E RI CAN EGION OHonthli/ Beginning aSeries ofArticles on NationalDefense h Richard Washburn Child ! So you're going to Paris! Your rail transportation to sailing port entitles you to See America's mm France ^Mi^K,on the way Tell your agent to route you direct to ship's side over Quebec— Canadian Pacific — through quaint old-world French- 17th Century peasants Walled City Canadian countryside where Normandy and of the North ox-carts and wayside shrines and funny little villages Sailing port for that haven't changed in 300 years keep you interested Washington Oregon all the way—deliver you at sailing port fresh, not tired; Montana eager for the remainder of the trip. North Dakota Minnesota Stop over a few hours or days in Montreal whose French-quarter Wisconsin Michigan is Paris in advance; in 17th Century Quebec whose people still Idaho, sailing from ride in caleches and live in steep, twisty little streets— as enchant- is served Montreal, ing as anything Europe can offer. 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Tunis 28 Editorial with cartoon oy Joan Cassel J w Two Men In a Basket by Samuel Taylor Moore 32 Eighty Years After by Franklin Stetson Clark 34 A Personal View by Frederick Palmer 37 They Also Serve: part eight by Peter B. Kyne 38 Illustrations by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge Everybody Out! by Charles Phelps Cushing 42 The Empty Trunk Trick by Wallgren 44 Bursts and Duds with cartoc-.i by A. B. Walker 45 Illinois Burns the Mortgage by Eugene E. Morgan 46 Keeping Step • by Right Guide 48 On to Paris 53 Then and by The Now Company Clerk 2 / THE STARS IN THE FLAG NEW YORK: One of the thirteen original colonies. Ver- 1026 (U. S. Census Bureau est.), 11,303,296. Percentage of razano visited New York bay in 1524. Henry (often urban population (communities of 2,500 and over), 1900, miscalled Hendrick) Hudson, an Englishman employed by 72.9; 1910, 78.8; 1920, 82.7. Area, 49,204 sq. miles. Density the Dutch East India Company, sailed up the of population, 1920, 217.9 per sq. mile. Rank river which bears his name in 1609. In 1623 the among States, first in population, 29th in area, company established a fur settlement on Manhat- fifth in density of population. Capital, Albany, tan Island, the present site of New York City, population (U. S. Census Bureau est.), 119,000. calling it New Amsterdam. Legend has it that the Three largest cities (1926 U. S. Census Bureau Dutch burghers bought the island from the Indians est.), New York City, 5,924,000; Buffalo, 544,000; for $24. Holland Datch families settled on the Rochester, 321,000. Estimated wealth (1920), land along the Hudson River, calling the province $37,035,262,000. New York ranks first among the New Netherlands.