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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1940
Urges a Citizenship Recognition Day
As the Opening Ceremony in the 1940
Celebration of National Flag Week
display it
M&PBCT IT
APOSTROPHE TO OUR NATI^ AL FLA8
BY WILLIAM T. KERR, PHILADELPHIA
Pounder and National President,
American Flag Day Association
Pride of all America
Admired by all the World!
Floating o'er every school house.
On every hill-top.
In every valley and plain.
Liberty's School.Masterl
Tyranny's scourge at all times
In every clime and nation.
Laughing to scorn the teachings
of Monarchy's "Divine right"!
Setting at naught the claims
of princes and potentates! *
Standard of Freedom
civil and religious!
Emblem of a United people,
the greatest and grandest Nation
sun e'er shone o'er:
knowing no master. Fearing no king.
Kneeling to none but Almighty God!
Marking the pathway for
Other nations to tread!
The beacon light of civilization!
•OLD OLORY" We salute thee!
There Is no stain on any stripe
In all thy years' of life!
The lustre of thy stars
Shines out more brightly
as Time rolls on!
Born June 14, 1777
Midst Cannon's roar
and blast of musketry!
Standard of Washington!
of Lincoln!
and all the long line of ,
America's Patriots
who gave their lives In war
and spent their strength In peace
for Righteousness.
Foreign foes throughout greet wars
fell neath they withering glances
While mistaken brethren who
for a time forgot thee
Now love thee all the more!
Proudly aloft thou wavest, welcoming
freedom-loving seekers but crying
"Back" to every foe of America's greatness,
"Our free Institutions, handlwoifc
"of our Illustrious forefathers
"Must not be destroyed,
HANDS OFFI"
Beautiful starry banner! there Is
none fairer or grander Anywhere.
We rejoice with thee on
this thy natal day.
Long may thy stripes and stars
Fly to the breeze, bidding
defiance to thy foes,
proclaiming Liberty!
Long may thou vigil keep
O'er millions patriots homes,.
Stamping Indelibly, deep
Into the minds of all,
THAT FREE AMERICA,
Than which there La
None greater now
In. all the earth,
WILL YET GREATER BE,
when every son and
daughter of thy soil,
and every other In our midst
shall know naught save
ONE GOD!
ONE PEOPLE!
OWE LANGUAGE!
AND
ONE FLAG "OLD OLORY"1
Yours and mine.
TEACH ITS HISTORY!
PROCLAIM IT TO ALL
In Picture, Song and Story,
LET NONE FORGET ITS COST
In blood!
and tears!
and untold sacrifice.
"OLD GLORY" SPEAKS:
"Americans, WHAT you are I AM, Don't let the red Flag of
Communism or Anarchy Supplant Me".
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
S PURRED on by what William T. Kerr, founder and, since
1898, national president of the American Flag Day associa
tion, calls “the affrontery of all the forces of un-American
ism, those groups who support Atheism, Communism, Bolshev
ism, Nazism, Fascism and other foreign isms,” the association
is urging every community in the United States to celebrate
Flag Week this year with patriotic programs and is suggesting
a new Flag Week feature — the observance of a Citizenship
Recognition Day.
toie plan for this observ-
ance is as follows: On the
Saturday preceding Flag Day,
that is, on June 8, each com
munity will hold a patriotic
parade with the American
Legion, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, Boy Scouts and all pa
triotic, fraternal, civic and
service organizations partici
pating. After the parade there
will be a meeting at which
will be assembled all the
young men and women who
have become or will become
of voting age this year and all
adults who in 1940, prior to or
on June 8, have become Amer
ican citizens through natural
ization.
During the program, or at its
conclusion, every one present will
repeat the pledge taken by the
new citizens or “The Pledge to
the flag” used in the public
schools—“I pledge allegiance to
the flag of the United States
and to the Republic for which
it stands, one nation, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.”
In this public recognition no dis
tinction is to be made between
the youth born on American soil
and those who will become citi
zens by naturalization of them
selves or their parents. The spirit
of the occasion will be “We are
all Americans.”
The recognition of naturalized
new citizens is not a new thing,
since federal judges in various
communities, notably in the East,
have done it with small groups in
their courts at the time the for
mer aliens became American cit
izens. But a general community
assembly of newly made, foreign-
bom citizens and the youth of vot
ing age, particularly associating
it with Flag Day, is an innova
tion. In presenting this plan for
a Citizenship Recognition Day,
the president of the American
Flag Day association points out
that no other time seems so ap
propriate as during the celebra
tion of Flag Week with its climax
of the nation-wide observance of
Flag Day.
“Native Americans who be
come of voting age are accus
tomed to taking their voting priv
ilege as a simple matter of
course, a kind of inheritance,”
says Mr. Kerr. “They do not
seem to realize that they have,
perhaps through no particular
merit of their own, received the
highest American privilege, mak
ing them the political equal of
the most favored person in the
land. Holding a Citizenship Rec
ognition Day offers an opportu
nity for emphasizing their re
sponsibilities as citizens which so
many of us overlook.”
A Greater Significance.
In view of the present situation
in Europe—the extinguishment of
human liberties and the oppres
sion of smaller nations by the
armed might of totalitarian gov
ernments—citizenship in a nation
“with liberty and justice for all”
should mean more than ever be
fore. For this reason the cele
bration of Flag Week this year has
an even greater significance than
in years past and 1940 seems an
appropriate time for inaugurat
ing an observance of Citizenship
Recognition Day as an integral
part of it.
If, as has been suggested, it is
observed on Saturday, June 8, it
will be the opening event in the
celebration of Flag Week along
with the patriotic-religious serv
ices in synagogues on that day,
to be followed by similar services
in churches on Sunday, June 9.
Chief among the latter is the an
nual service held at one of the
principal Revolutionary war
shrines—the chapel at Valley
Forge in Pennsylvania. Many
Sunday schools will also hold loy
alty Flag Week programs in con
nection with the observance of
Children’s Day on June 9.
The American Flag Day asso
ciation, the proponent of a nation
wide Citizenship Recognition Day,
is the pioneer organization
formed to popularize the observ
ance of the birthday anniversary
of our flag. It was founded in
Pittsburgh in the midst of the
Spanish-American war and Mr.
Kerr was elected its president, an
office he has held ever since. An
employee of the freight traffic de
partment of the Pennsylvania
railroad, he has devoted all of his
spare time to promoting the ob
servance of Flag Day and to hav
ing it designated as a national
holiday.
When Mr. Kerr was a young
boy, a railroad engineer told him
the story of Betsy Ross and the
early history of our flag. Inspired
by this and aided by his mother
and his father, a veteran of the
Union army in the Civil war, he
began making plans for a move
ment to recognize officially the
birthday of the flag on a nation
wide scale. The eventual result
was the organization in 1898 of
the American Flag Day associa
tion, a non-partisan, non-sec
tarian, non-racial, non-profit asso
ciation, devoted solely to the pa
triotic work of honoring the Stars
and Stripes on its birthday.
A Legal Holiday?
Since that time it has worked
persistently to popularize the cus
tom of displaying the flag on June
14 and to have Flag Day made
a legal holiday. Some resistance
has been encountered, according
to Mr. Kerr, because some busi
ness men think that we have too
many holidays in this country.
They point out that June 14 lies
between Memorial Day on May
30 and Independence Day on July
4 so that two legal holidays within
a little more than a month should
be sufficient.
However, Mr. Kerr and his as
sociates believe that the observ
ance of the birthday of our flag is
justified by its historic signif
icance—the formal adoption of
the Stars and Stripes as the em
blem of the new nation on June
14, 1777. “We are learning a
new understanding and new ap
preciation of the flag,” says Mr.
Kerr. “We are not looking upon
it as a waving banner that leads
us into battle, nor an emblem
of war, but more as a symbol of
achievement, progress, helpful
ness and friendship. In the light
of events in recent years the
waving of our flag has come to
signify the glories of peace and
the joys of friendship rather than
the accomplishment of war.”
As the result of the efforts of
this association, in 1938 Flag Day
was made a legal holiday in
Pennsylvania, the state which,
because of the action of the Con
tinental congress 163 years ago,
can be regarded as the “birth
place of Old Glory.” Massachu
setts and Connecticut have stat
utes requiring their governors to
issue Flag Day proclamations but
these two and Pennsylvania are
the only commonwealths which
officially recognize Flag Day.
The national observance of the
day—though not as a legal holi
day—is due to President Wood-
row Wilson who on May 13, 1916,
issued a proclamation designat
ing June 14 of each year as Flag
Day. It has been so observed
since that time. Although vari
ous persons have, from time to
time, been designated as the
“originator” of Flag Day, it is
doubtful if that title can justly be
awarded to any individual, since
several Americans have contrib
uted to the idea. Undoubtedly
the work of Mr. Kerr, since the
founding of the American Flag
Day association in 1398, greatly
stimulated popular interest in the
celebration and he, therefore, has
a claim to some share in the title.
SAFETY ON FARM
IS ‘HOMEMADE’
Household Neuis
Rural Families Operate on
Own Responsibility.
By M. G. HUBER
(Agricultural Engineer. Maine
Extension Service.)
Safety on the farm is largely
homemade. One of the reasons for
so many accidents on the farm is
that farm families operate largely
on their own responsibility. For
city people at work or at home there
are numerous safety precautions,
and someone to enforce them. But
the farmer to a great extent must
be his own safety engineer and al
most entirely his own disciplinarian.
S. H. McCrory, assistant chief of
the bureau of agricultural chemis
try and engineering in the federal
department of agriculture, gives
these reasons for the farm being a
fertile field for accidents: Much
work is done by individuals at some
distance from others so that an ac
cident may be serious because help
is not at hand. Frequent changes in
work and machinery used, which
may mean unfamiliarity with equip
ment and less accuracy of move
ment. Under the pressure of sum
mer work there often are long hours
in the field and chores done in a
hurry after dark—both conducive to
accidents.
He found that in spite of im
provements, farm machinery is a
top hazard in farm work. The
older hazard of animals, such as
unruly bulls and kicking horses, is
next. Last year, in Kansas, more
than half of the accidental farm
deaths were caused by machinery
and animals.
But in checking hundreds of ac
cident reports, he also found that
most of them were caused by care
lessness—by haste, by the use of
makeshift repairs, by taking chances,
by using machinery without guards
or with guards removed.
The suffering, the loss of time and
the actual cash cost of these acci
dents shows the need for avoiding
them. It has been shown time and
again that the well-ordered farm,
with well-ordered activities, is good
insurance against accidents.
IF YOU’RE ENTERTAINING THE BRIDE
(See Recipes Below)
Poultry Pest Control
Will Increase Profits
Lice and mites know all the tricks
necessary to put a poultryman’s
books into a maze of red ink, but
an entomologist at Michigan State
college knows how to take care of
the pests.
Two treatments a year, fall and
spring, are recommended, although
commercial poultrymen find that it
often pays to take necessary pre
cautions more frequently.
Remember that lice live on the
birds and that mites inhabit the
coop and the roosts, for this means
that two separate treatments are
required.
A simple control for mites after
a coop is thoroughly cleaned is to
spray the interior with half crank
case oil and half kerosene. The spray
must penetrate cracks and crevices
and cannot be applied with a paint
brush.
Lice are controlled by treating
the birds. The simplest method,
says Dibble, is to place a thin line
of nicotine sulphate on the clean
perches just before roosting time.
The body heat of the birds releases
the nicotine which penetrates the
feathers. This treatment must be
repeated in 14 days but it will kill
most all forms of lice. The repeat
treatment is necessary to kill those
that hatch from nits or eggs present
at the time of the first treatment.
New Types of Plants
Are Disease Resistant
Agriculture department scientists
have opened net* fields of adventure
and ~^%ploration in the development
of new type plants.
Their discoveries have been worth
billions of dollars to American farm
ers. One of the most recent of these
point, toward the development of a
disease resistant tobacco through the
crossing of American types with
others.
Not all plant scientists work over
test tubes and microscopes in big
office buildings. The department
sends men all over the world in search
of new kinds of plants. Others work in
fields to adapt plants to American soil
and climate.
Bureau of plant industry scientists
returned four years ago with nativf
tobaccos collected in Mexico, Central
and South America. Many of those
were crossed with American-type tobac
cos end the result has been amazing
even to the scientists.
Rural Briefs
Lightweight barley can be fed
profitably to hogs, it is pointed out by
the South Dakota experiment station.
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Family vegetable gardens are
called “the most valuable area on
the farm” by leading home econo
mists.
• • •
Of the 13 minerals, required by the
anim^ body, salt is the only one
generally lacking in the farm ani.
mal die*
No sooner is the June bride back
from her honeymoon, than the busi
ness of cooking for two begins!
Feeding her new husband will be an
important part of the bride’s respon
sibility, and any of the successful
homemakers she knows can tell her
that perfectly cooked meals for a
hungry husband help to keep the
matrimonial ship sailing merrily
along.
So, why not a kitchen shower for
a bride—using for gifts the inexpen
sive little “gadg
ets” that will
make her hours
in the kitchen
pleasant? Those
are the things the
bride isn’t likely
'to buy herself and
1 the very fact that
they are small and inexpensive
means that she isn’t apt to get
them, either, among her wedding
gifts.
Small, matching pottery pots for
chives and parsley to grow on a sun
ny kitchen window sill, make a
thoughtful gift tor a kitchen show
er; a set of pastel tinted bowl cov
ers is practical and very moderate
ly priced; butter paddles, a french
potato ball cutter and small earth
enware pots for baking beans are
| out-of-the-ordinary kitchen gifts.
' Any bride will bless you for starting
; her kitchen library for her—with her
own copies of my homemaking book-
! lets; Better Baking, Easy Entertain-
! ing, Feeding Father and Household
Hints.
And speaking of a kitchen library
—why not start a collection of fa
vorite recipes for the bride? Have
each guest at the shower bring her
very choicest recipe, neatly writ
ten on a card for the bride’s new
recipe box, with the donor’s name
and the date of the party just for
fun. Give her the recipes, Ux , that
1 make up the menu for the day.
i Food, for a kitchen shower, should
be “homey,” and informally served
—and planned to give the bride sug
gestions for her own cooking and
baking problems.
Menu for a Kitchen Shower.
Noodle and Tuna Casserole
Spring Vegetable Salad
with French Dressing
Butter
Orange Rolls Cheese Scones
Angel Food Cake
Strawberry Sherbet
Coffee
Fresh Strawberry Sherbet.
(Serves 6.)
Combine 1 cup of crushed straw
berries and 2 tablespoons of lemon
juice. Scald 1 pint
of milk, add %
cup of sugar and
stir until dis
solved. Soak 1 ta
blespoon of unfla
vored gelatin in 1
tablespoon of cold
water for 5 min
utes and dissolve in hot milk. Add
2 beaten egg yolks, blend, and re
move from flame and cool. Add
fruit mixture to milk mixture and
fold in 2 beaten egg whites. Assem
ble ice cream freezer. Pour sher
bet mixture into the freezing con
tainer. Adjust dasher and cover
tightly. Then fill the ice chamber
with a mixture of 3 parts chipped
ice and 1 part salt and turn crank
slowly for about 5 minutes to freeze.
Repack and allow to harden.
Orange Rolls.
(Makes 18-20 rolls)
% cup sugar
1 teaspoon orange peel (grated)
2V4 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
Vi teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
4 tablespoons shortening
1 egg
V4 cup milk
3 tablespoons butter (melted)
Mix Vi cup sugar and orange peel
thoroughly and allow to stand while
making rolls. Sift and measure the
flour, then sift together the flour,
baking powder, salt and 1 tablespoon
sugar. Cut in the shortening. Beat
the egg slightly and add the milk.
Stir into the flour mixture. Turn
onto a lightly floured board and
knead 30 seconds. Shape into a
long narrow roll and roll out into a
rectangle to about Vi-inch thickness.
Spread the dough with the melted
butter and the sugar and orange
peel mixture. Roll up like jelly roll
and cut off in Vi-inch pieces. Place
rolls, cut side down, on a well-
Fruits and vegetables are the
mainstays of summer meals.
Watch Eleanor Howe's column
next week for suggestions on New
Ways of preparing and serving
them.
greased pan and bake about 20 min
utes in a hot oven (425 degrees).
Barbecued Steak.
(Serve 8.)
2 pounce round steak
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons vinegar
Vi teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon prepared .mustard
1 teaspoon onion, grated
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon chili sauce
V4 teaspoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon brown sugar
Cut steak into pieces for serving
and sear in frying pan. Melt but
ter, add vinegar and all other ingre
dients. Heat thoroughly and pour
over the seared steaks. Bake in a
moderate oven (350 degrees) for ap
proximately 1V4 hours. Baste fre
quently with barbecue sauce while
baking.
Prize Angel Food Cake.
1V4 cups sugar
1 cup cake flour
IVi cups egg whites
Vi teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
I teaspoon vanilla extract
Sift sugar once. Add V4 cup of it
to the flour and sift together 3 times.
Beat egg whites
with rotary beat
er until frothy,
add salt and
cream of tartar
and continue •top*—*?
beating until eggs ' w ' lr
hold their shape. Add sugar gradu
ally, beating thoroughly after each
addition. Add vanilla extract. Then
fold in the flour, Vi at a time. When
all flour is in, fold a few additional
times. Then place in large un
greased angel-food pan. Bake in a
moderate oven (325 degrees) for 1
hour and 15 minutes. Invert and let
cool in pan.
French Dressing.
V4 cup salad oil
Vi cup lemon juice or vinegar
1 teaspoon salt
Paprika to color
Few grains cayenne
Place ingredients in covered jar.
Chill thoroughly. Just before serv
ing shake vigorously. There are
many ways to vary french dress
ing. The acid may be lemon juice,
vinegar, or half and half. A few
drops of onion juice may be added,
or shake a cut garlic clove with the
dressing (removing it before serv
ing). Dry mustard may be added.
Worcestershire sauce may also be
added, as may creamed roquefort
cheese.
Cheese Scones.
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Vi teaspoon salt
Vi teaspoon paprika
Vi cup shortening
Vi cup American cheese (grated)
% cup milk
2 teaspoons prepared mustard
Sift together the flour, baking pow
der, salt and paprika. Cut in
shortening. Add cheese. Then add
milk and prepared mustard which
have been mixed together. Roll out
to Vi-inch thickness on lightly floured
board. Cut in triangles and bake in
a hot oven (425 degrees) for about
20 minutes.
Percolated Coffee.
Allow 1 tablespoon ground coffee
to each cup of water. Place coffee
in strainer part of percolator. Add
cold water. Adjust top. Heat until
coffee just begins to percolate.
Then turn heat very low and allow
coffee to percolate slowly 8 to 10
minutes. Do not boil.
Homemaking Booklets to the
June Bride.
These four practical booklets on
homemaking are an ideal present
for a new bride:
Better Baking 10 cents
Easy Entertaining 10 cents
Feeding Father 10 cents
Household Hints 10 cents
Send 10 cents in coin for each
book you order, to Eleanor Howe,
919 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois, and be sure to indicate ex
actly which books you want.
(Released by Western Newsnaper Union.)
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Strange Facts
t 'Blow Out? Torpedo 1
Intricate Accounting "
New Shinto Mass
C. On some German destroyers,
torpedoes are fired with the
mouth. With his eyes at the range
finder and his hands on the tube
aiming controls, the gunner mere
ly has to blow into a “peashooter”
to actuate the trigger.
C. One electrical accounting ma
chine on the market today, only 47
inches long, 38 inches wide and 43
inches high, contains 55,000 parts
and more than 75 miles of wire.
C Despite rationing, the food con
sumption of a country at war in
creases about 20 per cent, due
principally to the fact that army
recruits develop bigger appetites
because of their increased physi
cal activity.
C A new kind of Shinto mass has
been established in Japan. After
an airplane accident, Shinto
priests fly over the spot and wave
branches of sacred trees to put to
flight the evil spirits responsible
for the disaster.—Collier’s.
Hold the Tongue
Never hold any one by the but
ton or the hand in order to be
heard out; for if people are un
willing to hear you, you had better
hold your tongue than them.—
Lord Chesterfield.
| Fast-working, poir-
V erful because ex-
1 tra-medicated. Rub
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Gentle Speech
It is difficult to say how much
men’s minds are conciliated by a
kind manner and gentle speech.—
Cicero.
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Daylight Cheer
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind ol
daylight in the mind, and fills it
with a steady and perpetual seren
ity.
.WANTED! WOMEN.
r 38 to 62 yra. old, who are restless,
moody, nervous, fear hot flashes,
dizzy spells, to take Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound. Fa
mous in helping women go smiling
thru “trying times” due to func
tional “irregularities.” Try ill
Not Now .
“I don’t think I look thirty. Do
you, dear?”
“No, darling, but you used to.”
WINGS OF C001NES5 FOX
TIRED FEET THAT HURT WITH
HEAT. DUST ON FAMOUS
MEXICAN HEAT POWDER.
WNU—7
23—40
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