ADDRESSES OF MAJOR LACEY 351 



suggested clue in the future becomes a beaten pathway 

 when it has been passed over. 



The flag you raise today was adopted by the Conti- 

 nental Congress June 14, 1777; it then consisted of thir- 

 teen stars and thirteen stripes. On April 4, 1818, the 

 flag was changed so as to bear one star for each state and 

 thirteen stripes for the original colonies. The flag used 

 in its present form has existed without change, except the 

 addition of stars for the new states, nearly one hundred 

 years. It is already ancient. It is older than the pres- 

 ent flag of France, Spain, England, or Germany. 



William Penn went to prison rather than doff his hat to 

 a mortal man, but if he were here today he would take it 

 off to this old flag, for it represents ideas, principles, and 

 purposes and not mere rank between man and man. It 

 was planted on the Antarctic continent, in the far south ; 

 it was carried by Stanley to Central Africa in his search 

 for Livingstone, and I confidently believe that in the last 

 two years it has been twice planted on the north pole. 



Just across the street from your college campus lives 

 Albert Cooper, a Quaker soldier of the Civil War. At 

 the battle of Helena, July 4, 1863, one of the stars was 

 shot from the flag of the old Thirty-third Iowa. Mr. 

 Cooper picked it up and put it in his pocketbook and car- 

 ried it until the close of the war. It now hangs framed 

 in his parlor as a precious relic of the past. The flag we 

 honor here today is not the flag of war; it is the flag of 

 peace. I doubt if in any future war flags will be carried 

 by any of the troops in battle. They are too good a mark 

 for the deadly weapons of the present day. 



A hundred years ago the ambitious student expressed 

 his regret that practically everything had been done and 

 that everything that could be discovered had been found 

 out. Penn College is a new institution; it is not many 

 years old, but within its brief history the wireless tele- 



