Vol. XXXVII, No. 6 WASHINGTON 



June, 1920 



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ATOMAL 



OG1APME 



AGAZEME 



A MTND'S-EYE MAP OF AMERICA 



By Franklin K. Lane 



Formerly Secretary of the Interior 



Author of "A City of Realized Dreams," "From the Warpath to the Plow/' "The Makers' of the 



Flag," "The Nation's Pride," etc., in the Geographic Magazine 



AMERICANIZATION is a very 



/\ broad, and inclusive term. The 

 1 V fi rs t part of it is that we should 

 know what America is. I find in deal- 

 ing with this problem of making the 

 foreign-born understand what Ameri- 

 canization is that the first great difficulty 

 is to make the American-born realize 

 fully and be conscious of America in all 

 its various senses and moods and spirits. 

 And one of the things that I should like 

 to conduct, if I were free to do so and 

 had the means, would be a real geogra- 

 phy class. 



We are all fascinated by pictures. Re- 

 cently I have induced the motion-picture 

 industry of the United States to enlist 

 itself in this cause and produce Ameri- 

 canization pictures, and give upon its 

 screens slogans and suggestions and 

 apothegms that will stimulate the Ameri- 

 can ideal, because I have the notion that 

 there is something in the United States 

 that we call Americanism that is distinc- 

 tive, that no other country has, and that 

 it is expressed in the lives of our people, 

 in their work, in their philosophy, in their 

 tradition and history. 



One of the pictures that I have sug- 

 gested is a map of the United States, 

 with which I find many are not familiar. 

 Visualize the map of our country, and it 

 will become apparent how large in ma- 

 terial resource and how large in activity, 

 intellectual and spiritual, the United 

 States is. 



As I say, we are all fond of pictures. 

 We love some because of their color, 

 some because of line, some because of 

 depth of background, some because of 

 their historical significance, some because 

 of the story in the picture. To me the 

 most fascinating of all pictures is the 

 map of the United States. Let us look 

 for a moment at some of the remote parts 

 of this map, and learn what is and what 

 may be. Then we will have renewed 

 confidence in our future. 



FROM TROPIC TO ARCTIC IN HAWAII 



If you go to Hawaii you will find that 

 all of the land grants which were made 

 originally to the chiefs, the favorites of 

 the kings, ran from points upon the shore- 

 line up to the top of the mountain. 



You will see here a point of land run- 

 ning out into the sea, and there a point 

 of land ; and because they did not know 

 the science ©f surveying and had to take 

 these natural points, they drew the line 

 straight up from these two points to the 

 crater that was the summit of the moun- 

 tain. 



A year and a half ago I took a trip on 

 one of those islands, and I started at the 

 bottom, on the very edge of the sea, 

 where the rice grows, and then went into 

 sugar-cane, and then above into orange 

 orchard, and then into coffee plantations, 

 and then, all the time ascending, into 

 fruit lands — peaches and other fruits — - 

 and then up into wheat lands, and then 



