The Monticellonian., 1916-11-23

l America and the Boone ana Cfockelt club.
 Is Paradise of the Hunter.
 BeImore Browne, the explorer and hunter. who has spent three years on Mount Mckinley, has. iii behalf of the department and of the committee on conservation of forests and wild life of the Camp Fire club issued m appeal for the establishment of the park in which he says:
 Here can still be seen the wild herds protected from man by the rugged ness of the country Giant moose still stalk through the timber line valleys, herds of caribou move easily across the moss-covered hills, bands of white hig-horn sheep are on the mountain sides, while at any time the powerful form of the grizzly bear maY give the croWning touch to the UildnesS of the picture But while th, Mount Me kiaIey region k The fouataiuhead from which come the herds of game that supply the huge eXpanse of south central Alaska, that fountaiahead is menaced. Civilization k closing in, and already sledloads of dead animals from the mountain country have reached Fairbanks market Unless refuge k set aside in which The animals that remain can breed and rear their young unmolested they will soon follow the buffalo.
 Just assume for q moment. that the scenic supremacy of Mount Mckinley and the conservation of ilS game are not, singlY or together. sufficient jus tilieation for this park project (which they are, of eourse), and Ne still have q third reason. sufficient iu itself, which .iustifes Mckinley and all the other national parks of the country. These great reservations cannot be dis missed as merely reereational or sen- i fimental. esthetie or educational. They are all that, but, most important of all, they are economic. They eohslf- ute | great business asset. aS sueh hitherto overlooked entirely b9 the country
 Switzerland Ewes on her scenery. She has developed it scientifically into Il business She maintains tourist asen- cies and expensive publicity opera lions in every foreign country from which profitable income may be de rived. She entertains the world. A few years ago Canada went into this same scenery business, combining American imagination and enterprise with British thoroughneSS. She adver- tiSed extensively and wisely and today Switzerland and Canada share the scenic reputation of the world also the profits
 How the Government Advertises
 'But the assets of the United States for this same sort of enterprise are the best in the world. The difficulty in the necessary propaganda or educa- tional work or whatever you want to call it, k that this country's stock in trade fs of such magnitude and such rare quality that if you even attempt 10 describe il adequately people won't believe you.
 80 the government sticks to the 1 barest facts, tells the world that in it's Glacier park more than sixty glaciers. coming from cliffs thousands of feet high, feed hundreds of lakes. in one of which the icenergs last all summer And we let it go 1t that, hot single adjective and il is the same Way throughout the list of the eight pa- tional parks of the first order.
 'In the park iii the Alaska range. when congress turns il over 10 this de- partment the people of the Enited States will have the top notch af the scenery of the world in their own keeping for all time Mount AIeKipIov itself is more than 10000 feet high There are greater heights in the Hima- layas, it is true, but they are not tlomi- mating because of the high average level of all about them Mckinley on the contrary, is So isolated In its mag- nltude, so much greater than the rest of the range. that it presents the spec tacle of d sheer rise of HOOD feet Furthermore, it is accessible. or soon will be. The Himalayas are not" 1 pox and typhoid are very prevalent. and some years fearful epidemie4