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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON T IS doubtful if the American Legion could have done a more appropriate thing than it did when it selected San Antonio, Texas, for the scene of its annual convention. For the j tenth anniversary of their successful J fight for human liberty will find them assembled in the city of the Alamo, the “cradle of Texas liberty” and the shrine of all Americans who cherish the memory of such valiant fighters

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in the defense of their country as were those heroes of the Lone Star state. More than that, the gathering of the Legion in San Antonio on October 8 to 12 will be a ‘‘home coining” for many of its members. More than 200,000 men were trained for World war service at the military camps in or near San Antonio— Fort Sam Houston, Camp Travis, Camp Stanley, Camp Bullis, Camp Normoyle, the San Antonion arsenal, the officers’training camp at Leon Springs and at Kelly Fields No. 1, 2 and 3—and some of them proved on the battlefields of France that “Alamo stuff” was more than just a tradition. Inspiring as is the story of the Alamo, it is not the only interesting incident in the romantic history of San Antonio. That history goes back ex- • actly four centuries. Although the city itself dates from 1718, it was as long ago as 1528 that there • were set in motion the chain of events which led to the establishment of a white settlement there. A shipwreck brought the first white men to the soil of Texas. A Spanish explorer, Cabeza de Vaca, and his companions were stranded on its shores in that year. They lived among the Indians for some time and, although most of the company died during this time. De Vaca managed to make his way eventually to the Spanish settlements in Mexico. Shipwreck again played a part in that history when La Salle, the dauntless French explorer, in his search for the mouth of the Mississippi was driven far from his course by storms and finally landed at Lavaca bay in 1655. There he founded Fort St. Louis, left a part of his men to found a colony and started out in his search which ended when he was killed by one of his own men. But the founding of this colony stirred the Spanish to an effort to colonize the great Southwestern empire which lay as a middle ground of contention between the Spanish to the south and west Mexico and Central America and the French and English in what is now the United States to the east and north. In their effort to hem in the French in Louisiana, the Spaniards established a fort and a mission on the Neches river and in the struggle with the French which followed they started a line of missions across Texas in 1716. The previous year a French partj’ on its way to Mexico City to trade with the Spaniards had noticed the favorable site of the present city of San Antonio and laid their plans to plant a colony there. But Spain anticipated France and in 1718 a party of Spanish soldiers, missionaries and mechanics arrived there, established the Mission Alamo and built a village. Later four other missions were established near by and these five ancient buildings are landmarks which will speak most eloquently of San Antonio’s historic past to the visiting Legionnaires. Nearest to the city and best preserved is Mission Concepcion, which was first established not far from the present site of Houston and removed to the vicinity of San Antonio in 1729. It is built in the form of a cross with its twin towers crowned by’ a Moorish dome which today, as for the past 200 years, echoes back the liturgy’ of the church <^<l it is distinguished for the blurred remains ot the brilliantly’ beautiful frescoes which once adopted it. Plainer and more simple in its construction than Concepcion is Mission San Juan de Capistrano which is still used as a chapel by the people of the little village near at hand who are said to bear in their faces and characteristics more traces of their Indian ancestors than are found elsewhere in Texas today. Close to this mission is the old aqueduct built by’ the Indiana under the direction of the friars. Unweakened by the ravages of 200 years the stones of its

The Old Army Man Is Disappearing

He is fast leaving us, this bronzed, lean Regular whose still elastic step and boyish grin belie those grey hairs about his temple. Week after week we pick up a service paper and read of another of his hardy clan being placed upon the retired list. In another decade there will be only a handful of his kind left. He was at the storming of Peking, Manila, and Sait Juan. In the fever-

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j Alamo Stuff *■ [“Alamo stuff” was the comment of American sol- ♦ diers on the heroic res stance of seven of their numi*? her who were cut o.T at a listening post in a German , X raid, and who fought to the death.] e k: Out at the listening post at night, ;* Under the rocket's g'ow; > The shells are screaming in deadly flight— y They’ve curtained us here, we know; > They’re charging fast over No Min's Land, And we're in fcr a time that's rough, >; But remember that little Texas band— y We must show 'em the Alamo stuff. > So it's short at the shadows, nor watch men fall; A > They must pay for each Yank they get; ♦ .♦I We’ll make it a dashed extensive call > For these first real Huns we've met; So keep the lead going, then club your fun X And hard out the farewell cuff; . .♦. The Texas spirit is ral'ei 01,. st— • Now show ’em the ALsmo stuff. .♦. ♦ > > Out at the listening post at morn. . Where brave men ch^se to die; ♦ Here, 'neath the fl’sh of shells, was bom, .♦ y The new worlds ba’tie cry; ♦’ Born of the West—our own frontier— . X Where men ne'er cried “enough;” '♦ * They died, but Teuton hosts shall fear .♦ That war-call: “Alamo stuff!” >■ —Arthur Chapman. * ♦ :<<♦: ♦ ♦ low massive arches still supports one of the first irrigation systems of its kind in the United States and still carries its waters over Piedra creek to the homes and ranches beyond. A road from San .Ilian leads to Mission San Francisco de Espada, noted for the three bells in its tower which still summon the faithful to worship But the gem of the missions is San Jose, called by some architects “the most beautiful of all the world’s missions,” famous for its wonderfully carved facade and the rose window with its hand wrought iron grill. According to legend, these carvings were made by a sculptor named Huicar, who fled from Spain to the wilds of Texas to seek forgetfulness of a sweetheart who had proved unfaithful. Around these missions centered the life of San Antonio, the ancient, with the friars guiding their Indian charges in ways of peace and teaching them the white man’s ways of tilling the soil and caring for th^ir herds and flocks. That life was comparatively untouched bv outside forces, even after the turning point in the history of that region came in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson made his famous Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon. The only change that came about which affected San Antonio directly, however, was when Mexico won her independence from Spain and Mexican troops occupied the city as a strategic point to be held in the struggle between the Mexicans and the Americans which was already foreshadowed. That , struggle was precipitated in 1535 when the Americans who had settled in Texas rose in rebellion against the maladministration of the Mexican rulers. It began with a skirmish at Gonzales and a battle at Concepcion in October of that year. On December 10, after a siege and an assault which continue-d for six days, the city of San Antonio was captured and every Mexican soldier was expelled from the territory. It was during this assault that a Texas hero was made. When the army of Texans appeared before San Antonio, there was some discussion as to whether or not it would be prudent to attempt to storm the city. Finally it was decided that the assault should be made and a call was issued for volunteers to lead the attack. At this juncture, so the story goes, Benjamin R. Milani, a daring and picturesque figure, appeared among the Texans and shouted, “Who will gp with old Ben Milam into San Antonio?” Therje was a roaring response and a rush which established the Texans in the outer parts of the city. Governor Cos, the Mexican ruler, at

infested jungles of the southern Philippines he and his comrades stood off lurking savage and venomous reptile. The Mexican border knew him. In the Vera Cruz landing and with the Pershing expedition of 191 G he kept up the old traditions of his beloved service. The World war saw him and his grizzled mates calmly facing annihilation on the western front. When, on November 11, 1918, the last shell was

fired, the old army man was still guide, philosopher and friend to the latest replacements from shop, farm, and school. Today he is carrying on the rich traditions of the old service, an inspiring example. May we merit the respect ami admiration that is now’ his, when we moderns, too, shall have become members of the “Old Army.” —United States Army Recruiting News. Despair is the poverty of the soul.

that time tXTUpiml the < tld ViTnnwndl palace (the restoration of which is now being planned by the city of San Antonio) and in the yard of this palace Milam was shot down as he was leading his n eu to the attack. With these eicnts as preliminaries, the stage was rapidly being set for the most glorious Incident in San Antonio’s history. After occupying San Antonio, the Texans fortified the bull lings of the Mission Alamo as strongly ns possible nnd waited the attack which they knew Santa Anna, the dictator of Mexico, was preparing to launch against them. The commander of the forces in this Improvised fort was Lieut. Col. William Barrett Tr vis, a young lawyer from North Carolina. Associated with him was Col. James Bowie of Georgia, famous as the originator of the B wie knife of sinister frontier fame, and Col, David Crockett, the famous t.. r hunter of Tennessee. The force under these leaders consisted of only 1 officers and men, against whom Santa Anna was soon to hurl the power of more than s,<**) Mexican regulars. On February 23. IS2UI. Santa Anna appeared before the fort and demanded Its surrender, a demand which Travis met by a shot from his battery and the displaying of his flag Santa Anna fmmediatelv displayed a red banner. signifying that no quarter would be given, and began erecting batteries. Although Travis and‘his men might even then have escaped, he had no thought of doing such a thing. Instead he sent out messengers to his fellow citizens of Texas appealing for aid and declaring that he would never surrender or ret re-nt. The story of what happened thereafter Is too familiar to need detailed retelling here. For all Americans now know how Col. James Butler Bonham. a young South Carolinian, volunteered to break through the Mexican lines and ride for reinforcements, how he reached Colonel Fannin at Goliad 200 miles away and how. when Fannin’s relief force of 300 men. through a series of misfortune, was unable to continue. Bonham rode on alone, determined to rejoin Travis, although he knew that he was riding to his death. When he finally made his way into the Alamo again he found that Capt J. W. Smith and a little band of 32 heroes had cut their way through Santa Anna’s hosts to die with Travis, Bowie, Crockett and the others. The story of their death ha K often been told—an 11-day siege and then a fina, assault on March 6 which carries the walls of the fort and surrounds the gallant little band with a ring of fire and steel. Travis and Bonham ere killed while serving the guns. Bowie, lying on a sickbed leaves a trail of dead Mexicans from thy door of his room to the side of his bed before they do him to death and one of them lies sprawled across the Texan's body with that awful American knife buried deep in his heart! Crockett stands at bay in the churchyard, swinging an iron flail of death. It is his famous rifle “Old Betsy” which has fired its last shot. “The Mexicans are piled before him in heaps, but numbers tell; they swarm about him, they leap upon him like hounds upon a great stag, they pull him down, bury their bayonets in his great heart, spurn him, trample upon him, spit upon him —so he makes a fine end!” And thus they all died—ALL. for the monument at Austin, the state capital, tells their story in this line “Thermopylae has its messenger of defeat, the Alamo had none.” A little more than a month later an army of Texans, led by grim old Sam Houston, swept the field of San Jacinto with the cry of “Remember the Alamo!” and the independence of Texas was won. And that is why San Antonio is famous as the city of the Alamo, the “cradle of Texas liberty.” Could there be a better place for a group of men who have fought in defense of liberty to meet and commune among themselves as to how best the liberties of their country may be preserved?

Pheasant’s Good Work The Chinese ring-necked pheasant is being given credit by many farmers in keeping down cut worms. This pest is extremely persistent in truck gar dens and many farmers are hatching pheasants Works Out as It Should The man whose nose is long enough to poke into other folks’ business ought to have that nose broken. And he usually gets it, too.—Exchange.

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