468 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE "Last night I got so absorbed in reading about that lost city in Peru that I let my fire go out and sat up reading about it till II o'clock in the cold. Valuable? Why it is the most valuable thing I have seen in a long time, and a copy of this Magazine ought to be in every school in the United States. As a former school teacher, I see possibilities of instruction and entertainment for the scholars such as I have never seen before. Then, too, the pictures of living things in our back yards is simply wonderful. You will get my hearty cooperation in putting this Magazine before the people, and especially the younger ones. Many of us think in pictures, and most all young people do so, and one of these pictures is more impressive than a dozen pages of scientific explanation. "A great many people who go into the fields and woods with unseeing eyes can be awakened to the wonderful things all about us and get a vast amount of knowledge in a very direct and lasting way. "This venture in the Magazine line is simply splendid, splendid, and deserves the help and push of every father and mother, as well as of the educators." "I cannot see how I should teach geography without this Magazine, and the children look for its coming with eagerness. They love it because they know that what they see is truth and not an artist's fancy." Oklahoma Alabama South Dakota.. Arizona South Carolina.... Delaware 858 Arkansas Mississippi Utah "Through the Magazine I have become an accomplished traveler, am familiar with the wonders of our own country and the strange, out-of-the-way places of the earth, and have taken these perfectly North Dakota.. fascinating journeys without discomfort and without expense." "It does not seem possible to supply such a Magazine to members, considering the small amount of the annual dues." "I want to say that your conception of popularizing geographic study and the sciences that relate to the earth and its people generally is proving one of the most helpful influences that have come under my observation. I am sure it is proving a vast benefit to our generation." New Mexico.. Alaska Guam Panama (Canal Zone) Porto Rico.... Table Showing Membership of the National Geographic Society in Proportion to the Population of Each State. "I am very much interested in the Magazine, because it expresses more than any other the healthiest, happiest interest that one can know-NATURE." "I feel that every adult (over 12 years) should read-and see-it every month. I am one of those people who believe that war might be made impossible by acquainting the peoples of the world with one another. Certainly, your splendid Magazine is one of the best means we have of telling the American people about their 'brothers across the seas." Housed in its new building, with additional facilities for work in every one of its departments, with a rising tide of enthusiasm among its membership of 285,000, which is scattered among 15,200 post-offices in continental United States, 222 post-offices in the territories and insular possessions of the United States, and in 1,782 post-offices in the foreign countries of the world, the second quarter-century of the career of the National Geographic Society opens with a prospect without parallel in the history of geographic education. 1,421 1,457 1,630 1,673 1,685 66 1,918 2,188 I 2,388 |
