LS af off 6 FF TUTE ofa BY 0 HE Radh F SL VITUS CS ain SF RE ERE Lad 0 EH SR By FRANKLIN K. LANE Secretary of the Interior INE morning, as I passed into the land office, the Flag /| dropped me a most cordial salutation, and from its rippling i folds I heard it say: “Good morning, Mr. Flag Maker.” “I beg your pardon, Old Glory,” I said. “You are mis- Jj{ taken. I am not the President of the United States, nor the ' Vice President, not a member of Congress, nor a general in the army. I am only a government clerk.” “Well, you helped to clear that patent for the hopeful inventor in New York, or pushed the opening of that new ditch in Colorado, or made that mine in Illinois more safe, or brought relief to the old eoldier in Wyoming. No matter whichever one of these beneficent individuals you may happen to be, I give you greeting, Mr. Flag Maker. 0000 “Yesterday the Congress spoke the word which will open the door of Alaska, but a mother in Michigan worked from sunrise until far into the night to give her boy an education. She, too, is making the Flag. Yesterday we made a new law to prevent financial panics; yesterday, no doubt, a school-teacher in Ohio taught his first letters to a boy who will write a song that will give cheer to millions of our race. We are all making the Flag.” “But,” I said, impatiently, “these people were only working.” Then came a great shout about the Flag. “Let me tell you who I am. “The work that we do is the making of the real Flag. “I am not the Flag, not at all. I am but its shadow. “I am whatever you make me, nothing more. “I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become. “I live a changing life, a life of moods and passions, of heart- breaks and tired muscles. DODD “Sometimes I am strong with pride, when men do an honest work, fitting the rails together truly. “Sometimes I droop, and then purpose has gone from me and then cynically I play the coward. “Sometimes I am loud, garish and full of that ego that blasts judgment. “But always I am all that you hope to be and have the courage to try for. “I am song and fear, struggle and panic, an ennobling hope. “I am the day's work of the weakest man and the largest dream of the most daring. “I am the Constitution and the courts, statutes and statute makers, soldier and dreadnaught, drayman and street-sweep, cook, counselor and clerk. “I am the battle of yesterday and the mistake of tomorrow. “I am the mystery of the men who do without knowing why. “I am the clutch of an idea and the reasoned purpose of resolution. DODO “I am no more than what you believe me to be, and I am all that you believe I can be. “I am what you make me, nothing more. “I swing before your eyes as a bright dream of color, a symbol of yourself, a pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this nation. My stars and my stripes are your dreams and your labors. They are bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm with faith because you have made them so out of your hearts, for you are the sakers of the Flag, and it is well that you glory in the making.” p— — Il CUSTOMS IN ARMY AND NAVY! = be displayed when falling in with other ships of war, or when near the land, and when passing or ap- {| proaching forts, lighthouses or towns." especially Explicit Regulations Govern the Dis- play of the Stars and Stripes on Land and Sea. FEE ERE ER OUR FLAG By ROBERT C, WINTHROP. — Concerning “Flag Day” the following from the Army and Navy Journal may be of interest: A correspondent asks as to the origin of the custom of hoisting the flag on board ship and at our army posts at sunrise and hauling 1t down at sunset. Some of our readers may be able to add to the information give here, The army hoists its flag at sunrise and hauls |t at sunset. The navy raises the flag at eight in the morning and hauls it down at sunset. The flag Is not flown at sea except for the pur of exchanging courtesies with other vessels, but a vessel making port keeps the flag flying until she comes to anchor, whatever the hour may be. The fing is hoisted on board ship during church service, with the church pen- nant flying above it. The hoisting of a flag below another flag is the token of surrender. The regulations ®equire that: “At every military post of station the flag will be hoisted at the sounding of the flast note of the revellle, or of the first note of a march, if a march be played before reveille. The flag will be low- ered at the sounding of the last note of the retreat, and while the flag Is being lowered the band will play “The Star- Spangled Banner! The national flag shall be displayed at a seacoast or lake fort at the sommencement of an action and during a battle in which the fort may be engaged, whether by day or at night. “The national ensign on board a ship | of the navy at anchor shall be hoisted | at 8 a. m, and kept flying until sunset, | a language which was officially recog- if the weather permits, Whenever a | nized by our fathers. White is for ship comes to anchor or gets under- i purity, red for valor, blue for Jjus- way, if there Is sufficient light for the | tice; and all together—stripes, stars ensign to be seen, it shall be hoisted, and colors, blazing In the sky-—make although earlier or later than the time | the flag of our country, to be cherished specified. Unless there are gosd rea- | by all our hearts, to be upheld by all sons to the contrary, the ensign shall | our hands.—Charles Sumner, Behold it! Listen to It! Every star has a tongue, every stripe is articulate. “There is no language or speech where their voices are not heard.” There is magic in the web of it. It has an answer for every question of duty. It has a solution for every doubt and perplexity. It has a word of good cheer for every hour of gloom or of de- spondency. It speaks of earlier and of later struggles. It speaks of victories, and sometimes of reverses, on the sea and on the land. It speaks of patriots and heroes among the living and the dead. But before all and above all other assoclations and memories, whether of glorious men, or glorious deeds, or glorious places, its voice is ever of Union and Liberty, of the Constitution and the Laws, HEREERRA EERE Raa HH we down pose SIRI 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 TT 00 1 1 20 2 0 0 20 2 0 0 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 Colors Have Significance. The very colors (of our flag) have TTI T0000 0 Th Th 10 0000 00 1 0 20 00 00 36 2 20 0 0 0 1 0 0 00 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 * | RR A A A ANION DDOIID INADA, PENNSYLVANIA STATE TEMS A I ad nd i Chester Margare EYDSY len, arrested al to jail on a charge of swindling F Ellis of ten dollars North Wales Weber planing been granted ma Was Empiovee plan mill, w sirike, have | of 2% i Mont ( | lights on 1 cents an hour lare ant electric idge the Residents w he new canal br Reading Students of Boys’ { High School will school in { Fair Cheltenham ioner Charles W. Bogler has procured show a modern mode! action at the next Township | acres of land, near Ogontz, prepared | for tilage. Lancaster.—The revenue receipts | for May in the Lancaster district wera [ $1,022,919.99, the largest in the his | tory of the office. They are double those of May, 1916. Corporations paid $168,184.84 and individual $78,530.40 income fax Harrisburg. Dr. Arthur R. May, one of the Jeading veterinary physicians, and many years a leading politician at Bolling Springs, is dead, aged 79. i Shipped Anywhere in the United EVEL B Ea: Second Hand Ro Bargains We have a | 5 4 han i inrg and ed plang f all makes Here few sample bargains Steinway. . $175.00 Knabe.... 165.00 Emerson .. 100.00 Kimball... 70.00 Starck.... 195.00 ri ¢ ne - "i strated catalog of re iw RICE PAS * . P. A. 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The origin of the design is not known, but it is gen erally believed to represent the head of a spear; by others the flower ofva lily, the floral emblem of France The French Senate has just adopted the bill, previously voted by the Chambre des Deputes, granting a credit of 1,500,000 francs to the French Navigation Bureau to permit the con. struction of tugs, barges, ete, fe traffic upon the lower Seine. It Wm said to be unlikely, however, that the new boats would be available before the end of the war,
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