The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
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The Portia club will be guests at
picnic and outdoor banquet at Vine
wood park Friday afternoon and even
ing, June "a, given by their husbands
who are organized into the Bassanio
club. The men will provide the enter
tainment for the afternoon and the
banquet for o'clock in the evening.
This will close the years meetings of
the club.
The Alta Vista club had an all day
meeting and picnic Thursday at the
home Of Mrs. F. P. MacLennan, Cedar
crest. The Thursday session is the
last meeting of the club for this sea-
son. The following officers were elect
ed for the coming year: Mrs. T. F.
Doran. president; Mrs. T. j. Hankla,
vice president, and Mrs D. E. Esterly,
secretary.
The West Side Forestry club will
meet Thursday, June 80, with Mrs. o.
E. Walker.
hold its last meeting for the year Fri
day afternoon at the home of Mrs. w.
w. Smith, at Belleview Place.
The Golden Rule club will have their
field day and last meeting of the sea-
son Friday. the 24th. at the home Of
Mrs. M. T. Nelson, $50 Taylor street.
There is to be a picnic dinner and a
social meeting.
Extract from address Of Mrs L. NJ
Sherman, president Lincoln Circle No
1 of the Ladies of the Grand Army of
the Republic, given at Garfield park on
Flag day, June A. 1910:
1.-THE origin and progress of the flags
of the different nations is a very in
inc fuv6v To- I,
word flag is synonymous with stand
ard banner ensign or 'colors' From
time immemorial the nations have
displayed banners so as to indicate by
symbols their nationality, rank, party
or opinion.
'In the most primitives times each
party bore a bundle of hay tied to a
pole. Later they had metallic emblems
Indicating sentiment of strength CT
valor. When the Hebrews went up out
of Egypt they were marshalled under
distinctive banners, according to ira
dition; the four leading tribes, Reuben,
Ephriam, Judah and Dan, bore as de-
vices respectively man, an OK, lion
and an eagle.
1.-The origin and adoption of our
own beautiful banner is what we will
consider today, and in so doing we will
realize more than ever before that the
wisdom of our ancestors came from the
God they trusted, for surely they
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after using several different designs,
they settled upon the Stars and Stripes
as representing both in colors and form
the principles upon which this republic
was founded.
Congress resolved on June IA, TIT,
that the flag of the United States be
thirteen stripes, alternate red and
white; that the Union be thirteen stars
white in field of blue, representing
a new constellation; this is the first
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a national flag; it is not known by
whom the stars were suggested. The
thirteen stars of the flag of 1777 were
arranged in circle, although no form
was prescribed officially. The flag thus
adopted remained unchanged until 1894.
when on motion of Senator Bradley, Of
Vermont (Which state, with Kentucky
had been admitted into the Union), 1T
was resolved that from May ], 17S5'
THE flag of the United States be fifteen
stripes alternate red and white and
that the union be fifteen stars, white in
a blue field
This was the flag used in the war
Of 1924. The act made no provision
for future states. In 1916 on the adj
mission lof Indiana, a committee was
pediency of altering the flag. A bill
was reported January 2, 1917, but was
not acted upon; this bill recommended
the reduction of the stripes to the
original thirteen and the adoption 81
stars equal to the number of the states
formed into one large star, and new
star to be added on the 4th of July next
succeeding the admission OF each new
state.
ION April A. 1918. a bill embodying
these suggestions, with the exception
of that designating the manner OF ar
ranging the stars was approved by the
president and on the 18th of the same
month the flag thus established was
at Washington.
"This in brief is a history Of our
beautiful Star Spangled Banner adopt
ed by the Continental congress June
the 14th, 1777, 1873 years ago today. But
II was Il years in attaining its present
form, the final arrangement of the
stars being agreed upon April 4, 1878"