R U R A L ENTERPRISE
ENLARGING
NATIONAL PARKS
S
LA X IT Y A N D T H IN K IN G
ties the m aterial evidence damp with
tears of dlsup|Niintnient.
Now th a t you have the unworthy
VZ OC m»y som etimes look forw ard
to the accom plishm ent of a Ions product In hand you realize how
chedRhed piece of work with expec flimsy It Is, not all com parable with
tations of inordinate pleasure, but at the substantial thing of which you
the final moment, when your task la have been so long dream ing.
Not being a philosopher you cannot
finished, your h eart tu ru s sick In dis
accept defeat with complacency.
may.
Oh. critics, why have I failed!
Everyw here you see Klarins defects,
The answ er is simple. It applies
lack of harmony. Im perfect values, be
ing as a whole a craxy bit of patch- alm ost to every failure set off against
work th at hum iliates you beyond en inconstant human endeavor where
durance and rouses within your throb thought was brushed aside to make
room for feverish haste.
bing breast spirit of resentm ent.
When at last you regain your nor
Yet you. yourself, are to blame.
W here hard thought was required you mal mental composure and your eyes
gave light heed, and here before you are no more blurred with tears, you
see thut you stubbornly refused to
use your own brain.
Im pulsive emotions controlled your
every act rath er than calm productive
thinking, which became Irksome.
In love or In war, the fight cannot
he won except by hard thinking. Intel
“ P r id e a n d w eakness
ligent and patient maneuvering.
a re S iam ese tw in s .”
You cannot rush half blind Into b at
tle w ithout Incurring risks which cool
AMES RUSSELL LOWELL, author ness and proper thinking obviate.
of the words quoted. Is known to the
If you will look T ruth squarely In
American public and to a great sec the face you will discover that many
tion of the B ritish public as a poet. of our distressing failures are trace
He Is less known us an abolitionist, able to the common laxity of thinking.
and yet his work In abolishing the
Every bung'Ina Het If hunted down
slave trade In this country brought to Its hidden lair will he found
him more prom inence during his life ntfiliated with beggarly thought.
tim e than did his poetical work.
The man or woman who neglects
Lowell was horn In Cambridge. to “think things over" will never get
Mass., F ebruary '-'2, 1819. Nineteen far from the starting point.
years la te r he w as graduated from
It Is the industrious, clear, persist
H arvard college. He early Joined the ent thinker who is changing the face
ranks of the abolitionists and his of the world, making It better and
“Biglow P apers" did a great deal blazing the way to a more glorious
to take the subject of slavery out of ful ure,
i © b y M c C lu r e N e w e p a p a r S y n d ic a te , »
th e academ ic class und make It s pop
u lar m atter.
In 1855 he w as offered the post of
professor of belles-lettres at H arvard,
n post filled by llen ry W adsworth
Longfellow. Lowell accepted the o f
fice on condition th at he might have
two years to study abroad. T his was
granted and a fter Ills tour of Europe
he returned to th is country and a s
sumed Hie duties of professor.
The North A m erican Review, which
numbered many fam ous literary names
among its editors, secured the serv
ices of Lowell In 1803. He held that
position until 1872 when he resigned
from th e staff. D uring the Civil w ar
he resum ed his a ttack s on slavery and
published a second scries of the “Big-
low P ap ers’’ In the A tlantic Monthly.
Following his resignation from the
staff of the North American Review,
I^iwell again visited Europe w here he
was well received. On his retu rn he
w as appointed m inister to Spain and
G reat B ritain successively. H is death
occurred In 1891.— W ayne D. McMur
ray,
11? HO SAID
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PR O PO SED CHANGES
in BOUNDARY LINES • •
Rocky M ountain w as established
HE visitors to five of the Jan u ary 26, 1915. Congress m ultllated
national p ark s th e coming its n atu ral boundaries by running arb i
seuson will probably find tra ry lines. F eb ru ary 14, 1917, con
gress—to secure fire protection service
enlarged boundaries. T his
in general m e a n s m -w s, c il from ad jacen t residents w ithout cost
ery to exclaim o v e r; new to the federal governm ent—passed an
m ountains to clim b ; new act adding 39*4 square miles, of which
canyons to e x p lo re; new about four-fifths w as p riv ate land.
Now It Is proposed to cut out In whole
tro u t stream s to fish ; new
or In p art these p riv ate lands, which
forests to cam p I n ; new
lie In th e vicinities of H orseshoe P ark
autom obile t r i p s ; n e w
and M oraine P ark and In T ahosa Val
horse and foot trails.
So th is announcem ent should Inter ley a t the eastern foot of Longs Peak.
est every nook and cranny of th t The oth er elim inations a re grazing and
forested a reas of com paratively small
United S tates. V isitors to th e national
scenic beauty, more valuuble to the
p a rk s and m onum ents last season num
bered 2,108,084 up to Septem ber 30. an forest service th an to th e national
Increase of 41 per cent In two years. park service.
The proposed additions h ark back to
T he five national p ark s which are
slated for enlargem ent had 741,928 those suggested by the original pro
v is ito rs : Rocky M ountain In Colorado, m oters—of whom the w riter was one.
233,912; Mount R ainier in W ashington, The addition to the south Is both
173,000; Yellowstone In Wyoming, 154,- charm ingly and m ajestically scenic
282; G rand Canyon in Arizona, 134,- and Includes the g reat A rapaho G la
cier, the larg est In Colorado, and a
053; Sequoia in C alifornia, 46,077.
P lease note th a t th e foregoing says num ber of high peaks. T h e proposed
rh at this enlargem ent of these five n a addition at th e northw est corner will
tional p ark s is “probable." It Is prob tak e In both th e Valley of th e Colorado
able becuuse th e changes In boundary River and th e Medicine Bow Moun
lines a re th e resu lt of compromise tains beyond. The F all R iver Road,
brought about by agreem ent betw een | a fte r crossing th e C ontinental Divide
w arring in te re sts; because they will be a t an altitu d e of 12,792 feet, drops
presented to congress with popular down into th e valley and th en runs
and governm ental approval, and be along th e river to G rand Lake. The
cause congress, which has no consist Indians called th e Medicine Bow
ent national park policy. Is likely to Range th e “ Never-Sum m er M ountains"
because th e peaks a re high and much
enact th e necessary legislation w ithout
playing politics.
, of th e tim e surm
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T his am azing probability Is one of <*>«<*•
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th e first fru its of th e new N ational p art of Rocky M ountain and will add
C onference on O utdoor Recreation, or greatly to th e attractio n s of th is most
ganized in 1924. T his Is a reorganiza popular of th e scenic parks.
Yellowstone, oldest and larg est of
tion of the "N ational P ark Army,”
originally organized to p rotect the n a our national parks, was established In
tional p ark s from congress. P resident 1872 w lth 3'348 ” ,u>re
“nd 1,8
Coolidge called the conference; 128 o r - 1 boundaries have never been changed,
gnnlzatlons sent 309 delegates to T hree elim inations a re proposed : Two
W ashington. A perm anent organlza- porti®»’ of “ ,e ea8,ern Bl"Pe of tl,e
tion w as formed, with officers, execu Ahsaroka Range and an Irreg u lar piece
five com m ittee and council—all civil of territo ry lying between th e present
ians. The federal governm ent fu n c south boundary and the Snake River.
T hree additions are proposed. T h at
tions through the P resid en t's comm it
tee of cabinet members.
| ut the northw est corner is the w ater
T he conference, am ong o th er things, shed of th e U pper Yellowstone River
prom ptly tackled the national p arks which Includes T horoughfare Basin
boundary w ar In which w ere engaged and B ridger Lake. Proviso Is made
th e national park service, th e forest th at th is w ilderness shall be kept In
service, w ater-pow er In terests ami live tact as a protection for big game and
stock ow ners The P resid en t's com m it free from roads and reso rt develop
tee organized a special commission ment.
The additions on the east carry the
composed of R epresentative Henry W.
Tem ple of P ennsylvania, c h a irm a n ; line to th e crest of th e Ahsaroka
C harles Sheldon, W ashington, D. C .; Range, which Is the n atu ral park boun
Maj. W. A. Welch, superintendent of dary. It Is In this A hsaroka region
th e In te rsta te Palisades p a r k ; D irec th a t the wild herd of Yellowstone buf
to r Stephen T. M ather of the national falo range.
The "addition” to th e south will
park service, and Col. W. B. Greeley,
head of the forest service. T his com have to be adm inistered as a sep arate
m ittee studied th e situ atio n by p e r unit, as It Is cut off from th e park by
sonal Inspectlop and filed Its reports a ten-mile section of th e Teton N a
w ith the P resident's comm ittee. Con tional forest, adm inistered by the fo r
gress will have to pass a sep arate bill est service. T his large addition will
fo r each of the five p arks —i make the give the Yellowstone th e kind o f scen
ery It now lacks. The Yellowstone is
proposed changes effective.
a high plateau and its com paratively
low m ountain peaks ure th erefo re not
im pressive. The T etons a re im pres
sively lofty and scenlcally magnificent.
T he G rand T eton has been u fum ous
lundm ark since th e days of th e fu r
tra d e of a century ago.
T his suggested sep arate u n it to the
south ends by compromise a b itte r war
w hich has been waged for several
y ears over th e question of th e exten
sion of the south line. T he national
p ark service w anted to add Jackson
H ole and Jackson Lake, as well as
th e Tetons. 'Hie live stock men, aided
and abetted by th e fo rest service,
fought th e plan. It Is in th is Jackson
Hole th a t th e Izaak W alton L eague of
A m erica has purchased 1,750 acres and
leased a thousand acres w ith the p ur
pose of feeding starving elk driven
down from the peak by w in ter snows.
T he addition to Sequoia Nntlonal
p ark also is a compromise. T he proj
ect of a “G reater Sequoia” h as been
before congress w ithout success for
seven or eight years. T he w ater
pow er In terests who w anted privileges
on the w estern line of th e proposed
addition (in the gap of about 140
sq u are miles to th e north of th e pres
ent north line) have waged a success
ful fight and th e national park service
and th e forest service have been at
loggerheads. However, th e new park,
If th e change is made, will he about
seven tim es its present size of 265
sq u are miles. And at least th ree re
gions of the addition a re magnificently
scenic. T ehlpite Valley. Its adm irers
say. will make Yosemite Valley look
to Its laurels. T he Kings R iver Can
yon region and K ern R iver Canyon are
iiig and bold and Im pressive. Kern
R iver Is the original home of the
fam ous golden trout. On th e eustern
line Is the crest of Mount W hitney,
14,501 feet, th e highest peak In conti
nental
United
States.
Diagonally
acro ss th e addition, from th e north
w est corner ru n s th e fam ous John
M uir T rail from Yosemite to th e crest
of Mount W hitney.
G rand Canyon’s most Im portant al
teratio n la th e addition of tw o exten
sive tra c ts on th e North Rim to he
taken from th e K aibab N ational for
est. T his will serve two purposes. It
will give opportunity to th e national
park service to extend a road to a
grandly scenic point of view. It will
also give protection to a considerable
num ber of th e K aibab deer, whose p iti
able plight through overcrowding has
a ttra c te d nation-w ide attention. The
small additions to th e south line are
m ade to facilitate road developm ent
In th e case of Mount R ainier th*
ad ju stm en ts are sm all and provlds
th a t certain streum s nt th e corners
become n atu ral boundaries. T he a lte r
ation in connection with the N lsquall)
River a t the southw est corner p uts en
tirely w ithin the park an Im portant
road leading to P arad ise Valley.
By J O H N D IC K IN S O N S H E R M A N
T
reptilianlike ancestry, w ere for the
most p a rt lim ited In th eir wing power.
Indeed, It Is surm ised th a t th e ostrich
iwada.vs. we have no doubt w hst- and o th er flightless form s a re su rv i
e r regarding the ability of birds vors of the ancestral avian types.
ndertake long Journeys. One would B irds were, therefore, not In the first
k th a t our feath ered friends would place endowed with pow erful flight to
inenterprlslng not to avail them enable them to trip hith er and th ith er
eg of th eir ungurp***’ *’! powers of for mere am usem ent o r change of
sc e n e !
motion for seeing th e w o rld !
M igration Is fa r from being th e en
it scientifically we m ust in terp ret
great principles of bird m igration viable gift of n atu re oft sung by the
rwlse. T here Is reason to believe poets. It Is frau g h t with grave d an
birds, as they arose from their gers, betim es th e scene of tragedy
Bird Migration
THE CHANGING
WORLD
OMETHING TO THINK
ABOUT Si/ F- A. WALKER
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with a heavy casualty list. M igration,
like every othpr g reat biological activ
ity, Is the product of evolution.—C. J.
P atten , in Discovery, London.
S p re a d o f th e A p p le
It Is said th a t several varieties of
apples are indigenous to England, hut
those In general use have been
brought a t various tim es from conti
nental Europe. Richard H arris, fru it
erer to King H enry VIII, 1509 to 1547,
planted a g reat many apple trees ung
seeds La the orchards of KauL
By D O U G LA S M A L L O C H
GUESS the world Is movin' on.
But. oh, th e things ■ man 'll m iss!
A lot of good, old things a re gone;
You don't see that, you can't have
this.
F am iliar things have passed aw ay;
The world keeps changin' every d a y ;
Each day they tell you at the store.
“No, they don’t m ake 'em any more."
I
A lot of Joys have taken wings
T hat now you'll look In vain to
find;
They're lost to sight, a lot of things.
And very nearly lost to mind.
Now. when you ask the clerk for one.
He sort of smiles, your neighbor's
son,
And says, "Oh, them a re out of
d a te ;
H ere’s som ething else th a t's simply
great."
The livery barn down hy th e crick
Is gone, they've built a brick garage.
Tnke even w o rd s: a trick ’s a trick,
But now they call It “camouflage."
The cracker harr'l. the oyster can—■
Why, I could nam e a hundred, man,
A hundred things you used to see
T hat now a re Just a memory.
But you whose w hiskers now ara
gray,
(The younger generation shave).
Don't sit around and scold and say
T hat all th a t's old they ought to
save.
I guess the world is movin’ o n :
A lot of good, old things a re gone.
But why he sad and why be glum !
A lot of good, new things have
com e!
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1 \O T A B L E S
W ILLIA M I.
ILLIAM F IR S T of the N ether-
W
V V lands was another of the rulers
who belonged to the ancient order of
kings, believers In absolute authority.
Like them , he could not see the spirit
of dem ocracy which w as spreading
over the world, and which wns his
undoing.
Ills influence wns peculiar. He had
a w onderful opportunity to w eld to
gether the D utch and the Belgian na
tions. a fte r tw o and a half centuries
of separation, hut he had not the tact
th a t w as needed Had he combined
I the N etherlands Into one strong n a
tion, the story of the German advance
through Belgium might have read
very differently.
He w as born August 24. 1772, a t The
Hague, compelled, because of the
French revolution, to live first In
England, then In B erlin; and not un
til H olland rose in revolt, a fte r 18
vears of exile, w as he allowed to re
E v e r y Id le h a n d In th ia w o r ld c o m
pels som e o t h e r h a n d to do He w o rk
T h e need o f th e h o u r la n u t m o re le g
is la tio n .
I t la m u ra r a l lg t u * .— R o d g e r
B ab so n.
SO M ET H IN G TO EAT
NIONS should he served at least
once s wepk In every family, and
oltener will be better.
O
turn. He directed both Holland and
Belgian troops at the b attle of W a
terloo, then settled down to his polit
ical duties us king.
But the laws
he m ade were un fair to the Belgians
and here he missed his great oppor
tunity. Hud he sent his son, prince
of Orange, to take care of the In
terests of his southern subjects,
everything would have been w ell; for
the young William was popular with
both Flemish and Walloon. But the
king declared for absolute rule, there
was e revolt, and I<eopold was elected
king of Belgium. Even the Dutch were
rebelling against him, and, at last In
despair, he abdicated. He m arried a
Belgian countess to whom he was
much attached and. a fte r four quiet,
retired years he died In 1884.
T
he y o u n g lady
ACROSS THE WAY
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tw enty minutes.
Remove from the
heat, add fruit Juice and rind. Strain
I d a shallow pan which has been wet
with cold w ater. T hen cool, turn out
on a hoard, dredge with powdered
sugar und cut Into cubes.
Roll In
powdered sugar.
Graham B reakfast Muffins.
Take one well-beaten egg, add one
cupful of sour tnllk, one-half teaspoon
ful of soda, the same of salt, two
Onions W ith Nuts.
Cook the desired amount of onions tuhlespoonfuls of sugar iii.l one
Beat well,
as usual, drain und cut up with a cupful of graham flour.
knife, add w ell-buttered crumbs, salt, then add three tnhlespoonfuls of m elt
pepper, and a cupful of rich milk. ed fat and pour into hot, well greased
Sprinkle the top of the dish with hut .ern pans. This m akes alx targe m uf
tered crum bs, add a half cupful of fins.
chopped w alnuts and hake until the
Lsmon W afsrs.
buttered crum bs ure brown.
Cream one enpful of fat and add one
cupful of sugar. Add three well-
Turkish Delight.
Soak five tablespoonfulg of gelatin icaten eggs and three tablespoonfulg
In one-half cupful of cold w ater for of lemon Juice. Aild flour enough to
Roll very
ten m inutes. Mix one-third of a cup make a dough to handle.
thin and cut Into rounds or fancy
Pul of orange Juice with three table
-hapea. Bake until delicately browned.
spoonfuls of lemon Juice and a tea
apoonfnl of grated orange rind. Bring
Sponge Cakes.
two cupfuls of sugar and one-half cup
B eat three egg yolka until light, and
ful of hot w ater to a boll, add the
softened gelatin and allow to boll add one cupful of augar. Add three
The young lady across the way
says the coal th at coats the leust Isn't
alw ays th e cheapest and one should
alw ays inquire for the kind thut has
the most vitam ins In It.
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tablespoonfuls of lemon Juice, one-
lmlf leus|>oouful of grated lemon rind,
one tabu-spoonful of cold w ater. Sift
one cupful of flour with one teaspoon-
ful of baking powder and one-eighth
teaspoonful of salt. Ibid In lightly Into
the m ixture. Add three stiffly beaten
egg white* und pour Into buttered and
floured gem pans. Rake In a m oderate
oven for th irty minute*.
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