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which selected the Virginia area as
the site for the reservation.
Need for Children.
Mai. william A Welch, another
member Of the committee appointed
by Secretary of the Interior Work
10 pick out site for the East's first
park, declared that If any member
of Congress opposed establishment
of the park it would be well for him
TO be taken through some of the
JIast'S larger cities and see the little
children there who need such a big,
natural playground near enough to
be within their reach.
Maj. Wcich, too, urged the meet
Ing to bend every effort to have
passed at this session Of Congress
the bill that would create the
shenandoah National Park. He told
not only OF the beauty Of the Vir-
Einia site, but also OF it's accesSa-
bility, and expressed a hope that
some time later the project will be
extended to take in the Great Smoky
Mountains of TeDnessee as the second
pational park to be established in
the East
Time for Action.
senator Glass declared that the time
for action has arrived. One after an
other the members of the Virginia
delegation asserted they would exert
every pressure they could bring to
bear to rush the Temple bill through
Congress, and urged that one of the
first steps should be to have a deIega-
tion call on Gen. Lord, director of the
budget, 70 ask him to approve the
appropriation Of $4,000 carried in the
bill.
At the suggestion of Senator Swan
son, Air. ShOWalter was selected
chairman Of a committee that will go
before Gen. Lord both this afternoon
and tomorrow morning.
They win impress upon the budget
director the necessity of speed in con-
HectiOn with the measure, and once
his approval has been obtained, will
turn their attention to the House pub
lie lands committee. 1t is declared
that the measure is regarded in the
most friendly light by that committee
Earlier in the day Secretary of
the Interior Work sent a committee
before Gen. Lord on the same mis-
sion. This committee presented the
Interior Departments reasons for
wishing the park to be established in
Virginia, and pointed out that the
$4,000 is for the purpose of setting
UP the machinery necessary for ac-
quiring the necessary land, approxi-
mately 500 square miles in extent.
Received by Coolidge.
Immediately after the meeting in
the Senate Office Bull ding the Vir-
Eiuia delegation was received at the
White House by President Coolidge Fol-
owing the White House reception the
visitors had luncheon and this after
noon will hold another meeting in
the auditorium of the Interior De
partment. They will he greeted by
Secretary Work and addresses will
probably be delivered by DR. Henry
w Temple, chairman of the Southern
Appalachian National Park committee
and author of the bill. Col. Glenn s.
Smith, another member of the COM
mittee, is also expected to speak
The American Civic Association
made il plain that it had thrown its
support to the Shenandoah National
Park because ii constituted an area
that had been selected by an impartial
committee Of experts.
Miss Harlean James and Mrs. Lee
Thurman, who made the appeal for
the park in the name of the associa-
ton. declared their organization
hoped it would be the beginning of a
beautiful park system in the Southern
Appalachian Mountains.
Miss James and Mrs. Thurman
urged the immediate approval of the
$4,000 appropriation by the Bureau
Of the Budget,Nand asked the House