Evening star., 1917-01-03
PARKS CONFERENCE
URGESEDUCAT|0N
Speakers Advocate Use OF
Films in Portraying the Ma
tjonal Recreation Places.
EXAMPLE IN CANADA CITED

Today is educational day with the
national parks conference arranged for by
the Department Of the Interior and
which Is meeting morning. afternoon
and evening throughout the week at
the New Natioal Museum. Education
in regard to the parks of the country
has q two-fold meaning: First, to edu-
cate the American people concerning
their parks, and. second. to so equip
and maintain the parks that they can
educate the people who are their own
ers.
Robert Sterling Yard of the recently
created national parks service. who Is
presiding over today's sessions. COM
mented caustically on the impossieility
of rettinR an o. X. for such educa-
tional expenditures as are entailed oy
the use OF motion pictures from a Con
Gress individual members s,e OF ,sd Gnion IL in
struction as to where these WONDERS
are and what they contain.
1t is not possible to get bill o.k.'o
for as much as one root OF MN, Gosn,ns Ing
withstanding the fact that war-ridoeh
Canada is at present generously aoVer-
tising its parks by this means. ana
moreover. is granting faciIies anu
vors to American concerns to thus ao,
vertise the Dominion parks to the real
owners of their less heralded. but su-
perior, rivals in the United States.
Saws America Has the Goods.
america has got the goods" said Mr..
Yard, and the people want to know
the details. Our parks are potential
educators not only in nearly all the
natural sciences. but in history as
we'll"
Prof e. M. Lehnerts of the University
Of Minnesota, whose topic was ~Unfver-
sity Glasses in the National Parks, In
his address amplified this same phase
conservation commissioner Of New York
state, spoke on "Organized Out-of-
Doors" as exemplified by the Adiron-
dacks. Catskills, etc. and Philander P:
education. advocated the bringing of
the public schools and the national
parks into closer touch.
Has Worked Hard, Ready to Play.
This nation has worked hard for $50
ysafa." said Mr.. Claxton; 'is now ready
to play. and wants to play to the best
advantage. We are largely city dwell
srs through expediency; yet the Anglo
SaxonA, at least, are by nature forest
and mountain dwellers. and revert to
type when opportunity Offers" He
added that railroad expenses bar so
many scholars and teachers from the
parks there should be one or more
within easy distance Of everybody.
Afternoon SpeakerA
The speakers and topics scheduled at
this afternoons gathering include DR..
Charles d. Walcott. secretary Smith
sonian Institution. National Parks as
. Scientific Asset; Herbert Quick.
member Of federal farm loan board,
'-Ths Author and the National Park;
Gilbert II. Grosvenor. editor National
Geographic Magazine, Teaching by
Picture; Rev. Charles W. Gilkey of
Chicaso, spiritual Uplift Of Scenery in
William g. Holmes. head curator. Ma
tionl Gallery Of Art, THE Painter and
the National Parks" and Fred H. Kiser.
rns rns photographer and the National
Tonight's offering will be an Illus
trsted lecture by Herbert w. Gleason.
Reception rendered the Visitors.
Oharaes d. Walcott. secretary Of the
Smithsonian Institution and Secretary
Lane. together with their wives, received
the visitors who attended the opening of
the nrst annual exhibit Of national park
paintings. in the national gallery Of the
museum last night This display, which
Includes many canvases Of large size and
great beauty by well known artists, Is to
remain open for a month.
The operation Of government-owned
hotels would greatly benefit the opera
ton Of the parks. according to Enos Mills
Of Estss Park. Col. who spoke yesterday
afternoon These hostelries. he recon-
ssrxics sxSse onIx ou,a 10 cnarse actual cost for
from one to one hundred dollars day,
depending on the class Of service Senator
snoot. earlier in the day. had recon-
nom the parks.
Basis Of Nations Strength.
That nation's strength il not rated
a1teGether by population, but more by
the mental viewpoint Of its citizens, was
the statement Of Mra John Dickinson
Sherman. conservation chairman of the
General Federation Of women's Clubs,
constituent members Of which are strongly
mgfng greater congressional appropria-
uons toT the parks as Q partial measure
OF relief for the almost unbearably
erovdsd conditions Of American present
j. Horace Mcfarland, president of the
American Civic Association. and j. 81.
Harkin. commissioner Of Dominion parks,
Canada. did not reach Washington yes.
eerday. and their addresses therefore,
were postponed to future sessions
Robert b. Marshall has rendered his
resignation as superintendent of the
national parks service and will become
the chief geographer OF the United
States geological survey.
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