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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



A LAND OF MANY TONGUES 



The cosmopolitan make-up of the population 

 Pennsylvania is shown by the above notice in 

 languages, posted in railway stations, warning 

 public against the transportation of explosives 

 passenger trains. 



and Oxford together ; as many Irish as 

 County Kerry ; as many Scotch as County 

 Clackmannan ; as many Russians as the 

 Government of Kharkov. 



ESSENTIALLY A THRIFTY PEOPLE 



Pennsylvanians are not alone distin- 

 guished because of the large numbers 

 who boast of native ancestry, for an ex- 

 amination of the census returns dealing 

 with the ownership of the homes of the 

 people of the nation reveals the fact that 

 it has more home-owners than any other 



State. They are essentially a thrifty 

 people. Nearly seven hundred 

 thousand families live under their 

 own roof -trees — and the striking 

 part of that situation is that most 

 of these homes are mortgage-free. 



Many men have essayed to look 

 into the future of the American 

 people to see what the United States 

 will be when the nation reaches its 

 maturity. Perhaps Pennsylvania 

 can supply the answer. When one 

 travels through the farming and in- 

 dustrial section of the southeast, 

 visits the anthracite country of the 

 northeast, wanders around through 

 the splendid valleys of the central 

 section, and then goes into the bi- 

 tuminous and manufacturing region 

 beyond the Alleghenies, he marvels 

 at the number of people. who find 

 there a homeland, and at the tre- 

 mendous volume of business which 

 has been developed. 



Yet Pennsylvanians know that 

 there is room in the State for mil- 

 lions more, and see no reason why 

 the country at large cannot support 

 a population as dense as that of the 

 Keystone State today. Such a den- 

 sity of population would make ours 

 a nation of half a billion souls- 

 more people than inhabit the entire 

 continent of Europe. 



The manufacturing industry of 

 the State is an epic of human 

 energy. What bit of fiction could 

 thrill more than the facts showing 

 how one-twelfth of the people of 

 the United States, the busiest na- 

 tion on earth, can succeed in pro- 

 ducing one-eighth of the Republic's 

 manufactures and more than a 

 fourth of its minerals ! Or what story 

 could appeal more than the one which 

 tells how a district constituting only a 

 thousandth part of the earth's land sur- 

 face and possessing only one-half of one 

 per cent of the earth's people produces 

 one-sixth of the world's pig iron and the 

 same proportion of its coal ! 



WHERE MANY INDUSTRIES THRIVE 



Yet, with all of this concentration, 

 Pennsylvania has a greater diversity of 

 industries than any other State, leading 



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