The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-16

Yesterday the flag celebrated It's one hundred and forty-fifth birthday anniversary Of the day when John Adams introduced in Congress a res oIution making tn eflag we now, but with only IS stars, the flag of the United States.
 It is a first-class flag, and ever since it was put up it has stayed up. It has not attacked others wan tonly. nor failed to defend itself from attack.
 It has attended to its own business and let other peoples business alone for 145 years May it do the same for 145 years to come. and then for 10 times that length of time
 How many stars will be in that flag of Stars and Stripes 10000 years from now?
 Ten thousand years is less than minute in the life of the world and the probable life of the human race
 Will the days of 10000 years hence sec on this earth one flag for all the world and all the peoples melted into one? Or will 1t still find us, as we are now, separately struggling, separately and selfishly accumulat- ing. violently interested in the fact that scientists have dug up gold coins made by Croesus 400 years ago, and more interested in gold coin than in anything else?
 While celebrating the birthday of sfhe Stars and Stripes and the dis icovery of gold coins made by Croeaus 1t would not be a bad idea to recall Colons warning to that Esame Croesus on the dangers of too much prosperity. We have the pros- perity. and enjoy 1t; we do not see ahe dangers.
 Advertising clubs of the world gathered at Milwaukee represent most important work-Distributio We know how to make what we want in factories. how to raise it out of the ground. how to pile 1t up on shelves of libraries. The great problem in now to Distribute it, how to get water from oceans and lakes onto dry land. knowledge from books Into mems minds. goods from the factories into mems hands. food from farms Into mems stomachs.
 Advertising is the handspring of distribution. First to have what people want, and then to let them know you have it. then to force dis tribution by creating demand.
 Once the man in business hunted for store where crowds would pass and thousands see his window. That is old, out of date. Now he To- cates himself where he pleases. and puts his announcement in real show window, which fs the advertising page. the window that millions pass ,-And study.
 Jewish union bakers in New Fork. fighting employers, started their own shop and sold bread cheap. Were they applauded for selling bread cheap? Not exactly. Twenty-seyen of them have been indicted accused of selling below cost, to drive out competition.
 Nobody was indicted for selling bread or sugar or anything else at extortionately high prices. But when union bakers get together to cut the price of bread, that's another matter 1 It is all legal, of course. but 1t puzzles you little.
 Now the turn of the men with | white collars. The clerks of the ,ratlroads are to have their pay cut down and about 0,000, ,000 more will be saved for railroad owners. It is easy enough to cut down what work CTS get from the railroads. You will | find 1t harder when it comes to cut ting down what the railroads get l from the public.
 One lawyer, it seems, can do what l the supreme court can't do. The SUI spreme court said 1t hadn't power to | stop gambling in futures in grain, | sold by men that haven't got it and | bought by men that never get it. The icurb exchange in New York was gambling in stocks not issued-an 'unharvested crop, as 1t were. sam iuel Untermyer said to that stock ex- change crowd: tIf 1t doesn't stop | I will put you in jail" and they | stopped. It depends a good deal on | how you say it. constitution or no constitution.