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Show 1 Class of 1879 at Annapolis naval academy marching to the mess hall as they did fifty years ago. - View of North Haven harbor, entrance to little Maine town where Lindbergh and Miss Morrow may be married. 3 George W. Wiikersham, chairman of Bresldent Hoovers law enforcement commission. task In persuading the senate to accept the bill with that feature omitted. tling. Prices of rail stock soared with a rush of buying orders, but the advances were cut In half by liquidation in industrial stocks. of the RECENT disclosures International irvtne l. Former senator appointment to a fed- Presidents Law Enforce- ment Commission Begins Its Great Investigation. By EDWARD W. PICKARD HOOVER'S WATSON S FLAG DAY, 11)29, approaches It Is Interesting to note By ELMO SCOTT that this year marks the fortieth anniversary of ttie series of events which led to the establishment of June 14 as a day for a national observance In 7 honor of the Sturs and Stripes. The story of how a New York newspaper had a part in bringing this about Is told by George 11. .Brennan In a letter to Editor and Publisher as follows: The observance of Flag Day this year has revived the mooted questtor of the origin of the public display of the national colors on public buildings and on public schools of the United States. Who wus responsible for this glorious gesturing? W hat Impetus generated this universal waving of the Stars and Stripes? 1 feel emboldened to attempt an answer In your columns as to ho startand the ed the patriotic ball It Is just thirty-eigpatriotic tlags yeais ago this summer since the old New York Press atoused this country with its flag propaganda. 1 have recently, to fortify my memory, examined the bound tiles of the New York Press for 188k now In the New Yortc Public Library.. Frankly, 1 was astonished at the conditions of public neglect therln set forth and the unanimity of distinguished pnblic opinion developed in the flag propaganda of the Press. The New York Press was then owned by a group of which James Phillips, Jr., of Fitchburg, Mass.; James R. Doudge of New York, and George West of Ballston, N Y., weie leading (lgures. Mr. Phillips had induced Clement M Hammond, assistant managing editor of the Uostoq Globe, to become managing director of the New York Press, and Mr. Hammond had brought with him Thomas C Quinn, also of the Poston Globe, as managing editor of the Press Fred F. Burgin was city editor of the Press, and Louis J. Lang, later the biographer of Thomas C Platt, and now a valued member of Mr. Jlearst's forces, was acting Washington correspondent. As 1 was aware at the time, the flag display Idea was Mr. Quinn's and the work of convincing the Washington authorities for official sanction as to public buildings was Mr. Lang's. The propaganda encompassed the entire country with expressions of exultfrom governors, conant gressmen, clergymen, school teachers, and other Influential characters of the day. In July, 1889, William Wlndom, secretary of the treasury, and John 'Wananutker, then postmaster general, were convinced, and from that day to this the Stars and Stripes have been displayed on every public building In the United States every day during office hours In the rules of the Navy Department there had been from early times a rule for the display of the flag on public buildings of that department but this rule had fallen Into more or tes disobservance following the Civil war. Such dissimilar characters as Kev Dr McArthur and Father McGlynn were aroused to leadership for the display of the flag on public schoolhouser that glorious practice that ts now a dally Inspiration. The Press was not wholly satisfied evidently with the way that the then board of education of the city at first carried out Its flag Idea for on Tuesday, September 10. 188k the day after the opening of the schools that year, ts news story carried this significant paragraph. "At every schoolhouse In the cit the day was honored by the display of the American flag, either on the flagstaff or draped above the principals desk ,The one notable exception was at the board of education In Grand treet where there Is a flagstaff on the top of the building supplied with In spite of all the rope necessary this, the flag did not float there yesterday. This hint was effective Soon afterwards public school boards throughout the nation followed suit, usually one newspaper In each vicinity claiming the honor of causing the action but the credit In the first Instance ht New Cinema Screen Cinemas In three dimensions, a problem on which several fortunes have been spent In recent years, are achieved In an entirely new way by an English inventor who has (level oped a motion picture screen which bas for its surface 900,000 tiny gluss lenses, each barely a quarter of au Inch across. The screen Is made by first coating the usual surface with a thick layer of white lend and then PRESIDENT belongs to New York City and to the New York Press. The yenr 18S9 was many years prior to the agitation of Flag Day and long before Samuel Adams published his delightful volume entitled The Dramatic Story of Old Glory. Tills movement to display the flag on everj federal building had the in dorseinent of President Benjamin Harrison who later had u leading part in another patriotic gesture connected with the (lag. Bv a joint resolution IS'. 2, congress reapproved June solved. "That the President of the United Slides lie authorized and directed to issue a proclamation recommending to flip people the observance In ail their loealities of the four hundred) anniversary of the discovery of America, on October 21. 1892, by public demonstrations and by suitable exercises In their schools and other places of assembly. Accordingly, President Harrison Is sued a proclamation dated July 1, 1892. designating October 21 (not Oc- - Our Stainless Flag battlements and ramparts in the days of heat and strife. When Freedom, wrapped In swaddling clothes, looked smilingly at life, f) Old Calory waived, all radiant with trl j umph and success, No blemish lurked within her (olds to ft mar her loveliness. And hearts aflame with pass! cm tor L freedoms holy reign Did horeags to Old Glory the fist t! without a stain O'er Tho I It ia a a $ i ( Rsi tta tyrants still imperil eoverifo peo- - .fv pies as of yore, Tbo foes of law and order would unleash the dogs of war, The emblem of our freedom boldly ripples in the breeze And burls defiance at the autocrats across the seas. And hearts aflame with passion for freedoms holy reign Da homage to Old Glory the flag without a stain! rna fJ A r J f A if Jj. Oh. may the glorious Stars and Stripes forever and a day ,j To worthy deeds of righteousness and honor lead the way, And may our childrens children learn to reverence and prize The precious gift our noble sires bad purchased from the skies. Then hearts aflame with passion for freedom's holy reign Shall magnify Old Glory the flag without a stain! Frederick Theodors BasteL tuber 12) as a general holiday. On that day, said the President, "let the people, so far as possible, cense from toil and devote themselves to such exercises as may best express honor to the Discoverer and their appreciation of the great achievements of the four completed centuries of American life Columbus stood in his age as the pio neer of progress and enlightenment The system of universal education Is In our age the most pronuneni and salutary feature of the spirit of en llghtenment, nnd It Is peculiarly appro prime that the schools be made by the people the center of the days demonstration l.et the National Flag float over every schoolhouse In the country, and the exercises be such us shall Impress upon our youth the pa the glass globules to this white lend coaling. This work Is careful? done by hand. The stereoscopic effect Is then oh mined with ordinary Him aud a staud ard projector, for the myriad tiny lenses split up the light Into hundreds of thouMtcIs of minute beams which are lmli tldually magnified on the screen so that each lens gives depth in relief and produces the Illusion that the spectator Is looking around the object photographed. 1opnlnr Mechanics Magazine. affixing New York. The photograph shows (left to right) Catherine H. Dodge, grandniece of Francis Scott Key, and Mrs. Laura Brisk, mother of Flag day, on the mall in Central park where the One Hundred ar.d Fourteenth birthday of Old Glory was celebrated with patriotic music and Impressive ceremonies last year. S trlotic duties of American citizen ship. The state superintendents of education held their meeting that year in Brooklyn, N. Y. They appointed a committee of five to prepare a program for universal use on October 21. Four members of this committee were state superintendents; the fifth was Francis Bellamy, member of the editorial staff of tlie Youth's Companion. Upon the request of James P. one of the proprietors of the Youth's Companion, BellunTy wrote the words which are now variously known as the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. the Flag Pledge," and the Salute to the Flag. The pledge as written by Bellamy is: I pledge allegiance to my flag, and to the Republic for which it stands: one nation Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Cp-ha- enforcement has been appointed and is about to begin Its momentous task of Investigating the evll3 and failures of federal judicial procedure. The Iresident'8 selections for membership on this important body have met with warm approval. Its chairman is George W. Wicker-sham- , attorney general of the United States during the Taft administration. The' others are Frank J. Loeseh, assistant state's attorney of Chicago; William S. Kenyon of Iowa. United D States circuit judge; Newton Baker of Cleveland, secretary of war under Wilson ; Rosooe Bound, dean of the Harvard law school; William A. Grubb of Alabama, United States district judge ; Paul ' J. McCormick of United States district California, Judge; Kenneth R. Mackintosh of Seattle, former chief Justice of the Washington state Supreme court; Monte M Lemann, president of the Louisiana Rar association; Henry W. Anderson of Richmond Va United Statfs member of Mexican claims commission, and Miss Ada I.. Comstock, president of Radeliffe college, Boston. With the exception of Miss every one of these Is an eminent lawyer, and three of them, Loeseh, Baker and Bound, have had Bpecial experience in crime Investigation. The one woman on the commission Is also the sole representative of the laity, and some regret has bpen expressed that there Is no one to share with her this great responsibility. Not one of the memlters has been actively Identified with either the wets or the drys, although Judge Kenyon Is generally regarded as the champion of the prohibitionists. Three of the commissioners. Baker, Grubb and Lemann, are Democrats. Though the scope of the commission's activities is by no means limited to Inquiry Into enforcement of the prohibition laws, this phase of the Investigation Is looked upon as the most Important and It Is certain to be the most Interesting to the people of America. Already the dry nnd wet organizations are marshaling their forces and preparing to' present before the commission all the facts and Mr. arguments at their command. Hoover Invited the members of the commission to eat luncheon at the White House and listen to his outline of the scope and purposes of their inquiry. Corn-stoc- According to Bellamy's own story, he wrote the pledge at the office of the Youth's Companion one evening In August, 1S92, while James P. waited outside the door for him to do it. This Incident probably gave rise to the story that Uphnm himself wrote the pledge. After appearing In Up-ha- m the program prepared by the state superintendents for use on Columbus day. 1892. the pledge was approved by many patriotic organizations and was finally adopted In schools through out the United States until it is now regarded as almost an official part of our public school procedure. Many educators later objected to my flag In the pledge With the large number of foreign born pupils In our schools that phrase, says the United States Bureau of Education. Is clearly ambiguous Consequently the pledge has been Informally revised. The var sion now most widely used Is: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and (o the Republic for which It tttunds: one nation Indivisible, with liberty and Justice for all. The next step In the story of tke development of Flag day ts the story of Mrs. Laura B. Brisk, known as the Mother of Flag Day. In 1910 Mrs Brisk, who was editor of the Batrl-otlInstructor in New York, suggested setting aside June 14, the anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes hv the Continental congress as the flag of the United States, as Flag day. Her suggestion was for warded by the Daughters of the Amer lean Revolution In New York, to Bres Ident Woodrow Wilson. In response to the request Bresldent Wilson Issued a proclamation on May 13. 1918, deslg nating June 14 of each yenr ns Flag day. and since that time It has so been observed. D AILROADS of the country won a great victory when the Supreme court of the United States handed down its decision In the fumous St, Louis A OFallon railroad case which on behalf of that obscure little coal road had been fought through all the courts. The Immediate object was to have set aside an order Issued by the Interstate commerce commission calling for a refund of a part of Its earnings, coming under what is known as the recapture clause of the transportation act, permitting railroads to ref of their earnings In extain cess of 6 per cent, and requiring them to pay over to the government the other half. Reversing a lower court decision and annulling the order, the Supreme court decided that the interstate commerce commission must revise its whole method of valuing railroads to reach a basis for rate making. Years of work by the commission must be Female li Larger done over again In full or In part. The female of ninny species of fish Present values and the cost of regrows to a larger size than the male placements must be considered by the commission In setting the basis of This Is particularly true of the mus railroad compensation, the court ruled. birds the Among game kelltinge The This replaces the 1919 valuation now female often takes preeminence Justices hen Jack snipe Is bigger than the used by the commission. male, for example. Brandels, Holmes and Stone dissented. Division of Labor At first It was believed this decision Daughter's Idea of being helpful would bring about higher passenger around the house Is to run (he radh and freight rates, but later this was while mother Is running the vacuum denied. The Immediate effect on the cleaner. Cincinnati Enoulrer. New York Stock exchange was star e one-hal- eral judgeship was finally confirmed by the senate despite the determined opposition of a number of radicals. Soon thereafter a newspaper published vvliat purported to he the roll cull by which tills uctlon was taken In executive session, and this stirred up a row that has resulted in the barring of news service reporters from the floor of the senate. This step was taken by the rules committee and reported to the senate with a resolution censuring the unnamed senator or senate employee who had disclosed the roll call. After considerable discussion, Vice President Curtis announced that while news service reporters have been accorded the privilege of the floor by courtesy for half a century or more, the rule specifying the persons entitled to admission will be rigidly enforced in the future. r'nl.I.OWING Colonel Lindbergh's I flight in his amphibian plane to North Haven, Maine, carrying his fiancee, Anne Morrow; her mother and two sisters, the news developed that the youngest of the girls, Constance, had received extortion letters threatening her life if SoO.otHI were not paid to the writer. Constance got two of these notes at Milton academy, West-worMass., where she Is a sophomore. AiLuwtatv vqli the extortioner by a decoy package failed, and at this writing Ills or her identity has not been discovered. For several days the Morrow family, heavily guarded by special officers, remained on their North Haven estate, nnd then Colonel Lindbergh took them all to New York In his plane. n, GOVERNOR'S ISLAND and part of district of New York were theoretically devastated by bombs dropped by the armys huge Keystone bomber which made a nonstop (light of 800 miles from the headquarters of the army air maneuvers Next day the at Fairfield, Ohio. bomber returned to the metropolis accompanied by a sinnller biplane from which It was successfully refueled while In flight HUNDRED AND clergymen, educators and leaders of religious thought in Great Brifuin and American have issued what is entitled A Message to the Churches nnd to All It Is an apPeople of Good Will. peal for better understanding between the American and British peoples, and expresses the hope that all war may soon be abolished. The signers pledge themselves to accept in spirit and in fact the words of the Kellogg treaty ; to discountenance any and all expressions or acts which contemplate as possible the use of any but pacific means for the settlement of disputes or conflicts: and to do our utmost to rally all men and women of good will to unite with ns In this same determination. ONE Britlsh-Amerlca- V WT1ILE the senate and v n house con- - ferees continued In deadlock over the export debenture scheme In the senate's farm relief measure, the Republican members of the house tried to fix up their tariff bill so It would be assured of passage. There was a lot of log rolling and various trades were engineered. It was said duties would be placed on hides, leather and shoes and those on a number of farm products Increased. Every effort wus being made by the leaders to prevent a vote on the floor of the house on amendments for a reduction in the proposed duty on sugar or for the restoration of cement, brick, shingles and lumber to the free list The Michigan automobile Industry together with other Industries using alcohol, such as manufacturers of drugs and paints, were reported to have triumphed over Illinois and Iowa corn growers who have been seeking a duty on blackstrap roolnsses high enough to stimulate the use of corn in the manufacture of alcohol. In the matter of the farm relief measure, the house conferees were Insistent that there he no vote In tli6 house on the debenture plan, while the senators argued earnestly that such a vote would make easier their Paper the and Bower company in financing news- papers, made during the investigation Inby the federal trade commission, Neof Norris Senator George spired braska to deliver in the senate a long address in which he urged legislation to prevent the acquisition of newspapers by public utilities concerns and to curb the expansion of The Nebraskan such corporations. scored Bresldent Hoover for putting I .enroot on the federal customs appeals bench, and bitterly denounced Samuel Insull, the Chicago public utility magnate. Mr. Norris said he believed every newspaper in the country has had tha opportunity to sell out to the power trust, the existence of which he has been declaring for years, and passionately pleaded with publishers to reject thp offers of the power magnates so that the country might have a free press. Beru are immensely by the settlement of the dispute, which was CHILE and old Tacna-Aric- a formally announced In Washington. The agreement reached was that proposed by Bresldent Hoover. Under its terms Tama Is awarded to Peru and Arica to Chile. The city of Arica, the only port of call for steamers on the Tacnn-Arlc- a coastline, is awarded to Chile, but Beru is to have the rights of a free port there. Chile has agreed to erect a rairoad station, a custom house, and a wharf at Arica for the use of Beru. Chile also agrees to pay Beru 88.000,000. Bolivia which had hoped for an outlet to the sea through the port of Arica, alone is dissatisfied with the settlement. DOOR old China seems to be on the T verge of another great civil war. Gen. Chiang head of the Nationalist government, and Gen. Feng Yu hsinng, the Christian general, have reached the parting of the ways and at last reports were about ready for armed operations against each other. At present the trouble Is centered about Canton. Just what it is all about is difficult to understand at this distance, but Feng accuses Chiang of a desire to dominate the country, asserts his government Is "illegal nnd warns foreign consuls against lending him assistance. Kai-she- r ALBERT VOEGI.ER, secretary of the German Federation of In- R. dustries, has resigned from the German committee of the conference of reparations experts and departed from Paris, which led to fears that the conference would be a complete failure. In any event It seemed certain the negotiations, if not broken off, would be greatly prolonged. Germany had accepted the American compromise plnn with certain conditions, and the allied nations had practically accepted these conditions, but with reservations. The Germans indicated four of the reservations of the allies were almost totally Inacceptnble and that they would yield no further, and the allies stated that their limit had been reached. C'OREIGN ministers of the little en- tente held a conference In Belgrade In which, according to official announcement, a complete accord was reached on all questions. A treaty of arbitration was signed and the other treaties among the nations were proThe nations nil entered prolonged. test against any reduction of reparations amounts. rEATIIS of the week Included those of Earl Roseherry, veteran statesman and former prime minister of Grent Britain; Eliza Hensler, ninety-three, the American-bormorganatic wife of Ferdinand of king consort of Portugal half a century ago; and Rebecca Ewing Watterson, widow of Henry Watter-sotiie famous Kentucky Journalist. n Saxe-Cohur- g, n, TMIE society of the League of Na- tions at The Hague has awarded Grotitis medals to Frank B. Kellogg, former secretary of state, and Sir Eric Drummond The Grotlas modal was instituted tn 192.7, to he granted o.. h year thereafter to ton persons for work done in the promotion of peace. |