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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Thursday, May 3, 1917.
THE AMERICAN FLA(i.
Something About Old (Jlory Not
Known By All.
Today probably several million
American flags are waiving in the
breezes, significant of the calm and
dignified yet deep and lasting patriotism
of the American people. By this
your native land or adopted country,
you pledge allegience to that flag and
uncover as you pass. And yet what
do you know about its origin, its
meaning and its history? A lecture
^ trip to the United States national
museum in Washington, the national
depository of American relics, will
tell you much about it.
Thprp were manv forms of early
flags, especially colonial types used
by the individual colonies and militia
regiments before the flag of the
United States was established by our
continental congress, on July 14,
3 777, now celebrated as flag day.
This act required that the flag of the
United States be of thirteen alternate
red and white stripes, and that the
union be thirteen white stars on a
blue field, representing a new constellation,
but it did not define how many
points the stars should have, how
they should be arranged nor make
provision for additional ones.
At the time of the adoption of this
resolution Washington is said to have
observed, "We take the star from
heaven, the red from our mother
country, separating it by white
stripes, thus showing that we have
separated from her, and the white
striDes shall go down to posterity
representing liberty."
The first display of the Stars and
Stripes is believed to have been on
August 6, 1777, when the new flag
was hoisted over the troops at Fort
Schuyler, Rome, X. Y. John Paul
Jones is said to have been the first
to fly the Stars and Stripes over the
high seas, on the Ranger, in November,
1777. The national museum
has an early naval twelve star flag,
said to have been flown by John Paul
Jones during the war of the revolution.
It has been well said that the
American national emblem stands for
American ideals and ideas?it is not
the flag of a family or a house, but
the flag of the whole people. It is
the emblem of liberty and freedom
being indicative of individual independence
and yet symbolic of a united
and closely bonded people.
In the national museum at Washington,
among the many other patriotic
relics and emblems, are displayed
thirty historic American flags. On
the labels the history of each is recorded.
Some came from the fields
of battle, some from famous sea
fights, and others were flown over
garrisons or forts by distinguished
American officers.
The series of flags show very well
the periodic changes which have
taken place in our flag. From the
time of the revolution the Stars and
Stripes in the flag have varied.
There were thirteen stars during the
revolution, fifteen, in the war .of
1812. twenty-nine in the Mexican
war, thirty-three to thirty-five in the
civil war. forty-five in the Spanish
war and there are forty-eight today.
The stripes were changed first from
thirteen to fifteen, and then back
again to thirteen.
It may be surprising to know that
our national flag is among the oldest
flags of the nations, being older than
the present British Jack, the French
tri-color and the flag of Spain, and
many years older than the flags of
Germany and Italy, some of which
are either personal flags or those of
the reigning families.
The flag of the highest historic
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country is in the national museum
collection. It is the original "Star
Spangled Banner," which flew over
Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor
i during the bombardment 011 September
13-14, 1814. and was the inspiration
of Francis Scott Key's immortal
poem, now sung as the national anthem.
This flag, exhibited in the
museum arts and industries building,
also known as the "Fort McHenry
Flag." is of the fifteen star-andstripe
type adopted after the admission
of Vermont and Kentucky by an
act approved by President Washington
January 1J, 17H4. The "Star
Spangled Banner" measures about
thirty feet square, though it was
probably somewhat longer and is
much battered and torn, with one
star missing, possibly shot away.
This great historic souvenir of the
war of 1S12 has lately been preserved
by quilting on heavy linen and
will ever remain one of the country's
most precious relics. From 17i?.">
this form continued as the standard
flag until President Monroes administration.
when congress enacted
that it should thereafter be of fifteen
stripes, with the addition of a star
for each new State, commencing July
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HANDLING AN EPIDEMIC.
Preventive Methods Soon Checked
Spread of Typhoid Plague.
The way in which modern science
handles an epidemic is well illustrated
in the recent typhoid epidemic at
Lawrence. Twenty-tv.o students were
affected and there were three deaths.
That tlie epidemic was promptly
stamped out was due to the energetic
application of the methods of preventive
medicine.
With the cooperation of the State
board of health the university authorities
traced the source of infection to
a well from which all those affected
j had drunk. It was discovered that
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typhoid patient in the summer. The
infection had been brought to Lawrence
in .May, and there had been several
cases in the summer which had
not been reported to the board of
health. A connection from the sewer
to the well was definitely traced,
so there was no question as to the
source of the trouble.
Xot satisfied with isolating the patients
and thus preventing the spread
of the disease, the authorities began
inoculating students against typhoid,
and more than 1,300 so far have been
treated. This treatment has proved
so effective that it has been used to
banish typhoid from all armies.
So recently as the time of the Spanish
war typhoid epidemics often assumed
formidable proportions. Now
they can be controlled, and the time
is coming when typhoid will become
exceedingly rare?as rare as small
pox in Germany.?Kansas City Star.
Where the Farmhouse iieats the Flat.
In Farm and Fireside a writer
says: ,
"A farm family living on 160
acres, with the nearest neighbors a
quarter of a mile away, can know
but little of the annoyance of living
in the city with a dozen neighbors
constantly within sight and hearing.
They can look into your windows upstairs
as well as down. They can
smell your dinner, watch your visitors
come and go. and scrutinize the
contents of your clothesline. Farm
homes have few of these 'city advantages,'
though I doubt whether country
people fully appreciate the privacy
of their homes until they go to
the city to live.
A Sincere Tribute.
In an article about music in the
February Woman's Home Companion,
Albert Spalding, the well-known violinist.
relates an incident to show
how fond of music some Americans
are. He says:
"One night after finishing a concert
in Alliance. Ohio. I was waiting
at the station for the next train to
New York. I was walking up and
down, when a man came up to me
and, holding out his hand, said, 'Mr.
Spalding, 1 was at your concert, f
enjoyed it very much.'
"Let me say right here that that
kind of praise, prompted as it is by
spontaneous gratitude, is the most
cherished that any artist ever enjoys.
Needless to say. I was tickled to
death and told the man so.
" "I live in a small town.' he went
on. "about a hundred miles away. We
don't get much music out there. I
have to travel for all the good music
1 do hear. 1 gave up a day's work
to hear you play. I've got to travel
all night to get back and open up my
shop in the morning.'
"I learned there was no sleeper on
his train. He had to sit up all night.
"That man was a real music lover.
He had never heard me play before.
It was not my personality, but the
music that drew him to the concert.
He was an American?not by adop
tion?but generations deep in the old
soil."
Found It Out.
"So you were invited to participate
in a profit-sharing scheme?"
"Yes."
"How did you come out?"
"I discovered that the purpose of
the scheme was not sharing, but
shearing."?Birmingham Age-Herald.
4, 181$.
For many years the army did not
carry the Stars and Stripes in battle,
though it had been in general use as
a garrison flag. The land forces dur
ing this period and before it 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 stars, with the designation
of the body of troops. In 1.834
war department regulations gave the
artillery the right to carry the Stars
I and Stripes.
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j Many styles and forms of tlie srars
j and stripes (lap were in existence up
to 1S12, and it was not until during
I President Taft's administration that
[ definite specifications were drawn up.
J An executive order dated October 20,
i 1012. tended to standardize the
j "Stars and Stripes." and yet further
! specifications in sizes were found
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| necessary by President Wilson last
j year.
BRITISH TANK FI(*HTIN(J.
Canadian Tells How Strange Machines
(iive Battle.
The first account of fighting as
viewed from the inside of a British j
"tank"* is contained in a letter, just j
released by the censor, from Sergt. I
F. E. Divall. a Canadian, who has I
been attached to one of the "tank"|
companies. He says:
"The order to advance is given.
Steadily the iong. powerful shapes
move forward in the gray mists of
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travel over the front trench the
troops therein rub their eyes in wonder
at the strange cube-impressionist
cast of many colors which the
'tanks' are wearing. Inside the
'tanks' are the keen-eyed fighting
men, strangely garbed, as becomes
their strange craft, while around
them is a complicated mass of machinery.
"Now we are passing over shellholes,
tree stumps, and many other
trifles, which fill the ground of 'Xo
Man's Land.' The deck of the 'tank'
rolls and pitches like a torpedo-boat
in a storm. The crew hold on to anything
within reach to steady ourselves
while we rush down a large
shell-hole. But we come safely
through without seasickness.
"Suddenly the gunnery officer
gives the order: To action.' His
voice is only just heard above the
noise of the whirling machinery. A
few sighting shots, and we have
found the range. We succeed in putting^
out two machine gun emplacements.
the guns of which have been
worrying our infantry for some time.
And now the action begins in earnest.
Hun bullets are rebounding from
our tough sides like hail from a
glass roof, while inside the 'tanks'
the whole crew is at various guns,
which break forth in a devastating
fire, under which nothing can live.
"And now we are on the parapet of
the first Hun trench', just on the outskirts
of the wood, which is our objective.
and as we go bumping on to
the other side we land with a terrific
bump. A can of petrol has slipped
from its pigeonhole, and come clattering
down on to the armored deck,
with its stopper shaken out, and the
dangerous spirit running over the
floor. However, we enfiladed that
trench, followed up the retreating
Huns for a minute or two, cleared
out the nearest dugout, and went on
our way to the next trench.
"By this time the fumes from the
hundreds of rounds which we had
fired, with the heat from the engines
and the waste petrol and oil. have
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uncomfortable to breathe. Now we
are nearing the next enemy trench,
and we hear the deep report of
bursting bombs, above the pattering
of the storm of bullets, striking our
armor. #
"Soon we find ourselves on the
edge of the Hun trench. This proves
to be composed of s^ell holes of all
sizes, just linked together, showing
how severe our previous bombardment
had been. The Huns show fight
here, and we have a warm ten minutes
before they give signs of retreating.
We leave them far a minute
or two in order to ram a machine-gun
emplacement, which is still
threatening our rapidly advancing infantry.
We just crawl over the embankment,
guns and all; it is not neccessary
to fire a single shot.
"Now it is time tor us to advance
to the next and last position. We
have the good fortune to strike a
road which has escaped serious damage,
and. making all speed along this
we make up to the Huns who have
escaped from the last trench. But
they have had enough of the all-devouring
monster, and are ready to
throw down their arms and make
their way to our infantry glad to be
prisoners.
"The last trench proves to be the
worst, for just as we are crossing a
large hole our 'bus stops. Two or
three Huns, seeing our difficulty,
crawl out of a hole like rabbits, and
are brave enough to creep on the
back of the 'tank' from behind. But
we hear them on the armor and they
were doomed not to get the iron
cross, for we open a small trap-door
and shoot them with a revolver. Of
course, we had seen them before
they reached the "tank.' but a? our
mechanism was giving us a little
change of occupation just then, we
did not trouble about them.
' And now the old 'bus is going
strong again. Only just in time, for
a large lyddite bomb bursts against
the armored jacket of my gun. The
flare conies in through the port-hole,
blinding me for a minute or two.
while small splinters strike my face.
But my gun is still untouched, thanks
to the armor plate, and. somehow,
seems to work much better. And
now I catch some Huns retreating
along a trench almost in line with a
burst of fire. The Germans are now
scattered in small parties. It is almost
like playing at hide-and-seek i
as we now travel backward and forward
along that trench. After a few
short runs we find no more Huns to
hunt."
STATKMKXT
Of the ownership, management, circulation.
etc.. re(iuired by the act of
congress of August 24, 1912, of The
Iiamberg Herald, published weekly at
Bamberg, S. C.. for April 1. 1917.
State ot South Carolina. County of
Bamberg.
Before me, a notary public, in and
for the State and county aforesaid,
personally appeared R. M. Hitt, who.
having been duly sworn acocrding to
law deposes and says that he is an
editor of The Bamberg Herald, and
that the following is, to the best of
his knowledge and belief, a true
statement of the ownership, management
(and ;if a daily paper, the circulation),
etc.. of the aforesaid publication
for the date shown in the
above caption, required by the act of
August 24. 1912. embodied in section
4 42. postal laws and regulations,
printed on the reverse of this form,
to wit:
1. That the names and addresses
of the publisher, editor, managing
editor, and business managers are:
Publishers, Hitt & Bruce, Bamberg,
S. C.: Editors, R. M. Hitt and R. M.
Bruce, Bamberg, S. C.; Managing
editors, R. M. Hitt & R. M. Bruce.
Bamberg, S. C.; business managers,
R. M. Hitt and R. M. Bruce. Bamberg,
S. C.
2. That the owner is: (Give
names and addresses of individual
owners, or, if a corporation, give its
name and the names and addresses
of stockholders owning or holding 1
per cent, or more of the total amount
of stock): A. W. Knight, Bamberg,
S. C.
3. That the known bondholders,
mortgagees, and other security holders
owning or holding 1 per cent, or
more of total amount of bonds, mortgages,
or other securities are: None.
4. That the two paragraphs next
above, giving the names of the owners.
stockholders, and security holders.
if any, contain not only the list
of stockholders and security holders
as they appear upon the books of the
company but also in cases where the
stockholder or security holder appears
upon the books of the company
as trustee or in any other fiduciary
relation, the name of the person or
corporation for whom such trustee is
acting, is given: also that the said
two paragraphs contain statements
embracing affiant's full knowledge
and belief as to the circumstances
and conditions under which stockholders
and security holders who do
not appear upon the books of the
company as trustees, hold stock and
securities in a capacity other than
that of a bona fide owner; and this
affiant has no reason to believe that
any other person, association, or corporation
has any interest direct or
indirect in the said stock, bonds, or
other securities than as so stated by
him.
5. That the average number of
copies of each issue of this publication
sold or distributed, through the
mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers
during the six months preceding
the date shown above is (This
information is required from daily
publications only.) R. M. HITT.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 24th day of April, 1917.
H. H. STOKES, N. P. S. C.
(.My commission expires at the
pleasure of the governor.)
Winthrop College.
SCHOLARSHIP AXI) EXTRAXCK
EXAMINATION
The examination for the award of
vacant scholarships in Winthrop College
and for the admission of new
students will be held at the county
court house on Friday, July 6, at 9
a. m. Applicants must not be less
than sixteen years of age. When
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they will be awarded to those making
the highest average at this examination,
provided they meet the conditions
governing the award. Applicants
for Scholarsiiips should write
to President Johnson for Scholarship
examination blanks. These blanks,
properly filled out by the applicant,
should be filed with President Johnson
by July 1st.
Scholarships are worth $100/ and
free tuition. The next session will
open September 19. 1917. For further
information and catalogue, address
PRESIDENT D. B. JOHNSON.
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Powder over two months ago. Fifty
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they are well and growing fast." C.
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