Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-08

inventory CT all government activi-
ties. This job the Institute Tor gov
eminent Research tackled soon at
ter it was organized in 1916. 1t
adopted the simple plan of going
into the various bureaus one by one
and showing the work each vas do
ing. When all have been analysed
in this wag the Implications of eff
fort will show up automatically.
Two bureaus-the Reclamation
Service and the Geological Survey
were in yestigated in 1915 and 1917.
Then the war came along and stop
ped the work for two years or so.
Great Work Done Already
When the institute once more
organized it's 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 analysed. Besides the mon
ographs on the Reclamation Service
and Geological Survey. those now
published include studies Of the Bu-
eau 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, Women's Bureau, Children's
Bureau, and the National Park Ser
vice.
While the monographs primarily
are not intended for popular con.
sumption, but are written for the
guidance OF legislators and admin
is~trators, 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 1882, and it was 40 years
later that the Yellowstone Ma
ttona1 Park was created by Act of
Congress. Yet the latter was the
first true national park in the sense
tina 1t was to be a region developed
for the pleasure of the public. Hot
Springs was merely reserved to pre-
vent the medicinal waters from te-
ing exploited by private ownership.
The establishing of Yellowstone
National Park was a romantic cpl
sode. The marvels OF that region
were discovered in 1907 by John
Golfer, a hunter who had peen at
ached to the Lewis and Clark Elk
petition. 1t was the fate of Golfer
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 oerisively called Golfers
He'll"
In 1859 a reliable expedition of
Montanans explored the Yellow
stone, verified the preceding report
of 1t, and published the discoveries.
This was followed the next year by
the exploration made by the Wash
burn-Doane expedition, which took
In a military escort detailed by the
War Department. This expedition
brought about the creation of the
park. and gave birth to the national
park idea which has since worked
out in the national park system as
we know II today.
When the members Of the Wash
burn-Doane expedition saw .he won
ders of the Yellowstone. they dis
cussed among themselves the
suggestion that 1t would be profit
able to Eek up ownership to the
land surrounding the geSsers and
other phenomena and exploit the
place as a commercial venture.
Such an act would not have been
regarded so reprehensible then as
it would 1ow. But one of the mem
bers Of the party expressed the
opinion that such a wonderland
ought never to be allowed to pass
into private ownership at all but
should be held in perpetuity for the
whole population. The others agreed
4 10 this at once, and the mambsxI