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Pyles The Man Who Was Going to Brawley by William Slavens McNutt 20 Illustration by Rico Tomaso Better Be Safe — by Marshall Field III 22 Illustration by Underwood and Underwood Studios First Prize, $600,000 by Marquis James 24 Editorial with cartoon by John Cassel 28 As Old as the Hills by Charles Phelps Cushing 30 They Also Serve: part v by Peter B. Kyne 34 Illustrations by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge $5,000,000 Goes to Work by Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch 38 A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 41 A Little Faster, A Little Farther by Alexander Gardiner 42 A Salutary Episode by Wallgren 46 Bursts and Duds with cartoons by A. B. Walker 47 One Month to Go by Watson B. Miller 48 Keeping Step by Right Guide 5o Then and Now by The Company Clerk 55 On to Paris 58 A PATRIOTIC CALENDAR FOR JUNE ist: Kentucky admitted to the Union, 1792; Tennessee, 1796 2d: Lieutenant Hobson sinks collier Merrimac to blockade Santiago harbor, 1898 3d: National Guard federalized, 1916 4th: Treaty of peace with Tripoli signed, 1805 5th: Ten 7 million men register under Selective Service Law, 191 6th: American and French troops open attack against Germans in Belleau Wood, 1918 7th: Treaty of Tordesillas, basis of Spanish claim to all the Americas except Brazil, signed, 1494 8th: Andrew Jackson, seventh President, dies, 1845 gth: Second Lusitania note transmitted to Germany, 1915 10th: Battle of Big Bethel fought, first conflict of Civil War on Virginia soil, 1861 nth: Comstock silver lode discovered in Nevada, 1859 12th: Iowa organized as a territory, 1838 13th: General Pershing arrives in France, 1917 14th: Stars and Stripes adopted as the American flag, 1777 15th: Great Britain relinquishes claim to Oregon, 1846 16th: Grant begins general assault against Lee at Petersburg, 1864—17^-' Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775 18th: United States declares war against Great Britain, 1812— igth: U. S. S. Kearsarge sinks C. S. S. Alabama, 1864—20th: U. S. S. Charleston cap- tures Guam, 1898—21st: Cyrus McCormick secures patent on his reaper, 1834—zzd: Survivors of Greelv Arctic expedition found bv relief party, 1884—23d: Department of Labor established, 1888—24th: Navy General Staff created, 1915— 2 Custer and his command wiped out at Little Big Horn, 1876 26th: Virginia ratifies the Constitution, 1788 27th- United States clipper Dreadnought sails from New York to Queenstown in twelve days, 1859—28th: Peace treaty ending Immigration World War signed at Versailles, 1919 2Qth: Bureau of and Naturalization created, 1906 30th: Pacific fleet placed on par with Atlantic fleet, 1919. w>5= Robert F. Smith, General Manager T. H. Laine, Advertising Manager John T. Winterich, Editor The American Legion Monthly is the official publication of The American Legion and The American Legion Auxiliary and is owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copyright, 1927, by the Legion Publishing Corporation. Published monthly at Indianapolis, Ind. Entered as second class matter January 5, 1925, at the Post Office at Indianapolis. Ind., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized January 5, 1925. Price, single copy 25 cents; yearly subscription, in the United States and possessions of the United States 31.50, in Canada J52, in other countries ?2.50. In reporting change of address, be sure to include the old address as well as the new. Publication Office, Indianapolis, Ind.; Eastern Advertising Office, 331 Madison Avenue, New York City; Western Advertising Office, 410 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly C^Tmong the good things in life that every well dressed man wants . Florsheim Shoes. Quality- built and reasonably priced to be well dressed give long service at low cost. begin with tylorsheim Shoes and dress up. booklet "Styles of the Times" on Request Most Styles c&he F RAT ^ Style 5- 196 fyor c&he eMan TnJho Qares (Manufactured by THE FLORSHEIM SHOE COMPANY, Chicago e FLORSHEIM SHO E CENTER from the lips of P. himself, are of of the A. E. F., JUST in time to get under the wire J. J. stationed at the Signal for this month's Message Center ar- sensational interest. Mr. Palmer asked Corps laboratory at Vincennes, where rives a suspiciously small envelope the general, for instance, if, at the con- every official photograph taken in bearing a Paris postmark and enclosing ference between Foch, Petain and France was developed. He was a first the following message: "The Misses Pershing on September 2, 1918, at lieutenant of Marines. He has served Jane and Priscilla Nason announce the which the Meuse-Argonne offensive was on the staffs of the Kansas City Star, arrival of their brother, Leonard Hast- decided upon, "the possibility that the Collier's and the Stars and Stripes. In ings Junior." Young Mr. Nason joins war might be brought to an end in '18" the fall of 1917 he was editor, proprie- the human race in good season.