The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-05-28

Yellowstone, oldest and famous
tional park-the first national park in the world
never had been success playground. The
truth Is 1T is a wonderhouse OF freak scenery
geysers, boiling springs volcanic curosities and
the Yellowstone Falls. Also it has its semi
domesticated bears and its wonderful big game. In
the old days of the stage coach the regulation trip
took five days. After that the tourist was ready
to leave. And he seldom returned to the
park a second time Now that the automobile
has taken the place of the coach. the time of the
regulation trip has been cut In two; otherwise
the conditions obtain. The Yellowstone at
tendance figures tell the story. In 1915, the
attendance 81, S95 in 1916 1t 35S49; In
1917 it was So, 400; in 1913 it 21,275; in 1919
it was 62,261. BY way of contrast take the cor
responding attendance at Rocky Mountain Nation
al park, which is play ground park where peo-
pie stay their entire vacation time and there are
thousands of regulars who go every year: 81
600 and $1,000 and 117,1s6 and 10, 421 end 169-
400 Rocky mountain has no freak Scenery, but
its scenic magnificence wears well and large
proportion of it's visitors regard it their sum.
nner home
In consequence the national park service is pro-
noting the project Of adding about thousand
square miles to the south end of Yellowstone, in
Guiding the Teton range Grand Teton, Mount
Moran, Jackson lake and tie Jackson Hole region
and the headwaters of the Yellowstone This adj
dition will give the Yellowstone the kind of
cry it lacks. Moreover, plans for the farther de-
veopment of the Yellowstone include large auto
mobile camps, golf links, tennis courts and the
couragement of fishing, mountain climbing and rid
ing In short. the Yellowstone is to he made
playground sufficiently attractive to hold the tour
list for time and to induce him to return.
Another example of needed enlargement is Sc
quota National park in California. This park was
created In 1890 and contains 252 square miles.
1t created largely for the purpose of preserv-
ing the Big Trees (Sequoia ggantea) 1.-THE big
gest and oldest living things the earth The
General Sherman tree, for example, is about 36
feet in diameter and Is approximately 5000 years
old. Congress, with eye TO the big trees only,
cut the park boundaries arbitrarily and left out
a magnifcently scenic area which lies contiguous.
Features of this contiguous area the canyons of
the Kings and Kern rivers and the summit of
Mount Whitney G4,5O1J the highest mountain in
continental United States. 1t is purposed to
add about n thousand square miles of this
tguous to Sequoia and to change its
to Roosevelt, making the enlarged park
tonal outdoor memorial to the dead statesman.
Here again the public playground idea is the basic
proposition.
No description do Justice to Crater lake
itself Uncle Sam. however, has done good job
under the circumstances in booklet issued last
season by the United States railroad administra-
ton And this booklet says among other things:
All of great national Fairgrounds have their
distinctive beauties: each is different in great
measure in the sublimity and attractveness of
its national grandeur, but Crater lake stands
alone I'm this: that all likeness to any familiar
landscape here ceases.
dfa and Hawaiiand there are some craters in this