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llll i'tJ 'I j j'iiijyjiiiiujjiip I THURSDAY, SEPTtiMBER 25, 1930 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. t PAGE SEVSN WE ARE THE OLDEST NATION Every Other Government Has Been Radically Changed Since Ours Was Established. (Written for The Chronicle by Caleb Johnson Throujfh Autocaster Service). Back of the anti-American feeling in Europe there is a deep-seated re sentment that a “young nation like the United States should have become power from the aristocracy and gave it to the commons. Today the govern ment of England is in the hands of i the working masses, and the colonial! S empire of Great Britain has become : S the British Commonwealth of Nations, Older than the United States? Mntroducina tke the richest and most powerful nation How ? of the world. i .\nd the British flag, which consist- What right has an upstrirt like the fed of the cross of St. Andrew and the United States of Ame-'Ica to be so co<'ky? Why don’t we let the wise, ex perienced statesmen of Europe guide* tleuiest trends iri‘3umlture at tke us? cross of St. George when the United States was bom, was changed in 1801 by th eaddition of the cross of St. Pat rick to the Union Jack. Our flag is at One answer is that these same Eu-1 least 24 years older than that of ropean statesmen seem to have made jGrfiit Britain. a good deal of a mess of their own! France in 1787 was an absolute mon national affairs. But the fact which archy. Since then it has gone through most of our critics at home and abroad a revolution which reduced it to an- overlook, is that we are not a young archy, became an empire, then to re nation but a very fine old one, as ra-i public, an empire again and then a tions go. I republic once more. Territorially,' Uncle Sam today is the patriarch! France has lost Louisiana and the among nations. The government of j West to us, Geneva to Switzerland, the United States is literally the old est govemmnet in the world. Sounds like bragging? Very well, let’s brag a little more. There are but three nations in the world, three little countries. Den- many other parts and possessions. Her flag has changed several times! from the ancient standard of the j House of V’alois, a white' ground pow- j dered with fleurs-de-lys. The tri-color,. red. white and blue vertical bars, 1 mark, Switzerland and Holland, whose!came in with the French Revolution of flags aie.older than our own “grid-11789. Napoleon put an eagle in the iron flag.” Old Glory is the oldest flag j middle and peppered the whole flag flying anywhere on earth, bar those with golden bees. Louis Philippe three. Every one jof^ tl^«' so-ca]led ‘’great pdwers” has changed its flag; as well as its form of government. scraMd off the bees and the present TWro^Republic eliminated the eagle^ Germany, when Our nation was > once, twice or three times since Betsy | jjom, was a grroup of 'independent Ross sewed the first Stars and Stripes together. Seems as if we’re not quite so young as some folks think, doesn’t it? And while we'fe in the bragging business, here's another bullet to chew on. The Stars and Stripes is the only flag of a great nation which has al ways led its armies to victory. Think that over. The United States has been engag ed, since the Declaration of Indepen dence, in six great wa^s, not counting our skirmishes with the Indians and Filipinos and BoxeiS and Mediterran ean pirates, and our ventures into keeping order in other parts of the Western Hemisphere. We’ve averaged one important war every twenty-five years. Five of these great wars were with foreign countries. In every war and every skirmish. Old Glory has never been lowered in national defeat. There is no flag in Europe of which kingdoms with little in common ex^ cept the language. They were confed erated into an empire in 1867, when the red, white and black flag which floated aatil Uw «a4 o# tW ttaal war was adopted. The flag of the present German Republic is three horizontal stripes of black, red and yellow, read ing downward, and is 140 years young er than Old Glory. Imperial Austria and great Spain, the Lwo most powerful nations in the world when the United States was formed, are insignificant weaklings j now. Austria is a tiny, starving re- I public; Spain has lost all of her colo- {nies in the New World and in Asia. Her government in that period has gone from autocratic monarchy through anarchy and ineffectual at tempts at a republic to the limited monarchy of today; her flag is no longer the royal banner of Castile and Aragon, buf the simple flag of'alter- that is true, except those of Holland . . „ . and Switzerland, neither of which has , ^ __j been engaged in war since the pres ent flag and form of government were adopted. The "old” nations of Europe are old merely because they were settled be fore America was discovered. As gov ernments they are pitifully youngi most of them* All of them have under gone changes, amounting to revolu tion, while the United-States has been eroding solidly upon its original form of government as set forth in the Con stitution of 1787. And every one of these European nations has lost some part of its territory in that period, while we have more than trebled our own. Count our national age from the be ginning of the Republic, the year 1787. Great Britain’s revolution began in 179.'i. culminated in a victory for the revolutionists in 1832 with the pass age of the Reform bill wheih took Portugal was great and world-wide in influence when we were born, and look at her today. Italy aa we know it is a new nation, established by Na poleon in 1805. Russia’s changes we all know about. Poland. Belgium, Nor way, Sweden, all have changed their governments and^thieir"flags, most of them several times, in the period of our own national history. Turkey has abandoned the banner of Mohammed, the crescent and star. The flag of Greece dates only from 1832. Oldest of all flags is the “Danne- brog,” the white Latin croM of Den mark on a red field; tradition dates it from the year 1219, when King Wal- demar, leading his sea-rovers against the Estonians, saw in the sky a white cross which heartened his men to vic tory. The white Greek cross on a red ground has been the emblem of the Swiss Confederation since the year 1.339, and is probably older than that. Little Holland has been through many governmental changes and trib ulations, but her red, white and blue tri-color has remained unchanged since 1643. But except for those three, IloUand, Swit''*"land and Denmark, “()1<1 Glo ry” I. > le oldest flag of all. .State of South Carolina, County of I^urens, Court of Common Pleas, The Federal Land Bank of (Columbia, Plaintiff, vs Joshua L. Jones and the Industrial Farm Loan Association, Defl^ndants. - - ' ’SUMMONS FOR RELIEF: To: Joshua L. Jones, Defendant: Y'ou are hereby summoned and re- luired to answer the complaint in this action of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers at tfTeir office at Laurens, South Carolina, within twen- “I’ll phone the prescription” H URRY...hurryl..Thcre’8 not a min ute to loscI.-Specding through the haT5h,<old night, it’s good to know that the prescription has gone ahead of you. You reriize now your dependence | after the service hereof ex- upontheDruggist-themanwiththe the day of auch service; and mort., anJ paatk and h,. 9f f,;, complaint prescription chemicals, compounding the medicine your Doctor haa pre- aenbed. '' Perhaps you haven’t realized that it it the aale of every-day necessities which enables your Druggist to stay in your neighborhood, ready to serve you in time of skkneas. Rows and rows of the bottles in the Druggist’s prescription room bear the name “Merck”. Wherever medicinal chemicals are uaed, the name of “Merck” has long^stood in the minds of Doctors and Druggists as the sym bol of reliability, purity and strength. — MERCK Fsr YMtr Mtdidme CMmtt-Selea Merck’s pure products m your Doctor aiul DutggM 4o and have your pcescriptioni filled by # SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY Phones 377 and 400 AT UNION STATION complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plain tiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. HUFF & HUFF, Plaintiff’s Attorneys. Dated: Aug. 5th 1930. To: Joshua L. Jones, Defendant: Take notice that the complaint in this action together with the Sum mons of which the foregoing is a copy was filed in the offlee of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Laurens County, South Carolina, at Laurens, said State, on the 11th day of August, 1930. HUFF & HUFF, Plaintiff’s Attorneys. Dated: Sept. 17th, 1930.—10-2-3tc. WHAT DO P. S. 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