Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-08-22


Invest cause which is not primarily cause grow
ing out of the great war. Our entrance into war
in 1917 caused temporary poStponement of the
plans then well under way for the organization OF
this association. In its place the National Parks
Educational committee was formed to hold the
ground already gained and to organize the asso
citation at propitious time. The committee has
done its work and the National Parks association
is now doing business, with headquarters in the
Onion Trust building, Washington, D. c.
The purpose of the association is splendidly
patriotic. Wholly Independent of the federal gov
eminent it will closely cooperate with the
tional park service the new bureau of the depart
ment of the interior established by congress to
administer the national parks
it is nOnpOlitical and one of its purposes is to
keep politics out of the national parks.
1t stands for the outdoor life for recreation amid
scenic beauty for "See America First - for the
development of the national parks as great
economic assets of the nation; for keeping bill
lions OF American dollars at home-before the
war something ike $5O0000,0OO year was spent
by American tourists abroad in sightseeing, of
which Switzerland alone got more than 5000 OOO
OO0
E1et Notwithstanding these many activities, the
main purpose of the association is educational 1t
says to the people of the nation who to
these public Fairgrounds:
"Do you know that our national parks are
lures great laboratories and museums-that the
splendid spectaces which national parks
present are not only wonders not merely
scenery but also the conspicuous exhibits of
passing stage in the eternal progress of creation
that they show us, upon mighty scale, the proc
esses by which she has been and is making Amer
ica-that you may double your pleasure in these
spectaces by compromising their meaning and
that an intelligent study of them will introduce
you to a new and wonderful world? Let US know
America, and let us really know it. Let US know
dfferentiate and distinguish and appreciate.
Then only shall we know
The purposes of the National Parks association
may therefore be concisely summed up thus:
To interpret the natural sciences which illus
trated in the scenic features, flora and fauna of
the national parks and monuments and circulate
popular information concerning them in text and
picture.
To encourage the popular study of the history,
exploration tradition folk lore of the national
parks and monuments.
To encourage art with national parks subjects,
and the literature of national parks travel, wild
life and wilderness living and the Interpretation
of scenery.
To encourage the extension of the national parks
system to represent by consistently great examples
the full range of American scenery. flora and
fauna, yet confined to areas of significance
traordnary that they shall make the name ma
tional park an American trademark in the compe-
ttion for the worlds travel and the development
of the national monuments into a system illustra-
tive of the range of prehistoric civilization, early
exploration and history, land forms, American
forest type, wild life, etc.
To enlist the personal services of individuals
and the cooperation of societies, organizations
schools universities, and institutions in the cause
of the national parks and monuments.
The National Parks Educational committee con-
sisted of % members. Charles D. Walcott secre
tarv of the Smithsonian institution, was chairman
TIE vice chairman William Kent, former
congressman from California and the donor of
Muir Woods National monument to the nation
Henry B. E. Macfarland of Washington chair