. The stars and stripes, from Washington to Wilson, 1777-1914 .. . f the flag is between the sun andthe observer, the stripes have a light gray tinge and the union isalmost black. In recent years, the Joint Army and Navy Board has proposedthe arrangement of the stars in the union, and the Secretaries ofWar and of the Navy have issued the necessary orders. On June1, 1912, a board,—Avhose presiding officer was Captain W. , U. S. Navy,—representing all the Executive Depart-ments,— Navy, Justice, Agriculture, War, State, Interior, PostOffice, Treasury, and Commerce and Labor, — met in the
. The stars and stripes, from Washington to Wilson, 1777-1914 .. . f the flag is between the sun andthe observer, the stripes have a light gray tinge and the union isalmost black. In recent years, the Joint Army and Navy Board has proposedthe arrangement of the stars in the union, and the Secretaries ofWar and of the Navy have issued the necessary orders. On June1, 1912, a board,—Avhose presiding officer was Captain W. , U. S. Navy,—representing all the Executive Depart-ments,— Navy, Justice, Agriculture, War, State, Interior, PostOffice, Treasury, and Commerce and Labor, — met in the Libraryof the Navy Department and proposed standard sizes and pro-portions for the national ensign, as there were at that time somesixty-six different sizes of the national flag, and of varying pro-portions, in use by the Executive Departments. In ExecutiveOrder No. 1637, dated October 29, 1912, printed below, the sizeand proportions of the flag are defined substantially as proposedby the inter-department board, June 4, 1912. From Washington to Wilson 15. FLAG OF 1912 The Stars and Stripes, from 177? to 1795, bore thirteen starsand thirteen stripes; from 1795 to 1818, fifteen stars and fifteenstripes; from 1818 to 1913, a star for every State and thirteenstripes. There were thirteen stars in the flag at the time of theRevolutionary War and the adoption of the Constitution; fifteenstars in the War of 1812 and in the War with the Barbery Pow-ers ; twenty-nine in the Mexican Wrar; thirty-five in the CivilWar; forty-five in the Spanish-American War. Our flag has always flown for the freedom of men and thefreedom of the sea. Since it was first saluted, February 14,1778, by a foreign power, in Quiberon Bay, France, borne by ourfirst great sailor, John Paul Jones, on the Ranger, it hascarried a message of hope to all humanity. Its red denotes cour-age ; its white, purity; its blue, loyalty and devotion; its stars,high aspiration and federal union. The Stars and Stripes
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