■te* of cHbcr Fracct- or Germany. It la ooc of Um •ardw »ix>ta of tiw world. A cmtnry atn* «n of It to t!* seat of the Hlasintpfd «u aa aaezlilorrd wihlemeaa. We bottfbt that wllderneaa fpern the Frrcrt. in 1W3 for Half a •core of nate* hate been carved from that

/ ilG.ttO.OOO people.

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*"9 m . _ thU bit re*k»‘" eaW PVwJden* Harry H. Merrick la hla k'-ytMKe ad(!ren, "and We are determined nothin* shall prevent tlx accmnoilriimem of oar Tbv Mississippi valley wants certain . Heoe cf.ahna we akall hare to *et at Wash!a*!or Ottr Z! states control 52 per cent of the meti In cornress. and If they don’t do what we want tbereH he bcH to pay and no ptteh hot." The aaaorlatlon would teach the valley interests from Chicago and Mtnneapcdls to New Orleans and OalvestCh; frtHU St-’TsmSs to Kansas City, from OetKHt tn petirer. and ao In and out and all aloe* the line, that MlMlMpp! valley means from the Dominion Udttof to lb** *tilf cod fh-m the A)le*henles to the RncKles. and Uiat the easiest way oat is not over the Rockies u> the PpcUic d»t via the narrow bottle neck of New York to the Atlantic, hot by waterways nature intended for man’s one.

UUired by the federal coremmeat- *f the ft

aerrlce does oppose its establishment, national Par* leaden aay. It win be because It opposes all national park iejdalation. Again the reason for this Cenerml o|>pnslUt« Is plain. The agrlcnltnral department is waging a public campaign to get the control of the aatlocal narks away from the interior department and hence Is eode\ •-nring to dis-

credit the rival department in every way.

The forest service was treated in 1U0G to take charge’of the national forests, which were then

set aside for strictly Industrial and

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NOTES

*^Te are pnrttog American ritlsent nip shore the dollar.- said Hrmorary Fresident J 4.r> M Parker of- Mew OMeans In the epeniay addrraa. “Wa are rotialderiag coodivii.n* brorgfct shoot by the war. These rhenged coodltlo- * open a new chapter In the history «f oar vs Hey empire." The “changed ccoditi'«a“ of which Mr. Parker spoke Include the rertgnlUMi of the national parks of the I'nlted State* not only as one Of the great economic assets cf the nkHon. tmt also a* imhllc playgmand* ncrtiary to the mental, physical welfare of the people. The Cnlti-d 8tales now has 1* national parks. Ttictr standard I* high. They certain some of the most mognlfireiit scenery In the world. The system Is to be still farther enlarged by creating severs! h~ * parka The army of national jwrk eniburiart* will cry with one accord: “Would that the Mlwlasippl Valley association could establish the Mississippi National pari a* easily us it can Its $25fil!O.OUO hank ’“ But this is one of the things the assoc lation will “hare to get at Wustilngton.” since It can be cstaMis-’ied only by an act of congress. And onsgiwsa ho? no tired policy regarding the estahliabtnent of aationa! parks. It 1* a platitude to say that |K<UUrs should 1* eliminated frotp the establlshmet.t of these public playgrounds. Nevertheless some of the fx-rct-st politlcid contests In congress are foagbt over llielr creation. By way of •TAKTiIc It n.ny be stated thn: it took six years of persistent effort to |«*» In 1M5 the act creating Rocky Mountain national park, the most popular of all the ? etjlc national park*, and ten years to paa* tn li'lb the Grand Canyon National pork act. In Mull case, unofficial leaders of the national park motetntait aay, the influential opposition was the a.live hostility <if the forest service, the bureau of the department of agriculture which has charge of the national forests. The n-nmn for this active hostility U plain. Both these natioual parks were taken fnvn national forests and automatically came under control of the national |«irk service, n hi reau «if the detsirttnent of the Interior. The ermtlon of th<-*«- two national i«rk* thus took away a Inrge area from the control of the f .-cat service and comwi-ondlngly weakened its political Inflect: Ce. The forest service defeated the Greater Vehowsttyve National jairk hill In the last congress after It had been p:i»»-d h> t»« house; hrooght tonmjgbt the Roosevelt National i-nrk MU in (he house'p u, >- lic lands conimlitee after it had Men pushed by the senate, atid U oti|»-stnt the Greater Uocicy Mountain National park bill for the addition of Mount Ermt ? Btudent* of is'lltlcnl conditions predict n showdown hrtwetti the dr|>artn>cm of the interior and the departloent of agriculture in the Immediate future. In the case of MtawiMippl Valley National park there will lie no forest service opposition because the {rvpow-d park area Is In a i.nUotuil forest; the land? are privately owned and must be no-

try. lamtwring and grax-

Ing—and transferred from the Interior department to the agricultural department. Now the forest service Is developl-ig the recreational pomlblllties of the national forests and wants to get back national park areas which have been taken fawn na-

tional feres'? by act f coogreo.

In view of President M» rnck’s dedarathm that the Mississippi valley controls 52 per cent of the men In congress, th >grese of the pnrk UU tn

congress will ’ - web worth watching.

Middle Wert Ha. No Park.

The progress of the bUI will be «•!] Tort n watching for another reason; The estahli-tiiaenr of this park Involves a question of congr. ->ionai policy for which there is no precedent Thi* is «adoul teffly th- reason why no action uhatevar was taken by the last congress on a Mil for Its estsb!tahni< ut. The qurerton is thla; Hllherto congress has established national i*rk* out of the public domain; It baa never voted an appropriatino for the purchase of prtvately-onwed [iroperty for national park purposes. Will it make a new departure In tlie case of this national park? About 2D,UUU.0WI pe«ndc are within a night’s ride by rail of the park mte. Thus the location of the park la a feature of ilecided Interest. There it bo scenic national park worthy of the name t-etween Bocky Monntuin In folorado and Lafayette In Maine. Yet this proposed |«rk lies In the center of a circle rimmed by Odrago. Milwaukee. St. Paul. MinnrapoH*. Kimaav City, Omaha and St. Ixrtjia. Several rallruuds touch it. Klver trans-

I«mtinn la available.

Tlie bulk of the u-uriat travel to the national I'ark? Is now by private automobile. The i«rk alte Is eonvenlmt to the tranaeontlnentul motorist. The selected area lies along the Ml*si«*J|ifi| In northeastern Iowa and wmihweMera Wisconsin. It totals about 15.«W) screw, land and water. The river area Is about 4XU0 acre*; the two states own the land under the river; the federal government

controls ita navigation.

«>ue tract of land in Iowa of IvCTI acres has been r-pprulaed at *82.73®. Anotlier fret «n the Wteconsin aide contains 7.ifA acres and has u-.-n a;, praised at *lilJH2. A third tract H n Wiacoowlo Mate perk of lA'.l acred; there is a reusonahle prospect tliat the leguiature w<mid turn thla orer. Mrs. Martha B Munn of New York, who owns tbe 12f- town acres u!ii*-h furtn the sceulfl keyslime of the iwrk. offers to donate ihi» lat-d. api'mlscd at |iZ50l>. Thu* the rwk-tol government h asked to ' pprnprinte *223.71 >7 .'.i tor tbe purchase of about y.000 acres out «>f Ifi tSK) a i re*. This area may be truthfully aaM to have scenic, historic and wloratloual ientures «jf unllo' l Jm! j-.rtoncr. < artful privi te ovvnershlp ha* pro.ecled the heavy forests, whirl, are atlll practl.-ully p^. moral. The hills nae al.rnp’Jy fnuu the river to a!.out .V»> feet. The view from Pike’s Pi uk. and the nearby Idcturvd R<« k». hare more than a loot! reputation. The bnaid *w.,-p „f the river ,* lnmj ,. nilio-nt and •‘-'-re are nltractlre talands. Then are deep urines -ml vnll.ys eot talulng m.ring* lake* and Many hayuua home < r Uic water liUes, tnuonder fn>w tbe river. Indian : .ounds ere many In the park kite. Their Is. lor example, a system of them half a mile long

Historically the region t* genuine!y Interesting Tha first white man know-u to have Journeyed by w«J of Green hay. Fdx riv«r and WJaconsic river was Jean Nlcotlett; he may or may not have kept on to tbe Mississippi. Pierre R:-di«*oo * coppreased “Jonrnah*’ brought to light In Pari* In 1*5. show* that be and Jean Groaeiller in 18SD went down tbe Wisconsin and the Mississippi and up tbe Missouri to tbe Mandan village* (Bismarck. X. D.). tn 1673 Joliet and Perr Marquette, usually cmlitrd aith the discovery of tbe Upper Miaslastppi. went down (be Wlr ousln and tbe Uiasia* pt>l to tbe Arksn- «». returning to Quebec by way of the UKnoi* and Lake Michigan. Im Salle exp.orevJ tbe region l-e-for. gotIX down tbe Mississippi to tbe Gulf in 1*82 ah* taking poaseaskm of “Lnoislsua" In tbe

nai -e of Louis XIV.

Ixswl history logins before 1800. In 1787 Rieur Marin, a FTeoch commander, bollt a fort near Pike’* Peak In 17M Basil Girard a Pmuhcan. held a eemfeteuer in midstream with the h[«.t.isb guv mar of LmisUna and secured a grant of TjUUi a< res on the preaent site of McGregor. Tlie United States confirmed the grunt after th» Loumans PurPrairie da Uhlen l» very old. In 1778 It wa* a Sac and Fox village at which an annua! tiart nr fa'r was attended by fur traders from tlie St. I^iwrence and the Isiwtr Uiasi*<a|q>! In IWOT, It was a trading post of the Northwest rominny. the rival of the Hudwm'a Bay company Lieut. 7>t-o-lon M. Ilk*. II. S. A., was there Ir. tliat yeur. ex pluring the headwater* of the Mississippi. He crossed over to Pike’s Peak and raised the flag fo-

the first time in what is now Iowa.'

Tl.ough the United State* accurevl rt.c n-rritorv to tbe Mhtoatlppl by the Treaty of pari. (17K ) tb»- British hut.g on to the Korthwest and we d.,1 m-t get fall i-wscsaion uutii a generatlou later. " ben John Jacob Aator ewtabtlstk'd the Aaxricnn

Fur rvmpafiy ns a cojujietitor vf the Mt>«.>uii Fur | ‘“tUf—Keii company and the N-wtliuess company m Ibijfi he I • • •

set up a trading post at I^ric du rhicp that The Cblcago White 8c* i,** played an Important part In the American fur ’ e n "«l thia spring and inanv , r y trad. . In IhM. during the War of 1812. the United i 'bey wUI give the Ib-d «... " 1 btatea built Fort 8b.n,y at Prairie du Cfalen. H ■ n - -• ^

wa •-aptnred the saux- year by th* Hntiab and la dli.ns and was called Fort MeKnye until It* ,.v a <-u at Ion tn 1815. It wa* Imrurd and the American*

built Fort Crawford in its alto. Tbi*

• lib the Griff men.

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^ da I Jl ^'cd In the West and di ned In 1828 niM a Ursr’r Fort «>awiord rraa I rffic^TI f f * r :n r * built farther down :he river; tbe ruim. ,.f tbs, I . . **•** Packed tb*

atlll stand. The arsenal of Fort bhefl-y is k t;|j j,,

existence.

lu IhW tbe Black Hawk war htoke nut. Abraham Lincoln »'as a luptain of ilibuil* viuuii'eers. Col. Znthary Taylor and Urur. Jidfer*.^, lyjui, nlao fought Wiu ti Black Hawk was ovi rpoivemi be was tnkiti to Fort Omwfard. t'o|ut,-l Taylor •v.-umatMled Fort Ouwford for a time ai.d I. - u . tenant P»vl* ««» undar him. I^wal trac • , „ lr j|, • I the eb iiemitit of Davis and Teylor* >::iugbter. Natives will show you the Very ulixb.w tbrougb which the jwhux wisnati idlmlivt Tlie larrt Mm murrlied out undi r «Rm. AlUrt Keii.i y son. bound for «l*e M-rmon fwn.;*iirii In I tub. Wlien X»rlfr, Taylor. Htd Itourl. and Beady Itervi of the Meairati war. Iwcan. - twelfth prr»; dent «if the United Mtutr* in IMP. Jeff. r »..i J | fcn; , was tbe pro-ala very bw<l«r in th* United «u.te»

m Date.

When Abraham Lincoln was pmddent of u*. United Htates during the «1vll war ami e..i,oij,n ilrr in chief of the Fetli-ral •my. Jeffers,,,, f,,.. we* prwaldenl of the Confederacy anil <.-u,iauud*-j in chief of iU armies.

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