Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-10-16
"BUY AN ACRE"
AND AID PARK
Campaign To Continue-H. HI. New
man of Edinburg Is Chairman


man of Edinburg Is Chairman
The "Buy-an-Acre" campaign fol
the Shenandoah National Park fund
was only partly organized at the
time the counties of Rockingham
Page, Shenandoah. Warren, Clarke
and Frederick were canvassed. Fur
Their intensive solicitation likely will
be made in this section of Virginia
and, in the meantime, all who have
not subscribed are urged to do So
l.. Ferdinand Zerkel, executive
secretary of the Shenandoah Valley
National Park Association, Inc, Luz
ray. is authorized to receive sub
scriptions and issue certificates. Also
the county chairmen and their assist
ants in each county have certificate
books. Don't wait for a solicitors
visit. Invest in the park by Buy
ing Acres" as you would invest in
any other project in which you are
interested. When the war was on,
you bought Liberty Bonds and War
Savings Stamps through your bank
or or postmaster. When you want
sugar, you visit your grocer When
you want gasoline, you pull up at
q tank. Some of your wants you
fill by mail. You can Buy Acres"
in the park by handing your order
to one of the local holders of GER
tificate books or by mailing your or
der to the Shenandoah National Park
Association.
If you are an owner of land in the
Blue Ridge Mountain in Warren,
Page, Rappahannock, Madison,
Rockingham, Greene, Augusta or
Albemarle counties between Front
Royal and Waynesboro and you pre-
fer, instead of a money subscription
to offer this land or any substantial
part of it to the government for park
purposes, the Shenandoah National
Park Association, Inc, will provide
you, upon request, with the Depart
ment of the Interior printed form.
Offers of donations of land must be
filed with the association in October
or early November, but will not be
some time after the park is created. /
Money subscribed for park acreage,
except one-sixth of the subscription
or one S1.00 for each acre to be used
for option work and administrative
and publicity expenses, will be pay
able on the first of April, July and
October, 1926 and January, 1927,
contingent upon the creation of the
park and upon the need for the
whole of the subscribed amount.
Such contributions are legal deduc-
tions from donors income tax pay
ment
States Golden Hour
This is, indeed, Virginia's golden
hour One of the country's foremost
park experts recently said that, for
a comparatively small land invest /
ment, Virginia can profit forever /
from the trademark National Park"
that has cost the national treasury
hundreds of millions of dollars and
over half a century of time to build
up. The benefits to all Virginia and
to this section have been enumer-
ated many times.
On a purely self-interest basis,
every dollar invested in the park
will return to the donor richly null
tiplied in direct or indirect benefits
of personal and community prosper
ity The park will make a great
home market for every product of
the soil and better surroundings yet
lower taxation 1t will bring wealth
that will stay with us, because only
the desire to return is taken away
by the spender The benefits to those
who shall visit the park are less tan
gible but no less to be considered
Here in our glorious mountains We
have that which we should delight
to share with those who have it not.
The Shenandoah National Park will
offer a haven of rest, true return to
the heart of Mother Nature and a
sanctuary of physical and spiritual
recreation so vital to health and hap
piness in modern life
For what it will mean to us in
dollars and for what it will mean to
half the people of the country in
Guiding ourselves in pleasure, we
should do our part with generous
and immediate support in the buy
Acres" campaign If you have not
subscribed, do so now.