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Show How the U. S. Flag Was Adopted 6a m r a R a P-4 te Pa P a Pa M THE flag of the United States la one of the oldest In the world. It Is older than Britain's Bri-tain's "Union Jack" and the French trl-color. It was officially adopted by the Continental congress of the United States on June 14, 1777, and has since been honored throughout the world. The Information available on the origin of the American flag, says a writer In the Washington Post, Is more a matter of tradition than of history. It Is an emblem born of strife, at the time when England's colonies were struggling to obtain fairer treatment and a larger measure meas-ure of liberty. The alms of this struggle were not clearly defined In the beginning. The Declaration of Independence, a notable document promulgated on July 4, 1770, which has earned the admiration of many statesmen In various parts of the world, did not come until many Important Im-portant battles had been fought In these, the Americans followed varl- n A! ; l N" j ho lv ...'.' - - - ' : : I Salute to the Flag Daily Custom at All Army Posts. ous colors, whose lack of uniformity uniform-ity bespoke the lack of clear-cut alms, of definite purposes, which for the moment prevailed, but were I soon to disappear. I From this restlessness, from this turmoil emerged the United States; emerged the Declaration of Independence and the Stars and Stripes. This flag, according to tradition, tra-dition, had a very humble origin. It was first fashioned, we are told, by a group of Americans besieged In a fort, from the clolhlng of the soldiers and from material fur nihed by empty ammunition bngs. The flag of the United States consists of 13 horizontal alternated stripes, seven red and six white, ami of a canton placed in the up-Por up-Por corner nearest tin, flagstaff In which appear on a blue Hold as "inny whlto slurs ns there are slates tlu Union. Ono of the llrst places, posslt.lv ho first, over which the American Ml' w"s hoisted was Fort Stan-wlx. Stan-wlx. The silo of x9 oll, f()r now occupied by the giant sky-sornpers sky-sornpers of New York city, which. , furnish an excellent symbol of the '"iKl't, of th Rrealm-ss of , United Slates |