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.‘~ RONOR TODAY STAR _ SPANCLED BANNER 3Y" Hith thetr" twes ~And. * red and white of those stripes upon their banâ€" ner might well have been the symbol of the crimson footprints left upon wmdvflh]'“'hym Washington‘s men. They paid their price of blood and Are these not memories to thrill generations of Americans yet unâ€" John Paul Jones on the decks of the Bonne Homme Richard, his frigâ€" ate sinking beneath him at the belâ€" lowing salvos of the British guns on the Serapis, and, his calm answer to their call for surrender: "I have not yet begun to fight!" Washington, standing wrapped in his cloak in that rowboat as it pushed its way through the iceâ€"floes on the wintry Delaware, to cross ar "imâ€" passable river," to fall upon the Hesâ€" sains, and take Trenton in a night o(J smoke and flames, of steel and blood. And part of the heritage of th! Stars and Stripes, though the Lone Star then floated above it, is the «Alâ€" amo with its highâ€"piled dead and the deathless words, "Thermopyiae had | _IuAmr of defeat. TaiAhl;; Lawrence, dying on the deck of the Chesapeake with his lips formâ€" ing his last words: "Don‘t give up the ship!" The roar of cannon, the splinterâ€" ing of deck and buiwark when Perry at Lake Erie sent his immortal mesâ€" sage: "We have met the enemy and "Memories of Bunker Hill Of Ticonderoga | with Ethan â€" Allen‘s crashing demand: ‘Surrender in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!‘" Hero blood it was, shed selfiessly and in the battle for an ideal so high and shining that even now there are times when beneath the passions of mankind it becomes a bit obscured. For, in every battle where that flag waved, Liberty has been the watchâ€" word of men who fought beneath. Glorious the heritage and the banâ€" ner they have left for the children of America. Bright with steel and red The blood of gallant men christâ€" ened it in its babyhood. The biood of their sons and their sons‘ sons has years that followed. lowed? in the century and a haif since then, America‘s story has been written beneath that banner. Strange pen and stranger ink have gone into the writing. The American flag was born of battleâ€"battle for liberty. And batâ€" tle has been its heritage throughout years. \ brought an ordered republic out of a welter of passionâ€"torn colonies. For a brief space the flag beneath which they had fought clung to a narrow borderâ€"line of the Atlantic States, and then it started West. f Milrh’ won t‘.&l‘ "Im m "“*‘ Old World veterans sneered that {Continued from page 1, first section) NOUSE 239 ARCH ST PHILAODELPHA PA im whicr Tmg L was made To what man is given . words It { The American flag is one of the | most beautiful that floats upon any | land or sea. Its proportions are perâ€" | feet when properly madeâ€"one half [nbrnnduiti:lou.’l'hefimnripe | at the top is red, the next white, | and these colors aiternate, making [ the last stripe red. The blue field for The 2,000th rug has just been comâ€" pleted by the girls in the Near East MANY RUGS MADE BY the stars is the width of the first seven stripes, viz., four red and three white. The colors of the American flag are in exquisite relief, and it is, gress reduced the stripes to the orâ€" iginal thirteen, and now the stars are made to correspond in number to the States. " There is a striking coincidence beâ€" tween the design of our flag and the arms of General Washington, which comsisted of three stars in the upper portion, and three bars runing across the escutcheon. History informs us that several flags were used by the Yankees before the present national one was adopted. At first a stripe was added for each new State; but the flag became too large, andâ€" Conâ€" EOS Oniioiiie: Antviiiiirts has Alrrmcal and engaged her to make a flag from this design. The flag then made is now known the world over as the Starâ€"Spangled Banner of the United States of America. Sail on, sail on, O ship of state! Sail on, O union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears With all its hope of future years Is hanging breathlessly on thy fate! The Stars and Stripes . The small twoâ€"story house still standing at 239 Arch street, below Third, Philadelphia, has an interestâ€" ing history. In it the first flag, conâ€" taining thirteen stars, and thirteen stripes, was made by Mrs. John Ross. The design for the fag was from a drawing made by General Washingâ€" tom with pencil, and the flag this designated was adopted, by a resoluâ€" tion of Congress, on the 14th of June, 1777. A Committee of Congress, acâ€" companied by Geperal Washington. afterwards called upon Betsy Ross, and roared that they‘d be "In Heaven, Hell or Hoboken by Chris:â€" mas‘" as they crashed through the German defense. That‘s the heritage of the Ameriâ€" can flag to which all Americans pay tribute on June 14th. It‘s your heritage. Men have fought for it. Men haiye died for it. They are what America means. And upon them men have built thel mightiest nation in the world. To that nation we again pledge al Chateau Thierry, with the grizzled sergeant of marines and his "Come on, you sons of guns! Do you want to live forever?" St. Mihiel with its wonderful plan of American generalâ€" ship and its wonderful execution by the American soldier. The Argonne, where men bored through the underâ€" growth in the face of whistling death: years. And, with the past few years, to that wreath of immortal laurel harbor and when the Oregon raced ‘round the Horn. When the Spanish fieet came out of Santiage Bay and ut the end of a hell of flame and steel Schley said: "There‘s glory enough for all!"â€"When Captain Phillips of the Texas showed the A mericanr -’trno(hhplyinhhnag_apu while the bands biared: "There‘ll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Toâ€" NEAR EAST ORPHANS : "Du-'t:eh?':r, boys! ‘The poor , a splendid national emb~ h-vé.:;-a-ii 2:---.-0*.‘. famigute ‘and Shave Taw e qflgmm """â€"Z. Zates, however, are not any higher than customary. Ulfl!-l'-h-.h.. from place to The next step to be taken by the government will include a thorough investigation of property values in Waukegan, which it is hoped â€" will result in the selection of a site and reaching of terms that will result in its purchase. THsLZg, Way in which we pack valuables and household goods. By the Iredale method possibilâ€" a condition of uncertainty and at the least will result in a serious delay in the erection of the much needed structure. careful way in Contending that the prices of land offered to the government as locaâ€" tions for the proposed n#w $335,000 Waukegan federal building are inâ€" flated beyond all reason, the federal building commission in Washington has rejected all the bids. Action of the commission places the Waukegan postoffice matter in Unsurpassed facilities for saf storage of personal effects and GOVERNMENT REJECTS WAUKEGAN P. 0. BIDS Prices Asked for Sites in That City Too High, Claim, May Reâ€"Advertise Foremost along the North Shore Continuation for two years more of the Federal aid highway construcâ€" tion program was assured on April 16, when the Senate passed the Phipps‘ measure authorizing $75,000,â€" 000 expenditures for highway conâ€" struction during the fiscal years of 1930 and 1931. The measure, which has been actively supported by the American Motorists‘ association, was favorably reported by the House Comâ€" mittee on Roads on April 12, and is now on the House calendar for pasâ€" sage. Its passage by the House is virtually assured. FEDERAL AID HIGHWAY PROGRAM CONTINUED lake water supply project, said it is probable that work on the system will be started this fall or early next spring. It is planned to build a large crib three miles off the shore line at Wilmette, and by tunnel conâ€" nect the various cities and towns with the lake water system. lake water the _ eo.mm’ The Illinois commerce commissign last week authorized the Greater Chiâ€" cago Lake Water company to proceed with its project of supplying Lake Michigan water to cities and towns within 38 miles of Chicago‘s city limits. ‘The commission also granted T06 Company permission to issue 1,500 shares of capital stock at $100 APPROVED BY STATE Chicago Lake Water Co. Gets O. K. 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