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Detzer 20 Illustrations by V. E. Pyles Editorial with cartoon by John Cassel ^4 This Way Up by John Dwight Sullivan 26 False Alarm by Wallgren 28 A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 29 Keeping Step by Right Guide 30 Bells of Memory by Carter Johnson 37 Bursts and Duds conducted by Tip Bliss 38 Golden Footlights by Kirke Mechem 39 Yes, There Is Rest by Joseph A. Burns 42 Then and Now by The Company Clerk 43 The Message Center by The Editor 80 THE STARS IN THE FLAG Maine: The 23d State, admitted to the Union March sq. mile. Rank among States (1920 U. S. Census), 35th in 15, 1820. The English made the first permanent set- population, 38th in area, 31st in density. Capita":, Au- tlement in 1622 at Monhegan and Saco under a grant to gusta (1920 U. S. Census), 14,114. Three largest cities Gorges and Mason. A previous attempt of the (1928 U. S. est.), Portland, 78,600; Lewiston, 36,- French to settle at the mouth of the Kennebec 600; Bangor, 25,978. Estimated wealth (1923 River in 1607 had failed. In 1639 Gorges ob- U. S. Census), $2,006,531,000. Principal sources of tained a royal charter covering the southern part wealth (1923 U. S. Census), paper and wood- of the colony. In 1664 the Duke of York, re- pulp, $100,811,935; cotton goods, $46,702,017; ceived a grant for the territory north of the boots and shoes, $38,832,522; all farm products Kennebec. Many settlers came from Massachu- (1920 U. S. Census) were valued at $100,152,324, setts, to which commonwealth the colonists potatoes totaling $52,339,000 and the remainder looked for its government after 1652. In 1678 in hay, live stock and dairy products. Maine Massachusetts bought the title of the Gorges had 33,032 men and women in service during the grant, and until 1820 Maine was considered a World War. State motto, adopted January r, district of the parent colony and State. Popula- 1820, "Dirigo"—"I direct." Origin of nam.: tion, 1790, 96,54°; 1928 (U. S. est.), 795,000. From Maine, the province in France south o<: Percentage of urban population (communities of 2,500 and Normandy, to honor its owner, Queen Henrietta, wife of over), 1900, 33.5; 1910, 35.3; 1920, 39. Area, 33,040 sq. Charles I of England, who granted the colony its charter.