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Xj/ie I AMERICAN ?legion# (Copy for Thl? Department Supplied by thl American Legion News Service.) ? I J LEGION MEET WILL BE RECORD-BREAKER With three great conventions in ' progress simultaneously In four con vention halls, the 1024 gathering of the American Legion and jts affiliated bodies at St. Paul, Minn., v from September 16 to 19 promises to be one of the greatest veterans' conventions in the history of the country. Sixty thousand visitors are expected to make the pilgrimage to the convention city, coming from every state in the Union and from many foreign lands. Greetings to the Legionnaires will be extended on behalf of the conven tion city by Mayor Arthur E. Nelson, himself a Legionnaire, and on behalf of the Minnesota department of the Legion by its commander. Formal re sponse will be made on behalf of National Commander John R. Quinn, of the Legion, by James T. Williams, Jr., editor of the Boston Transcript. There will also be greetings fpom many other organizations. Among these are the Grand Army of the He public, the United Confederate Vet erans, the United Spanish War Vet erans, the Women's Overseas league, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Disabled American Veterans, the Knights of Columbus, the Legion Aux iliary and the Forty and Eight. Com mander W. B. Haldeman pf the United Confederate Veterans has stated that he will attend the convention. At the opening session of the con vention on Monday morning, Com mander Quinn will make his report. It is of . particular Interest In this connection that this convention mnrks the fifth anniversary of the permanent organization of the Legion across tlte river from St. Paul at Minneapolis In 1919. ? ' j Among the distinguished speakers who will address the convention nre Gen. Frank T. Hlnes, director of the United States veterans' bureau; Sam uel Gompers. president of the 'Ameri can Federation of Labor; Judge-Kene saw Mountain Landis, (baseball arbiter, and John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross. Impressive memorial services In honor of the World war dead will con clude the first session of the conven tipn. Miss Alma Forker, of Bakers-, field, Cal., who has been chosen as convention sollst, will sing. Tuesday afternoon will be given over' to the great convention parade. In Xvhich 25,000 marchers and more than 300 bands and drum corps will take part. Election of national officers on Friday morning will conclude the > convention, which will oe occupied In the meantime with formulation of Legion policies and in a round of con vention festivities. / Dinner, Social Event for Legion Auxiliary Foremost on the program of the American Legion Auxiliary convention, which opens at St. Paul, on September '35, is the state's dinner, which is also the leading social event of the entire Legion convention. This hnnquet will be held at the Masonic temple at 7 :30 o'clock on Tuesday evening. . Brilliant decorations, beautifully gowned women, lights, music, combine to make a function which is not soon forgtotten. Each department has its own special table, which Is decorated In distinctive fashion by the depart ment itself. The vnrlegated schemes contribute largely to the dash and splendor of the scene. National officers, department dele gates, national executive commlttee r women and all chairmen of the nation al committees of the Auxiliary will be present. Tn? national commander ot the Legion and notables on convention committees will be guests. Sessions of the convention proper will be held at the Central Presbyter ian church arid will open on Monday afternoon. Judge Kenesaw M. Landls will address the Auxiliary. Election o/ national officers will be held on Fri day morning and will conclude the convention. , P ! I Damage Memorial Steps; Forced to Pay Neat Sum Disregard of the fine marble steps that adorn the entrance to the Legion Memorial building at Shainokin, Pa., recently cost Vincent Lopez, famous leader of a dance orchestra that np-. peared in the Legion gymnasium last May, a neat, sum In damages. In re moving their trunks from the me morial building following the enter tainment, members of the orchestra dragged their trunks down the marble stairs to the street, inflicting a num ber of dents In the ornamental stair way. Lopez and his organization ap peared in the vicinity of Shamokin re cently and a committee of the Amer ican Legion and "old John Law" armed with a warrant attended the concert. The Illustrious leader at first presented an Indignant mood when the claim of damages was made, but finally settled In full when con fronted with a warrant and the pros pect* of the city bustlle. <? num c imP* V!. I JTaoiitfo*" J, j&v-yon/c J/ar&or, S794 \ Trpntcvx, //&9 Seventy -nine { Nou) Have More Than 100f000 By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN | $^C?4aSgSE! J^aA'p end St*. Ci~*f Ar*~*?t J ilttuETB i;? :ij VY TV* >?? ? v ' " ? Jap I'llJ mMOM'tir n.i' v, . v- - , , "/\ : s^* ~ ??? . - i-*3k '?C-.'Si.'--? ? .- , f-. , A,..- , .Vr-Vi-l^SSS:.^ cvrmarr, 7&TQ LKVEN cities of the United El States have passed the I 400,000 mark in the lust year, according to esti mates by the census bu reau. That gives us 70. And the big cities are get ting bigger. ( New York has passed the six-million mark. Chicago Is ap proaching three million. Philadelphia will soon have two million. Detroit,; for which no estimute was made, has probably passed the million mark. Other rap idly growing cities for which > fto esti mates were made are Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Akron, Bridgeport, Houston and Spokane. The estimates make several changes in the relative rtfnk of the cities. New Orleans has paused Cincinnati, Roches ter has outgrown Jersey City. Provi dence has fallen behind St. Paul, which in turn has been passed by Oakland. Springfield, Mass.. is now ahead of Grand Rapids. The 70 cities : New York \ i. . O. . . 6.015,504 Chicago j ' 2.939.605 Philadelphia .'...1.951.076! 5etro,t No estimate Cleveland ? ... 912.502 St. Louis ..., ..7... 812.698 Baltimore 784.983 Boston .. .01 776.-783 Los Angeles . . No estimate Pittsburgh v. 625.91$ San Francisco 548.284 Buffalo .... 545.273, Milwaukee ' 492.087 Washington .i 1486.936 Newark ....... 445.606 Minneapolis 417,280 New Orleans 409,534 Cincinnati 407.835 Kansas Cltyv Mo 359,650 Seattle No estimate Indianapolis ; . 350.425 Rochester 325.211 Jersey City 312,157 Portland, Ore 278.002 Denver . No estimate Toledo 276.359 Columbus 266,709 Louisville 258.465 Oakland 246.893 St Paul 243.946 | Providence ,w 243,745 Akron ... No estimate Atlanta >. 227.710 Omaha .~i. ? 208,025 Birmingham . . . . i 200,785 Worcester > 195.405 San Antonio ,....!. ...U> 191,398 Syracuse , .... 188.060 Dallas 187.862 Richmond 183.723 New Haven 175,947 Memphis ? .... 172.276 Dayton 169,236 Bridgeport .............. No estimate Norfolk 164.105 Houston No estimate Hartford 156,167 Youngstown i - 155,153 Springfield. Mass 148,402 Grand Rapids V 148,322 Fort Worth 148.107 De? Moines 145.053 Scr&nton ......... f .......... . 141,451 Paterson W 1 40.637 New Bedford .J. 136,602 Trenton ,.... 129.705 Salt Lake City J 128.564 Camden 126,399 Nashville ^ 123.424 Fall River , ... 121.034 Wilmington, Del. 119,888 I ?. - I ? Straw Boats Lightest Straw boats, so llgllt that one man can carry a large one, and so buoyant that a small one will support a ton of freight, are used by the Peruvian In dians. The boats are constructed of large cables of barley straw, tightly bound and lashed together. They are reported to be almost unsinkable and will not easily capsize, Lb information jlren by the Detroit News. >.. ftacnondlncr to nearly every motion Albany .. .. Kansas City, Kan. Lowell . . Cambridge Reading Tulsa . .p' ...... .. Yonkers ......... Spokane Duluth Utlca Oklahoma City . Lynn . , ...... Tacoma", Canton Jacksonville '. .... El Paso Schenectady ..... 8omervllle, Mass . 118.527 117.7G2 115.755 111,944 111.812 111,328 109,618 No estimate 108.395 105,315 103.980 103.693 103,093 .. 102.754 102,741 100,624 100,467 ,. 100,440 STATISTICS, say you? Just popu lation statistics and dry as dust? Not so. Quite the contrary. Read be tween the lines and you will find It n fascinating list. It spells the three hundred years of our history; the march of the American people across the continent ; our territorial, indus trial and commercial development from a new land to the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth ; the tri umphs of both war und peace; glimpses of the contrasting civiliza tions of colonial and Twentieth cen tury times. In proof of , this, run through the list and note what each city suggests to you. New York likely says, "Broadway, Wall Street, Tammany Hall, Wool worth building." Chicago probably suggests Windy City, stock yards, Great Fire, grand opera and phe nomenal growth. There are living native-horn Chicagoans who have seen it grow from about 2,000 when, incor porated in 1837 to the fourth city of the world. Boston meuns baked beans and culture. Detroit shouts "Fliv vers!" Minneapolis spells flour; Grand Rapids furniture, and Tulsa oil. Phil adelphia takes us back to the Declara tion of Independence, the Revolution and the Constitution. San Antonio re calls the Alamo; Richmond and At lanta the Civil war. Washington means congress and Uncle Sam. And so on. STUDY of the names of these cities is interesting. A few are purely Indian: Chicago, I'lnce of the Wild Onion; Seattle, an Indian chief; Kansas City, Omaha, Tacoma and oth ers. Several are Spanish: Neustra Senora La Reina de los Angeles, San Francisco, San Antonio, El Paso. The French are represented by Detroit (Strait), New Orleans, St. Louis, Des Moines and Duluth. The Dutch lost New York (Nieuw Amsterdam) and Albany (Fort Orange) to the English, but gave names to Yonkers and. Sche nectady. There are classical names, like Phil adelphia, Utica, Syracuse; descriptive names, like Grand Rapids, Fall River, Salt Lake City; made names, like In dianapolis. Boston, New York, New of the water, they are said to have the disadvantage of making even a sea soned sailor seasick, but their safety Is counted an Important point in their favor for the waters of Lake Titlcaca, where many of them are used, are so cold that even a strong swimmer would likely soon perish In their depths. What Did Gubbio Think? When King Victor of Italy was on his way recently to unveil a war me morial In the ancient town, of Gubbio he found his automobile barred In the Bedford are named after cities in Eng land. Cities named after men often open up whole chapters of interesting his toric associations. Houston, for ex ample, bears the name of Sam Hous ton, the hero of San Jacinto, a most remarkable character. Jacksonville is named after Gen. Andrew Jackson, who, before his election to the Presi dency, took possession of the Spanish territory of Florida. Cincinnati, one of the oddest names in- the list, com memorates the Society of the Cincin nati. organised in 1783 by regular offi cers of the Continental armies, with George Washington as Its first presi dent. , 1 " RELIGION, It Is Interesting to note, hulked large in the founding of several cities. Boston (1630) was founded by the Puritans who came over to secure religious freedom. New Haven (1638), the "Bible Common wealth," was a Puritan experiment In government, according to the Bible. Providence (1636) was founded by Roger Williams, who was persecuted by the Puritans because he believed that church and state should be sep arate. Baltimore (1636) was estab lished by Lord Baltimore as a refuge for Roman Catholics who were an j athema ? as were Episcopalians, Bap tists and Quakers ? among the Puritans. Philadelphia (1682)? City of Broth erly Love ? was founded by William Penn, ' leader of the Quakers. San Francisco and Los Angeles were Fran ciscan missions. Salt Lake City (1847) was founded by the Mormons, seeking asylum from persecution because of their religious belief. ADEQUATE inquiry into the why and wherefore of the settlement and development of these cities would of course take volumes. In the case of Boston and San Francisco, doubtless i the harbor was the attraction. The gold rush of 1849 changed the latter from a mission to a city almost In a day. New York, Philadelphia find New Orleans have a combination of river and sea. In the early days of a new land Interior travel and trade follow the big rivers; hence Cincinnati, St Louis, Louisville, Omaha and Kansas City; the latter was the beginning of the Santn Fe Trail and St. Louis the center of the American fur trade up to 1843. Special conditions account for cer tain inland cities. Discovery of gold and the "Pikes Peak or Bust" rush of 1859 settled Denver. The Mormons lit erally made Salt Lake City to blossom like a rose in the desert. Find out why Detroit, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Akron, Bridgeport, Houston and Spo kane?the cities . not estimated ? ore growing so rapidly and you have some thing interesting. ? j? ? street of the little village of Scheggla by crowds of peasants. They acclaimed the king, but ex plained to him Scheggia had been on bad termB with Gubbio for some seven or eight centuries, and it was not to be borne that Gubbio should have the memento "to her war heroes inaugu rated before that of Scheggla, which also had Just been erected. Scheggia may have only 1,840 In habitants, but she Is a proud little town today, for the king then and there unveiled her monument. MISS FORKER IS . OFFICIAL SOLOIST Alma Forker, of Bakersfleld, CaL, ?eteran of the Chemical Warfare service of the United States army, descendant of Spanish Conquistadores and of Morgans of American Revolu tionary fame and of the noted Lees of Virginia, will sing at the sixth an nual convention of the American Le gion in St. Paul, Minn., on September 15 to 19. She has just been selected by National Commander John R. Quinn from a list of forty applicants as convention solist. Sixty thousand veterans, it Is esti mated, will hear the California song bird, who, while war was on, thought that it was the duty of a young and able-bodied American woman to do more than sing for the boys in France and so enlisted in the Chemical War fare branch of Uncle Sam's army. Miss Forker found time from her mili tary duties to sing for the soldiers, tt)o. She became a familiar figure at camp and canteen. Born in .California, Miss Forker has an established reputation as a church and concert sinper in her native state and also in New York city. Beginning her musical education with the study of the piano and becoming later an accomplished violinist, she went to I - " Alma Forker. New York to cultivate her natural vocal ability. While there, she filled numerous engagements in and about the metropolis. Returning to Califor nia. she has been teaching voice an^ filling concert engagements through out the state. , The convention solist is the only woman member of Frank S. Reynolds post of the Legion at Bakersfielu. She Is also president of the newly organ ized Bakersfield unit of the Legion Auxiliary. Big Time Planned for Members of "40 and 8 " Spicy and full of pep will be the program which awaits the 25,000 mem bers of La Societe des Quarante Ilorames et Huit/ Cheveux, practically every one of whom is expected to at tend the national convention held In connection with the American Legion at St. Taul, from September 15 to 19. The boxcar society will live up to Its reputation as the playground of the Legion, It is said. Convention affairs will culminate for the Forty and Eighters on Thurs day. That afternoon will witness the election of national officers and in the evening will be staged the great prom enade at the Minnesota state fair grounds, where some 300 men will be initiated. Proceedings will be enlivened in true Forty and Eight fashion by 15 Hommes-Chevaux bands. They will take part In the great convention pa rade Tuesday afternoon and will play the Forty and Eighters on their way to the depot to entrain for the doings at the fair grounds. Sessions will be held at Junior Pio neer hall in the afternoon, so as not to interfere with the sessions of the Legion convention proper, it was an nounced. \ i i Open hours will be the order of the day at all St. Paul clubs and social organizations for the annual conven tion of the American Legion, it has been announced. Special arrange ments for housing, parties, athletic and aquatic sports and other cour tesy privileges have been made by the Y. M. C. A. and the K. of C. for the boys they served in 1917 and 1918. Shriners, in addition to extending the facilities of their building, will conduct a series of automobile tours to points of historic, scenic and indus trial interest in and about St. Paul for the various days of the conven tion. Distinguished guests and offi cials of the Legion will he housed at the Athletic and Minnesota clubs, where St. Pau} people will be given a chance to meet them. At the Elks' club, the White Bear Yacht club, the Auto club and other civic organiza tions every effort will be made for the entertainment of the convention crowds. ; \ " ' * Want 1925 Convention Several invitations have been ex tended to the American Legion for Its 1925 annual convention. Louisville, Ky., is seeking the convention with the support of the state de partment. Newark, N. J., is also after the honor of entertaining the Legionnaires. San Francisco, Cal., has extended an invitation for 1925, offer ing the use of Its $2,000,000 Exposition auditorium. San Francisco is the sec ond city in which a national conven tion of the Legion has been held, to extend a pressing invitation to the veterans to return. 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