Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-05-07

stars. was placed the Union Jack Of
England. This was the laG that
washington raised July. 1776, over his
camp at Cambridge. OF It he says:
p, I'VE n9's It ths 1n!en isI N com,
saluted it with Is slns." This is the
that John Paul Jones hoisted not
over the Bonhomme Richard. but
over his first naval ship, the Ranger.
For an armed vessel without an au-
thortzed nag p everywhere considered
Ia pirate.
This Starr Farst APPEAR.
This dag. bearing the British Union
Jack, was not altered until the Dec-
laration Of Indspepdencs. nearly M
year later: The Union Jack was at
star on an sur ground. It vas not
until July IL, 1777, that congress re.
placed the single star by the cenetella-
ton Of Is stars.
The treaty of Paris. 1888, by which
Great Britain acknowledged each one
OF these thirteen colonies by name. to
state. admitted this, our national flaR.
to h august company Of the historic
banners of the old world. There is
today but one of those great banners.
older than ours. This one 10 the white
cross. on a field Of rcd that represents
SAAo IT9o AEASAD ~ RW{tRo
erland.
Note that it was our successful
revolution. that has altered ali those
banners.
Let us never forget the debt the
Whole world owes to those l8 colonies.
Ihose thirteen stripes. stand to
Europe and the world as the sign and
token OF a free people requiring Of
tnelr government a charter Of liberty.
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er OF rulers and reserving to them.
selves al n powers not srantsd to
those rulers. The colonies refused to
radfy their constitution until the bill
OF rights was embodied in the first ten
amendments. And every state with
out exception, repeats in her own oon-
sutution, this guarantee of the per.
sonal, religious and intellectual tree.
dom of man.
The Stripes for Freedom.
The first European government that
written constitution. was France. one
after another during the nineteenth
century. he peoples Of Europe have
claimed OF their governments. restrfc-
tons upon autocratic rule. Even
China has now Joined the ranks OF
Democracy. You will see no more the
banner representing a great dragon
on a yellow held. the nag Of that anci-
people, but an ultra modern nag,
with five stripes, representing the ave
great provinces Of China.
The neft to Join the great company
OF the flags Of free people is Russia.
As each country has acquired repre-
s%entation and a written constitution,
the stripes that now stand for poltti-
cal freedom. are placed upon the mar.
her three vertical stripes, the tri-color
and most, Of the monarchies have
adopted these three stripes. in honor
OF the French revolution. The Amer
lean republics prefer the horizontal
stripes Of the greatest Of American re-
publics. Wherever the banner bears
those stripes they stand for political
The nag Of Switzerland dates from
the seventeenth century. The Red
Cross society was formed at an inter
national convention held in Geneva.
1868; IN compliment to Switzerland,
tne society a9eptsd. the Swiss nag with
colors interchanged.
Our Seal and oqas ae.ArnsL
Late in the afternoon Of July 18th,
It's the Continental Congress ERE
solved. that Dr.. Franklin. MI. J.
Adams and Mr.. Thomas J~ferson,"
this being the same COMMITTEES, except
for the omission Of Robert IIvineston
and Roger Sherman which had drawn
up the Declaration Of Independence.
complete the evidences Of the inde.
pendence Of the United States by de-
signing an omciaI Sign Of Sovereignty
a National Coat Of Arms"
~ was intended that the device for
the seal should be the device for the
succeeding COMMITTEES having the
business in charge, construed its duty
to be to devise the arms by devtsine
the seal. In making the two identical
the prevailing custom was observed.
TOR seals are deemed proof Of the
eoats OF arms Of the states or indi-
history Of the seal Of tho United
states.)
Arthur Lee, Of Virginia. brother Of
Francis Henry Lee. who had offered
the resolution of independence in
congress, and Silas Deane Of Copnecti-
y were sent as financial and politi-
cal agents to France. They complain.
60 OF tn informality and Improperly
without a seal to authenticate their
onicial acts. The committee Of the
seal round 1t difficult to agree upon a
design. at once simple and appropri-
ate.
Ben Franklin Opposed Eagle.
DR.. Franklin was never able to re-.
sign himself to the adoption Of the
bald-headed eagle. which he declared
to DO a bird of had moral character"
The turkey, he declared was absolute.
ly American and a much more attrao-
tive bird. He had: evidently never
heard the expression ito run like q
turkey"
The personnel Of the committee Of
the seal changed several times. The
cause Of the delay in securing a prop
er design was the lack Of precedent.
The arms Of a kingdom ars nearly al
ways those OF the sovereign or his
family. They are in their nature per-
sonal. 1t IL a mistake to think that
the committee even for 4 momnt, con.
t%enplated adopting Of the arms Of
Washington. Jefferson was hercely
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