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L "_3 OCTOBER, 1926 — — —— — — — — — —————— — — — — — — — — — — October, 1926 American Vol. 1, No. 4 jtegion Qdonthly Contents COVER DESIGN: Minnehaha by Howard Chandler Christy The Message Center by the Editor 4 The Camel's Nose by Merle Thorpe 6 Illustration by John Richard Fla?iagan The House on the Square by Rita Weiman 9 Illustrations by W. Emerton Heitland How Red Is America?: part one by Will Irwin 14 The Powder-Stained 70's by Henry W. Daly 18 Illustration by Walter Jardine The Handshaker: part two by Peter B. Kyne 22 Illustrations by Wallace Morgan Toss — Oars ! by C. E. Scoggins 26 Editorial with cartoon by C. LeRoy Baldridge 30 All Hands 'Round by Woodward Boyd 32 Illustration by William Heaslip 0 A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 35 Keep Looking and Some Day You'll See Him by Herbert Ravenel Sass 36 Illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull Red Donovan Comes Through by James A. Drain 40 Illustration by L. F. Wilford Dangerous Ways: part four by Arthur Somers Roche 42 Illustrations by Grattan Condon It Takes Two to Make a Polo Player by Devereux Milburn and J. C. Cooley 46 How About It? by Wallgren 48 Bursts and Duds with cartoon by A. B. Walker 49 Keeping Step by Right Guide 50 Then and Now by the Company Clerk 55 A PATRIOTIC CALENDAR FOR OCTOBER 1st: First United States silver dollar minted at Philadelphia, 1794 2d: Major Andre hanged, 1780 3d: Death of Black Hawk, 1836 4th: Rutherford B. Hayes born, 1822—3th: Chester A. Arthur born, 1830 6th: Erie Canal opened, 1825 7th: Battle of Kings Mountain, 1780 8th: Chicago fire starts, with eventual loss of $200,000,000, 1 871 gth: Remnants of Braddock's defeated army reach New York, 1755 10th: United States Naval Academy opened, 1845 nth: New Netherlands Company granted charter, 1614 12th: Coiumbus discovers America, 1492 13th: President Washington lays cornerstone of White House, 1792 14th: First steamboat sails down the Ohio River, 181 1- 13th: Dirigible ZR-3, America's war prize, arrives from Germany, 1924 /6th: John Brown and his men raid Harper's Ferry, 1859 17th: Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, 1777 18th: Demobilization of Continental Army begins, I783 /gth: Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, 178 1 20th: Men called to colors under Universal Service Act placed in five classes, 1917 2/st: Edison produces first incandescent electric light, 1879 22d: Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas, 1836—^5^: Smithsonian Institution created by will of James Smithson, 1826 24th: William Penn reaches America, 1682 23th: Penn grants charter for city of Philadelphia, 1701 26th: Entry in old New England almanac for this date: "Noah enters the ark, B.