The Coconino sun., 1924-06-13
FIVE FLAG DAY PROGRAMS.
WITH FLAGS FOR SCOUTS.
AND CASH FOR STUDENTS

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interesting program given under the
auspices of the Flagstaff Elks lodge.
All the other local fraternal organiza-
tions and the American Legion, Wo-
mans club, Normal and ST. Anthouy's S
schools, Spanish War Veterans, jun
Tor Chamber of Commerce and Ro-
tary club have been asked to Join the
Elks in making the attendance COM
pIete and impressive and the whole
affair the success it should be.
The program begins at 1880. It IN
cludes:
Instrumental music.
Invocation, Rev. H. F. Softley.
Song by Boy Scouts.
Elks' Flag Day, by Henry L. AL
bers, exaulted ruler Flagstaff Elk
| lodge.
Address by Henderson Stockton Of
Phoenix.
Vocal solo, by Tom o. Bellwood.
Presentation by County Attorney
Frank Harrison on behalf of Elks of
prizes to winners in Flag Day essay
contest; also presentation of flags to
school districts that participated 100
per cent in the contest. Prizes are
i $40 and SIS for first and second best
essays submitted by pupils of sixth,
seventh and eighth grades of county
schools. Like prizes for first and
second best essays by pupils of high
schools. The schools whose eligible
pupils competed 100 per cent in the
essay contest and which will receive
flags, are: Garland Prairie, Maine,
] Onk nlx
and, perhaps, Winona. Judges in es-
say contest: Rev. H. F. Softley, L. B.
McMullen, Mrs. Charlotte S. Acker.
There were more than sixty essays
submitted. sa4..e 4s
Presentation by NJ, j. Powers on be-
half of Elks lodge Of flags to Elks
troop boy scouts. These include an
American flag, boy scout flag and
.pennants. All scouts Of Elks troop
are urgently requested to be ON hand.
Singing of America, by all.
Benediction by Rev. George Vernon
Harris.
The Elks committee in charge of
the program: Henry Albers, Loren
w. Cress, C. M. Archer, Tommy
Long, Secretary Tom L. Rees.
In this connection the following
paper on the American flag, read on
Tuesday by Judge F. w. Perkins be-
fore the Flagstaff Rotary club, will
be of more interest than usual. Judge
Perkins said in part:
The United States Flag
In general, flag is design, usu-
ally in color, symbolizing authority
or ownership, made of flexible mater
| ial, as cloth, so as to wave In the air.
It's origin goes back to remote antiqu-
ity.
! Prior to the War of the Revolution
the flag generally used in the Ameri-
can colonies was that of Great Britain,
though at different times, in different
colonies, minor variations were intro
duced, and distinctive emblems were
occasionally used, for instance, as far
back as 1851 one bore the device Of a
rattlesnake, and later it appeared in
Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette in
the form of a severed snake, whose
parts were identified by the initials
of thirteen colonies, with the motto,
"Unite or DIE" and used to represent
the union of the colonies to resist
French and Indian invasions.
On January 2, 1776, the Great
Union flag was unfurled at General
Washington's camp on Prospect Hill,
Cambridge, Mass. The solid red OF
the British flag was replaced by 10
stripes with the union Of the British
union jack. This flag was generally
used until June ID, 1777, when the Nar
tional flag was adopted. 1t was a
modification of the Great Union flag.
On that day congress resolved, That
the flag Of the 13 United States be
thirteen stripes, alternated red and
white; that the union be thirteen stars,
white in blue field, representing a
new constellation. 3
General Washington was in Phila
delphia in June, 1T77, and he is said
to have engaged Mrs. John. Ross 80
Arch street, affectionately called
"Betty Ross" to make the first ma
tional flag. Though this is not abs
solutely certain, tradition claims that
she made the first stars and stripes.
and the claim is not without historical
support.
In January, 1894, two states were
admitted, Vermont and Kentucky. and
congress increased the number Of both
stars and stripes by two, making Is
Of each.
The next change was made by CON
gress in 1918, when five states were
admitted, Tennessee, Ohio, LouiBianas
Indiana and Mississippi. The 13I
original stripes were restored, and the
stars were Increased to 20, and pro-
vision was made for adding a new
star for each new. state admitted, the
addition to be on the Fourth Of July,
The last two tars added were for New
Mexico and Arizona, iii 1912, and
making rs stars in ail.
In 1914 congress designated the
second Sunday in May as Mothers
day, and made it tie duty of the
president to issue each year a procla.
nation requiring all government Of
ficials to display the United States