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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
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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.
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