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Pyles Expiation by Marquis James 18 Red Elk by Samuel Scoville, Jr. 20 Illustrations by Forrest C. Crooks Own Your Own Bank- by Edward A. Filene 24 Illustrations by Paid Carruth Editorial with cartoon by John Cassel 26 The Unfinished Battle by Watson B. Miller 28 Keeping Step by Right Guide 3° Then and Now by The Company Clerk 37 A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 42 Bursts and Duds conducted by Tip Bliss 44 An April Fool by Wallgren 46 The Message Center by The Editor 80 THE STARS IN THE FLAG Alabama: The 22A State, admitted to the Union December population, 28th in area, 23d in density. Capital, Montgom l 14, 1819. De Soto discovered the region in 1541 and ery (1928 U. S. est.), 67,100. Three largest cities (1928 U. S. other Spanish explorers followed him. In 1702 the French est.), Birmingham, 222,400; Mobile, 69,600; Montgomery. settled Old Mobile, then a part of Louisiana. Georgia under Estimated wealth (1923 U. S. Census), $3,002,043,000. Princi- its charter of 1732, which gave it a corridor from pal sources of wealth (1923 U. S. Census), iron the Atlantic to the Pacific, claimed part of Ala- and steel products and by-products, including coke bama. France ceded a part of this area to Eng- manufacture, $223,324,628; cotton goods, $86,- land in 1763.