuitt thirtjinf t.hlri'Uitt aRtjrtuit^ md anlt;1 white | Rquar*?* though it was probabh InF.rlpos. uud that ibv Union bo Uih--j*lt;*nswhM tehg*rt Und is much bnX toc:n on a bloc* fbjjtj, represent-1 ***lt;) torn, with one ttter rpir,'!ins: n m;w ron^t^lalion, but. it rjUifnn- powiMy shot away. This grna jinf fl^finn bow many points Ibo utorp! historic souvenir of th** War of 181, stimjId havp», bow they should bo ar-jh*p lately prosorvnd by qulUfniranged. nor oo*ko pro vision for addl-:0*1 boavy linen* and will over rcnudiI tionnl ono?.iono of the country's most preclouAt ihlt; liTH2 of the adoption of thffl?mf-xjluliun. Washington 1r said 1 i»i , t , . , . * , *ljrtli have ol,served: We take the sla*- * president Monroes Mminlslratlon'ml irs. From 1?9E this form con tinned as th* standard Hag nntffromJwhun Congress enacted fbat \lm:ivont l.b*' 1'orl from our moth- . ^J r r-r, * I, . t . should borc*5ifter ho of ihirteeijc-r country, sop*rating jf. by white , r *4 * i. - jt i ... wilh the addition or a ata■I stripes, tbun sbrnvoig that v/* have j „ ,■! ,1 from Imr. »n,l Ihr whH'lfl f ^,„n'W ^ir.«-„ to posterity |' H JIt seems that for many years tinI army did not carry Urn Stars am ! ‘n,,? rir?i of I he Slam and Htr{pRR in though it had bee!j Stripes in l.eliove.j ,.0 have peon «n{ln g(,nr!ral uac aB a garrison fta«! Align si *!. 1777. When the new flag} thf! Ianfi foreOB dnriuR tJl|RJ Fifripf}?? sbaJl go uown »i roiiiV^nHng bb*;rLy.was hlt;i!sir*fl ovor tlir* : Sofmvlcr. Wiroops fit V. JohnFort!penolt;Paul; and before St. carrier! what waknown as tlif National colors o j Jones is Mid to have boon the first j s{andariiB. 0f blue with the almis o.(to fly fhe Stars and Stripes over 1h«jthft TJnUftd StatCs cmb3azone(t thenon th- Bungnr. in Novcni-j^ oomprifiinK AI1 fiagJo aurmo»nte'1777. The National Museum has hy a nvlt;mbnr of aUrs!, wiih lhe dw.[highi her.► ', ] an early naval 12-star typo flag saifito bavc been riown bv John Paulagnation of ths body of troops. I 1834, War Department, regulation gave the artillery the right to oarrI .Jones during the War of the Revoln-,*rn' j the Stars and Stripes, the infantrit. hnn Uv.n\ well sold that our NVjanrl cavalry atHI using the Nationsstandards, and those remained th• tional*idordsoniblcni sfnnds and ideas—-if. isfornoiAmerican the flagcolors of the Infanfty until 1841, am of a family or n house, but the flag j of the cavalry until 1887, when tha of the whole people. It is ibe cm-: branch of the army was ordered V u\tim of liberty and freedom, being j employ the Stars and Stripes. Fran• indicative of individual imlepedence I and yet symbolic of a united and i closely bonded people. Far from be-ling merely painted and dyed cloth* ItIts adoption in 1777, however, nava vessels universally displayed the Ns tional flag.Many styles and forms of th? represents the Constitution and Gov-* Stars and Stripes flag were I jernment of a hundred million fre^j existence up to 1842, and it was no .* people, li stands for the people them-j until during President Taft’s Ad mix selves, and records tha history of istration that definite specificationwere drawn up. An executive orde:their Nation.in the National Museum at Wash- datcd October 29, 1912, tended t in,Ton. among tlie many other pa- standardize the Stars and Strip* tiomio relies ami emblems, are dia-land *ret further Bpeeffleations ii!played thirty historic American|»J«* wore found necessary by Pres -■ flaps. On the labels, the history ofilt;5fTlt WHsoti. only last year.:- oac-h is recorded; some came from j *^,e history of our flag indicate s'the field of battle, a number fromj^l tJic Stars and Stripes-ww nr i- famous sea fights, and others were!carried by our troops in battle unt t [ flown over garrisons or forts by dis- ^-he period of the Mexican War, 181'.-! lingHished American officers. !'17- Several flags of this period at. ... , ^ n in the Museum collections. AmonThe series of flags show very well’ . ^ . 4_• . . _ . .. t ^ . ! them is a flag of thirteen stars anE;the period changes which have taken: t . _ _ , . ,,. , . ^ iRtnpfis carried throughout the weplace in our flag. From the time . * . ,, ..-I. o* ^ the battalion of volunteerfi whlcc - of the Revolution the Stars ann 4 * . __ , , .. :^4 . . .. „ , ^ vm^oi fr0TT* Maryland and the D3k*' Stripes in the Hag have vaned.i , , _ _ t , ., t.. . . T . .,rt:tnct of Columbia, and the flag orF;There wrcre ihirteen stars during the„■ ... . .. T xr. J Company 1, Fourth Regiment of In-Pt Revolution, fifteen in the War of; *, L,. 4 , . . (hana Infantry, of thirteen atrlpes*e 1812, tv/enty-mnri m the Mexican. , ^A 41_. . * . ... . p. ^ an eagle in the field. Ten mgsoi War. thirty “three to thirty-five m tno ^ ^ * lt;.. Aj.. TT. , . r. . the collection pertain to toe CsvilCivil War. forty-Five in the Spanish:™ill War, and forty-eight today. The! ar't*i stripes were changed first from tblr*-; Other flags fttcJude some of theit i teen to fifteen, and then back again :■ Spanish-American War. a flag, owneds to thirteen. It.maybe surprising tojhy Admiral Charles Wllkea, tTnlted e know that our National flag Is (States Navy: a ipfnteture fla z rkr-axBong the oldest flags of the na-|rfed by CajrtaSa C F, Hall In theArctic, 1864-69; the American colors carried by Rear Admiral Peary in bis Arctic explorations in 1909; the flag carried by the Smithsonian African Expedition under the command of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, in 1909-10; and numerous examples of the National ensign which has flown ir, so many notable engagements and dnrirtg countless worthy achievements.
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Laredo Times
Laredo, Texas, US
Sun, Apr 15, 1917
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