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 J ¿ |j 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 . . . . ounted by . m assed T his am azing probability Is one of <*>«<*• " 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 I 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! <(€) by M cClure N *w »pap*r S y n d ic a te .> SC H O O L DAIjS I 4 by O eo rs* M a tth ew A dam e.) -------- 1)--------- <7* t e/fmoag the 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. 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