National Geographic Magazine - April 1918

Front Cover, The National Geographic Magazine, Volume XXXIII, Number 4, April 1918. GGA Image ID # 1a0104b32a

This issue features an article on our American Navy written by Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, profusely illustrated with photographs of Navy ships and personnel.

Contents:

• The Gem of the Ocean: Our American Navy
  By Hon. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy
  36 Illustrations
• Forerunners of Famine
  By Frederic C. Walcott
  Of the U.S. Food Administration; Author of "Devastated Poland"
  9 Illustrations
• An Appeal to Members of the National Geographic Society
  A pledge to elimate wheat flour from our menu in support of our troops and alied forces.
  2 Illustrations
• What Is It to be an American?
  By Hon. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior
  An address delivered before an educational conference in Washington, D.C.
  8 Illustrations
• Forming New Fashions in Food
  The Bearing of Taste on One of Our Great Food Economies, the Dried Vegetable, which is Developing into a Big War Industry
  By David Fairchild
  Agricultural Explorer in Charge of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, U.S. Department of Agriculture
  11 Illustrations
• The National Geographic Society in War Time
  By Major-General A. W. Greely, U.S. Army
  5 Illustrations
• The Symbol of Service to Mankind
  The Greatest Humanitarian Movement of Modern Times Originated in a Practical Attempt to Meet a Pricatical Need with a Practical Remedy
  By Stockton Axson
  National Secretary, American Red Cross
  11 Illustrations

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Copyright 1918