NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



SINCE its foundation, thirty years ago, the National Geographic Society has 

 been responsible for many notable achievements in the realms of discovery, 

 exploration, and conservation. 



Its Peruvian expeditions resulted in the discovery by Hiram Bingham of the 

 Lost City of the Incas, Machu Picchu, the great capital which was the seat of 

 power and culture of a remarkable civilization that flourished in the Western 

 Hemisphere for centuries before the coming of Columbus. 



It assisted in financing the expedition of Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, 

 which discovered the North Pole. 



Its contribution of $20,000 saved from destruction a wondrous forest of 

 giant sequoias in California, and gave it to the American people as a part of our 

 national-park system. 



Now come the discovery of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and the 

 survey of Katmai, the world's greatest active volcano — achievements which will 

 rank with the foremost contributions to world geography in modern times. 



Each of the 650,000 members of the Society will experience a feeling of pride 

 and satisfaction in this latest accomplishment, for it was their financial support 

 of the organization's aims, "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge," 

 that made possible the equipment of Robert F. Griggs and his intrepid associates 

 for the task which they have performed with signal distinction and success. 



HELPING TO SOLVE OUR ALLIES' FOOD 



• PROBLEM 



America Calls for a Million Young Soldiers of the 

 Commissary to Volunteer for Service in 1918 



By Ralph Graves 



MRS. MULVANY with her pet of liberty — American, French, British, 

 pig is no longer an object of and Italian — may be kept efficient on the 

 ridicule and atopic for jest. She battle-front and in the training camp, 

 is a patriot. The Solomons of conserva- Mr. Mulvany calls Mrs. Mulvany's pet 

 tion are sending Mr. Average Consumer "the gintleman that pays the rint," while 

 to her as a model of thrift, just as the throughout the Middle West, since the 

 Wise Man of Biblical times sent the slug- pioneer days, the porker has been known 

 gard to the ant. By means of her pig as the "mortgage-lifter." For the last 

 Airs. Mulvany is helping to win the war, eight years the pig has occupied an in- 

 for she is making from one to two pounds creasingly important place, both in the 

 of pork grow each day where none grew economy of the farm and of the village 

 yesterday. household, and has been a stimulus to the 

 "Go thou and do likewise" is the plea productive activities of thousands of boys 

 of the officials of the U. S. Department who have organized "pig clubs." 

 of Agriculture, upon whose shoulders The members of these and related agri- 

 rests the burden of educating the Amer- cultural clubs have recently received a 

 ican public to the necessity for the pro- new designation of tremendous signifi- 

 duction of millions of pounds of addi- cance — soldiers of the commissary. There 

 tional food-stuffs in order that the armies were 45,000 such soldiers in the pig divi- 



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