The American Legion Monthly [Volume 5, No. 1 (July 1928)]

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G-85, South Bend, Ind. 3 Every purchaser of a used car may drive it for five days, and then, if not satisfied for any Please send me my copy of your valuable free booklet, reason, turn it back and apply the money "How to Judge a Used Car." paid as a credit on the purchase of any other car in stock— new or used. (It is assumed that the car has not been damaged in the Name meantime.) Street © IS'T The Siurfcbile. Corpof.e.on a| Am City.. State. Where this Pledge is displayed by Studebaker dealers, ,__J you can buy a used car safely. STUDEBJJKER The Great Independent! JULY, :g 28 July, 1928 Vol. s, No. i ItfERICAN EGION Contents Cover Design: the machine gunner by Harvey Dunn The Message Center by The Editor 9:35 P. M. Part One by Karl W. Detzer 5 Illustrations by V. E. Pyles What is a Good American ? by Clarence Budington Kelland 10 Illustrations by T. D. Skidmore The 4TH Comes to the Rosebud by Joseph Mills Hanson 12 Bandstand by Thomas J. Malone 16 Illustrations by W. Percy Couse A Quarter Million Strong by Walter Johnson 20 Editorial with cartoon by John Cassel 22 Men in a Day by Marquis James 24 "Camera!" by Wallgren 26 A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 27 Here's Luck! eighth episode: As You Wuz! by Hugh Wiley 28 Illustrations by Herbert M. Stoops Eat While You Learn by Philip Von Blon 32 Keeping Step by Right Guide 34 Fidacs Path to Peace by Fred Condict 42 Then and Now by The Company Clerk 43 Bursts and Duds conducted by Tip Bliss 49 Cartoons by Dale Beronius The Commander Earns His Wings by John J. Noll 50 THE STARS IN THE FLAG Georgia: One of the thirteen original colonies, and the last ties of 2,500 and over), 1900, 15.6; 1910, 20.6; 1920, 25.1. to be founded. James Oglethorpe, a British general, who Area, 59,265 sq. miles. Density of population (1920 U. S. received a charter from King George II of England, originally Census), 49 per sq. mile. Rank among States (1920 U. S. planned the colony for the relief of English debt- Census), 12th in population, 20th in area, 20th ors. The first recruits, who saw a chance to re- in density. Capital, Atlanta (1927 U. S. est.), habilitate themselves in the new world rather 250,000. Three largest cities, Atlanta; Savannah, than languish in an English jail, often for a tri- 96,400; Macon, 59,200. Estimated wealth (1923 fling debt, arrived at Savannah Feb. 13, 1733. U. S. Census), $3,896,759,000. Principal sources They were followed in a few years by other bands of wealth (U. S. 1923), cotton goods, $201,860,- of Englishmen, Salzburgers, Scotchmen, Irishmen, 151; lumber products, $30,036,857; fertilizers, Jews and Moravians. Oglethorpe on his second $24,192,743; all crops (1920 U. S. Census) were visit to the colony in 1734 brought over Charles valued at $540,613,626, with cotton, cereal grains Wesley as his secretary and John Wesley, founder and sugar cane the leaders. Georgia had 103,28s of Methodism, as a missionary to the Indians. men and women in service during the World These two ministers had a profound influence on the religious War. State motto, adopted 1799: "Wisdom, Justice, Moder- life of the colony that is felt to this day. In 1754 Georgia be- ation." Origin of name: Named for King George II of Eng- came a royal province. Population, 1790, 82,548; 1927 (U. S. land, who granted the charter for the colony. Nickname: est.), 3,171,000. Percentage of urban population (communi- Cracker State. Robert F. Smith, General Manager John T. Winterich, Editor Philip Von Blon, Managing Edito> 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, 1928, 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 $1.50, in Canada $2, 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 iv<iadison Avenue, New York City; Western Advertising Office, 410 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly ONLY a month ago this department dividual American soldier who had been our contributors, is that of Walter John- chronicled the fact that, since the with them. I am not talking about son. A native of Kansas, he went from publication of Alexander Gardiner's official hot air or government inspired an Idaho team in 1907 to the Washington article, "A Little Faster, A Little propaganda, but about individuals whose American League team, and was affiliated Farther," in the June, 1927, issue, three sincerity is not to be doubted, not only in with no other baseball organization until records in major track and field events and around our training area, but every- a few months ago he accepted the had gone by the boards. Two of these, it where. The common people in the small managership of the Newark International was pointed out, would go down in the towns have preserved every letter, every League team. In his prime as a player he books as indoor records only owing to a Christmas card or postcard received from was known as the speediest pitcher base- technicality for which neither of the per- Americans who were billeted with them, ball has produced. His speed was once formers, Sabin Carr, pole-vaulter, and and we received eager inquiries from in- carefully computed on one of the thing- Lloyd Hahn, half-miler, was responsible. dividuals as to whether we might happen umajigs that figure the velocity of pro- Now comes the news that Lee Barnes of to know Corporal This or Captain That, jectiles and was recorded as one hundred the University of Southern California the inquirers being innocently oblivious and twenty feet a second, which, accord- has pole vaulted 14 feet, 2 inches, an of American geography. A reflection of ing to our figuring, is at the rate of nearly inch better than Carr's best leap. As this this is found in the lists of inquiries which eighty-two miles an hour. Sporting his- issue was made up the Intercollegiates, in appeared in the newspapers of Paris at tory may well assign him a niche along- which both were entered, were yet to the time of the Legion Convention, side the late beloved Christy Mathewson come. Johnny Kuck, formerly of the wherein hundreds of French people wrote as a beau sabreur of baseball . Kansas State Teachers' College, this asking their American friends to look Thomas J. Malone lives in Minneapolis. spring hurled the sixteen-pound shot them up. This attitude was so general as fifty-one feet two inches at Los Angeles to be almost universal, and when the only a few days after previously breaking old Frenchwoman in whose house I was THE August Monthly will initiate a the world figure with a put of fifty-one billeted at Reynel greeted me with tears seven-part war story by Leonard H. feet one inch—the latter mark was one in her eyes and a smile that would not (Steamer) Nason called "The Man in the inch better than that set up by Ralph come off, I felt guilty for the years of White Slicker." Nason is no stranger to Rose of the University of Michigan in silence since 1918, and resolved that no Monthly readers, but this will be his first 1909.

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