The American Legion Monthly [Volume 5, No. 6 (December 1928)]
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I from the start you will find that it is becomina Name And then like magic I discovered how to easier and easier to express yourself. Thousands I Address I overcome my stage fright— I have proved that by spending only 20 minutes a and was State--. amazed to learn day in the privacy of their own homes they can City - that I actually had a nat- | | acquire the ability to speak so easily and quickly DECEMBER, ig 2 8 I , ' ' ' ' ' ' '* ' , > ;'''^*''! r , ' !*''^ t ' r r y y ''!i! '!i it' !ir' y V !i!*'' bi sr December, 1928 American Vol. s, No. 6 ^Monthly Contents Cover Design: Christmas by Gustaf Tenggren Minute Men of the Storm by Edmund A. Chester Another Neglected Industry by Wallace Irwin Decoration by Clarence Rowe The Heart of American Youth by Meredith Nicholson 8 Illustrations by George Alexander Outside Help by Karl W. Detzer 10 Illustrations by V. E. Pyles Pershing As His Orderlies Know Him-. Part Three by Robert Ginsburgh The Man in the White Slicker: Part Five by Leonard H. Nason 16 Illustrations by Raymond Sisley Music in the Air by Marquis James 20 Therefore be it Resolved by Philip Von Blon 24 Editorial with cartoon by John Cassel 28 The Convention by Wallgren 3° A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 11 Keeping Step by Right Guide 32 Then and Now by The Company Clerk 39 Bursts and Duds conducted by Tip Bliss The Message Center by The Editor 80 THE STARS IN THE FLAG Louisiana: Admitted to the Union as the eighteenth State, Area, 48,506 sq. miles. Density of population (1920 U. S. J April 8, 1S12. Within a period extending over one hun- Census), 39.6 per sq. mile. Rank among States (1920 U. S. dred years, four nations exercised sovereignty over the pres- Census), 22d in population, 30th in area, 25th in density. ent boundaries of the State, making it a prize of war and Capital, Baton Rouge (1920 U. S. Census), 21,782. Three diplomacy, bartering, trading, selling and rebuying it like largest cities, New Orleans (1927 U. S. est.), 424,400; Shreve- so much real estate. La Salle took possession for port (1926 U. S. est.), 65,400; Baton Rouge. France in 1682 and the French first settled New Estimated wealth (1923 U. S. Census), $3,416,- Orleans in 1718. The king of France in 1762 con- 860,000. Principal sources of wealth: sugar and veyed a portion west of the Mississippi River and molasses (1919 U. S. Census), $141,852,924; lum- the Isle of Orleans to Spain, and in 1763 ceded a ber products (1923 U. S. Census), $132,682,063; part of the territory east of the Mississippi which cotton (1926 U. S.), $45,100,000; foreign export became a part of West Florida to England. Spain trade (1926 U. S.), $243,393,921. Value of all bought West Florida from England in 1783, and crops (1920 U. S. Census), $231,506,000, the three on Oct. 1, 1800, Spain sold its share of Louisiana leaders being rice, cotton and sugar cane. Louisi- to France once more. In 1803 Napoleon sold the ana had 76,581 men and women in service dur- immense territory of Louisiana to the United ing the World War. State motto: "Union, Justice States for $15,000,000. Congress in 1804 organized the Ter- and Confidence." Origin of name: Robert de la Salle in ritory of Orleans and in 1S10 added West Florida west of 1682 named the land in the whole Mississippi basin, extend- f the Pearl River to Louisiana. In 1812 the territory was ad- ing from the Alleghenies to the Rocky Mountains, and from mitted as a State. Population, 1S10, 76,556; 1027 (U. S. the Gulf of Mexico to the sources of the Ohio, the Missouri, est.), 1,934,000.