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Why couldn't 1 put tance ; a timid, retiring, self-conscious man to my ideas across clearly and forcefully, Address change almost overnight into a popular and I winning approval and applause? Often much applauded after-dinner speaker. Thou- City State- saw men who were not half so thorough sands have accomplished just such amazing NOVEMBER, 1929 2 November, 1929 Vol. 7, No. 5 Ivf ERICAN EGION Contents Cover Design: armistice by Harvey Dunn Billie and Several Others by Orland Kay Armstrong 4 The Story of the Armistice by Major General Charles D. Rhodes, U. S. A. 7 Decoration: Mourning Victory by Daniel Chester French Courtesy oj the Metropolitan Museum of Art God Have Mercy on Us : Part Four by William T. Scanlon 1 Illustrations by Raytnond Sisley In the Seats of the Mighty by Ared White 18 Cartoon by C. LeRoy Baldridge Balangiga by Marquis James 20 Illustration by Frank Street Everybody Up! by Alexander Gardiner 22 Editorial with cartoon by JOHN CaSSEL 24 No Place to Stay Sick by Clara Ingram Judson 26 A Swell Affair by Wallgren 30 A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 31 Keeping Step by Right Guide 32 As We Never Were by Herbert B. Mayer 40 Then and Now by The Company Clerk 41 The Unfinished Battle 45 Bursts and Duds conducted by Tip Bliss 46 Cartoons by Charles 0. Naef The Message Center by The Editor 80 THE STARS IN THE FLAG Iowa: The 29th State, admitted to the Union Dec. 28, 1846. (1920 U. S. Census), 43.2 per sq. mile. Rank among States The land passed into possession of the United States in 1803 (1920 U. S. Census), 10th in population, 24th in area, 24th in as part of the Louisiana Purchase. The first settler was Julien density. Capital, Des Moines (1928 U. S. est.), 151,900. Three Dubuque, a Frenchman, in 1788, after whom the city of Du- largest cities, Des Moines, Sioux City, 80,000; Cedar Rapids, buque is named. His was an isolated post. Indians 58,200. Estimated wealth (1923 U.