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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL Qhe Great S ea t \ v ^ ----------- ; | Benjamin franklin ¿John Adams By ELMO 8COTT WATSON |HENEVER President Hoo ver signs an Important state document, there is another ceremony which Is necessary before the docu ment becomes official, That consists of affixing to It the greut seal of the United States, which Is In the safekeeping of the secretary of state, a metal disk two and a half Inches In dlnmeter and engrnred First Great Seal the with the coat of arms of U nited S ta te s this nation. And when that Is done, the document hears the Imprint of the Second Great Seal of the oldest nationnl arms In the world, United States despite the fuct that the United States Is a “young” nation. For our of the coat of arms. This tells of the one was made and the traditional coat of arms has retained its original significance of the escutcheon In the number of arrows was restored to the design for nearly 150 years, longer relationship between the Individual seal. Not only Is the American seal than has that of other nations which states and the federal Union. In terms the oldest nutlonal seal hut It Is also of heraldry It Is composed of a “ chief" said to be the most perfectly bal are much older thun ours. and thirteen “ pales,” that Is, an anced and most beautiful of all na The history of the great seal goes “azure" (blue) crossbar resting on tional Insignia. back to the founding of the republic. stripes of “gules” (red) alternated It has often been remarked that the Soon after the adoption of the Declar with “argent" (write). makers of the seal were unaffected ation of Independence In 177(1, a reso “The pieces paly,” rends the old by the superstitious fear of the num lution was passed by the Continental congress naming llenjainln Franklin, text, “ represent the several states all ber thirteen. Instead, thirteen Is the keynote of the whole design. Not Thomas Jefferson and John Adams ns Joined In one solid compact entire, a committee to design a coat of arms supporting a Chief which unites the only are there thirteen stars and thlr- whole and represents congress. The teeen stripes, but there are thirteen for the new nation. The original sug The arrows In the eagle’s talon and thir gestion for the coat of urms was that Motto alludes to this Union. pales In the Arms are kept closely teen stars In the glory. The motto the shield should he divided Into six quartering*. each hearing the emblem united by the chief nnd the chief de E Plurlbus Unum contains thirteen pends on that Union and the strength letters, there are thirteen leaves on of those countries whose colonists resulting from It for Its support to the olive branch and the same num made up the grenter pnrt of the pop Ulatlon of the United States. Two denote the Confederacy of the United ber of berries on the branch. The o f the features Included In this com States of America nnd the preserva eagle has thirteen feathers In each wing and thirteen In Its tall. The mittee's design were luter Included In tion of their Union through congress.' The colors of the escutcheon are title “The Coat of Arms of the United the present coat of arms, hut nothing definite was accomplished at that time. the snme as those adopted for the flag States of America'' contains 39, or On March 25, 177il. the mutter was In the famous Flag resolution of June three times thirteen, letters, and If again brought up for consideration 14, 1777—white for purity nnd Inno one counts all these he will dis llhti a second committee submitted a cence, red for hardiness and valor cover that the number thirteen Is re design In which the “ radiant constella and blue for vigilance, perseverance, peated thirteen times in the whole tion of thirteen stars" first made Its and Justice. In its beak the eagle design. appearance. It b I b o provided for holds an unfurled scroll on which on Since the great seal contains sev thirteen alternate red and white a crimson ground are the words “E eral emblems which symbolize the fuct I’lurihus Unum” (One out of many). ■tripes which were to he placed ding that the nutlon was founded by rebel onally across the shield. Rut this Above this Is the “glory” or the con lion against the tyranny of England, stellation of thirteen stars on nn azure committee' design was not accepted. It Is worthy of note that one of them, Then a third committee tried Its hand field, breaking through a surrounding the eagle, is of English origin. In thut at the Job and the members of this halo of clouds—symbolical of the new It was suggested to John Adams by one called to their assistance n noted nutton emerging from the storm and Sir John Prestwtcb, an eminent Brit authority on heraldry, Dr. William stress of the Revolution. The white ish antiquary. The choice of this stars against the background of blue bird, which came to he popularly re Barton of Philadelphia. also point to the unity of the states, garded as the national emblem, was The design submitted by this com since If a line be drawn between the very distasteful to another member of mittee was a complicated one. It pro outer ones It forms a perfect six- the nnlional great seal committee, Ben- vided for thirteen stripes or pales, a pointed star. Jnmln Franklin. In a letter to his constellation of thirteen stars, an At the same time that this seal was daughter. Mrs. Sarah Ruche, written angle poised on the summit of a Doric columu, a helmet of gold ou which was adopted another one. Intended to be on January 20, 1784, while Franklin a cap of dignity, surmounted by n the reverse of the cont of urms and was in France, lie said; cock armed with gaffs; on the right to be used for stamping the wax on “ For my own part, I wish the bald ribbon attached to ati Important ■Ida was a figure of the genius of eagle hud not been chosen as the rep state paper, thus making a hanging America and on the left a man In resentative of the country; he Is 8 armor. Over all gleamed the eye of seal, was also adopted. On It Is u bird of had moral character; he does pyramid of thirteen steps with a cul Providence and below the shield was not gel Ills living honestly; you nmy the motto “ Deo favente" (Favored by minating triangle suspended above It. have seen him perched on some dead God). Above the crest was unother On tills Is the all seeing oyo of Prov tree where, too lazy to fish for him motto “ Virtue sola Invlcta” (Virtue idence looking down upon the unfin self. I.e watches the labor of the Ash ished pyramid, by which It was In alone Is unconquerable). tended to Indicate that the United ing haw k : nnd when that diligent bird Finally out of the suggestions put Stntes hud not attained a final state has at length taken a fish and Is bear forth by the three committees thereat of spiritual perfection, a goal toward ing It to his nest for the support of of arms In its present form, proposed which It must strive. According to his mate and young ones, the bald by Doctor Barton nnd making use of heraldry, the pyramid stnnds for eagle pursues him und takes It from some of the elements contained In the strength and durability. The eye Is him. With nil this Injustice he Is previous designs, was adopted by the symbol of the eternally vigilant never In good case, but like those congress on June 30, 1782. By this Providence which hud favored the among meu who live by sharping and time the seal had been stripped of Amerlenn cause so many times nnd robbing, he Is generally poor and every emblem that suggested mon this thought Is carried out In the Latin often very lousy. Besides, he Is a archy and Included those which em motto “ Annult ChoptIs" (God has fu- rank toward.” phasized the Idea of democracy. The Modern science, however, has re vored the work) across the top of the outstanding features were the eagle, seal. The date MDCCLXXVI at the futed some of these charges, especial the shield and the stars. base of the pyramid is 177tl, when the ly the one of cowardice. The eagle, typical of those found In nation was founded, and the Latin The eagle as a symbol of racial and this country nnd nnllke those which motto beneath "Novus Ordo Seclo- national power dates hack to the time appear on the Imperial arms of Aus rum" declares that then began “A of the Etruscans, the race that pre tria. Germany and Russia, stands for New Order of Ages." ceded the Romans. Rome, after the power and authority. In Its right The original real was cut In brass days of Marius, also adopted the eagle talon It holds an olive brunch and In and Is believed to have been used fot as It standard of legions. It wag rep- Its left a handle of thirteen arrows, the flrst time on a commission dated rescued with outspread wings. Iy*’.»r these daunting power In peace nnd in September 10. 1782. In which congress the B.t zatitliie emperors adopted tne war. The ancient symbol of peace, granted Washington the power to ar double-headed eagle, which symbol the olive branch, was placed In the range with the British for an ex ized their rlulra to the eastern and right talon to Indlcnte that the first change of prisoners of war. This was western empires. gesture of the new republic should be signed by John Hanson, president of In the Fourteenth century the Ger penre Instead of war. hut the arrows the congress, and countersigned by man emperors adopted the eagle as In the left talon Indlcnte that the nn Charles Thomson secretary The de their national emblem. Other Euro tlon stands rendy to defend Itself If sign of the seal remained unchanged pean countries followed Germany's Deed be. The escutcheon was set In any particular for more than llfty lead. Prussia's emblem was dlstln ■cross the hrea«t of the eagle without years During the time Dnnlel Web gulshed hy the black eagle; Poland's any other sup|M<rt to show thul the ster was secretary of state a second hy a white eagle. Napoleon made United Stntes was to rely on its own seal was cut on this occasion the the eagle represent tmpertnl France. Strength artist placed six Instead of thirteen The emblem was dropped by the The Journals of the Continental arrows In the eagle s left talon This Bourbon rulers, hut was restored hy Congress afford au interesting analysis sent was used until 1886 when a new | Louis Napoleon on January L 1&52. OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Assembled for Information of Our Readers. High water caused by sudden melt ing of snow has resulted In much damage on farms near Moro. Farmers in many Instances were Isolated by roads being washed out and report a big need for hired help In filling the ditches caused by the flood. WHY WE BEHAVE LIKE HUMAN 8EINGS H EALTH Y COMPLEXIONS By GEORGE DORSEY, Ph. D„ L L D. ......... ............ " The chambers of commerce of Ba ker and Huntington will erect a sign The Secret of the Thyroid board on the Old Oregon Trail at HE endocrine gland best under Huntington calling attention to the stood Is the thyroid (shieldlike) The annual meeting of the Oregon fact that Huntington Is the “ Gateway astride our Adam’s apple. It varies cooperative council was held In Eu City” and that Baker has lots of ad individually and with age. It Is rela tively largest In fetal life. At birth Its vantages worth considering. gene Tuesday and Wednesday. weight in proportion to the entire About 2000 trees, of various vari County Treasurer Helen C. Claypoo! body Is ns 1 to 300, by the third week eties of peaches, will be set In the has issued a call for Crook county war 1 to 1,100, and In the adult as 1 to Healthy Louis Will farm in the Grand Inland rants for the general road fund. With 1,800. It Is generally larger In women complexions vicinity soon. the taking up of these warrants Crook than In men. Why this Is so Is not yet come from healthy systems. A Grants Pass physician has an county goes on a cash basis for all known. Free tho body of poisons with The thyroid usually consists of two nounced that he will adopt the Chi funds, the others having been placed F eca-a-m in t. Effective in equally developed lobes two Inches nese tystem of charging his patients on a sound footing before January 1, long, nn Inch and a quarter broad. smaller doses. All druggists sell so much per month for keeping them Hop growers of the Harrisburg ter They vary greatly; one lobe may be this safe, scientific laxative. well. ritory are undecided about raising a much larger than the other, or may be quite absent. Generally the two lobes The grand jury of Wasco county has crop this year. A number of them recommended that officers of The plan to let the Tines run for a while, are connected by an Isthmus; tills also Dalles undertake a fairly rigid en and later get what crop they can if It varies In position or may be absent. There may be accessory thyroids down forcement of the curfew and other or seems worth saving. Others say they the trachea ns far as the heart will plant some crop between the hop dinances. Only in higher fishes does the thy rows. roid become a ductless gland, take on The dance ordinance that caused so much commotion at Medford has been Crook county schools' second annu new functions, and start a new ca repealed and a substitute adopted. It al music festival will occur this year reer. In man, a duct Is sometimes eliminates certain club dances from early in April, with every school in found In the Isthmus—vestige of a condition found In lowest fishes, echo police supervision. the county taking part. Last year the of millions of years ugo. It Is prone chorus work of over 500 pupils was A recommendation that a new char to trouble. ter for Klamath Falls be drawn on considered excellent by the large Children with deficient thyroids, the lines of commission-manager gov crowd which packed the Prineville through removal, atrophy, or Injury, become heavy-featured, gibbering, ernment is being considered by a spe pavilion. cial charter committee. The city council of Corvallis has ap Idiotic dwarfs known as cretins; they do not metamorphose Into normal A N ew E xte rm in a to r th a t A survey by Portland and Salem proved plans and specifications for a adults. W o n 't K ill L iv e s to c k , P o u ltr y , hop dealers show that in 1929 on a new addition to city hall. The council These appalling results In both chil D o g s , C a te , o r even B a b y Chlckm total of 17,006 acres growers raised will call for bids February 25. The dren and adults have been corrected K -R O can be used about the home, barn or poultry In Oregon 96,288 bales, of which 33,052 people of Corvallis voted $60,000 at by feeding thyroid extract. yard with absolute safety calt contain s n o < « d I y p o is o n . K-R-O is made of Squill, as recom the recent election for city hall im are still in growers’ hands. Enlargement of the thyroid from mended by U. 8. Dept, of Agriculture, under the Connable process which inaurea maximum According to Brenton Vedder, coun provements and new fire department whatsoever cause Is called goiter, or strength. Two cans killed 578 rats at Arksnest Derbyshire reck. But an over-devel State Farm. Hundreds o f other testimonials. ty school superintendent, Clackamas equipment oped or over-active thyroid produces S o ld o n a M o n e y -B a ck G u a ra n tee. county now has 131 school districts Breaking all scholarship records at a definite disease known as toxic or Insist upon K -R -O , the original 8quill exter with a total enrollment of 13,655, com the University of Oregon, Mrs. Golda exophthalmic goiter, or Graves’ dis minator. All poultry supply, drug, and seed store#—75c. Large eixe (four time# as much) $2.oa pared with 12,000 in 1920. C. Wickham, sophomore student from ease. This is characterized by In Direct if dealer cannot supply you. K-R-O Co* Springfield, O. Roseburg, made a total of 95 points creased metabolism and blood pres Acting upon a suggestion offered by County Agent J. C. Leedy the for her work during the fall term, the sure, rapid pulse, lux and moist skin, Lions club ol Roseburg will sponsor university statistician has announced. nervousness, and protruding eyeballs a plan for promoting the interests of Her score was the highest It is possi —hence the name, “exophthalmic." KILLS-RATS-ONLY The remedy Is still in the hands of the poultry industry in the Umpqua ble to make. the surgeon. valley. Plans for promotion of the estab It Is believed that the activating Mrs. Kate Cundiff of Eugene, known lishment of a cheese factory in Rogue principle of the thyroid hormone Is to her wide circle of friends as “Grand river valley were outlined at the Med thyroxin. Isolated by Kendall in 1918. ma” Cundiff, has celebrated her 89th ford meeting of the Jackson County Thyroxin is a crystalline compound birthday. She was one of 11 children, Agricultural council recently. Central of three molecules of Iodine fixed in of whom six are living and all are Point, the center of the dairy industry a protein derivative; tri-iodo-tri-hydro- In the valley, will endeavor to have oxyindole propionic acid, or 05 per over 80 years. cent of Iodine. Feels Much Stronger After A bicycle race from Eugene to Cor It located there. Only the thyroid secretes thyroxin, Taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s A test suit to determine the consti vallis and return will be conducted by nnd apparently It Is the Iodine In thy Vegetable Compound the Amateur Bicycle league of Ameri tutionality of the law passed by the roxin that tells the story. Iodine is ca, February 22, it was announced by last legislature limiting voting power found in many seaweeds; Is three Lankin, North Dakota.—“ For nearly four years I was not in good health. My I. E. (Dinty) Moore, state representa at municipal elections to taxpayers is times more abundant In codfish than In human beings; is found In traces In work is cleaning being contemplated by the city of tive of the league. milk nnd in drinking water; and gets house and I work Canyonville, which recently voted a Postal receipts at Eugene Increased outside too and Its name from Its violet (lodes) color I sometimes I could 4 per cent In January over January bond Issue of $10,000 for the Installa Possibly no life exists without Io not do it. I read j last year, the total being $13,892. Ecah tion of a municipal water system. dine. Certainly normal humnn life Is in the newspapers Bids for the construction and Im impossible without one one-hundredth month but two in 1929 showed an in- about Lydia E. of a grain of thyroxin a day. Three 1 crease over the corresponding periods provement of approximately 180 miles Pinkham’s Vege table Compound | of highway at an estimated cost of nnd n half grains of thyroxin are all in 1928 of 2 to 10 per cent. that stands between Intelligence and and I have taken The consolidation of the school dis $1,200,000 and the building of four Imbecility. three bottles of this medicine. I tricts of Drain, Sunnyside, Eureka, bridges will be opened by the state The adrenals, or suprurenals, get highway commission at a meeting to am feeling a lot Leona, Gunter and Cold Springs, in their name troin their position just b e t t e r and I northern Douglas county, has been ac l be held In Portland February 27. The above the kidneys. Normally they are recommend it. You may use this letter complished, and the plan approved by 1 meeting was announced by the state of the size nnd shape of a large bean. as a testimonial.” —T ilue T rends , j highway depratment. But they vary: one—or, In rare cuses, j R. F. D. j2, Lankin, North Dakota. the county boundary board. both—may be absent; there n.ny be ac The town of Detroit, located 60 Willamette valley loganberries were cessory adrenals varying In size from ! hard hit by the recent below-freezing miIes east of Salem' and Breitenbush a pin head to a large pea. Removal of j This Medicine Is Sold in Both Liquid and Tablet Form hot springs, mountain summer resort, temperatures, according to informa both glands Is fatal, often within a ! .... — - .. . . . . . — x - tion brought to Salem hy growers. were cut off from communications few hours. When death does not fol - Modern B lackboard, Blackberries also were said to have with the outside world as the result low their removal It Is because ac of a slide which came down the moun cessory adrenals are present and can Blackboards of translucent ground suffered from the cold spell. tain recently and covered the high function. glass lighted from behind are proposed According to officials of the Beaver way and railroad tracks of the Ham Adrenln Is n powerful drug nnd a as a substitute for the usual black sur Portland Cement company the Gold mond Lumber company. powerful cnrdlo-vascular stimulunt. face familiar to very school child. The Hill cement plant, which has been Normally our blood contains about old type of blackboard Is difficult to Il Announcement was made a short closed down the past several months eight milligrams of It, which means luminate so that all the room can see, time ago of the transfer of V. V. Harp- that the proportion of ndrenln to ar but the ground glass, electrically pending annual repairs just complet ham, supervisor of the Ochoco nation terial blood Is one part to a billion. lighted from the rear, allows every ed, resumed operations last week. al forest, with headquarters at Prine It Influences some tissues when di thing chalked upon It to be seen from Iatanglbles taxes of $50,869.17 has ville, to the Umpqua at Roseburg, luted to one part In 100,000,000. It de all parts of the room, even when a been turned over to the state treasur where he will assume the duties of presses the intestinal canal when di combination of daylight and artificial er by the state tax commission. It supervisor. He will be succeeded at luted to one pnrt In 330,000,000! Large Illumination Is being used. was estimated that the tax would Prineville by W. O. Harriman, who doses are fatal. raise approximately $400,000. The law has been assistant supervisor of the Russ Bnll Blue goes farther, makes Adrenln Is a drug, one of the most provides that the tax shall be payable Deschutes national forest, with head potent our body concocts. Vet adrenal clothes whiter than liquid Blue. Large feeding lends to no known or proved package at Grocers.—Adv. prior to March 1. quarters In Bend. results. The administration of the drug Unemployment Is becoming a prob Some cities may be growing gray adrenaliu does lend to profound re Never Refueed lem on Ceos bay and North Bend and trying to figure out ways to keep out sults. Our body blood contains tills A young poet was asked why be at Marshfield charitable organizations of debt, but not Pendleton. The city drug. Whether It Is made by or ex tended church so regularly. are planning for a wide effort in relief “ Well, among other things,” he an wound up the year with $12,195.83 In creted by the adrenals is still nn open measures. The situation, as some Its coffers unexpended. Receipts were question, but that adrenln has specific swered, “ It's one place where my con view it, is more demanding than it action on the vnscular system, the tributions are Invariably accepted.” greater than was anticipated and a has been for several years. nervous system, the blood, the all- better percentage of the taxes was mentnry canal, and on sugar mobiliza collected than In other years. The un tion, there Is no doubt. Nor Is there THE MARKETS spent balance, which is more than a Portland any doubt that when administered as Wheat—Big Bend bluestem, $1.27; mere paper balance, probably will be a drug It Increases the action of local anesthetics by constricting the blood soft white and western white, $1.17; used to retire bonds. hard winter, northern spring and west Establishment of an insect control vessels, thus preventing local loss of the anesthetic. And ns this reduces ern red, $1.15. station in Salem to combat parasites the amount of anesthetic required. It Hay—Alfalfa, $24024.50 per ton; that threaten the fruit crop was pro also reduces the amount of toxin dan valley timothy, $20.50021; eastern posed by W. G. Allen, manager of ger from the anesthetic. It checks Oregon timothy, $23023.50; clover, Hunt Brothers’ cannery. Mr. Allen hemorrhages. It allays the spasms of $20; oat hay, $19; oats and vetch, $20 said that failure to take action In the acute bronchial asthmn. It also stimu 020.50. near future would mean destruction lates weak hearts and fortifies the Butterfat—$2 © 36c. of the fruit crop and elimination of hearts of the old and Inflim against Eggs—Ranch, 26 0 30c. the cannery industry In the Willam the shock of operation. In short, adrenalin exerts nn Influ Cattle— Steers, good, $11011.50. ette valley. He said he particularly ence upon all smooth muscle ener Hogs—Good to choice, $9.50011. was interested in the cherry industry, D on’ t N e g le c t Your K id n e y s , vated by fibers of the autonomic nerv Lambs—Good to choice, $10.50011 which had been damaged materially ous system. That makes Its respon /^ O L D S and chills are hard on the by the cherry fly. Seattle kidneys. A constant backache, sibility enormous, Its Influence on hu with kidney irregularities, and an Wheat — Soft white and western Tho field« of fall-sown oats and man destiny second to none. achy, worn-out feeling all too often (© by George A. Dorsey.) white. $1.18; hard winter, and north wheat In the Lake Labish district warn of d i s o r d e r . Don't take ern spring, $1.17; western red, $1.16; were not hurt by the severe weather, chances! Help your kidneys with Liberated by Wealth Doan't Pillt. Endorsed the world Big Bend bluestem. $1.28. according to those who have person As It was the wealth of the Ren over. Sold by dealers everywhere. Eggs—Ranch, 26029c. ally examined the fields. Clover sow aissance that led to Its freedom. Its Eutterfat—41c. 50,000 User« Endorse Doan’s: ing is in full blast among farmers license, nnd its art, so It Is the wealth E. J. Bush, 712 G r a m S t m t , Char Cattle—Choice steers. $10010.25. there. of our day and place, far more than lottesville, Va., aavs: "A cold seemed to Hogs—Prime light, $11.25011.35, affect my kidney* and my back got to weak Tho city council of Medford has ap any literary revolt, that has substi that I could hardly turn in bed. M y joints Lambs—Choice, $11.50012. were sore and lame and the kidney action propriated $500 to employ Jacob L. tuted for the rigid moral code of the irregular. I felt better immediately miUr Spokane Crane, a nationally famed city survey Pilgrims the gay laxity of emanci using Doan’s Pills end was soon well** Cattle—Steers, good, $10.26011. expert, to make a study of Medford’s pated souls. Our changed Sabbnth. a Hogs—Good to choice, $10 85011 major street and zoning plans, parks day now not of rest and worship hut L a h e — Medium to good, $10,750 and playgrounds and industrial ha- of wanderings nnd pagan Joys uncon fined. Is a visible sign of onr altered ai .Stimulant«Diuretic tothe Kidn£v$ 11.U tu.es. morals and our liberated lives.—Will Durant In “ Mansions of I’hilosonhr * T K ill R a t s W ith ou t Poison COULD NOT DO HER CLEANING After Winter’s Colds DOAN’S PILLS s