The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 11, 1943, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

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BUY MORE WAR BONDS TODAY NATIONAL FLAG DAY JUNE 14 I \mv j NATIONS FLAG DAY ? UNDER THE SKILLFUL FINGERS OF A VILLAGE SEAMSTRESS ... THE SYMBOL OF A GREAT NATION WAS BORN Betsy Rom at the suggestion of General Washington fashioned the first American flag . . . the living symbol of what a handful of men and thirteen small states had bitterly fought for and many had given their lives for . . . The United States of America where the laws were made by the people who had to live under them. These first thirteen states?united by one dream and dedicated to one belief are still exemplified in the thirteen stripes of the Star Spangled Banner. The original thirteen stars have grown to forty-eight . . . forty-eight states whose sons today are fighting all over the world for the very doctrines that our flag stands for . . . the beliefs brought to reality in the first birth pangs of our nation. And . . . the American flag has carried those doctrines into the farthest corners of the earth . . . for wherever it flys free men fight. Let the Star Spangled Banner wave from your flag staff on Flag Day?and all the week of June 7th to 14th in honor of a newer, vaster hope . . . The United Nations of the World. American boys are giving their lives so that the American Flag may forever freely fly over this, our native land . . . You can buy War Bonds that will send our men the weapons and equipment that mean ^ y.-a. quicker Victory and a better peace. Make Flag Day, June 14th, another Bond. . TO) j NATIONS FLAG DAY BUY MORE WAR BONDS This Page Is Sponsored By the Business Men and Merchants of Camden, S. C. i Redfearn Motor Co. Myers Oil Company The Outlook Shop Western Auto Associate Store The Hoffer Company Sheheen Texaco Company Langford's Esso Station The Camden Candy Kitchen A. Sheheen Grocery Store W. F. Nettles & Sons The Marion Service Station and, Grocery Store Watts Gulf Service Jame* F. Watts, Mgr. The Seven Seas Cafe DeLuxe Cleaners The Corner Book Store Lomansky Shoe Shop The Camden Food Shop Barringer Hardware Company Hermitage Cotton Mills Anderson Esso Station Southern Aviation School East Side Service Station J. B. Rush, Prop. John M. Villepigue Ice and Coal Company ! Phone 14 s 4 r? 1