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 <h:,y plicated beyond Einstein’s theory. the bîq new senting a new constellation.” Thus v:'; -- “The commission has Jurisdiction,” It was that the new emblem of the A v. It reads, “upon complaint, or in a pro Dodcje Six shoots nation came Into official existence; ceedlng Instituted upon Us own initia thus If was that the Stars and Stripes live, and after full hearing, to deter were born. mine and prescribe reasonable rates ahead in traffic But, contrary to the belief of many Ameri­ coat and breeches edged with green. Green was I the color of the early Revolutionary cavalry’s regulations and practices. Including cans, this does not mean that our national ban­ uniform, Marion's riders wearing the Roman­ minimum, and maximum and mini­ its always in i ner sprang full-grown Into being front the brain esque helmet of the French dragoons and cuiras­ mum, rates; and also minimum, and of one man or one group of men on that June siers, and a green, skirted tunic with white re- maximum and minimum, proportional day 156 years ago. The truth is that onr flag, rates to and from ports, and to award front and qets qou like so many other American institutions and 3 vçrs similar to that of the French guides cav­ alry, whose uniform the first Napoleon was some­ reparations to injured shippers. ... It symbols, developed by a gradual evolution and ’-j [? Is authorized to require carriers to there quicker derived its Inspiration from sources as varied what partial to, wearing it quite frequently. The .•j Culpepper Minute Men wore green hunting shirts establish through routes and Joint as the strains of blood which have been fused . rates, and It may act summarily in • It’s fun to drive a car that’s so Into making "the typical American.” and the standard of the Georgia Rangers In the latter part of the war carried green and white Itself establishing through routes when, In its opinion, an emergency far ahead of others—in perform­ The real origin of our 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.