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THE KANSAS CITY TIMES FRIDAY JUNE 14 1957 J'2 CTME MfirtUng KANSAS CITY STAR) (Elis lanjgajS City FLAGS OF THE REVOLUTION Heritage Civilization hen Bets Bess on homespun rrr I A I was not there lake It 4 Emblazoned stars was net there The Morning Issue of The Star Established October 19 1901 William Roekhill Nelson exchange tours for the Bolshoi group and the Philadelphia orchestra It would be naive to assume that such visits are going to solve any of the world's great problems But the American people we believe can resist the ideological lures of Communist culture And if such cultural exchanges should promote even the least bit of understanding a tense world would be that much better off The Kansas City Star Company Owner and Publisher And proudly showed her handiwork For young America to view was not there when John Paul Jones Unfurled the fisc in seventy-seven And from a tj ship-of-war First raised the Stars and Stripes to heaven was not there upon the night When from the pen of Francis Key Rolled forth his bold immortal hymn Of faith and hope and victory Today I share their zealous pride As our flag waves from every mast The symbol of our freedom won The emblem of our glorious past I Vioua Zumault Kansas City 8 Mo Telephone HA 1-1200 Want Ad Dept Only Telephone BA 1-5500 The Kansas City Star 1729 Grand Avenue FRIDAY JUNE 14 1957 By Dorothy Thompson 'jV'OBODY including all the i scientists and all the politicians says that the contamination of the atmosphere from radioactive fall-out is good for the human and other species on this planet They are only cautious about exactly how bad it is: how much radioactivity can be increased without hastening death and guaranteeing that the descendants of the exposed will be deformed moronic or otherwise blighted At the same time they say tlt the medical use of X-rays concentrated on the reproductive organs of person of childbearing age should be avoided except in cases of absolute necessity Radioactivity isn't the only threat however Cigarette smoking can give you lung cancer So can the fumes from motor car exhausts and the smog from industrial plants Food experts tell us that we are undermining the race by the processing of the food wr eat the vital elements being removed or killed by steriliza tion Modern agricultural methods are slowly but surely ruining the soil say the organic farmers nu i i u- i Thus the air we breathe Philadelphia Similar to the the fnod wc eal the beverages The Mayflower II Arrives It is unfortunate that the Mayflow-er II had to be towed into Provincetown harbor by a Coast Guard tug But Capt Alan Villiers and his crew7 don't need to be ashamed No one doubts their seamanship or the fact that they could have brought the ship in under her own sails The original Mayflower didn't have to contend with the schedules of publicity committees and welcoming dignitaries The Mayflow'er II has reached its intended destination which is more than you could say for the Pilgrims and the London company people on the first voyage Those aboard the Mayflower I thought they were headed for Virginia And of course their stay in the Provincetown area was considerably longer The 1520 Pilgrims wandered around the bleak sandy soil of Cape Cod for nearly a month before they set off across the bay for what they were to call Plymouth Villiers made the 23-mile trip after a pause of just a few hours Now the Mayflower II is here and it is a nice gesture on the partof the British people who paid for it with voluntary contributions And the progeny of the 1957 crew and passengers will be able to claim proudly and without fear of contradiction that their ancestors came over on the Mayflower THOU HAST LACKED NOTHING For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in alt the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the Iorri thy God hath been with thee thou hast lacked nothing Deuteronomy II 7 The Kansas City chapter of the Sons of the Revolution possesses replicas of 18 of the varied flags carried in the Revolution They are pictured here and described in the article below Ralph Innis jr flag custodian of the chapter displays a reproduction of the flag made by Betsy Ross for Gen Philip Schuyler By Albert Hindman Flag of Bunker Hill- Blue the battle of Bennington Vt on August 18 1778 Flag of Old Congress Hall BEFORE the Continental with w'hite canton containing Congress adopted the Cross of St George Flown at Stars and Stripes 180 yearsjthe battle of Bunker Hill ago today there were many General Betsy flags in Colonial America Ross Flag Personally ordered These flags were carried in by General Philip Schuyler of many battles alongside the New York from Betsy Ross in we drink the tobacco and pa- Grand Union flag except that shortly after she made official flag and dif- little from the latter that the stars are Missouri Notes Wake Up The Missouri News magazine one of the efforts of the Division of Resources and Develop ment of Missouri is being suspended because of the slash in appropriations for that department Some 6000 copies of the magazine were issued monthly and it was a valuable contribution to publicizing Missouri in other states It also was 'popular among its readers in Missouri Demand for the magazine exceeded the supply evidence of popularity Even more important than suspension of the magazine is the trend it represents The Post-Tribune at Jefferson City says: monthly publication is one of the first state services to feel Ihe bite of rigid budgeting of the 69th General Assembly In all the Legislature lopped $57675 from the agency's operating funds Salary appropriation requests were also trimmed the case of the Division of Resources and Development the budget cutting is false economy a limited budget the division has done an excellent job over the years It was far ahead of many other states Many of its techniques were copied and used by others But while some other states have increased their state promotional budgets 10 times greater than the Legislature continues to dole out insufficient fupds to the agency suspension of the Missouri News magazine will mark only the first cut in services of the division Other essential operations of the agency will have to be curtailed or cut off entirely observer summed up the dilemma this way: other stales are go-ing out to get the people to visit or establish businesses or industries in the state we're sitting back stands to Jose greatly by the suspension of the Missouri News magazine a well edited publication which was compensating the state far beyond the $24000 needed yearly to publish it has seven white and six red per we inhale even the medi-stripes and a blue canton on cines we take are dooming which appears a representa-de race- Soonei Or later na tion of the Great Seal of the ure catch up writh us and United States take hpr revenge The Franklin Flag-One of! Ils veTy possiWe hat his several atlemptrd reproduc-jlo do about il? tions of the Betsy Ross flag and one of at least three Revolutionary flags which John Paul Jones carried when he defeated the British warship Serapis Flag of 2nd New7 Hampshire Regiment Buff field with 13 interlaced rings in center with two crosses in upper left corner This flag was with General Washington w'hen he made his historic crossing of Everyone (apparently) is for for But the industrial use of atomic energy also has hazards nobody has yet discovered a really safe method of disposing of atomic waste Unless we are to become a nation of subsistence farmers we go on eating processed foods If the vital elements are killed by pasteurizing milk Stars and Stripes The Kansas City chapter of the Sons of the Revolution now possess reproductions of 16 made of except nylon mounted on staffs and larger measuring approximately 54 by 72 inches Each flag has been given by a member in honor of a relative who served in the armed forces The colonial flags owned by the Kansas City chapter are described here: The Continental or Grand Union Flag Really the first flag of the colonies although it was unofficial It consisted1 1777 the first fering in in the in the w7as used The Pine Crescent Flag of South Carolina Blue with crescent upper left corner Used defense of Ft Sullivan Charleston harbor against British in June 1776 It the first American flag by the South Pine Tree Wolves Tree Flag Massachu Pine Tree flag as the Delaware river on Christ- ve'v dements in raw of 13 stripes alternately red essentially a New England banner There were at least and hite with a blue field in the upper left corner bearing seven varees displayed in the crosses of St George andlear'v sea engagements of St Andrew still signifying 775 and 1776 and in many union with England When the engagements on land Continental army came into The Rattlesnake Flag The being in January 1776 the coded rattlesnake on a yellow Grand Union flag was its field with the words milk cause (say other experts) pndulant fever Without chemical fertilizers some nations could not feed half their people and starvation is also unhealthy Cities natural atomic targets with their traffic smoke fumes and crowds continue to draw7 our people from countryside and villages Everything has its price world power an easy life mas night 1776 Maryland Version Flag of 3rd Maryland Regiment Similar to Betsy Ross flag except it shows one star in center of circle of 12 stars Flag of the 2nd Connecticut Regiment Red field on which is traced the arms of Connecticut in gold and blue Flag of the Commander in Small Results From Soil Rank Spending By Jay Hayden (Kfjrth America fnper Alhavre) On the same day that the Senate reversed an attempt by the House to end President Eisenhower's soil bank after this year the National City Bank of New York published an analysis showing that this costly device has failed larhentably in its main purpose of reducing production President Eisenhower budgeted $1298-000000 for payments to farmers for taking land out of production during this crop year and the Agriculture department estimated that 23 million acres 8 percent of the 1958 total has been so retired But also the department calculates that production will be almost the same as last year indicative that surpluses and costs of price support which the soil bank was supposed to eliminate or replace may be as big as ever Tread on was used by Commodore Esek Hopkins as commander in chief of the fleet authorized by the Con tinental Congress in 1775 13 ships in all to form a Navy of the United Colonics Headquarters standard Flag of Men Flag of 111th Virginia Regiment Morgans Rifles Buff field with green wreath around date 1776 Captain Daniel Morgan's men from Virginia Chief's Guard White field 'technology and civilization w'ith blue figures of a guard And we are willing to pay it receiving a banner from a' But jvhy do we wish to woman representing Press technological civilization of This is a flag car- on ad the peo-ried hv Washington's corps of Maybe we are exporting 180 superior soldiers especially attached to his person HELLS CANYON OUTRAGES PUBLIC POWER THE words still send some membeis of Congress into a frenzy This power development project in Idano near the Oregon line is the current symbol of the old emotional issue of public vs' private power In other cases we have seen the extremists of private power go off on strange ideological flights But now the public poker wrecking crew is holding the stage with its fulminations This steep canyon on the Snake river is one of the best sites tor hydro-electric dams in the country For years Congress toyed with the idea of meting it a huge public pow7er project at a cost that finally figured above a half billion dollars of tax money When Congress failed to agree on a public power development it accepted the contract with the Idaho Power company which is now at work on a less expensive plan for three smaller dams In that area of Idaho and Oregon most people seem to be happy to see actual construction For years they were given nothing but oratory while the need for a large supply of power became more critical by the year But the progress has only added to the outrage of the Wayne Morse type of public power politicians no they are prepanng to make another fight for the big government dam that would wipe out the private development They are blandly indifferent to the fact that the government has made a contract with the Idaho Power company and millions have already been spent on construction To whip up the excitement the public power crowd is beating the drums over the government ruling wnich permits the company to amortize a large part of its investment for tax purposes in five years This write-off is the encouragement given private business to build expensive facilities needed in the defense program The administration has now taken the view that the encouragement is no longer necessary7 except in special cases The power company's application was made several years ago but the decision was not announced until early this year a case of bad timing It came about the same time as the announcement of the shift in administration policy As for the tax atrangement the critics have some good arguments But it is a comparatively minor side issue There is nothing to justify the wild shouts of After the five years the company will have to pay Aigh taxes for lack of any substantial deduction for amoiuzation If the public power people had their way the taxpayers would have to make an outright expenditure of a half billion dollars and there would be no federal income from the investment THE attack on the project itself is either a cheap political play or dehberately vicious It is cheap politics if the Morse crowd knows there is no chance to put over its proposal It is far more serious if this crowd actually hopes to destroy a solemn contract between the government and the company This if th attitude of men who have no regard for an agreement It shows nothing but hostility to free enterprise or the private ownership of properly And we aren't going along with the people on the other side who oppose all development of public power In many situations government development is the only answer This is particularly true of big dams built primarily for flood control and water storage The common sense answer is to decide on each project according to individual circumstances That's the administration position But the extremists are more concerned with ideologies and politics than with common sense THE ARTS AND UNDERSTANDING vrrE would hardly suspect that a ticket to the Bolshoi theater ballet would dangerously expose a man to Communist doctrine Nor that the Philadelphia orchestra after a tour of Russia would return with dangerous propaganda hidden in the kettle drum But the State department has beer cautious about any reduction in the cultural barrier between East and West The cultural exchange program was cut off by the United States after the Hungarian revolution And with justification But that was last fall and our government has made its point The artificial curtain no longer serves any reasonable purpose that we can see And it does deprive the world of the natural flow of the arts which might promote some understanding between peoples We are pleased to note then that the State department is showing some signs of wavering A 35-point program submitted by the Soviet ambassador is being studied Like all Communist proposals it will have to he studied carefully of course But it seems to contain considerable merit Among other things the program includes Pennsylvania and Maryland Flag This flag 13 white were a terror to the British stars on a blue field flew over because of their deadly marks- General Washington's head-manship' Iquarters during the bitter Flag of 1st Pennsylvania winter at Valley Forge Regiment Broad green field1 Bennington Vermont Flag with red square in center Thirteen alternate white and showing hunter striking lion red stripes and 13 w7hite with spear Carried by the stars on a blue canton with regiment in all its battles from hite numbers beneath Boston in 1775 to Yorktown in stars The flag of the Army 1781 led by General John Stark in FORTY YEARS AGO The Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution in a book published in 1948 and French Flags of the lists and describes 38 American flags Determined Patriot Led Crusade For Code of Flag Etiquette From the Files of June 14 1917 Travel Report: On our re- DlA T- Fitzsimons andjeent cruise through the Carib-Dr A McGuire first lieu- bean writes Charlie Cox in tenants in the National Of- the Atchison County Mail at fcers reserve have left for Rock Port there were 15 Mis- rs nee WoliE at sourians aboard ship Four allate Robinson con- passengers one of the ship khnderh of th officers and ten Missouri I Hotel Baltimore has bpen miCc a triotic Americans asking notelected president of the Con- for Tnndad only for explanations but for eress of Hotel associations 2 cane fiedsthe mu3e guidance session in Chicago i If Marriages of June 14 Miss fiana 3 rF rP'st and Gladys Huntfr and Max- T7 ommend a Caribbean cruise -7 igress ot hotci associations in guidance Uldl Then the American Legion also urged on by Adams into the confusion and WenhcrK Mice rl'i By Charles Stevenson jCliquette in America today is TANDING beside Abra- (he United States Flag Founda-ham Lincoln when a tion an organization conceived in 1922 and directed now by Gridley Adams an Sirnuinu nuia--- ham Lincoln when altl0n- an organization conceived nararie was passing a in 1922 and directed now by unsung younE woman luxueu iu me American patriot who has de-stepped President and said voted his life to the cause of called a flag conference on the Marie Fox and rharloc Mr- 'n 3'3 or tbe 1 see the flag 1 resneet for the American flaE 1923 Flag day Representa- grdo ox adds- tives of I patriotic and fra-j extension of the Indi College and school reunions respect for the American flag have such a feeling of exulta- Confusion and her There are many reasons for this says the hank in its analysis Although farmers are being paid -to take 28 million acres out of production they cut back only about 12 million They have offset more than half the acres placed in the soil bank by planting uncontrolled crops on lands exempted from the soil-bank base because they previously were fallowed or in hay or pasture As long as price supports are high farmers try to produce as much as possible on remaining acres and their stratagems to that end are numerous The biggest soil-bank participation is in areas hard hit by drought and in poor lands which normally produce very little That condition accounted especially for a seemingly good reduction in w'heat land As against retirement of drought lands however there have been unparalleled rainfall and heavy snows throughout the South and Middle West with the effect of enormously increasing crop prospects On that basis alone the Agriculture department hiked its forecast for winter wheat as of May 1 to 703 million -78 million above its December prediction That is only 4 per cent below last year's crop despite retirement under the soil bank of 1014 million acres equal to 25 per cent of winter wheat plantings a year ago misunderstand-tion here!" and she placed jng actually brought about the hand over her heart formation of this organization ana avenue car line from again are being enjoyed and Thirty-sixth street to Forty- revealing (hat Ed is the same ternal groups there drafted a universal flag code for presentation the following year to a second flag conference In can 1 best show that standing just as you are with your hand wras the reply over A Cartoon Helps The well known cartoonist your(care Briggs abetted by Adams drew a cartoon showing seven about the That gesture has since been use of the flag Titled by Congress as the der What a Flag the official tribute to the flag bv New York Herald Tribune and men not in uniform with or 70 other newspapers printed it without headdress on Flag day 1922 Since these sketches dif- Rules Came Late third street opened today genial soul and Joe the seri-m-4 Mrs George Nicholsonous'rninded ne as ever but is conference attended jgj en(jowecj a (jajv vacation neither wore glasses regularly representatives of 112 Bible school for boys and girls when they u7ere your class-groups adopted a Codein memory of her mother and mates And both have gray for the Guidance of hcr mother-in-law7 'hair Chester A Bradley This was used as the basis for the present official regulations A Director-General Permanent chairman of the flag conference was Gridlev What else ran bring so much joy to the ivh ole family? ft was not quite so simple '3crpd rom existing hooks on It however for other Americans etiquette the newspapers Adams As direetor-generah were swamped with letters 0f the United States Flag and telephone calls from pa- Foundation the organization to get advice on flag etiquette Only since 1942 has the Improvements in agricultural machinery and methods enable farmers to turn out bumper crops despite small plantings The secretary of agriculture Ezra Taft Benson pointed this out in a speech last month Finally says the bank's report than three-quarters of the farmers have not signed up for the soil bank They apparently feel that with average weather they can make more money this year by planting their full allotments even with somewhat lower price Meanwhile the administration is doing its best to dispose of farm surpluses so much so that foreign nations everywhere claim that we are ruining their markets by dumping our excess farm output Nothing Uf voij ran buv can contribute so much to your pleaure to tbat of your familv as a Hammond Organ For this js music that works a magic all its own lovely versatile music that makes you forget the cares and 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bearing upon the use find display of the flag The Army is considered by some as a proper authority but inquiries there bring the reply that the department will prescribe rules only for the Army Central authority on flag Sonic Rules on Display of the Flag: FOR Americans who want to be sure they handle and display the flag properly a chart of official rules is available through many patriotic groups Here are a few of the rules: Do not display the flag with the union down except as a signal of distress Do not place any other flag or pennant above or to the right of the flag of the United States Do not let the flag touch ground or trail in the water Do not use the flag as drapery Do not use the flag in any form of advertising or fasten an advertising sign to a flagpole A flag in damaged or soiled condition should be burned not discarded that came out of the two flag conferences Adams has given personal leadership to the cause of respecting the American flag Paradoxically Adams himself added some confusion regarding the flag He insists most vigorously for example that the popular American phrase Red White and should be changed to Blue White and As proof he refers to Revolu-! tionary war accounts to the fact that in heraldry blue out-! ratiks red that first prize winners in competition always get blue ribbons and other reasons Red White and phrase came about Adams writes because of the propensity of Americans to remember best words set to music Cheers for the Red White and is the last line of England's the Gem of the written by says Adams foreign song President projection of the soil bank of course was based on the idea that spending for that purpose would gradually replace the huge governmental price-support bonuses But Congress piled the soil bank on top of price support Says the National City bank bulletin: magnitude of federal farm programs is shown in the record 5-billion-dollar farm budget for the coming fiscal year There are about 4800000 farms in the so this budget averages more than $1000 per farm When divided among the approximately 2 million commercial farms whose owners derive most of the benefits from federal programs the proposed budget averages If you wish rental will be applied an purchase price ot end of 7-week period This offer not available to organizations or commercial establishments 1217 Wilnut VI 2-9430 Open Thursday Evenings Monc co.