The sun., 1919-10-12
GOVERNMENT WILL
POPULARIZE PARKS
Association Formed to Make
Known Wonders of Ma
TONS Playground.
PROMINENT MEN ENLIST
Desire Is to Make the Name
National Parks an Ameri-
can Trade Mark.

| WASHINGTON. D. c.. Oct. 11.-Uncle
Sam has decided that he needs a press
agent to tell Of the wonders Of the
National Parks. and has taken the job
upon himself to enlighten all his nieces
and nephews under the oiu slogan that
he enlisted during the war, "See America
first"
The National Parks Association has
been organized to popularize the national
parks, whose wonders ought to be known
to more millions than they are. Uncle
| SIM has some wonderful parks that need
to be visited to be appreciated.
These parks are all west of the Mis-
sssippi and include Sequoia and General
Grant noted for their big trees; Crater
Lake. fascinating for Ito iase ur nlys-
terry: Yellowstone, whose boiling springs
mingle with the clouds Rocky Noun
| tain, 1.-THE top OF the world: Mount
Rainier. that Robert Sterling Yard has
called "the frozen octopus;" Mesa Verde,
/ that has within its boundaries the cities
Of the past; Glacier regarded as an
Alpine Paradise the Grand Canyon OF the
Colorado River in Arizona, which Charles
| Dudley Warner called by far the most
sublime of all earthly spectacles"; Yo-
semitic. the land Of enchantment Wind
| Cave, which quite explains itself: Sullys
| Hill, on the shore of Devils Lake; CASA
Grande Ruin, which was set aside to
/ protect the Instructive prehistoric ruins
and other objects of antiquity which
that and Mesa Verde contain; Hot
Springs Reservation. whose springs are
controlled by the Government and Plat
National Park
Idea to Popularise Parks.
| In addition to these national parks
Congress for the preservation of Ameri-
can antiquities has set aside the follow
| ing as national monuments: Devils
Tower. Wyoming; Montezuma Castle.
| Arizona Petrifled Forest Arizona Ell
Moro. New Mexico; Chaco Canyon. New
Mexico; Muir Woods. California: Nat
ural Bridges. Utah; Lewis and Clark
Cavern, Montana Tumacacori, Arizona
Navajo Arizona; Mukuntuweap. Utah
Shoshone Cavern, Wyoming, Grand
Quvira, New Mexico; Rainbow Bridge,
Utah: Pinnacle, California: Colorado.
Colorado. and Papago Saguaro National
| Monument, Arizona
To acquaint people with the National
/ Parks the National Parks Association
has been organized with Henry B. r.
Macfarland. president; Nicholas Murray
Butler. John Mason Clarke, La Verne
Suzzallo, vice-presidents; Clark J. Bell.
treasurer. and Robert Sterling Yard,
Washington. D. c.. executive secretary.
| The objects of the association are TO
| interpret the natural sciences which are
illustrated in the scenic features, flora
and fauna and circulate popular infor-
nation concerning them in text and pio-
ture; encourage the popular study of
the history, exploration, tradition and
folklore; to encourage art with national
park subjects; to make the name ma
tional park an American trade mark In
the competition for the worlds travel
and to enlist the personal service OF
individuals and the cooperation Of So
cieties, organizations. schools, univer-
stiles and institutions in the cause OF
the national parks and monuments
Wen Known Men Enlisted.
The trustees include such we'll known
American educators and outdoorsmen as
Charles w. Eliot, John II. Finley, A.
Lawrence Lowell. George Bird Grinnell,
John B. Burnham. Edmund Seymour,
Charles d. Walcott, Truman Able. Ar.
thur e. Bestor. George F. Bowerman
Henry G. Bryant, Frank G. Carpenter
William u. Colby. Leonidas Dennis
Frederic e. Pennington, J.. Waite,
|
and Helen Nicolay.
In addition to these trustees such vel
known Americans as Belmore Browne
explorer. author and artist: Emerson
Hough, author; c. Hart Merriam, zoolo
sist; DR.. Robert c. Morris, George d
/ Pratt. State Conservation Commissioner
. Mary Roberts Rnehart, who has ofte,
had the national parks as a backgroun,
v Tor her fiction and fishing stories; Lieut..
Col Theodore Roosevelt. who is follow
ing in his fathers footsteps as an out
doorsman; William Wolcott Seymour a
g Tacoma, Charles Sheldon. explorer; DR.
William T. Hornaday. director of tn
New York Geological Park: Henry Fair
neid Osborn, president of the America
museum Of Natural History; Charles L
9. Wolcott, secretary Of the Smithsonia
institute; Henry @. Bryant, explorer
william d. Greeley Of the Campfire Gin
D and I. Gilbert Pearson, secretary. M
q tionai Audubon Societies, are aiding N
o work OF the National Parks Associate,
Q The National Parks are really m
e national Fairgrounds of the America
people. and belong to them, being I'd
t ministered by the Department az m
d Interior. ~