Show OUR OCR FLAG probably at no time in the history of the united states has there been sudi a display of the national colo colors as there is at this time they meet mee the 1 I eye everywhere and their meaning ia x y 4 realized as ae never before it may therefore be of 0 interest tw to know at this time that the stars anal stripes Is an older flag fla g than th that at ot many of the other great natio nations ns taa union jack the present bri british 71 em 9 blem dates from 1801 the breloh Br re enOh tyll tricolor color was adopted in recent y yeara 34 and the german and italian ba banners I 1 IVIL u axe are no older than the existing adman of those countries the spanish flag was first established in 1785 on june 14 1777 the Con continent tinen congress passed its ita memorable resol tion that the flag of the united a be thirteen stripes alternate red a white and that the union be th thorten stars white in a blue field rep represents ressen ing a new bonstell constellation atlon it was atte after ward decided to add a star for e edew new state admitted to the union b bis this is the only change that has made from the form adopted by ath thoad men who were prominent in estai buSh j ing the government |