Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-08

inventory CT all government actiVl-
ties. This job the Institute for gov
eminent Itesearch tackled seon al
ter it WAS organized in 1915. 1t
adopted the simple plan of going
into the various bureaus n by one
and showing the work eaeh vas do
ing. When all have been analysed
in this way. the Implications or Ell
fort will show up automatically.
Two bureaus-the Reclamation
Service and the Geological Survey
were in yestigated in 1916 and 1917.
Then the war came along and stop
ped the work for two years or SO.
Great Work Done Already
When tie institute once more
organized its staff it took Up the
task again with vigor, Twenty
three monographs each one dealing
with the work of a separate execu-
tive division of the government, now
either have been published or are
nearing publication. About forty
other Investigations are planned at
present, and some of them are be-
ing made. and it is possible that the
monographs will be close to 100
in number before the whole govern
ment Is analyzed. Besides the mon
ographs on the Reclamation Service
and Geological Survey, those now
published include studies of the Blu
reau of Mines, Alaskan Engineering
Commission, Federal Board Of Vo-
cational Education, Federal Trade
Commission, Tariff Commission,
Steamboat Inspection Service, En-
ployes' Compensation Commission,
Weather Bureau, Bureau of Educa-
ton, Wumen's Bureau, Children's
Bureau, and the National Park Ser
vice.
While The monographs primarily
r not intended for popular con
sumption, but are written for the
guidance Of legislators and admin
i%strators, they are distinctly reada-
BILE, and most of them are of broad
general interest. The new one on
the Natioral Park Service sketches
the history of the national parks
and monuments from the year 1906
when Lewis and Clark missed dis
covering the Yellowstone by about
so miles to the creation of the
National Park Service in 1916, and
the addition of the latest of the
National Parks-Hot Springs-only
last year.
Oldest National Park
Incidentally, the monograph set
ties the old dispute of whether Hot
Springs or the Yellowstone is the
oldest Of the national parks Hot
Springs was set aside as a reser-
walton in 1892. and it was 40 years
later that the Yellowstoas Ma
tionai Park was created by Act OF
Congress, Yet the latter was the
first true national park in the sense
that it was to be a region developed
for the pleasure of the public. Hot
Springs vas merely reserved to pre-.
vent the medicinal waters from be-
ing exploited by private ownership
The establishing of Yellowstone
National Park was a romantic epi-
sode. The marvels of that region
YER discovered in 1907 by Johr
Golfer, a hunter who had peen at.
tached to the Lewis and Clark Elk
petition. Tt was the fate of Cote,
and the other white men who went
into the Yellowstone district during
the next half century to be disbe-
lieved when they told their stories
of the sporting water and mud from
the geysers. In fact. the region was
at first derisively called Golfers
He'll"
In 1859 a reliable expedition OF
Montanans explored the Yellow
stone, verified the preceding reports
of it, and published the discoveries
This was followed the next year by
the exploration made by the Wash.
burn-Doane expedition, which tool
in a military escort detailed by the
War Department. This expedition
brought about the creation of the
park, and gave birth to the nationa
park idea which has since worked
out in the national park system az
we know 1t today.
When the members of the Wash.
burn-Doane expedition saw .he won.
ders of the Yellowstone. they dis.
cussed among themselves tn,
suggestion that it would be profit
able to F;ck UP ownership to this
land surrounding the geSsers and
other phenomena ana exploit tn,
place 40 a commercial venture
Such an act would not have beer
regarded so reprehensible then a
It would now. But M of the mem
bers OF the party expressed tn,
opinion that such a wonderlan,
ought never to be allowed to pas
into private ownership at all bu
should be held in perpetuity for tn,
whole population. The others agree,
to this at once. and the member