The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-06-19
THE STARS AND sTRTPEs.

THE STARS AND STRIPES.
While many patriotic Sunday the ami
Of the birth of the Stars and Stripes the flag itself was
The creation day NOR Of The sses nag
the twelfth century nearly six hundred years prior to the hs
During the first crusade 1876 Pope assigned all Of
Christian standards varying color and de-
the troops assigned satire the white
Of St Andrew on blue field The British used yellow cross
field known as the red cross Of St George
vi of Scotland assembled the throne of England
James combined the flags issued proclamation
qng all ships to the flag at their main masts AT che
the red st George and the ships OF north Britain to
carry the white cross Of St Andrew. i
King Coors " the Union Colors "
the Great Union and later the Union Jack and was the
in America the flag Of Great Britain only
however not until 1907 did parliament act definitely unit
regulations requiring the what known
the white ensign the Naval Reserve the blue ensign and the
merchant vessels everywhere the coonist America came to
look upon this red ensign the flag of Great Britain
people colonies bitterly opposed to
the the flag In 1886 of the troops in Massachusetts
this flag and the military
were forced to design flags troops with
The design they adopted has not been preserved In 1862
pine stamped side Of it The pine design
used New England flags certainly by lo4 and possibly early
AT the outbreak Of the revolution the had
flag to all of them In the merchant marine flag
England pine substituted
Jack Massachusetts adopted the pine white field
States had the raesnake flag with the motto Don't Tread
Me- on white yellow field This flag had been used BY South
device the that the rattnake found only
America and that emblems considered by ancents
In September 77 there displayed South what by
believed to be the first disnctively American flag
blue with white and matched the dress of the troops who
wore caps Inscribed Liberty OF death
The coonsts desired to adopt ag but they had
declared Independence and not at first seeking independence
flag by dividing the red field with white stripes thirteen
nate red and white stripes This is known the Cambridge flag
because first unured Washington headquarters at Cam
bridge Massachusetts, January 176 complied with the law
Of 1907 by having the Union Jack also represented the r
teen colonies by the thirteen stripes .tt
As the coonsts gradually became converted the idea that
pendence from the mother country necessary they
modify the fag first by leaving off the Union Jack and using only
the thirteen horizontal stripes The modified flags
red and white but regularly consisted Of combinations of
selected from white blue yellow. modification
field ... ,s '-
The stars are the only distinctive feature of the American flag
The charming story which credits Betsy Ross with making
flag of stars and stripes still accepted historians
suggested the pointed
which eponted star could be made by folding piece
and producing with single clip of the scissors
of the opinion that both and stripes in flag derived
generally held w.. 5.t.. ,gs'
The official adoption flag 177 On June IA of
flag Of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes
and white that the union be thirteen white field
representing new The thirteen stars arranged
IN circle symbolic the perpetuity of the States
Vermont admitted the Union in 1871 and Kentucky
It felt that these two States ought be recognized
nag 50 IN 1924 congress passed act making the flag fifteen
and fifteen stripes 4
This flag United States throughout the war Of
1872 until there In 1916 an effort
made modify the flag the would
be represented it. To be continually adding
the flag awkward shape arguing the
matter for two years decided to return to the %
stripes and star for Congress never de-
mined the of the the shape proportions
OF the flag and there has been variation especially
ing OF the stars There still many who believe symbolic
circular grouping Of stars should be restored
A LESSON FROM MOROCCO
One Of the first things that General autey the French