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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WARD 



An activity of the Society which is ap- 

 pealing with special force to its patriotic 

 membership is the announcement of the 

 plan to establish in the American Ambu- 

 lance Hospital at Neuilly, France, a spe- 

 cial National Geographic Society Ward, 

 consisting of twenty beds. This Amer- 

 ican hospital is housed in a splendid four- 

 story building surrounding a beautiful 

 court. It is now accommodating 1,500 

 patients daily in its main building and its 

 auxiliary institutions. 



This hospital was established by Amer- 

 ican subscriptions, and the Geographies 

 ward will be a notable addition to this 

 magnificent humanitarian institution for 

 the relief and care of young Americans 

 who will bear the brunt of battle against 

 the Huns. In inviting contributions to 

 this fund from its members the Society 

 gives assurance that there will be no over- 

 head expense in the handling of the con- 

 tributions, but that every dollar sub- 

 scribed will be devoted to equipment and 

 maintenance of the ward. 



THE LIBERTY LOANS 



In the campaign for the Second Liberty 

 Loan of $3,000,000,000, just launched, the 

 Society was one of the first organizations 

 to proffer, without cost, the pages of its 

 magazine, the Geographic, to the gov- 

 ernment — an offer which was accepted, as 

 upon the occasion of the successful flota- 

 tion of the First Liberty Loan of $2,oco,- 

 000,000. 



The National Geographic Society has 

 subscribed from its reserve funds $100,- 

 000 to the Liberty Loans. 



In the great work of bringing home to 

 the people of America the imperative 

 need for the conservation of the nation's 

 food resources, no agency has been more 

 whole-hearted or more effective than our 

 Society, whose more than 600,000 mem- 

 bers have been and are being kept in 

 closest touch with the National Adminis- 

 tration in its great educational campaign. 

 Through the pages of the Geographic 

 the Food Administrator has been given 

 the opportunity to speak directly to those 

 gathered at the firesides of more than 

 half a million of the most representative 

 and influential American homes. 



In a similar manner, guardians of the 

 nation's health, and especially of the 

 health of the national armv now as- 



sembled for training in the cantonments 

 scattered throughout the land, are speak- 

 ing through the pages of the Geographic 

 to the great civilian population in the 

 vicinity of these cantonments, explaining 

 how the health of the new army can be 

 safeguarded by civilian cooperation. 



And, as the needs of the nation grow 

 greater in these stressful days, the ad- 

 ministrative headquarters of the Society 

 in Washington is daily finding new ave- 

 nues of activity and usefulness. 



CONTRIBUTING SUBSCRIPTIONS TO OUR 

 ARMY AND NAVY 



The Geographic is now being sent 

 gratis to the reading-rooms, libraries, the 

 Y. M. C. A. and Knights of Columbus 

 buildings in every aviation camp, army 

 and navy camp, cantonment, and officers' 

 training camp in the United States, while 

 the boys in khaki "Over There" are like- 

 wise receiving our magazine regularly, 

 their spirits heartened by the illuminat- 

 ing illustrations and comprehensive arti- 

 cles telling of what is being done on this 

 side of the Atlantic to help them in their 

 great undertaking to make the world safe 

 for democracy. 



When the "Flags of the World" issue 

 of the Geographic comes from the press 

 (the next number), ten thousand copies 

 will be donated by the Society to the two 

 arms of the service — 5,000 copies going 

 to the navy and 5,000 to the army. The 

 heads of both branches of the service 

 have already expressed their sincere ap- 

 preciation of the valuable and useful gift 

 of the most complete and authoritative 

 work on flags and insignia ever compiled 

 in any country — a work which will stir 

 the patriotic pride of every American, 

 whether in civil or military life. 



Thus is its power for practical patriot- 

 ism being exercised by the National Geo- 

 graphic Society, the largest scientific or- 

 ganization in the world — an organization 

 established not for profit, but for the dif- 

 fusion of geographic knowledge and for 

 the furtherance of the enlightenment, 

 entertainment, and happiness of the citi- 

 zens of the Lmited States of America. 

 These ends can only be achieved in an 

 atmosphere of security, freedom, and 

 peace, and to aid in guaranteeing these 

 requisites of human happiness the Geo- 

 grappiic is enlisted with all its resources 

 and the combined patriotic fervor of its 

 whole membership. 



