National Geographic Magazine/Volume 32/Number 1

July, 1917

• The Rat Pest: The Labor of 200,000 Men in the United States Required to Support Rats, Man's Most Destructive and Dangerous Enemy

  By Edward W. Nelson

• Russia's Man of the Hour: Alexander Kerensky's First Speeches and Proclamations
• Letters from the Italian Front

  By Marchesa Louise de Rosales to Ethel Mather Bagg

• Fearful Famines of the Past: History Will Repeat Itself Unless the American People Conserve Their Resources

  By Ralph A. Graves