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The Birthday of Old Glory,
June 14, should bring a respon
sive thrill to every patriotic A
merican.
Especially should the citizens
ip North and South Carolina
ttake a pardonable pride in the
celebration of the day when it is
remembered that they were a
mong the original Thirteen
States.
Flujfx of the Carolina*
The famous Gadsden Flag of
South Carolina, showing the coil
ed ratltesnake and the words,
jjrpon't Tread on Me," mounted
r a yellow baner, was used by
jjCpmmodore Hopkins as his flag
wNen he led the first American
Expedition to the Bahamas,
where U. S. Marines and sailors
the forts at New Provi
■Bdence in March. 1776.
Another flag, conspicious in
* early American History, is the
r "Grand Union" flag or Navy de
sign, of thirteen stripes and bear-
JMng the crosses of St. George and
*PBt. Andrew, where the stars in
the blue field now appear. It al
so was carried on the expedition!
to the Bahamas.
The earliest perfect represent-,
ation of the grand Union Ensign
appears on North Carolina cur
rency of 1776. That State was
first to authorize the dele
gates in Congress to vote for in
dependence in the same year,
and later troops from North Car
olina took part in many battles
of the Revolutionary War.
Delvers into the flag lore of
the country will find no more
conspicious samples of colonial
jjfc banners than the rattlesnake
and Grand Union designs. Some
of the early flags had beavers,
pine trees, anchors and a score
of other insignia, but it was the
"Grand Union" flag that was
the immediate predecessor of the
W Stars and Stripes, which we so
often call Old Glory.
Romance has trailed Old Glory
ffrom the beginning. It harks
l)ack to the days of Betsy Ross,
whose nimble fingers wrought
with loving care the first sam-
WK CAN'T FIGHT CHANGE
When I was a smal boy in the
country we had a good old neigh
-*£hpr named Daniel Roe, who
a cnuiberry meadow. He
brought the water (or flooding
meadow through a deep
from a lake about a quar
ter a mile away.
> Half of every summer of his
life he spent digging out the
dirt and stones which had fallen
into that ditch.
We kids used to go over and
watch him dig. There was a big
1 Htone by the side of the ditch
$ which was shaped roughly like
an arm chair. There he would
eat his lunch at noon, and smoke
ig; his pipe. We called the stone
Mr. Roe's chair.
In fullness of lime he died.
His son sold the meadow, and it
was abandoned. My father
brught the ditch, most of which
flye&n through our woods, and eve
summer we fill a little piece
of it up with junk and garbage
■f
pie of the national flag, which
was almost identical with the
flag as we know it today.
Story of Betsy Ross
Mrs. Ross was a widow. Late
in the spring of 1776, her little
shop on Arch street, Philadel
phia, was visited by some distin
guished persons. A committee
headed by George Washington,
called on Mrs. Ross and submitt
ed a rough design of a new type
of flag which they asked her to
make. Stars in the blue field had
been substituted for the crosses
of St. George and St. Andrew.
Descendants of Betsy have
vouched for the authenticity of
the historic visit, and it is
known that not long afterward;
Congress made an order on the
treasury to pay Mrs. Ross a sum!
of seventy dollars in the British
currency then used "for flags for
the fleet in the Delaware Riv
er."
June 14, 1777, more than a
year after Washington's visit to
the little flag shop, is now rec-'
ognized as the flag's official
birthday. On that date Congress
resolved "That the flag of the
thirteen United States be thir-j
teen stripes, alternate red and
white; that the union be thirteen
stars, white in a blue field, -rep
resenting a new constellation."
Thereafter numerous inci
dents relative to the new flag;
began to make their appearance
in history. Less than three w6eks
after Congress had authorized |
the flag, John Paul Jones was ati
Portsmouth, N. H., preparing to
sail aboard the "Ranger."
"At Portsmouth." writes one
naval authority, "Paul Jones at
tracted about him a bevy of girls
who formed a so-called 'flag-bee'
who with much patriotic enthus
iasm and many heart thrills
wrought out* of their own and
their mother's gowns a beauti
ful Star Spangled Ban/"* wiu*ih
was thrown on the
Portsmouth Harbor on
1777."
Avery's history recori
August 3, Colonel 0
and cover it over with
Last summer 1
through the woods an
at Mr. Roe's chair. A
ditch is half destraye
years more it will be
All his sweat and
for nothing. Nt t raise
work left!
In a New York «lu
with an eminent arel
said that the glorious
vanished from hi#
The architects of G
RQme left
eternal. Tfie morter:
has no such hop||fl
hcd detigned three
New Ycrk so maynif
he cxpe ted thernl* to
ii aim into futuip g
All three have betn
to make way for
t uildings. fc-
I talked with a
who had vis
parish vhere 111- lift
Buccesefullly thirty >
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE ELKIN NORTH CAROLINA
with a command of 800 men
were defending Fort Stanwix,
near the present site of Rome,
N. Y., when word was received
of the new flag design. The gar
rison was searched for material
to manufacture the new flag, pre
sumably the Stars and Stripes,
which was displayed the same
afternoon from a flagstaff on a
bastion nearest the enemy. There
is, however, no authentic record
of either th.e Grand Union or the
Stars and Stripes, as national
colors ever having been carried
into batle.
A Shot for Karli Stripe
Captain Thomas Thompson of
the American ship "Raleigh"
fired, on a British ship he was
pursueing on September 4. "We
up sails, out guns( hoisted the
Coutlnenta! colors and bid them
strike yje .Thirteen States,"
wrote the captain. "Sudden
surprise threw them into confus
ion and their sails flew all aback
upon which 'we complimented
them with a broadside gun for
each state, a whole broadside in
to their hull." This was the new
flags first encounter at sea.
The Stars and Stripes first
floated over a fortress of the
Old World when Lieutenant
O'Bannon of the Marines and
Midshipman Mann of the Navy
raised the flag over the fortress
at Dern. Tripoli, where it was
1805.
"By the dawn's early light" on
September 14, 1814, Francis
Banner still waving over Fort
McHenry, and composed the
Scott Key saw the Star-Spangled
song whic his now the national
anthem.
Both the flags raised at Trip
oli and at Fort McHenry had fif
teen stars and fifteen stripes, a
flag design that remained in vo
gue from 1795 until 1818. Then
Congress. the
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job: here and there among them
are the worth-while few who
want the better job.
And the millions wonder why
the few move on, while they
stand stationary year after year.
You must, first of all, pick out
the better job—some particular
fob that is better than yours.
Then train your guns on that and
capture it.
You tell nie that you are a
bookeeper and that you earn $25
a week.
I know certified accountant's
who earn SIO,QUO a year and
more.
If I were a bookeeper earning
$25 a week, I should go out for
a public acocuntaat's job. 11
might die on the road, but who
ever found ttiy body would notice,'
that my face was towards the
summit.
Second: You can never make
anybody pay yovt more money
until you have more to sell.
I can advertise in a newspaper
to-morrow morning and have a
hundred bright young men here
at the office at eight o'clock.
Each one will have just as much
as you have; the same two years'
of high school; the same exper-,
ience in keeping booka. the same,
good record. Everyone of them j
will be willing to work for $25
and some pf them for $lB.
The only way you can lift
yourself out of that $25 class is'
by giving yourself an equipment
that the rest of the fellows in'
♦,hat class do not have. In other
words by study—by education —
by specialized training.
Third: When you have picked
out the one particular better job
that you want, when you have
fitted yourself for It then be
careful of your letter of appli-:
cation.
Your letter is your represen
tative. For heavens sake, if you
have in you any spark of origin
ality that other men have not,
make your letter a tiny bit dif
ferent from the letters that the
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i other men will write,
p Fourth* 1 receive many letter:
of application. In one form or an
r other, they usually say some
r thing like this: "I want a bettf
job: I am thinking of gettinj
married"; or, "I have a niothc
to support"; or. "1 have been i>
this place three years without i
I raise and see no future."
| All of which interests me no
at all.
, 1 The only lelter that I read
with interest is letter is th»
i letter of the young man who ha
i studied -my business and whi
points out to me how I can mak>
; more money for my employer b\
' employing him.
| Ideas are the keys that un
lock big men's doors.
•J When you havr fitted yourself
'for the better job. let your lettei
of application contain an idea.
IN PRAISE OF EARTHWORMS
If the earthworms were to
publish a magazine, some dra
matic sucess stories w |.ild be
i recorded.
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It would for example tell of
j the remarkable career of John O
| Worm. Born to humble parents
| in dark surroundings, he man
j aged by his own efforts to push
: himself up to the surface. Therr
I he was spied by Fortune In the
i form of a robin, which snatched
I him into the clouds. His mo
i monet of elevation was brief,
, but while it lasted the vision was
i splendid.
It would tell of Frederick L.
Worm, who was working along
quietly one day when an uphe
vaal tossed him to fame and
glory. Success was attended by
pain, as is often the case. He
was impaled upon the fishhook
and carried away to be immers
.-d in a strange element. There
life ended, but not before he had
done the biggest job ever achie
ved by any member of his fam
ily. The Fortune he landed de
voured him, but it was a big
To the^onHßMm
stories migflit be
"Fame is for few," they would
say. "Nothing ever happens to
us. We Just stir around awhile
it d die.' '
Heneath the surface life is car-,
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