Why Red, White & Blue In ‘Old Glory’?
The “Stars and Stripes” was
adopted as the national flag of the
U. S. on June 14, 1777, by a reso
lution of the Second Continental
Congress.
But why red, white and blue?
World Book Encyclopedia says
the Founding Fathers may have
been influenced by the flag of the
British East India Company, a
group of merchants organized for
exploration and trade. Their flag
bore seven red and six white
stripes.
In 1782 the U. S. Department of
State explained the colors this way:
red stands for hardiness and cour
age, white is a symbol of purity
and innocence, and blue is the
color of vigilance, perseverance
and justice.
According to legend, However,
George Washington gave us a more
dramatic explanation when he re
portedly said:
We take the stars and blue union
from Heaven, the red from our
mother country, separating it by
white stripes, thus showing we
have separated from her, and
the white stripes shall go down
to posterity representing liberty.
The original “Old Glory” was a
world traveler, a refugee from the
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Confederacy, and a souvenir of the
Smithsonian Institution.
A young sea captain named Wil
liam Driver introduced the nick
name in 1831, when he was given
command of the brig “Charles
Doggett.” A group of citizens of
Salem, Mass., presented him with
a U. S. flag and he hailed it as
“Old Glory.”
Driver traveled twice around
the world with the flag, according
to World Book Encyclopedia.
When he retired in 1837, he took
the flag with him to Nashville,
Tenn., where the name “Old
Glory” spread.
During the Civil War the flag
was sewed inside a bed quilt to
hide it from Confederate troops.
When Union soldiers took Nash
ville in 1862, Driver brought out
the flag and it was raised over the
state Capitol.
In 1922. “Old Glory” retired to
the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D. C.
‘Wormy’ Fish Not
Harmful to Man
JUNEAU — The question of
“wormy fish” was brought to the
Alaska Division of Health labora
tories again this spring after some
early fishermen found small round
white worms in their catches. They
asked whether these made the fish
unsafe to eat.
Few worms of fish except some
of the tapeworms will live in
human bodies even though they
are transmitted from fish to man
through consumption of raw or
insufficiently cooked fish, accord
ing to Ralph B. Williams, director
of laboratory services. He said the
worms are “more unaesthetic than
unsafe” and that they are of minor
importance in view of the great
nutritional value of the fish iood.
Both salt and fresh water fish
are subject to infestation by a
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great many varieties of worms, he
said, but thorough cooking of the
fish prevents transmission of para
sitic worms or their larva to man.
Fish is’considered “thoroughly”
cooked when it flakes easily in the
thickest part or next to the back
bone if it is being cooked with the
bone in it, Mr. Williams said.
Freezing from 24 to 48 hours at
a temperature of _10 degrees cen
tigrade or 14 degrees Fahrenheit
is considered adequate to destroy
tapeworm larva and prevent in
fection, according to an article on
the subject in “Alaska’s Health’’
for February 1952 by Dr. Everett
L. Schiller, formerly a parasitolo
gist on the Arctic Health Research
Center staff.
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