The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-04-15
(By MRS. M. E. PLAssMANN)

w THILE visiting in Browning, I
w noticed a small inclosed space
near the center of the town,
and on asking what it was, received
the information that it was Brown
lng's sole park, made possible not on
the initiative of it's business men, who
should have learned by this time that
it pays to beautify a town, but made
possible through the efforts of its club
women. This is a practical illustTa-
zion of what club women all yer the
country are doing to enhance the
beauty of their neighborhOOds. In
their attempts to enhance the beauty
Of their surroundings, they show good
business sense. Nature may have
rendered a certain locality attractive,
yet constant care is required, and
countless regulations, if it is to be
preserved from the vandalism of the
~sO-caIled civilized who invade it. The
automobile is not proving to be an
unmiXed blessing. Every Sunday and
holiday people from the city go into
the country and return laden with
spOils taken by the wayside. Branches
of trees, ruthlessly broken off, Oh
quantities of wild1Owers pulled up by
The roots, all to give a moment OF
brief pleasure and then be thrown
aside.
II the category of what will prove most
destructive to the vegetation of the cOun-
Try should be listed goats, sheep and the
3utomObiliSt. The first two are said tC
have made a desert of the island of st
Helena; but that was before the day Of the
automobile. 1t is only recently that ma
ture lovers have awakened to what threat
ems our rural districts, if people cannot
be restrained through education, or "ver
.DOten" laws from transgressing what is
now called outdoor hospitality"
The Federation of WOmen's clubs is CO.
operating with the American Forestry as
ISOLATION, boy and girl scouts, Campfire
girls, and others, in inaugurating a cam
paign of education for the protection o.
our forests and to impart a better knOwl
edge of outdoor good manners. In this
iaudabie effort the press is assisting, and i
is purpOsed to enlist the aid of the schools
Clubs are urged to see their city anC
county superintendent, and ask them Il
make this new kind of etiquette a part Of
the regular school course. In addition t
this the following rules are given for the
thoughtful consideration Of campers:
l.. Spare the wild flowers, the shrubs
and trees: they have made the place pleas
ant for yOu-leave them for others to en-
10Y.
Don't make a campfire in the leaves
or rotten wood or against a log where 1
may spread.
3. Don't make a fire too close to a tree
a. Don't toss away burning matches o.
tobacco.
,. Always scrape Coward the fre)
trench around your campfire, digging dow
so the dirt.
s. To be memOrized-the forest ranger
rule: Always leave a clean camp and
dead fire
Schools are to be asked to have thes
rules posted on their blackbOards, an,
movies that they be exhibited on the screeI
in addition to this timely movement
r0ming as it does near the opening of tn
tourist season, the women of our state ar
advised to make a study of it's fOrestr
needs, and Whether conservation of stand
tpg forests, refOreSting cut-Over and VI
productive lands or planting windbreab
and shelter-belts' should be undertaken.
They are also asked to do all in thei
power to aid measures looking to the cor
-ServatiOn of the national parks, whic
would soon be ruined if placed under til
control Of cOmmercialism and for the il
rstitutiOn Of state and county parks.
While this good work of the women