THE WESTERN NEWS, LIBBY, MONTANA Thursday, June 8, 1933. Page Seven
SOMETHING WRONG Our Government “Aren't you the mind-reader whd was entertaining the company a IflKe Ortjjiiv/' of iKe ☆ ☆ couple of hours ago by finding needles and other small things they — How It Operates had hidden?” “Yes.” By William Bruckarf “Well,- what faaa kept yon here M aurvd Stripe/ long?” PROBLEM OF RAILROAD “I’m looking for my hat"—Lon don Tit-Bits. RATES mm >■- Dr. Pierce's PI.usant Pellet« «re the orig inal little liver pills put up 60 yean ago. ■/[ HE Interstate Commerce commis Tsion Is going to have a tough Job They regulate liver and bowel«.—Aar, on its hands during the next few Time Better Spent years. Every one familiar with the m - Gossip Is short lived In town* ■mi problems of the railroads Is agreed V # where business la rushing. y '■ that the next several years constitute . • a period of great readjustment, and Mm it . i the companies that own the steam S '■>-<.. horses are no exception. So, with the ' m railroads clamoring on the one hand m BOY! WHAT A GETAWAY - - for more revenue and reduced oper- :•>, letting expenses and the shippers de £7*. manding lower rates consonant with ,o'V‘ 1; A,V new values of commodities and orga l. iwM S3 nized labor seeking a return to norm , al wages, the commission's situation ;•. ■3: T *4 Is one not to be envied. M s:; m ■■M ÿ fM m This question of rales Is one that m is especially worrisome. The statutes Y under which the commission operates requires that the freight and passen HP ger rates be Just and reasonable. That means, of course, that both the ship " i. pers and the carriers must be con ■ sidered, and It takes a good umpire S. A V. to satisfy the players on both teams. . _ . ikjsj n By ELMO SCOTT WATSON The commission has a whole bag UNE 14 Is Flag day and It recalls the ■f full of powers to use In Its Jurlsdic fact that on that date In 1777 the tlon over railroad rates. And as one '3V Continental congress “Resolved, That who Is decidedly not a rate expert, 1 J the flag of the thirteen United States : would say it needs all of the powers & >■ Watch how' be thirteen stripes, alternate red and ■ ■ ' \ and a handful of tricks besides. Its white; that the union be thirteen \ own definition of Its authority is com stars, white In a blue field, repre national flag goes back stripes. ance, style, beauty! . .. And it’s to the banner which was flown by the expedition When it came to adopting the Stars and exists.” that discovered the North American continent. Many more lines could be quoted more fun to own it—when you Stripes, however, the color scheme of green was know how little more it costs This was the simple banner of St. George’s cross, S’--- dropped and various flags of red, white and blue to show that the commission lias pow In red on a white field, the old flag of England. er to do the tilings it thinks best for than the lowest-priced cars!.. • 1! that had been familiar to American colonists for It was carried by dhe expedition of Giovanni more than 100 years exercised the prevailing In all of the interests served. See it—drive it—and thrill! Cabot, or as he Is more familiarly known, John fluence In the design for the Stars and Stripes. / But to get down to cases: a railroad Cabot, the Italian navigator, exploring for Eng The resolution adopting the flag appears in the desires to increase a rate which It Sensational land, who discovered the North American conti 1— “The Stars and Stripes Forever!”—Repro Journal of Congress among a whole page of reso charges for transporting cobplpes a nent in 1497. Sailing along the east coast for duction of the famous picture painted by Henry lutions presented by the marine committee on from St. Louis to Denver. The law SHOW-DOWN” PLAN 1,000 miles, he laid the foundation of English Mosler. The British, evacuating New York after the subject of the navy. On the same page with requires that It must file the new claims to North America. The flag was home the Yorktown surrender in 1781, nailed the Brit the flag and other marine committee resolutions schedule of rates with the commis Wins Thousands later by Capt John Smith’s ships to the set ish flag to the flagstaff at the Battery and then is one appointing John Paul Jones to the com sion, and If the commission gains an tlement at Jamestown, Vn„ in 1607 and again by greased the pole. A barefoot sailor boy volun mand of the ship Ranger. Jones was presented intimation or has an idea about what Overnight! the Mayflower to the Plymouth (Mass.) settle teered to climb up, take down the enemy flag and a flag by some women of Philadelphia and soon ought to be charged for hauling cob Imagine a car that sells itself — and ment In 1620. • nail the American flag to the pole. From "The afterward he had the Stars and Stripes flying pipes over that distance, It can sus- doubles its sales almost overnight In city Next in the line of descent comes the King’s Winning of Freedom" In "The Pageant of Amer at-sea. pend the schedule filed by the rail after city. That’s wbat the new Dodge is Colors or the Union Jack, designed In 1606; sym doing... laying its cards on the table ■.. ica,” courtesy Yale University Pres*. Contemporary illustrations of Jones’ ships and road. That means it Is Inoperative. then asking any other car near its price to bolizing the union of England and Scotland after 2— The pine tree flag of early Revolutionary the description of the new flag when it appeared The purpose is to give the commission match it on the open road, in traffic and King James took the throne of the united king war days. in Europe, show that the early navy flags were a chance to look Into the reasonable up hills. Go to your nearest Dodge dealer doms In 1603. This union was represented In 3— The rattlesnake flag of the early American arranged with the stars In horizontal parallel ness of the proposed charge. today and ask for the sensational "Show- the English flag by Imposing the English red navy. rows. Due to their number, the stars were stag Congress, however, did not give per Down” score card. Then make your own cross of St. George on the Scottish white diag 4— The 13-star flag, one of the earliest forms gered, that Is, the stars In one row were placed mission for an indefinite suspension “Show-Down” test against any other car. onal cross of St. Andrew, on a field of blue. after the flag resolution of June 14, 1777. opposite the spaces between the stars In the of the rates in question. It prescribed 11 There are records of the use of this flag on forts 5— The 15-star, 15-stripe flag, the form used next, so that they looked like a constellation in that the suspension could not be for in this country in 1679 and 1696, and this en after Vermont and Kentucky were admitted to the heavens, as the resolution had described longer than 150 days, which-2 seems sign was required in all British dominions by a the Union. them. On one ship they were In five rows; on quite long enough for any Investiga DODGE “6 o parliamentary act of 1707. 6— Flag of the Sixth Regiment of the United another, in three. tion. Yet many investigations are not with Floating Powar The terra “Union Jack” was probably derived States Marines. Ingenuity began to he displayed In the arrange- completed In that time, and the ques- angina mountinga ment of stars In unofficial flags. In some they | tloned charge becomes operative. As from King James signing documents in the Note: No. 2 to 6, inclusive, are flags in the 115-INCH WHEELBASE French “Jacques," the pronunciation of which exhibit of the United States Marine Corps in were arranged in a square; In others, in a circle. a counter-balance, the law provides is not unlike “Jack." The “union" came to be the Federal building at A Century of Progress, Some had them In the shape of a single star, a that while the rate may become op AND applied to that part of our national flag carry Chicago. Photographs by Hack Miller. diamond or forming the letters “Ü. S.” erative, the commission may require UP ing the stars. In fact, when this part of the flag <595 At first, the Stars and Stripes were looked the carriers involved to keep a sep is flown alone on bows of ships, It Is called the & upon merely as a navy flag, but In 1818, under arate account of money received ns Dodge Eight fills to fl39S. AU priem “union jack" or simply "jack.” the third flag law-, the present general design of f. o, b. factory, Detroit, eenth century the red British ensign carrying a result of the increase until a de the flag was established. This held the number Three flags that had an early influence on the the union Jack In the canton, The British flag cision is had. If the commission design of the Stars and Stripes were the striped of stripes to 13 and added a star for each state. was altered after the Revolution had begun by eventually denies the Increase, then flags of the Dutch republic. The Dutch, It will be The second flag law, passed by congress In May, the carriers have to refund the mone,' Self-Effacars placing 13 stripes In the fly of the flag under the 1795, provided 15' stripes for 15 states as well as remembered, first colonized New Netherlands, British union Jack. representing the Increase that It ha Fading Into the background Is what before it became New York. This territory In 15 stars; but as the number of states was in collected. some men do best It was called the "grand union flag," and was cluded New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and creasing by 1818, It was found necessary to cur It was back in 1910 that congres.'- Delaware. hoisted by Lieut, John Paul Jones on December tail the amount of stripes, 3, 1775, In the newly formed American fleet off expunded the commission’s power tt Settlements in these states were made by Capt. Samuel Chester Reid, of the navy, hero give it Jurisdiction over every phase Dutch colonists under their flags; that of the Philadelphia. On January 1 or 2, 1776, it was of a two-day engagement between his small brig raised over the newly organized American army of rate-making. The Mann-Elkinr NERVOUS WOMEN Dutch West India Co., with three stripes of or and a British squadron of three large ships, was act laid down a set of rules govern F your nerves are ange, white and blue; the United States of Neth at Washington's headquarters in Cambridge. In called by the congressional committee to design the correspondence of that day It was referred Ing through routes and rates, swltct I frayed and you erlands, with six stripes of red, white and blue, a flag, and It was his idea to hold the number connections, long and short haul: feel despondent, if you and the Rotterdam flag of green and white to as the "American colors." It Is interesting of red and white stripes to 13 for the original 13 fff*1 suffer from periodic to note that although these American colors (providing that there shall be no dis stripes. states and to add a star to the union for each crimination against the short hauls pains or weakening were used six months before the Declaration of (“whites”). The English East India company finally crowd new state admitted. / j In favor of the traffic for long dis drains ed the Dutch out of sea trade and this company Independence, they still carried the British union On May 18, 1818, the navy commissioners Is turn to the right Jack in the corner. The thirteen united colonies tances). general freight classifications medicine. Dr. Pierce’s brought a new flag to America, a nine or ten- sued an order, placing the stars in accordance and a host of other matters. Then, were depicted by the thirteen stripes of the field. with the navy custom, in parallel horizontal rows Favorite Prescrip striped banner of alternating red and white tn 1917, and again in 1920 when the tion has been helping stripes, with a small St. George’s cross of red No flag was authorized by act of congress un and with the stars on the second and fourth transportation act was passed, more women for the oast 60 years. Here is In the upper corner next to the staff. One of til nearly a year after the Declaration of Inde rows moved to the right, one-half of a star’s power was given. Between these two the experience of Miss Edna Frith era sen et pendence. That the “grand union" flag was lit space. The order was signed by Commodore John 702 No. 22nd St.. BiUInga, Moot. : “Every the variations In this flag was a pine tree or laws, there was very little left which th in* got on my nerve», I never felt Uka tle used In the army Is seen from the many flags globe, representing the New world, in the upper Rogers, president of the navy commissioners. the railroads could call their own. eiting. did not rest well tt night and w»» left quarter of the union, formed by the arms of other designs carried by the Revolutionary Six months later, he Issued a change In the depressed all the while. I «tarted to tue Dr. ar- For example, If the commission con Pierce’« Favorite Pre»cription and It toned troops. In the navy, on account of the necessity rangement of the stars, approved by the Presi np my entire Syrian, Improved my appétit« of the St George cross. In some flags of this siders that conditions warrant It, an period, the pine tree replaced the St. George of telling a friend from a foe by his colors, the dent. Tills order required that the stars be ar- and overcame that nervous condition." order may be issued causing one car WHia u cross entirely. same flag was generally used by all congress ranged In vertical and horizontal parallel Dr. Plan«'» OtaU, BafaU, rows. rler to transfer some of Its equip A Y- fee free aadlaal advia*. With the Revolution, the struggling colonists ships. The act of 1818 gave the fixed rule of adding In 1775, It was usually t|ie pine tree flag; In ment to another for use,, Of course, wanted something different from a British flag, a new star on the Fourth of July next succeed the user pays a rental, but the com and the pine tree and rattlesnake emblems ap 1776, and until June 14, 1777, the grand union, ing the admission of the state, but made no state Share Alike and after June 14, 1777, the Stars and Stripes. ment as to the exact arrangement of the stars mission’s order can hardly be defeated. peared ; also the legend “Liberty and Union” on It can tell a carrier when it has Smith got married. The evening of a plain fly of red. Then came the Stars and Privateers carried striped and rattlesnake flags and this has been a matter with which the Navy his first pay-day he gave his bride $14 of various designs but it soon became necessary department has been chiefly concerned. enough equipment such as locomo Stripes. When Washington left Philadelphia in tives. or it can say its supply of of the $15 salary and kept only a dol 1775, to take command of the army at Cam to carry a uniform design, and this forced the This is because the navy flies the Union alone lar for himself. adoption of a national flag. This is why the without the stripes In the bow of ships. The rolling stock Is Insufficient and it must bridge, he was escorted out of the city by the buy more, and it can and does lay But the second pay-day Smith gave Philadelphia Troop of Light Horse as far as resolution for the adoption of the stars and navy has attended to details as to proportions down the rules under which it may bis wife $1 and kept $14 himself. Newark, N. J. The guidon of this troop was of stripes appeared In the minutes of the marine and design of the flag and still Issues to all de sell bonds or other securities with “Why, John," she cried in injured yellow silk and carried In Its upper corner, next committee meeting of June 14, 1777. - partments, blueprints of changes, after approval which to obtain funds for financing Us tone*. "How on earth do yon think to the staff, a small union of 13 stripes of silver by the President In recent years army and navy Because green was such a prominent color In requirements. I can manege for a whole week on a and light blue. early Revolutionary war flags, It wonld not have have agreed on changes. In 1834, the army pre paltry dollar T Stars first figured tn the union of a flag car scribed the Stars and Stripes to replace its gar- In addition to all of these, the com been at all surprising If that color had found Its mission was directed by the trans "Darned If I know," he answered. ried in 1775 on the schooner Lee by Captain Man- way Into the national emblem. One of the most risen flag then tn use. “I had a rotten time myeelf last week. Until 1912 there was some confusion as to portation act to prejmre a plan for ley, a Massachusetts skipper, whose ship operat striking flags of the Revolution was a flag with It's your turn now."—Montreal Ga the proper distribution of the 48 stars In the consolidation as soon as possible of ed as one of Commodore Hopkins’ squadron and green fly and a union of 13 links In an endless zette. captured the Nancy with supplies for the Brit chain. Outside the circle of links was a circle of blue field. On October 26, 1912, this matter was all railroad properties In the United definitely settled by the executive order of Pres States Into a "a limited number of ish Bi-ray November 19, 1775. Thirteen stars on 13 hands or mailed fists emerging from clouds Mark« a blue canton formed the union of Its flag. They and grasping the links. In the center of the ident Taft that the stars were to he arranged systems." At the same time,' the rail In six rows of eight each, symbolizing the 48 roads are authorized to accomplish “I have some wonderful Ideas," said were arranged in five horizontal, parallel rows chain was a pine tree of green on a bine field. the home town friend, "but they re and were five-pointed. In the blue fly of the This was the flag of the Newburyport (Mass.) states in the order of their ratification. (Thus such consolidations notwithstanding If you wish to know which star represents your the statutes prohibiting formation of quire money for their development" flag was a white anchor with the word “Hope” company. Green was also the color of the pine “That’s the trouble these days,* above It. This design was carried by Rhode Is tree and liberty tree flags of Revolutionary days. state In the flag, remember what was Its num “trusts." ber in the order of admission to the Union, then said Senator Sorghum. “Every time land troops at Brandywine, Trenton and York In April, 1776, the Massachusetts council pre The commission has prepared such you show a statesman an Idea that begin counting from the upper corner next to a plan. It proposes to have only four town, but the stars were of gilt on a light bln« scribed green and white as the uniform of offi the staff and the star which comes on the num carries a dollar mark he rubs it oat cajiton. cers In their sea service, and in the same year major rail systems In the eastern half and puts in a question mark.” Following the early use of the English ensign ber corresponding to the number In the order of of the country. But the carriers have the marine committee of the Continental con admission to the Union will be the star of your which carried the St. George's cross In the canton gress In Philadelphia resolved that the uniform not rushed In to sign up. They have state.) WNU—X there came Into use In the colonies In the Elgbt- of marine officers be a green coat, white walst- (C br Waatarn Nawapaper Union.) found a lot of things they do not like about the program. C. 1111, We/rtern N«w»p»p«r Union.
