CONTENTS 



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 America's New Soldier Cities: The Geographical and Historical Environment of the 



National Army Cantonments and National Guard Camps. 3y William Joseph 



Showalter 439 



Conserving the Nation's Man Power : Disease Weakens Armies, Cripples Industry, 



Reduces Production. How the Government is Sanitating the Civil Zones Around 



Cantonment Areas. A Nation-wide Campaign for Health. By Rupert Blue, 



Surgeon General, U. S. Public Health Service 255 



Correct Display of the Stars and Stripes, The 404 



Fearful Famines of the Past: History Will Repeat Itself Unless the American People 



Conserve Their Resources. By Ralph A. Graves 69 



Few Glimpses into Russia, A. By Lieut. Zinovi Pechkoff 238 



Flags Famous in American History 341 



Flags of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and Turkey 386 



Flags of Europe, Asia, and Africa, The $72 



Flags of Our Army, Navy, and Government Departments 305 



Flags of Pan- America, The 361 



Flags of the British Empire, The ■? 378 



"Flower of Paradise, The": The Part Which Khat Plays in the Life of the Yemen 



Arab. By Charles Moser, Formerly American Consul, Aden, Arabia 173 



Food Armies of Liberty, The. By Herbert Hoover 187 



French Lorraine, In: That Part of France Where the First American Soldiers Have 



Fallen. By Harriet Chalmers Adams 499 



From the Trenches to Versailles. By Carolyn Corey 535 



Geography of Medicines, The : War's Effects upon the World's Sources of Supply. 



By John Foote, M. D ', 213 



Heroic Flags of the Middle Ages : The Geography of the Earth as Known in Medieval 



Times Symbolized in 96 Historic Standards 388 



Immediate Necessity of Military Highways. By A. G. Batchelder, Executive Chair- 

 man, American Automobile Association 477 



Industry's Greatest Asset — Steel. By William Joseph Showalter 121 



Insignia of' the Uniformed Forces of the United States, The 413 



Letters from the Italian Front. By Marchesa Louise dk Rosales to Ethel Mather 



Pagg '. 47 



Makers of the Flag, The. By Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior 304 



Mecca the Mystic : A New Kingdom within Arabia. By Dr. S. M. ZwEMER 157 



Our Flag Number. By Byron McCandlESS, Lieutenant-Commander, U. S. Navy, and 



Gilbert Grosvenor, Editor, National Geographic Magazine 281 



Our State Flags 325 



Pennants of Patriotism 200 Years Ago 399 



Rat Pest, The: The Labor of 200,000 Men in the United States Required to Support 



Rats, Man's' Most Destructive and Dangerous Enemy. By Edward W. Nelson. 



Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey 1 



Russia from Within: Her War of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. By Stanley 



Washburn, for Three Years Special Correspondent with the Russian Armies 91 



Russia's Man of the Hour: Alexander Kerensky's First Speeches and Proclamations.. 24 



Story of the American Flag, The. ... 286 



Training the New Armies of Liberty: Camp Lee, Virginia's Home for the National 



Army. By Major Granville Fortescue, U. S. A. , 421 



Weapon of Food, The. By Herbert Hoover 197 



