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charities, led off campaigns for the
relief of victims of fire, flood, war,
and unemployment. Always in his
mind, however, there lurked de-
sire to do something for America
in big way. The incident at San
Antonio was his inspiration. A
great reader of our history, he
knew Tor if he didn't, he looked II
up) that June IA was the day on
which congress accepted Betsy
Ross flag. Then, with the same
spirit and gusto that had put over
charitable campaigns, he started
his drive to interest the nation In
its flag. He began on st. Louis.
He promised to give fine flag to
any institution which would for
mally observe Flag day on the four
teenth. The Second Presbyterian
church Of St Louis was the first to
respond-in 1911. Other churches,
synagogues, and schools fell in
line. Mr.. Altheimer soon had to go
ihho Tic hoS-PuICudSlDS anu pre-
senting business on big scale. with
secretaries and others helping him
to meet the demand. Since he was
retired from banking, he could give
all of his time to it. In 1912 st.
Louis, as municipality, celebrated
Flag day. Flags were everywhere.
All traffic stopped for a full min
ute at given time. Mr. Altheimer
was happy. He was happier yet
when, In 1917, he got to President
Wilson in person, and Flag day was
made national occasion. In 1927,
the one-hundred-and-fif ami
versary Of the adoption of the flag.
the United States Flag association
invited Mr.. Altheimer, along with
Lindbergh, to attend its celebration
in Washington. He couldn't go,
because Of illness, but the associa-
ton sent him a cross of honor and
a citation, signed by Coolidge, ''for
having planted the true apprecia
ton of the flag in the hearts of the
American people"
Q b. Western Newspaper Union
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holiday in honor of the discovery
of America. Delegated to write
proclamation as part of the orig
inal ceremony, Bellamy produced a
27-word pledge that stood the test
of time.
Chief among the leaders of the
movement" said Mrs. Bellamy,
were President Harrison, James B.
Upham, publisher; William T. Har-
riS. federal commissioner of educa-
ton; and Mr.. Bellamy, a member
of the editorial staff of the Youths
Companion.
"Mr. Upham conceived the idea
of a revival of patriotism at time
when material things occupied the
attention of most people. His first
plan was to place an American flag
over every schoolhouse. AS a re-
suit, $4,000 flags waved on as many
school buildings.
The movement did not stop
there. The Worlds Columbian ex-
position at Chicago was conceived,
built and dedicated as a monument
on the anniversary of Columbus
landing. Still the patriots were
not satisfied. They said the expo
sition was devoted solely to indus
tries. The big idea was lost sight
of, they believed They wanted
to bring patriotism to the people
in a way that would never be for
gotten.
Then the suggestion was adopt
ed for a national holiday. CON-
mittees were formed, public men
were interviewed. This handful of
men virtually consecrated their
lives to the task of obtaining gov
ernmental recognition of Columbus
day.
MIR. Bellamy saw congressman,
senators and others in the public
eye. He interviewed President
Harrison and Grover Cleveland
among others.
Afterwards he aroused interest
among congressman by inducing
them to give interviews endorsing
the project, to newspapers. 1t
wasn't long before senate and
house passed joint resolution CIV
ing the President authority to pro-
claim the holiday. with standard
exercises in public schools.
AT last everything was COM
pleted except the opening proclama-
ton. The secretary of state asked
Mr.. Bellamy TO do that Mr.. Bell.
amy nominated Mr.. Upham, but the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08
Artistic Points
in Summer Home
Quaint Decoration Made
of Wood Straight
From Trees.

A certain crudity of decoration Is
needed in summer cottages which
have no plaster. There are also
some substantial summer nouses in
which simplicity is cOurted even to
the verge of crudity. Those who en-
Joy summering in cottages of this
sort should keep in mind the ingeni-
Gus devices they have seen, for they
may prove helpful. The ideas pre-
scented today are fascinating in their
development and have proved prac-
teal
To suit the decoration to the dwell
ing, and instill artistic touches
through simplicity requires an appre-
citation of beauty in nature and a
power to convert natural elements
into ornamental accessories and fur
nishings. In old settler days 1t was
by virtue of necessity that beauty
was wrested from things which were
at hand Today no such necessity
stalks, so 1t Is the pleasure of exer-
cising ones own ingenuity, or the
devise unusual ways and means to
produce these effects.
The quick eye of one trained camp
er discovered good use Tor small
bent branches. He converted them
into door handles in lieu of knobs.
He selected small bent branches
which formed acute or right angles.
The ends of each naturally bent
branch he sawed so that they would
fit against the door, and then he
of these handles were larger than
others, none of them were duplicates
In shape nor had the precise angle
of others. 1t was partly this variety
which made them intriguing. All
were of sufficiently smooth bark to
remain in their natural state and be
congenial to the hand.
Before leaving the subject OF
branches In decoration, let me tell
you of very old little bedside stand
which 1 delight in. A small tree
trunk forms the standard and the
legs consist Of four branches which
all separate from this trunk at the
same place. / often think Of the Joy
with which the maker must have
espied this tree with its four fork
ing branches, or with what pleasure
he watched the sapling grow until 1t
was just the right size to be used
for the tree trunk. This table was
made long years ago, by Plymouth
settler folk.
A modern ingenious use of white
birch saplings is found in one coun-
try farm house decorated in old-time
simplicity. Each window in the liv-
ing and also the dining room has one
straight white birch sapling for q
curtain rod. The curtain rings are
small cross sections of birch trees
with the centers followed out and
smoothed. The wood at the sides
between the hole and the birchbark
outside is painted to suit the color
scheme Of the room. The rings do
not slide easily, to be sure, but then
the quaint textile hangings are for
ornament, not use, as is generally the
case.
@. Bell Syndicats.-wNU Service.
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which we honor and under which
we serve is the emblem of our
unity, our power. our thought and
purpose as a nation. II is
fitting that we celebrate the day
of its birth; and from its birth un-
til now 1t has witnessed a great
history, has floated on high the
symbol of great events, of a great
plan Of life worked out by a great
people"
On Flag day In 1914, Franklin
Z. Lane, secretary of the interior
in President Wilson's cabinet,
speaking before employees of his
department, delivered eulogy
which has become something of a
classic in the literature Of the flag.
1t Is the following:
THE MAKERS OF THE FLAG
This morning, as / passed into
the land Office, the flag dropped me
a most cordial salutation, and from
its ripping folds I heard 1t say:
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AOA ~ oNoANSp
one nation, indivisible, with liberty
and justice for all" 1t has been
said that 1.-The Pledge to the Flag"
has been repeated more than any
other quotation from modern lit
erature. For that reason the man
who wrote 1t and the circumstances
under which 1t was written deserve
to be remembered.
1t is singularly appropriate that
this pledge, which has been repeat
ed so many times by so many thou
sands of school children, should have
been written by a member Of the
editorial staff of the publication
which for so many years was Young
Americas favorite magazine-the
Youths Companion. Francis NJ.
Bellamy was his name, and at the
time of his death on August %,
1881, the memory Of his greatest
claim to distinction was revived
by his widow who gave an interest
ing account of the origin of the
pledge.
A little group of men, who in 1891
believed the flame of patriotism was
dying out because of momentous de-
velopments in Industrial and polit-
ical circles, sought to fan the
spark into new life," she explained.
This effort resulted in President
Benjamin Harrison proclaiming Oc-
tober II, 1892, as the first national
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safe, or brought relief to the old
soldier in Wyoming. No matter;
whichever one of these benefcent
individuals you may happen to be,
give you greeting, Mr.. Flag
Maker"
1 was about to pass on, when the
flag stopped me with these words:
Yesterday the President spoke
a word that made happier the fu-
ture of 100000 poems in Mexico;
but that act looms no larger on the
flag than the struggle which the
boy in Georgia is making to win
the corn club prize this summer.
Yesterday, the congress spoke a
word which will open the door of
Alaska; but a mother in Michigan
worked from sunrise until far into
the night to give her boy an educa-
ton. She, too. is making the flag.
Yesterday we made new law
to prevent financial panics, and yes
terday, maybe, school teacher in
Ohio taught his first letters to a
boy who will one day write a song
that will give cheer to the millions
of our race. We are all making
the flag"
But" l said impatiently, these
people were only workingw
Then came a great shout from
the flag:
THE work that we do is the max
ing of the flag.
Il am not the flag; not at all. /
am but its shadow.
Il am whatever you make me;
nothing more.
II am your belief in yourself,
your dream of what a people may
become.
Sometimes 1 am strong with
pride, when men do an honest work,
fitting the rails together truly.
Sometimes 1 droop. for then pur-
pose has gone from me, and cyni-
cally play the coward.
Sometimes 1 am loud, garish,
and full of that ego that blasts
judgment.
But always l am all that you
hope to be and have the courage
to try for.
Il am song and fear, struggle and
panic, and ennobling hope.
Il am the days work of the weak
est man and the largest dream Of
the most daring.
II am the Constitution and the
courts, statutes and the statute
makers, soldier and dreadnaught,
drayman and street sweep, cook,
counselor and clerk.
II am the battle of yesterday and
the mistake of tomorrow.
Il am the mystery of the men
who do without knowing why.
II am the clutch of an idea and
the reasoned purpose of resolution.
Il am no more than what you be-
lieve me to be and am all that you
believe that l can be.
Il am what you make me; moth
Ing more.
II swing before your eyes as a
bright CLEAN Of color. a symbol of
yourself, the pictured suggestion
Of that big thing which makes this
nation. My stars and my stripes
are your dream and your labors.
They are bright with cheer, bril-
liant with courage, firm with faith,
because you have made them so
out Of your hearts; for you are the
makers of the flag, and it is well
that you glory in the making"
n N n n - N
We owe our official celebration of
Flag day to President Woodrow
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08

The American flag has three
symbolic names-the Stars and
Stripes, the Star-Spangled Banner
and Old Glory.
The name Stars and Stripes
dates, of course, from its very be-
ginning, and is based upon the de-
scription of the banner in the flag
resolution of June IA, 1777.
The Star-Spangled Banner dates
from the War of 1872. Orators may
have called our flag by that name
before that time, but it remained
for Francis Scott Key, young
Maryland lawyer who was detained
on British warship during the
bombardment of Fort McHenry on
the night of September II, 1914, and
who saw 'by the dawn's early
light" of September 10 that our
flag was still there" to express his
joy in a poem which was later set
to music and which took the coun-
try by storm.
The name Old Glory dates from
1881. On August 10 of that year
a crowd had gathered at the
wharves of Salem, Mass, to wit
ness the departure of the brig,
Charles Daggett, which was about
to set out on a 'round-the-world
cruise. Master of the Charles Dag
gett was Capt. William Driver,
noted for his sturdy Americanism
and his deep love for his country's
flag. So his neighbOrs had brought
him a fine American flag to be
hoisted to the masthead of the
brig. When the new banner had
been run up in it's place and rip
pied in the breeze in all its beauty
of red and white and blue, Cap
tain Driver, looking aloft, had a
sudden inspiration. "rll call her
Old Glory, boys, Old Glory!" And
thus was another symbolical name
for our flag born.
- - "a p "a p
Flag day has been the inspiration
for a number of memorable tributes
to our national banner. In a Flag
day address during the World war
President Wilson said: This flag
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08
Oldest Cultivated Tree

The sacred DO tree of the Buddhists
at Anuradhapura, Ceylon, Is said 70
be the oldest cultivated tree In the
world. 1t was planted in 245 B. G..
from a shoot of the original tree. ur
der which Buddha sat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08

Good morning, Mr.. Flag Maker"
II beg your pardon, Old Glory"
said, aren't you mistaken? I am
not the President of the United
States, nor a member of congress,
nor even general in the army.
am only a government clerk"
II greet you again, Mr.. Flag
Maker" replied the gay voice; II
know you well. You are the man
who worked in the swelter of yes
terday Strengthening out the tangle
of that farmers homestead in
Idaho, or perhaps you found the
mistake in that Indian contract in
Oklahoma, or helped to clear that
patent for the hopeful inventor in
New York. or pushed the opening
of that new ditch in Colorado. or
made that mine in Illinois more
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08
M..niny Of Gold Standard"

The meaning of the term gold
standard refers to the monetary pol
icy of a nation. When government
follows the practice of redeeming its
currency in gold that country is said
to be on a gold standard.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08
Too Personal

MADAM, it would be tragedy foe
you to enter the sea-"
"Why?"
This bay lie used for whale fish,
ing"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08

1t would be great convenience to
me if some of the army of writer's now
useless would devote their time to
reading, and print collections of the
occasional good things found in novels,
essays, histories and the mass of writ
ing of every kind. l thank James
Truslow Adams for a sentiment he
lately buried in a book, and which
happened to encounter: The wisdom
of the past" he says, sis not to be
undone in the present by few tele-
phones, motor cars or radios"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

JUNE II LlOUSduUS
Of Americans will, as
a part Of the annual
celebration of Flag
day, repeat this SEN
tence: II pledge al
legiance to the flag
of the United States
and to the Republic
for which IL stands.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08
Howe About:
Women
Wives
Good Behavior
By ED HOWE
e. Bell syndicate.-wNU Service.

BY ED HOWE
THE rowing correspondent Of the
L Kansas City Star once called ON me
and said: ''The women all say you
are woman hater. How about it?" !.
/. said / wasn't, and that all the
women didn't say so. In support of
this statement, gave him a letter from
a woman in Texas, but he made no
reference to it in the two columns be
wrote about me. The woman said; 81
am barely nineteen, and have deformed
body. | am familiar with you through
the Kansas City Star, and | want TO
give the devil his due, for you are the
writer who has done me most good.
Being cripple, have a wicked and
fast temper, but you have taught me
to control it for my own benefit Your
constant teaching that one should be-
have for ones own sake, as matter of
profit, because it is finally the easiest
and best way, l have been able to
understand and practice with more
success than any other"
Early man had strong disposition
to whip his wife, and often did.
have seen picture in an old book of
an angry husband entering the house
carrying switch, and of his wife
cringing and begging for mercy, as I
did as child in the presence of an
angry father. lin this old picture,
also, is the figure of a woman evident
ly the wife's mother, who begged for
mercy, too, as my mother begged for
mercy for mel.
Wives have taken the switch from
the hands of brutal husbands. Men
have granted equal rights, but the
women are still screaming as though
regularly whipped. Men of today sub
NIT to the gross absurdity of police
women, stateswomen, but the women
are as busy as ever In telling of wrongs
long since remedied.
As far back as the time Of Silerius
women insisted on rights that were
actually wrongs. Silerius in his
memoirs tells of one of his wives GO
ing bare-legged, although she was of
considerable age, and it didn't look
well. Silerius objected to the custom.
Any reproof Of women today sets them
screaming as though the reproof were
beating.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08

Although the United States is one
of the youngest members in the Sis
terhood of nations of the world,
her flag is one of the Oldest in the
world. Aside from the swallow
tailed, Savoy colors of Denmark,
adopted in 1919, and the flag Of
Switzerland, which dates from the
Seventeenth century. history re-
cords no national flag with longer
continuous life than ours.
When the Second Continental
congress on June IA, 1777, adopted
a resolution which read: Resolved,
That the flag of the United States
be thirteen stripes. alternate red
and white, that the union be thir-
teen stars, white in a blue field,
representing a new constellation"
the French tri-color had not yet
come into existence. The present
British flag dates only from 1901.
Germany changed its flag after the
fall of the empire in 1918, but even
the flag used during the World war
was less than so years old.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08

know many people like first rate.
and consider them creditable ON the
whole, but often wonder they can be-
so foolish as they occasionally are il.
u few things.
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latter refused. After many long
weary hours over the draft, my hus-
band produced the pledge that has
remained unchanged since then.
And that's ALL" she concluded.
Gall except that Mr.. Bellamy's
health was imperiled in his work
to rediscover America 400 years aft
er Columbus landed"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08

If I should marry again Il have
about as much notion of 1t as of being
born again) / think / should relieve
my friends of the bother of a public
ceremony. In our extravagant and
wasteful American way, marrying has
become more troublesome than fire.
The bride is worn out, the father
bankrupt, and all those who read the
prenuptial notices In the newspapers
are disguised. There Is also the
trouble of attendance on the ceremony
and reception, to say nothing of pres
ents. Men especially do not wish to
attend or buy, and for days previously
are glowered at by wives who know
they are trying to get out of it; for
wives love weddings.
Why would it not be good idea to
give half the present amount wasted
on weddings to starving old soldiers,
the poor, union labor organizations,
railroads and bankers in distress.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08

The first writing was on clay tab
lets, or on paper laboriously made
from marsh plants, and there was far
TOO little of it. In these days of paper
easily made by tons from wood pulp,
and of typewriters, stenographers.
movable type and printing presses,
there is far too much of it. The old.
time men soon settled their differences
by resort to fists. battle axes, Iances,
rocks or spears; there was at least oc-
casional peace, but owing to the ease
of writing the differences of modern
men are never settled.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08

Frequently I read the statement
CASUALLY from professional center
tainer") that it is nobler to make the
people laugh than it is to capture a
city, build steamboat. or any other
of the things we call big"
There Is no lack of laughter; we must
all have serious moments, and think
over other things than jokes. The
Jockey" part of man is his weakest
part; In trying to start laugh" he
usually starts a yawn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08

Men Of the present generation are
the heirs of the experience of men of
an older time. Thus we have learned
of the greater convenience of obtain
ing water by turning tap, instead of
a more troublesome journey to a
spring. The modern bank, hotel, rail-
road and school are merely cogs in
the wheel of civilization as it goes
round endlessly, and is slowly improved
because of the disposition of men to
seek greater conveniences. A clean,
dependable man is a development of
good behavior, as is useful machine
or system tightening our labors and
our worries.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08

When man isn't treated right, he
thinks the neighbors should give those
who have whipped him beating, and.
If they have also robbed him, make
them give the money back. /
have never had neighbors who would
do it. Neighbors everywhere have an
astonishing amount of troubles of their
own to look after, and will not attend
to yours. Everyone knows this is
true, but men like to pet themselves.
and nothing can break them of it.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08

We owe our official celebration of
Flag day to President Woodrow
Wilson. On May Is, 1916. he is
sued proclamation designating
June IA of each year as Flag day.
and It has been so observed since
that time.
As for the honor Of being the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-28

the bedroom. Without waiting for Carol to open 1t he returned to the living room, where ne resumed his pacing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-28
ssHOME FIRES

that suddenly presented twice as much work as it ordinarily did. The older woman was on hand with plenty of advice, but Carol made 1t a point to be as self-reliant as pos sible.
 She stole glances, at the cook book at odd times when her mother wasn't looking. and with the practice she already had she turned out some first class meals.
 You're certainly better house. wife than I was at your age" her mother declared at dinner the sec ond night. William certainly looks well fed and happy as result of it.. doesn't he, Philip?" she asked of her husband.
 The. lattee concurred. heartily, and Bill laughed in approval, al- lowing himself the most fieeting of side glapces at Carol, who laughed outright, although not for the req son her mother supposed.
 By the middle of the week Carol found herself taking a lively in- terest in what her big family was going to have for dinner, and she shooed her mother out of the kitchen. as consistently as any vet eran housewife can be kept out of It..
 Everything seems to be getting along swimmingly," she remarked to Bill when they were alone al night. You've been darling to carry it off so well. It's making the old folks so happy"
 WE'LL. CAROL, YOU'RE NOT. A BAD COOK"
 "Well. Carol, you're not such a bad cook when you apply yourself to it." Bill remarked.
 Carol looked up at him question. ingly, but his expression seemed innocent enough.
 The visit closed without a slip and Carols mother and father as. sured her at the train that they had never so enjoyed themselves ir their entire lives. and that above Ill they were proud of the kind oi