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THURSDAY, MAY 10, lOSO - "NI M "TF * R ~ FK I J|J2| T FTGE %% \ m WAT V BPF *cim iWmvM ./ JBIIPPT £k The Birthday of Old Glory, June 14, should bring a respon sive thrill to every patriotic A merican. Especially should the citizens AlEt North and South Carolina Make a pardonable pridf in the celebration of the day when it is remembered that they were a mong the original Thirteen States. Flogs of the Carolina*; The famous Gadsden Flag of South Carolina, showing the coil ed ratltesnake and the words, jtfTDon't Tread on Me," mounted a yellow baner, was used by "■Commodore Hopkins as his flag •wlfcen he led the first American Expedition to the Bahamas, where U. S. Marines and sailors r captured the forts at New Provi dence in March, 1776. Another flag, cocspicious in early American History, is the r "Grand Union" flag or Navy de sign. of thirteen stripes and bear- Kng the crosses of St. George and it. Andrew, where the stars in the blue field now appear. It al- BO 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 ■flfe 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. Delvere into the flag lore ofi the country will find no more conspicious samples of colonial Jfc 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 Stars and Stripes, which we so often call Old Glory. ft Romance has trailed Old Glory from the beginning. It harks l>ack to the days of Betsy Ross, whose nimble fingers wrought with loving care the first aam WE CAN'T FIGHT CHANGE When I was a smal boy in the country we had a good old neigh named Daniel Roe, who ned a cranberry meadow. He brought the water for flooding .-■jjiin meadow through a deep *ditch from a lake about a quar ter a m!le 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 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 I his pipe. We called the stone Mr, Roe's chair. In fullness of time he died. ■ His son sold the meadow, and it was abandoned. My father J&bought the ditch, moat of which Mfan through our woods, and eve summer we fill a little piece 1 1 of it up with junk and garbage 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 lier 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 ft 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- 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 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 at 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 of their own and their mother's gowns a beauti ful Star Spangled Baner. which was thrown on the breeee in Portsmouth Harbor on July 4, 1777," Avery's history records that on August 3, Colonel Gansevoort and cover it over with dirt. bast summer I walked through the woods and stopped at Mr. Roe's chair. Already the ditch is half destroyed. In five years more it will be gone. All his sweat and backache for nothing. No trace of his life work left! In a New York club I talked with an eminant architect, who said that the glorious days had vanished from his profession The architects of Greece and Rqme left monuments that are eternal. Tfie modern architect has ,10 such hope. He himself had designed three houses in New York so magnificient that he expected them to carry his najme into future generations. An three have been torn down to make way for apartment buildings. I talked with a clergyman who had recently visited a city parish where he had laboredi successfully thirty years ago. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE ELKIX 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 the Grand Union or the Stars and Stripes, as national colors ever having been carried into batle. A Shot for Kacli Stripe Captain Thomas Thompson of the American ship "Raleigh" on a British ship he was pureueing on September 4. "We up sails, out guns( hoisted the Continental colors and bid them strike t&e .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 Stare 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 authorized the return of the flag to its original form of thirteen stripes, one star be ing added for each state entering the Union until today there are 4 8 stars in the blue fielff. That portion of the ctiy has now become a-slum. The old families have scattered to the suburbs. The church is closed. "What is left," he exclaimed sadly, "to show for all my la bor?" I told him that people are left —the sons and daughters of the men and women to whom his sermons were preached. "Your hearers trained their children in righteousness," I said, "and they will train their children." We oan't fight change, and it is well that we can't. How dull lifewould be If everything were permanent. How wonderful that each new generation has the fun of taking the world apart and putting it together again. The church may be closed, the house torn down, the ditch fill ed up. But Mr. Roe and 'the architect and the preacher each built a monument in the livus of the people whom he served. We can do as much: and it is all that we can do. A I-KTTKK TO A YOUNG MAN You ask me how you can get a better job. My answer if that you can't. All over the country are mil jllons of young men who, in a tague sort of way, want a better job: here and there among them are the worth-while few who want the better lob. 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 your*. Then train youi 1 guns on that and capture it. You tell me that you are a bookeeper and that you earn $25 a week. I know certified accountant's who earn SIO,OOO a year and more. If I were a bookeeper earning $25 a week, I should go out for a public acocuntamt's job. I might die on the road, but who ever found my body would notice that my face was towards the snmmit. Second: You can never make anybody pay yoif 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 books, the same good record. Everyone ©f them 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 specialised 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 Jm jom HL fl BP! ■ ■ ' J JB T n ,:mK^ mKr I I te^'py^T t ijj BgJ| \ ■ j9 ». iwnL ; - > \ 0 '' '• ! 3S\ '' ■ 'i —. . ■ ' The smoke's the thing! The taste, the aroma, all the natural goodness of tobacco's finest qualities are in the delightful smoke that curls lazily from your Camel Cigarette. Let it drift luxuriously about your face ... taste it, smell it, revel in it,.. smoke as much as you like! Whether it's the first Camel of the day or the last one ix night, every sense you have will tell you / that here is everything you have wished for in a cigarette. '''•** C, AM ELS k ■■ •*> ' W Jmrnrn mJm ■■ i# mMLmmm—M J%ijg||j -.-1 C«^ny *WiJ*«!SjraT *•**«•. How-WeitewAsy evrnln«t 6a N. EC •Wwork, wJZ tad BttodMed Kutioni. Consult your local radio other men will write. Fourth: I receive many letter; of application. In one form or an other, they usually say some thing like this: "I want a Job: I am thinking of gettin? married "; or, "I have a mothe to support"; or. "I have been I* this place three years without t raise and see no future." All of which interests me no at all. 1 The only letter s that I read iwith interest is letter is th' letter of the young man who ha studied -my business and wh 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. I When you have" fitted yourself SOT 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 sucesß stories w (.lid be recorded. It would for example tell of the remarkable career of John O Worm. Born to humble parents in dark surroundings, he man aged by his own efforts to push himself up to the surface. There he was spied by Fortune in the form of a robin, which snatched him into the clouds. His mo nonet of elevation was brief, but while it lasted the vision was 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 tbe fishhook and carried away to be immers . d in a Rtranpe 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 stories mi (flu be "Fame is for few," they would say. "Nothing ever happens to us. We just stir around awhile t? d die.' ' Beneath the surface life is car-; Bl W' ■Hi ■ !;■!, ■ ,■! !!■) ma, KB: ■:')!■) WBS'iiKS! MN NOTICE NOTICE Pey your electric light bills before the JQth of e r h month and save the discount. SOUTHERN PUBLIC UTILITIES CO. shall doubt ing as our lives— I make possible—are beyond th« i vision of the worms?
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