PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM 



MEMBERS of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society will be highly 

 gratified to learn of the many 

 important ways in which their organiza- 

 tion has been able to cooperate with the 

 national government in this critical hour 

 of our country's history. 



When the draft law was passed, a tre- 

 mendous burden was thrown upon the 

 offices of the Provost Marshal General 

 in the mailing of special instructions to 

 thousands of officers throughout the 

 country, where 10,000,000 men were to 

 register. In this emergency the services, 

 of all the graphotype machines used in 

 making stenciled addresses for the Geo- 

 graphic were offered. The offer was ac- 

 cepted at once, and the entire force of 

 young men employed in the addressing 

 department volunteered to work day and 

 night in making the thousands of stencils 

 which the government required, and the 

 work was thus completed in record time 

 and without expense to the War Depart- 

 ment. 



Several hundred young ladies of the 

 staff have made innumerable sweaters, 

 neckpieces, and socks for our sailors and 

 soldiers, and bandages, towels, sheets, etc., 

 for the Red Cross, and have, further- 

 more, equipped themselves for emergency 

 by taking special courses in first-aid nurs- 

 ing. 



The entire staff of the Society's offices 

 was placed at the disposal of the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury during the First 

 Liberty Loan campaign, in order that 

 each of its 610,000 members might re- 

 ceive by mail the government's appeal, to 

 which there was a phenomenal response. 



aiding the; red cross 



On the day the announcement was 

 made of the campaign to raise one hun- 

 dred million dollars for the American 

 Red Cross, the Director and Editor of the 

 Society took from the presses the forms 

 for the issue of the National Geo- 

 graphic Magazine, then ready, and re- 

 made the issue completely, in order that 

 the Society's members might be told of 

 the imperative needs of the Red Cross, of 

 that which must be achieved during the 

 coming months, and of the funds re- 



quired to prepare for such a tremendous 

 task. This movement was given splendid 

 impetus by printing in the Society's mag- 

 azine, while the $100,000,000 campaign 

 for funds was at its height, special arti- 

 cles and addresses by Henry P. Davison, 

 Chairman of the War Council of the Red 

 Cross ; Ian Malcolm, member of the Brit- 

 ish Red Cross, and of the House of Com- 

 mons ; John H. Gade. of the American 

 Commission for Relief in Belgium ; Her- 

 bert C. Hoover, .the Food Administrator, 

 and former head of Belgian Relief 

 Work; Frederick Walcott, of the Food 

 Administration ; Newton D. Baker, Sec- 

 retary of War ; General John J. Pershing, 

 commanding the American expeditionary 

 forces in France ; former President Wil- 

 liam Howard Taft, and Eliot Wads- 

 worth, Executive Secretary of the Amer- 

 ican Red Cross, and others. 



In the same issue of the Magazine 

 full-page advertisements were published 

 gratis for the American Red Cross fund, 

 for the Y. M. C. A. War Fund, and for 

 the First Liberty Loan. 



the patriotic flag series 



One of the most important contribu- 

 tions to be made by the Society to the 

 cause of America at War will be the 

 publication of a special "Flags of the 

 World" number, containing the most ex- 

 pensive series of four-color plates ever 

 printed by any publication in the history 

 of the magazine industry. It will be a 

 popular digest of patriotism as exempli- 

 fied in the national emblems, past and 

 present, of our own and of all other 

 countries, each subject absolutely accurate 

 as to design and color, a total of more 

 than one thousand color illustrations, be- 

 sides numerous pages in black and white. 

 The standards, pennants, and insignia 

 have been assembled by the foremost flag 

 expert of the American Government, and 

 probably the foremost authority on na- 

 tional ensigns in the world. The descrip- 

 tive and historical text accompanying the 

 flags will represent six months' of ex- 

 haustive research by the magazine staff. 

 The color work alone in this issue will 

 cost $60,000, and the number will be the 

 world's most thorough and authentic 

 text-book on the flaes of seven centuries. 



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