The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-19

for the nrst time over . foreign fort ress' Fort Nassau--Provfdence and Ba- hama Islands. Its first trip around the world was on the ship "coiumbfa, commanded by Captains Kendrick and Gray. which cleared Boston, September 30, 17sT. and was three years girdlag the globe--Novembe 6. 1867. the nag was first unfuried over Alaska and in 1898. over the Philippines. Cuba. Porto Rico. and officially over Hawaii
 Vermont and Kentucky having been added to the Union. in January 10. 17e4. Congress enacted that from ana after the first day of May. 17ss, the flag of the United States be fifteen stripes. alternate red and white. that the union be fifteen stars. white In blue field. This was the national ban ner from 1795 to 1918, and included the war of 1872, with Great Britain.
 Indiana. Ohio. Tennessee. Louisiana and Mississippi being admitted later. change was again deemed necessary: After considerable discussion In Con- gress. an Act was passed, March 2f. 1878 and approved by President Mon- roe. April {. 1918. as follows:
 Section l. Be it enacted that from and after the fourth day of July next. the flag of the United States be thir- tc0n nOIi1OHlal 4elIlpGos AitEAh0tO tGa and white, that the union have twenty stars, white in blue field.
 Section II. And be 1t further enact ed that on the admission of every new State into the Union. one star be added to the union of the flag. and that such addition shall take effect on the 4th day of July, next succeeding such ad- mission"
 To Captain Samuel Chester Reid of the United States Navy. who so heroic ally commanded the famous brig of war General Armstrong" at Fayals Roads. Azores Islands in 1874, belongs the honor of restoring to the flag. the original design of Washington. Pre- vious to February 21. ls6S, all Am erican flags were made of English bunting, now they are of our domestic fabrics. The American Patriotic Sa- iute was introduced to our public schools in 1891. by the efforts of Col onel George T. Balch, retired oficer of the United States Army. ais follows:
 We give our heads and our hearts to God and our Country: one Country, one Language. one Flag"
 The children that are to be the men and women of the next generation. will know its history, will reverence it's mission, and direct its destiny. Patri- otic men canpot be produced in homes and schools where patriotic women are unknown quantities. There is the specialization of a lofty sentiment--s Heaven guided impulse in the metre chosen by Kate Bronlee Sherwood in her song, Salute Old Gloryw dedicated to ten million little American citizens, that 1t might be adapted to the time Of Dixie" The blood of the South. studded it with many of its stars. The hope of the Nation is it's public schools; the emblem of the Nation, the Flag; Let the two be unitedi
 Aid the dawning tongue and pen;
 "Aid its hopes Of honest men:
 Aid 1t paper-aid it type
 Aid 1t for the hour is ripe
 Let us pause reverent1y. while r quote the words of Stonewa1l Jackson. a great educator and a Soldier of the Cross of Calvary. as we'll as the Cross of the furled banner of his native land. It was reprimand to one of his of- hcers for indignities offered the Star Spangled Banner
 ''The soldier who resented your in- suit to the Stars and Stripes was born under it's folds and his father be- fore him. He still retains a respect and affection for it. and an officer of higher appreciation of the sentiment of our people. than you appear to have by trailing the Stars and Stripes In the dust. is not dt to be on my stan"
 As the holy sister Of Percivale, caught the first gleam of the Holy Grail and revealed to him and Sir Gala had, the purest of King Arthur's Table wondrous vision of it's new mission, would for all true woman hood bid the knights of later nobler circle follow the radiance that beacons ( Ax1H rlA entA a younger day" It is the apoth eosis of | "Old Glory" England upon ' whose l widening empire the sun never sets. has emblazoned upon her proud stan | dard of St. George and the Dragon. the | crosses of St. Andrew and St. Patrick. l She has placed on her royal escutcheon | 'Srhe harp that once through Tara's | halls told in minstrelsy the deeds of | Erin's heroes. and recognizes the ern- | blem of Scottish courage and indepen- dence as her own. It Is not therefore | the dream of an enthusiast, when we | cast the horoscope of the Star Spangl- | ed Banner. Having lifted from the | dust and mould the Conquered Ban | ner," .brotherly hands will set it's bon- | ny Southern Cross in wonder fields of | blue, encircled in loving embrace by | the sisterhood of stars. the thirteen l stripes being 0 common heritage.
 Then indeed will old Glory be trans figured. and it's God-guided destiny | will be written in It's stripes of red, eternal dyed with |
 heart streams of all lands; It's white, the snow-capped hills, that |
 hide in storm their upraised hands; | It's blue. the ocean waves that beat |
 round freedoms circled shore; It's stars. the print of angels feet that |
 burn forevermore.