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RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF f 'J ii f TiiE AMM(M LEGION (Copy for Thli Department Supplied fair the American Legion News Service.) MONUMENT AT NEW ORLEANS Memorial to World War Fallen Heroes Regarded as One of the Most Interpretative One of the most truly Interpretative memorial monuments erected since the World war whs recently completed at New Orleans. It Is the wovlt of Charles L. Lnwhorn, designer, and C. II. Dodd, Hculptor. Local American Legion posts piesentcd the monument to the city. Standing In a bed of red popples In the beautiful city park, the monu ment Is silhouetted against the palms. At the base Is the simple inscription "In memory of our comrades who made tho supreme sacrltlce." Slight Memorial Monument at New Orleans. ornnmentntlon relieves the severity of the shnft. On each side of the monu ment Is an Insignia, denoting the de partments of service In which Ameri cans gave their livesthe army, navy, marine and aviation. The' four figures created by the sculptor represeut four phnf.es of military experience. T. Semmes Walmsley, chairman of the Legion's national committee on memorials, was deeply Interested In the erection of this tribute to the fal len comrades In New Orleans where lie makes his home. Mr. Wnlmsley pronounced It the most remarkable conception he had seen. LEGION MEN DO NOT FORGET Tuberculosis Victim Is Sent Back to His Home In California by Faithful Buddies. Taul P. PInnel was only n gob baker Jn the United States navy during the World wnr, but he served his coun try faithfully and Is now one c the thousands nffor Ing from tubercu losis. For many months he bad been In Seton hos pital, New York city, which Is car ing for patients In the last stages of the dreadful dis ease. Walter Hamilton. His application for compensation has been on file for more than a year, but no action has been .taken by tho bureau of war risk Insurance, nlthough time and time again, I'inuoU's critical condition has been brought to the bu reau's attention. So he has been ex isting without compensation, and de pendent upon members of the Ameri can Legion who visit the hospital reg ularly, for the many little necessities dear to tho henrt of every sick man. Walter T. Ilumllton, chairman of tlie Bronx county Welfare committee f the American Legion visited the ex ll and the latter confided to him Xmt lie longed to bo back home In California among his people. IJnmll ton got busy. The next day he took the matter up with his committee und $150 was raised by the Legionnaires to irovlde for PlnnclPs transportation Jnd an attendant nurse. PInnell Is home now with his nged father. Ills country for whom ho fought may huvo forgotten, but his buddies never. Pies for Sailor Boys. Ono thousand home-mado pies were dispensed by members of tho women's ftfixlllary of tho American Legion at Seattle, Wash., to the lOO sailors of tho Pacific licet who took part In n parade there. Other rations were dis tributed In aa generous n mensure. Pity tho poor ship's cook oa a night like that I Carrying On With the American Legion Not to be outdone by the Women's Auxiliary of the American Lcgtou and the various associations of war moth ers, "Dad" Is now forming an associ ation of his own. The new fathor's organization Is known as the "Order of Loyal Dads." It will co-opcrato with nil patriotic orders, and will bo especially allillated with the American Legion. "Dad" Sheldon Foote, of Ft. Mcrs, Fla., Is the founder of the pa ternal order. Its principles will en courage "clean, patriotic living, Irre spective of party, politics, race or creed." Men whose sons served In the Spanlsh-Amerlcnn or World wars, or who served In the army or navy at any other time, will he eligible. A sales system for the hundreds of practlcnl articles and ornaments that are being made by disabled veterans, Is being developed by the Fast Sldo post at St. Paul, Mliui. The sale opened on Uastlilu day, July 14, with a carnival, the proceeds of which will aid their unfortunato comrades In civil re-cstnbllshment. The 'American Legion Welfare llurcau of St. Paul, Is lighting for tho unemployed ex-service men with financial handicaps In what It terms a determined effort to "keep the bread line mul soup kitchen out of St. Paul." Thomas J. Uannlgan, the new vice commander of the American Legion, Is well-known In New Fnghind for his record as chairman of the legislative committee of the Connecticut depart ment of the Legion. He waged a light ngniiiHt politicians who, he declared, were trying to "commercialize, fed eralize and polltlcallze soldier legis lation." As a result of this campaign the state of Connecticut turned over to the American Legion as disbursing agent, a fund of S'J.SOO.OOO for the re lief of needy ex-service men and their dependent families. dipt. Harry C. Urumbaugh, former ly executive olllcer of General Per shing's Information force which kept track of every man In France nnd the movements of nil troops und Individ uals, has been chosen executive sec retary of the World war veterans' Mate aid of Oregon. Urumbaugh was formerly treasurer of the Legion Pub lishing corporation nnd assistant na tional treasurer of tho American Le gion. After surviving several engagements of the World war In which he won ft Croix de Guerre and wns twice cited for bravery, Clifford A. Luflln, member of the American Legion, died at St. John's hospital, St. Paul, .Minn., us th result of u pin scratch. Laflln wns a first lieutenant In the Seventeenth Held artillery. Infection from the scratch caused his death within few days. National Commander Emery of the American Legion placed u wreath on the casket of Private Greslunu ut memorial services which marked the return of the hero's body from France. Commander Finery nnd Private Gresh am were members of the same bri gade. The former was severely wounded and the latter killed In uc tlon. Prlvnto Greshum'wus one of the llrst three Americans killed lu Fn.nce. A summer camp, conducted by tho American Legion and the Disabled American Veterans of the World wur, known us Cump Gulbralth, lu honor of Col. F. W. Galbralth, Jr., late com mander of the Legion, has been opened lu a $100,000 hotel neur Port Town send. Wash. Tho cump will continue until September 15, and will be open to all veterans and their families for whutever period they desire. At the suggestion of Victor J. Mil ler, president of the St. Louis (Mo.) police board, the Frederick W. Stock ham post, Amerlcun Legion, voted to form u committee to co-operate with the police In ridding the city of crime. President Miller characterized their work as a thankless effort to see that Americanism starts ut home. Personal letters congratulating all aliens who receive their final citizen ship papers, are sent out by F. M. Wood, commander of tho American Legion post nt Okmulgee, Okla. In the letters, Wood offers assistance of tho Legion In steering a clear course In Americanism and pledges fellow bhlp. Tho site for Kansas City's $2,000, 000 Liberty Memorial building will be dedicated October 1, the opening day of the national convention of the Amerlcnn Legion. Tho dedication will follow a parade of some 110,000 members of the American Legion from all parts of the world. More than 0,000 former service men have been assisted financially and oth erwise by the Connecticut department of the Amerlcun Legion, according to a recent report. Approximately $1250, 000 from n fund appropriated by tho state of Connecticut, has been spent In tno soldier welfare work. Among tho cities that have tossed their hats In the ring as candidates for tho 1022 national convention of the American Legion, are New Or leans, Baltimore, Houston and San Francisco Carrying On With the rmTTira m JlTMOTc I l. i . - .. - I, i - . i i ' i w TA rTr. A Public Scribe (Prepare by the National OeoRrnphlc So ciety. WiulilnKtcm. I). C ) East or west uu American must trnv el far to reach it foreign country. Put let him take only a few steps to the south nnd he will Ihul himself more effectually abroad than If lie traveled to ninny parts of Europe. A laud de void of Yankee "hustle" except where Yankees themselves display It ; a land with Its peasantry reminiscent of u feudalism which tho remainder of North America escaped ; a land where the aborigines were not dispossessed but with their European conquerors formed u new met such Is Mexico. It Is a country of striking contrasts. Though It Is exceedingly rich In nntur ul resources, a large part of Its popu lation lives In dire poverty, it had a university before John Harvard was born, yet the great mass of its peo ple are Illiterate. Modern equipages and machines are to be seen sitle by side with the most primitive vehicles and devices. And desert Hands and tropical Jungles cay be found nlmost within a stone's throw of eternal snow. Tho Mexico of today has nn urea of ubout 770,000 square miles approxi mately u quarter that of tho United States. Roughly half of the long shore line of the Gulf of Mexico Is Mexican; and Its Pacific wast is nearly a thou sand miles longer than that of the United States exclusive of Alaska. Big in Some Ways, Small In Others. Of the nlnctecM Independent Latin American countries, Mexico Is exceed ed In sI?o by only two, Brazil and Ar gentina; and lu population by only Brazil. With its population of 15,000, 000, Mexico has twice the total popu lation of Argentina and three times that country's density of population; but measured by the value of Its com merce, Its revenue or the strength of Its navy, Mexico Is of less Importance among the countries of the world. It Is subordinate In these respects too, to Brazil and Chile, the latter a coun try less than half the size of Mexico and with a population of about a quar ter. Even hi the matter of railroad mileage per 1,000 squure miles of ter ritory, Mexico, before Its revolutions well abend of all other largo Latin Amerlcun countries, Is now practlcully equalled by Argentina and Chile. But Mexico bus wonderful potential weulth, und with a stable and con structive government und luws that make the Investment of capital sufe, would havo many advnntuges over Its Latln-Amerlcun competitors In the rnce for development and rank among the countries of the world. Though Mexico has an area of great extent, whut muy be called tho real Mexico Is much smaller. Throughout tho history of the country, both be fore the coming of the Spanish con querors and since, its culture and Its center of populutlou have been on the great central plateau which rises be tween tho two oceans, and particu larly In the south central pnrt of that region. A section there occupying not more than one-sixth of tho country contnlns nearly two-thirds of tho to tal population. This portion, of which tho valley of Mexico nnd tho city of Mexico aro neur the center, hns a delightful cllmnte. Blankets are used ut night the year round, but seldom at any time of the year Is uu overcoat needed ut midday. Tho northern portion "of Mexico Is largely occupied by deserts. Tho southern section Is troplcnl a coun try of steamy molsturo and jungles. Both coasts are hot mid unpleasant throughout a largo part of their ex tent. It Is natural enough, therefore, that the central plateau has played an Important part In tho country's his tory. But One Really Large City. Mexico Is essentially n rural coun try. Mexico City, tho capital, with Its million Inhabitants, Is tho only city of largo size within the coun try's borders. Between tho metropo lis and tho next largest city, Guadala jara, is a great gulf, for the latter with Its population of 120,000 Is only tho slzo of Nashville, Tenn., or Snlt Lako City. Monterey, the greatest city of northern Mexico, and third lu TMYS In Mexico. the country, Is approximately the shw of Hiirrlsburg, El Paso, or Sun Diego. San Louis Potosl Is the size of South Bend, Ind., while Vera Cruz, tho great est port of the republic and fifth city, Is smaller than Tampa, Florida, or Charleston, S. C. Sallna Cruz nnd the other Pacific ports are little more than villages with extensive docks. As a rule the cities of Mexico are not manufacturing centers but derive what Importance they possess from being the markets for the surrounding agri cultural country or mining regions. While Mexico Is lnrgely agricultur al, ami therefore rural, Its country life Is strikingly different from that with which farm-bred residents of the Uni ted States are familiar. Seldom Is an Isolated farmhouse to be found; many of the tillers of the soil live In little villages and go back nnd forth to their woik, usually on tho land of others. These Innumerable villages give ono the Impression of being standardized and aro difficult to tcU apart. They nie made up of low, rectangular fiat topped huts of mud bricks or ndobe, and are huddled closely together. Be twecn the forbidding walls of thosa tomh-llkc dwellings, the tropic sun bents down on a narrow, dusty street. Great Ranches and Plantations. In addition to these more or less In dependent villages of the common peo ple there are to bo found In parts of the country the haciendas or great ranches of the landed proprietors, on which aro other groups of the Inevit able fiat-roofed huts, the dwellings of the ranch's peons. In the hot country of the south are extensive plnntntlom of bananas, rubber trees, cacao and other special tropical products. These plantations nre often operated by for eigners, und on them small armies of day lnborers aro employed. From the forest of southern und southeastern Mexico conies most of the chicle from which the world's chewing gum Is made; and from the plantations of Yucatan comes practically all the fiber used In making the miles nnd miles of bundle twlno with which the huga wheat crops of tho United Stutes are tied Into bundles. Aboriginal traits cling to the mass of tho Mexicans who are such -a short distance In time removed from tho strange mixture of bnrburlsm and civ ilization that marked the empire of tho Aztecs found by Cortez when ho landed on the gulf coast in 1518 a clvllizntlon with its human sacrifices In a city carefully policed, and scrup ulously kept clean by a corps of trained "white-wings;" with its refined can nibalism beside an astronomical abil ity superior to that of the scholars who arranged the Julian calendar; with Its Institution of Blnvcry the only ono known In tho world which pro vided that every child should bo born a freeman,. They nre an artistic pec pic, the Mexicans, apt musicians, mod' elers, bnsket-makers, featherworkera, weavers and metul-workers. Burial Vaults Are Rented. Poverty brings Its tragedy Into tho deuths as well as Into tho lives ol the masses of tho Mexicans. Few are able to buy burial plots, and the cus tom of merely renting vaults for a short term of years has become gen eral. The lease Is often not renewed nnd tho bones are cast on a heap of millions of others to make room for a tlmo for some other unfortunato. Mexico abounds In holidays. Be sides Sunday there Is nn equal num ber of saints' days and additional holy und feust dnys to bring the total to 131 of the UG5. Mexico's largo unnsslmllatcd Indlnn populutlou and Its even larger popui latlon In which Indlnn traits prcdonv Innto makes a certain degree of tur bulenco a natural condition In tho re public south of tho Itto Grundo. Tho United States had not bo long ago on Its frontiers Its Indlun uprisings, Its stage-coach and train robberies, and Its "bnd men" with n penchant for "shooting up " towns. Mexico Is still In this stngo of development, nnd be cause of tho heavy Indlun element In Us population, probably will bo there for muny years. 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