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JUNE, 1929 June, 1929 Vol. 6, No. 6 92MERI CAN EGION Contents Cover Design: the battle of bunker hill by V. E. Pyles Prosperity and Laughter by Meredith Nicholson 4 Illustration by William Heaslip Bill by R. G. Kirk 7 Illustrations by Harry Townsend The Legion of the Missing by Leland Stowe 12 Decoration by John Richard Flanagan SAN JUAN: Part Two by Charles Johnson Post 16 Illustrations by the Author Kentucky by Ulric Bell 18 With Photographs Copyrighted by Caufield and Shook, Louisville Editorial with cartoon by John Cassel 22 The Town that Joined the Legion by Carter Johnson 24 The Broken 3-. Part Four by Karl W. Detzer 26 Illustrations by V. E. Pyles Hors D'Oeuvres by Wallgren 30 A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 31 Keeping Step by Right Guide 32 Then and Now by The Company Clerk 41 Bursts and Duds conducted by Tip Bliss 46 The Message Center by The Editor 80 THE STARS IN THE FLAG Missouri: The 24th State, admitted to the Union Aug. of population (1920 U. S. Census), 49.3 per sq. mile. Rank 10, 1821. Marquette and Joliet, in passing down the among States, 9th in population, 18th in area, 19th in Mississippi River, visited the region in 1683. The French density. Capital, Jefferson City (1920 U. S. Census), 14,490. settled at Sainte Genevieve in 1738. St. Louis became the Three largest cities (1928 U. S. est.), St. Louis, 848,000; center of an extensive fur trade. The French Kansas City, 391,000; St. Joseph, 78,500. Esti- diplomats, foreseeing defeat impending in the mated wealth (1923 U. S. Census), $9,981,409,- French and Indian War, which would mean the 000. Principal sources of wealth (1923 U. S. surrender of Louisiana, of which the present Census), slaughtering and meat packing, $152,- State of Missouri was a part, ceded it in 1762 916,678; automobiles, $137,447,034; boots and to Spain. France, during the days of Napoleon's shoes, $121,830,354; all farm products (1920 U. power, bought it back from Spain in 1800. The S. Census), $5,59,047,854, principally in wheat, Stars and Stripes floated over St. Louis when oats, potatoes, tobacco and mules; mineral prod- France ceded Louisiana Territory to the United ucts (1925), $92,548,473 in lead, zinc, clay prod- States in 1803. First a district of Louisiana, next ucts and cement. Missouri had 161,805 men and organized as Louisiana Territory in 1805, it be- women in service during the World War. State came in 181 2 Missouri Territory. Not until 1836 were the motto, adopted Jan. 11, 1822: "Salus Populi Suprema Lex present limits of the State finally decided on. Population, Esto"—"Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law." 1810, 19,783; 1928 (U. S. est.), 3,523,000. Percentage of Origin of name: From a family of the Sioux Indians, the urban population (communities of 2,500 and over), 1900, Missouri. Although Missouri's accepted nickname is Show 36.3; 1910, 42.5; 1920, 46.6. Area, 69,420 sq. miles. Density Me State, it is also called Ozark or Iron Mountain State. Robert F. Smith, General Manager The American Leoion Monthly is the official publication of The Philip Von Blon, Managing Editor Legion Auxiliary T „, American Legion and The American and is owned JOHN 1 . WINTERICH, tdltor exclusively by The Amencan Legion. Copyright, 1929, by The Legion William MacLean, Art Editor Publishing Corporation. Published monthly at Indianapolis, Ind. Entered as second class matter January 5, 1925, at the Postoffice at Indianapolis, Ind., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage pro- vided for in Section 1 103, 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, 521 Fifth Avenue, New York City; Western Advertising Office, 410 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. The AMERICAN LEGION Monthly JUNE, 1929 3 — PROSPERITYand LAUGHTER Habit is habit, and not to plained of this, notably Mat- be flung out of the window thew Arnold who, forty years by any man, but coaxed ago. attributed to us a lack of down-stairs a step at a intellectual seriousness. But time. the fathers of the Republic - Pudd'nliead Wilson's were serious minded men; ex- Calendar cept for Franklin's wit there By Meredith Nicholson isn't much to relieve the im- L 0 WE Americans pression we get of those great laugh enough? Illustration by William Heaslip souls as a pretty solemn lot. Or, do we fre- We have had wits in all peri- quently "laugh in ods, but humor was almost the wrong place," when there is occasion for tears rather than an unknown quantity among the great and good who adorned our mirth? first half-century. "Everybody I've met on the street today looks so glum," com- Washington Irving was the first to establish the right of plained a woman who had been ranging the business district of a American humor to literary recognition, and an explorer of the Mid-Western city. Her remark left me speculating as to whether subject can't do better than to begin with him on the Hudson. there is really as much good humor in the American people today However, the great body of American humor— the stuff that we as there was twenty years ago. think of as raciest of the soil and with a wild native flavor came The political history of a nation, with an account of its wars, from the West and Southwest. A few years ago John Donald and the failure or success of its rulers is hardly half the story. Wade paid tribute to one of the first American humorists in his The social life, the conditions in which the people lived, their biography of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, which he amplified moral standards and practices, what they ate and drank and, not into a history of cultural movements in Georgia. Longstreet's least, what they found to laugh at are what really give us a clew "Georgia Sketches" is a book that survives after nearly a hundred to their character. The Muse of Comedy seems to have been years by reason of its shrewd observation and racy humor. It's a abroad in some guise pretty far back in the history of civilization.