Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-12 | Page 18 | [Untitled]

cC aiMKPi&feeT E JoHN PAUL JoNssJv1 WY E ztzoutfvH friht ci?ehTeo fue u.. PlAfl PPichRs on trie M AK6 PA66 rVtrte fcPflaHTMtHTOfdtfUN PPiUtiioHCft"0 tw Recewro Fixer smra fRofA a foRgian mation i WMAWAnTsJ; lP(OlffeKT colors JONES AND THE FLAG . . . "That flag and I are twins, born the lame hour In the record of the Continental conirreas on and the same day out of the womb of destiny. We June 14, 1777, was written the j-esolution that ere- cannot be parted In life or death. So long as we S27'wt.Y- can f.oat w. .hail fioat together. w. must sin,, the union be 13 stars, white on a blue field, repre- we shall gown down as one. enting a constellation." Three weeks later this strange "twinship" was Strange as It seems, on the page of the records further borne out when Captain Jones hoisted the in which this momentous resolution was written Stars and Stripes over his ship, the Ranger, on appears, by a fitting coincidence, the appointment the first anniversary of the Declaration of Inde- of Paul Jones, as a captain in the American navy. pendence the first time the American flag was When the yojhg officer was informed of this fact ever raised on a man-of-war. It led him to declare: Copyright, 137, for The Telegram.