The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-06
PARK PROGRAM HELD
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make me long to stay here for
all the rest of the summer.
Comparisons are generally OBJ
iectionable and yet it is not I'M
kind to say from the standpoint
of scenery alone that if many
and indeed most of our American
national parks were to be set
down anywhere on the continent
of Europe thousands of Ameri-
cans would journey all the way
across the ocean in order to see
their bauties.
"There is nothing so American
as our national parks. The seem
cry and wild life are native and
the fundamental idea behind the
parks is, native. 1t is, in brief,
that the country belongs to the
people, that what it is and what
it is in the process of making is
for the enrichment of the lives
of all of us. Thus the parks
stand as the outward symbol of
this great human principle.
"My old friend, Franklin K.
Hlane. secretary of the interior
in the Wilson administration, well
described the policies governing
the national park administration
when he said:
"The policy to which the serv-
ice will adhere is based on three
broad principles: First, that the
national parks must be maintain
ed in absolutely unimpaired form
for the use of future generations
as we'll as those of our own time
second, that they are set apart
for the use, observation, health
and pleasure of the people: and,
third, that the national interest
must dictate all decisions affect
ing public or private enterprise
in the parks.
81 have seen some of the
work of the civilian conservation
corps boys in this northwestern
country. Of the three hundred
thousand young men in these
camps, $4,000 are at work in our
national parks. Here, under
TRAINED leadership, we are help
ing these men to help themselves
and their families and at the
same time we are making the
parks ore availmable and ore use
full for the average citizens.
Hundreds of miles of fire
breaks have been built, fire haz-
ards have been reduced on great
tracts of timberlands, thousands
of miles of roadside have been
cleared, $500 miles of trails have
been constructed and 10000
acres have been reforested. Other
tens of thousands of acres have
been treated for three disease
and soil erosion. This is but an
other example of our efforts to
build, not for today alne but for
tomorrow as well.
awe should remember that the
development of our national park
System over period of many
years has not been simple bed
of roses. AS is the case in the
long fight for the preservation of
national forests and water power
and mineral deposits and other
national possessions, it has been
"a long and fierce fight against
many private interests which were
|entrenched in political and eco
nomic power, so, too, it has been
constant struggle to protect the
public interest once cleared from
private exploitation at the hands
of the selfish few.
at took aIbitter struggle to
teach the country at large that
our national resources are not m
exhaustible and that, when pub
lie domain is stolen. a two-fold
injury is done, for it is a theft
of the treasure of the present
and at the same time bars the
road of opportunity to the fu-
ture.
eve have won the greater part
of the fight to obtain and to re-
tain the great public park prop
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