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^ "OLD GLORY/* U. S. Emblem is Oldest of All World's Flags. I The fact that sixty-odd sizes and shapes of United States flags were found in use in the various governi t. ment departments in Washington has called forth an executive order standardizing the form and size of all our national flags. The flags and union jacks of all departments, with certain exceptions in the army and navy,! v must now conform to specifications. ! Taking the hoist, or width, as 1,; the fly, or length, is 1.9, the hoist of; the union 7-13, the fly of the union j .76 and the width of each stripe 1-13. There are twelve prescribed sizes, but the 19-foot flag is to be the - standard. Increase of Stars. . - The American flag collections of the United States national museum include some examples of our flag indicative of its development in several historical periods, its many vuaiiaco, auu i51 auuai siduudiuiiation. It is interesting to note that during the Revolution the flag had thirteen stars; in the War of 1812 fifteen; in the Mexican war twentynine; in the Civil war thirty-five; in the Spanish-American war forty-five, and today forty-eight. The United States flag is among the oldest of national flags, being older than the present British union _ jack, the French tricolor, and the flag of Spain, and many years older than the flags of Germany and Italy, some of which, like those of other countries, are personal flags, or those reigning families. How "Old Glory" Started. There are no early colonial flags, fl^^^rsuch as were used by the individual colonies and militia regiments before the flag of the United States was established by congress on June 14, 1777, now celebrated as Flag Day. This act required: "That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate W^m red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." . But the act did not define how 4 many points the*stars should have, how they should be arranged, nor I make provisions for additional ones. The navy immediately adopted this flag, but the army was much slower to act. John Paul Jones Original. Representative of the early stars and stripes type, there is a twelvestar flag said to have been used by John Paul Jones in the War of the Revolution. It measures 10 1-2 feet by 6 1-4 feet and was presented to Lieutenant James Bayard Stafford, ? United States navy, on December 13, .1784, by the marine committee of the continental congress as a reward for meritorious services in the Revolution, coming later to the Smithsonian institution as a gift from Mrs. Harriet R. Perry Stafford. Another flag of the highest historic value is the original "Star-Spangled f w, . . Banner/' which flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the bom# bardment on September 13-14, and was the inspiration for Key's anthem. \ It now hangs in the rotunda of the Lnew national museum building, where the models in competition for the Key memorial are now on display. ? } 15 Stars and Stripes. This Fort McHenrv flag is of the fifteen stars and stripes type, adopted by an act approved by President Washington on January 13, 1794, which took" effect on May 1, 1795, after the admission of Vermont and Kentucky. It measures about 30 feet square, 1 is much battered and torn, and has i one star missing. This great historic souvenir has lately been preserved by quilting it on heavy linen cloth. It remains one of the country's most V precious relics. From 1795 this form continued as the standard flag until President Monroe's administration, when con gress enacted that it should thereafter be of thirteen stripes, with the addition of a star for each new State, beginning on July 4, 1818. First in Battle in 1846. It seems that the army never car/ ried the national flag in battle in 1846, though we have record of its use as a garrison flag from about ^ 1787 to 1834. Before 1834 bodies of troops carried what was , * known as national colors, or standards, of blue with the arms of the United States emblazoned thereon, comprising an eagle surmounted by a number of stars, and with the designation of the troops, as infantry, artillery, etc., inscribed as a scroll. In 1834 the artillery was given the right of carrying the Stars and Stripes, as recorded by the war de??tho infant rv jJitlmiCllt i v?4v/ and cavalry still using the national arms with an added scroll in the eagle's beak bearing the words "E Pluribus Unum." These flags remained the colors of the infantry until 1841, and the cavalry until as late as 1887, when they L WHISKEY FROM KAFIR CORN. And the Grain is Grown in Prohibi tion Kansas. If you are a fervent enemy of John Barleycorn, don't ask too many questions when you sell your kafir. Within the last few months the distillers have found that kafir makes excellent whiskey. Also within the last few months kafir corn has found a market almost as stable as wheat and corn, and on the grain markets of the large cities "futures" in kafir corn are now established. In Kansas there is a big demand for kafir. J. C. Mohler, secretary of the State board of agriculture, has received many inquiries from eastern grain men and brokers for car lots of it. One Topeka grain dealer has oders for 28 cars of kafir which he is unable to fill. The late spring and early frosts in Iowa last year made the crop of good corn so short that the distillers were compelled to find some substitute for it in making their liquors. Kafir was found to be quite as good?some of the distillers say it is better?for the purpose as corn, and the distillery began buying it up. Evidently the kafir crop in Kansas has been disposed of. The present price of kafir in Kansas City, Mo., is $1.17 per 100 pounds, or slightly more than 50 cents a bushel. The average yield per acre of kafir in Kansas is 22 1-2 bushels.?Topeka, Kansas, dispatch to Knasas City Star. were ordered to employ the Stars and , Stripes. Europeans AH Mixed Up. So many styles and forms of the stars and stripes were in existence in 1837 that certain foreign governments found it necessary to make inquiry of this government just what the official flag was, resulting in the publication in 1852 of a careful study of the subject by him who later became General Schuyler Hamilton. It was not until 1912 that definite specifications were drawn up. Under President Taft's administration representatives of the various govern ment departments conferred on proportions and other details of the national flag, resulting in an executive order dated October 29, 1912, which tended to standardize the Stars and Stripes, and yet further specifications were found necessary only recently. Mexicans Confront Flag. The history of our flag indicates that the Stars and Stripes was not carried by troops in battle until the Mexican war in 1846-47. Several flags of this period are in the museum collections. Among them is a flag of thirteen stripes and stars carried throughout the war by the battalion of volunteers which enlisted from Maryland and the District of Columbia, and the flag of the Company I, Fourth Regiment of Indiana Tnfantrv?thirteen stripes, with an eagle in the field. The following ten flags of the collection pertain to the Civil war: Garrison flag of Fort Moultrie, S. C., lowered when the command evacuated that fort to assemble at Fort Sumter on December 26, 1860. Boat flag flown by Commander Charles S. Boggs, United States navy, when he left the gunboat Varuna, sunk in an engagement between a Confederate flotilla and the Union . fleet under Admiral Farragut, below New Orleans on April 24, 1862. Signal flag of white cloth with painted stars and stripes. Headquarters flag of Major General Benjamin F. Butler, United States Volunteers, flown, at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, in 1861. Flag raised at New Orleans by its citizens upon the occupation of the city by the Union forces under Major General Butler on May 1, 1862. Remains of flag carried in three days' fight at Salem Heights, Va., May 3-5, 1863, when three color ser| geants were killed, though the banner never faltered or fell to the ground. General Hazen's garrison flag, hoisted at Fort McAllister, Ga., after the surrender of the fort to the Union army on December 13, 1864. Flag flown on Kearsarge when it sank the Alabama, deposited in the national moseum by Lieutenant Herbert Winslow, son of Rear Admiral Winslow, commander of the Kearsarge in this action. Headquarters flag of Major General E. O. C. Ord, United States army, flown in Richmond, Va., in 1865. Flag of the First Pennsylvania Volunteers, found in the capitol at Richmond in 1865 by Major General Ord. Other flags include some from the Spanish-American war, and the following miscellaneous flags: A flag owned by Admiral Charles -1 nx-i. . ^^1 WlIKeS, unuea Oiaies uavi , uie euiors carried by Rear Admiral Peary in his Arctic explorations in 1909; the flag carried by the Smithsonian African expedition under the command of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in 19091910, and many examples of the national ensign, which has flown in so many notable engagements and over numerous worthy achievements. RURAL CREDIT ACT. What the New Law Proposes to IK> and How It Proposes to Do It. 1 " I Many long and complicated explanations of the rural credits act have been published. These have < wearied or confused the average ? reader. On the other hand, most of ' the brief descriptive references to the act have been too general to give a clear idea of the modus operandi. What the ordinary citizen would j like to know is how the new farm loan system is to work and how the farmer is to secure access to its bene- ] fits. The main features and the principle can be shown in a few words as follows: , Under the rural credit act the country is divided into twelve districts, each of which has a federal land bank. These banks, which back j each other's loans, form the division- \ al links of a system which is cen- i trally supervised by a federal farm ( loan board of five members, appointed by the president. The government supplies $9,000.000 to start each of the twelve farm land banks with $750,000 capital, the money being returned to the government as the banks become gradually the property of the farmers themselves, as will be explained later in this article. The federal land banks lend j through local farm loan associations in amounts from $100 to $10,000 on ; approved farm lands estimated to be ' worth twice the amount of the loan. 1 These farm loan associations are real- ( ly banks, except that they cannot re- < ceive deposits. Neither can the fed- 1 eral land banks. ! It takes ten or more farmers in a j community to form a local association, and they must desire to borrow at least $20,000 from the federal land bank of their district. If the character of these men and the lands they offer as security are approved by the officers of the federal system, a charter is issued to them. { After being chartered, each local association can receive application for loans from as many farmers in the territory as have land to cover the amount. To get the money, however, each applicant must become a member of the local association and take stock in it to the extent of 5 per cent, of his borrowings. Similarly, the association itself must take stock in the farm land bank of the 1 district to the extent of 5 per cent, of the money loaned through the association by the bank. \ Thus it will be seen that the local : associations will gradually acquire, 1 by the automatic operation of the j system, all of the stock of the twelve , district banks, and that the borrow ers through the local associations will in the same way acquire all of the < stock of the associations. In other words, the borrower in a few years will own the entire system, the government being left with no function except protective regulation. Borrowers will be repaired to pay a certain proportion of the principal of their loans every year. This an-! i nual payment, constituting what is; called "amortization," will be smaller in proportion to the length of time thfe loan is to run, which time is never to be more than forty years nor less than five. The rate of interest is not to exceed G per cent, in any case, and is never to be more than 1 per cent more than the rate of interest carried by the last bond sold by the land bank when the loan was made. Additional capital necessary to operate and expand the system is to be obtained from the sale of bonds based on the mortgages owned by the land tVineo honVc hoin? lnint uaiiiYa, an \jjl wuunw ly responsible for the bonds. Being thus backed, these securities are expected to be in such demand as safe investments that in a few years the I farmer with good land can get all the capital the land justifies at 6 per cent, or less in any part of the country. Expert Testimony. Young Mrs. Cornell was a bride of but a short time. One afternoon she confided to her friends at a pink tea ( that she was sure her husband never played poker at his club. "How," queried one of the women, "did you find out?" ( "Oh," explained the young bride, "I met a couple of the members of his club the other day and asked them: 'Can Perry play poker?' They looked thoughtful for a moment and then answered very sincerely: 'No.' "?Baltimore Sun. Obliging an Old Master. On the occasion of the death of a chief of one of the department bureaus in Washington, a clerk in that bureau was rushing madly down the street when he was stopped by a friend, who asked: "Why the deuce are you in such a tearing hurry?" 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