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Aspirin Is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of of Salicyllcacid. Monoacetie-acldest-er Adv. Birds Have Right of Way. Fowl have the right of way in air, warns the director of military aeronautics. This, is Justice Indeed, since birds flew first. But this is not all. Recently many towns along the Atlantic coast hate been visited with dead bird showers. Aviators flying by a town would see a flock of wild fowl coming their way. They would set their machine guns and let the bullets fly. Presently a prominent citizen walking below would be hit with' a large bloody bird. He complained to the town, and the town complained to the department of agriculture. Then the federal migratory bird law between the United States and Great Britain was referred to, and it was found that shooting birds from airplanes is It Hss Happened Before. As his relatives and friends are aware, George Wharton Pepper: is a son smoker. , Not long ago Mr. Pepper was about to entertain some distinguished guests whom he delighted to honor. His first move In the direction of their entertainment was to procure and send to the house some particularly choice Havana cigars, which set him back to the tune of 50 cents each. But It seems the cigars arrived before It was made known at home that the guests were expected. Samoans Liked Ice Cream Sodas That evening Mrs., Pepper said to A member of the United States med her husband : Some cigars came for you today evidently a gift from some leal corps, recently returned to Kas reports that Ice cream soone. Knowing you didnt smoke, I gave them to men who were working das have made a profound impression in the house. upon the Samoans. The officer was dePhiladelphia Ledger. tailed in charge of the soda fountain of the solitary drug store at the Pago-PagNewfoundlands Memorial Day. naval station, and reports that Newfoundland celebrated July 1 this his not patients took much more kindly to as Canada does. It was yer. but seobserved throughout the Island as Me- the sodas than to the morial day, in honor of those who laid rum which he was obliged to dispense. down their lives during the war. Next year It Is proposed to hold the comSympathy. What Is that song and dance team memoration earlier In the season. supposed to be doing?" I believe they call their sketch A You Know. Who He Meant. in Venice. " Bachelor (chlrpily) Night Well. old man, These- - poor Venetians bow everything?" Benedict (gioom-Ily- ) Thanks. some awful nights." Birhave must Oh, shes all right." . . . mingham ? I Ellin-woo- d, -- o anti-influen- Age-Heral- L ANTED; The Dunes National parkin the sand dunes of Indiana ou LAKE the shore of Lake Miehlguu beMICHIGAN sINOp tween Gary and Michigau City! The middle West lias visited the, playgrounds of the people In the seenic West the nutionid parks of the Rockies, Sierras ami CuMudes. It has found them good It lias fulleu in love with the national puik Ideu. Why not a naNow It is asking: tional park right here, instead of half wuy across the continent?" For of the there is not a scenic national park:r worthy and Colorado Mountain Rocky name between Lafalyette on the coast of Maine. a naSo Indiana, Illinois and Michigau want as dunce tional park, and they hate picked out the ' . . the right place for it. ' Omlii How they are going to bring about Its eBtabiisn-men- t area JAM srsemztA is a big question. The proposed park is all under private ownership and is held at speculative prices on the chance of a second Gary There Is no question that the Indiana dunes are Even being built at the head of Lake Mlcb'gan. of national purk honors. October 30, 1916, worthy at actual values it would cost about $2,500,000 to, a public hearing wus held In Chicago by the pur-buy the 13,000 acres roost desirable for park department In pursuance of a seuate resoluposes. The scenic parks of the West were taken tion. In Heptemlier, 1017, a printed report by from the national forests and the public domain Director Stephen T. Mather of the national park for by congress. To date there is no precedent service was Issued. This report eliminated from the appropriation by congress of funds to purchase consideration all of the dune country except a a national park area. Lafayette was presented to strip along the shore of Lake Michigan about a the government for national purk purposes by the mile deep between Miller's In Lake county and owners of the property. Michigan City, After describing the dunes with considerable enthusiasm, Director Mather says; Congress has no national park policy. It dillydallies with national parks as it does with most Assuming, without further description of actual other things. It is now generous with appropriaconditions in this dune country, that the sand dunes of Indiana are equal to those iu tions and again niggardly; for instance, it gave any other Yellowstone $334,000 and Yosemite $255,000 in . wct,Mn f Ibe country ; that they are the most ac1919 and kept Rocky Mountain, with twice as cessible dunes; that they possess extremely intermany visitors as troth parks, down to $10,000. esting flora and fauna; that they offer unparalleled Politics enters largely Into all national park legisopportunities to observe the action of the wind and Its influence on the sand and plant life; that lation. In the congress the interior the Lake Michigan beach Is beautiful and offers -department supported the bill to enlarge Y end the bill to add to Sequoia and change bathing facilities for a multitude; that the recreational uses of the region are myriad, should they, its name to Roosevelt. The agricultural departor a large section of them, be preserved for present ment, because the proposed additions would be and future generations? taken from national forests, and therefore from Its If they should be precontrol, opposed both bills, beating the former in served, are they worthy of Inclusion in a national the senate and the latter in the bousa So there park? And If they are worthy of consideration as a possible national park, would It be practicable is no telilng what congress will or will not do in to establish them as such a park for the benefit the matter of national park legislation. and enjoyment of the people? Can congress be induced to appropriate money He answers the first two questions emphatically for the purchase of private holdings for national in the affirmative. He says this region should be park purposes? This question has been put squarely up to conpreserved to the people for all time and that It Is worthy of national park honors. As to the third gress by two bills Introduced at this session. One calls for the appropriation of a million dollars or question, be thinks it one of legislative policy to so for the purchase of Mammoth care, Kentucky, be determined by congress, inasmuch as the dunes are not public landsaod private lauds have never and its environs for a national park. The other provides for the establishment of the Mississippi . been purchased for national park purposes. He thinks the park should contain from 9,0t Ki to 13,000 Valley National park on both sides of the MissisWisconsin and southwestern northeastern In acres, extending 15 or 20 miles along the lake. He sippi finds 'that options secured by Speculators $350 and $000 an acre, with one tract of the river, the federal government controls Its area Is held at $1,000 an acre, a the acres of Wiscon2,800 proposed navigation, part Manifestly," says Mr. Mather, none of these sin state park, some of the land will be donated land are actually worth $350 an acre at this time, and the land to be purchased by the government a A moderate at been very appraised figure less than $2fX an acre probably represents price. has the actual value of the average tract of land not Can congress condemn private holdings for naunder the Influence of urban values, due to prox: tional park purposes? Most know. seems to imity to cities. Practically all of the larger holdNobody lawyers would roust be purchased in their entirety. I believe conthe Indiana state can of that ings say that 9,000 to 13,000 acres of dune lands can probAnd demn the dunes. for state park purposes. ably be secured for park purposes for approximatepresumably the state of Indiana could transfer the The federal ly $200 an acre. The purchase price of a park of national government. land to the park the size suggested would therefore be between service has been looking Into the question of con$1,800,000 and $2,600,000." demnation. It Is advised that the government can of The proposed Dune National park Is really a Inside national condemn private holdings park wonderful place. In the first place, the dunes are boundaries In fact, a bill Is pending to condemn an uninhabited wilderness. The fact that there Is ICO acres in General Grant National park which uninhabited wilderness within a few miles of an a sell reasonable not for will As the owner price. - the center of population la 1010 at Bloomington, land condemnation outside of patented pf the to doors of Chicago, the second at the and very Ind. a national park the national park service Is yet and fourth the nation the of city of the world, dunes of the Condemnation has been, undecided. city la in Itself a marvel. Incidentally, the dunes are advocated by private individuals and by the press. within a few hours by rail and automobile of The creation of Lafayette National park, ha : The federal people. This makes them unique as a pub- governestablished this precedent lie playground. ment will accept suitable land presented to It for Again: The dunes are a different world from national park purpose. So, w bile other questions monotonous flatness nf the Chicago plain. the Illinois and out. the Indiana, thrashed are being They are a country of hill and blnffa, gullies and Michigan federations of the Genera Federation a in to are valleys. Tber are ail sorts of interesting variacampaign engaged of Womens Cubs Little lakes, streams, bogs, meadows. The to tions; subscription by sufficient money purchase raise bluffs above the beach are lmtos!ng. The beach ff dunes and present them to the government for Itself Is a wonder broad, smooth, dean, free from a national park. Sixty-fourt- h ellow-ston- e . n Slam at toe Gentle Sex. beautiful If dar was any mermaids, said Uncle Eben, a lot o human ladies would git Jealous an drown defrsefs tryin to Imitate em." sho-nu- A pertinent query is a kick in ff vary-betwee- off-han- d -- is a notorious.knocker .of Try If. ill-heal- Y' V - th! It contains the vital, mineral elements and all the nutriment of Wheat and. barley; -- , tioizazap toek and stones and quicksands, sloping very gradually Into deep water. There la prolmbly Bl finer freshwater bathing beach in the world. Dont think of the dunes as heaps of bare sand in a desert. They are exactly the reverse. They have water, trees, shrubs, vines, flowers. graSL birds and small wild animal life. The truth Is that the dunes are a great natural propagating garde with a most astonishing array of trees and plants and flowers. This garden Is packed full of flora from the Lake Superior region, the Atlantic coast,' the middle South and the western prairie. It seems to have almost everything in the plant line from cactus to cranberries and from pines to tulip trees. A list of only the most characteristi and Important plant species numbers 208. To the ordinary visitor probably the spectari of the walking duties' is the most Interesting. Here be sees land in the making. Here today is a towering dune crowned with flowers and plants and trees ; tomorrow It is gone and w here It was Is of glistening sand, with Its steep a great blow-ou- t sides strewn with dead trunks exhumed from ancient gravejard of a previous forest. Today there is a deep gash in the bluff; tomorrow It place is taken by a very lofty heap of white sand that has come up, grain by grain, out of the lake, on which grasses and plant and i.hrubs and treelet are already struggling for a foothold, -- To day stands a forest on the edge of a shallow pond I s tomorrow It is a cemetery, with even the covered by snnd marching (n from the beach. The accompanying map and diagram shows where the material that builds the dunes is coming from and how it gets there. Lake Michigan has been taking material from the west shore and depositing it at tffe dunes for a period reckoned at about 5,000 years. Irevious to this period the level of tlie lake was 50 or 60 feet higher than now and the discharge was toward the Mississippi at a jKtint near where now are the dunes. When the or glacer which prevented the discharge of water Into the St. Lawrence was removed and the lake drained into the Atlantic Instead of ihe gulf, the level dropped, the present lake currents set Id and the building of the dunes was begun. Public land surveys made iu 1835 and soundings of Lake Michigan furnish the data for these 1sTTmfiTeir: During IL c iHt5,000- y ea r s th e waters of the lake have washed away about 500 square miles of land from the shorp extending from the Indiana state line northward Into Wisconsin. Where this land was Is now water from 30 to GO feet deep. The old shore line extends out from three to nine miles then there Is an abrupt drop of several hundred feet This is an unparalleled erosion ; It Is accounted for by the softness of the shore, which is largely composed of material that was ground very fine by the glaciers that deposited it It Is estimated that 7,000,01X1 tons of soil is taken yearly by the lake from the shore north of Chicago. So there is plenty of material for building operations at the dunes. These facts suggest this Interesting question: when the supply What will happen to the dunes ' of building material stops? And stop It will, and that eomparnriveiy soon. For the shore north of Chicago will in a few years be pretty solidly settled by people who have money" to spend to prevent further erosion of the shore. In fact, erosion has already been stopped over long stretches, and la many places- the shore has been built out The time Is coming wbea the west shore will be protected from erosion by piers and breakwaters. The supply of building material for tbe d lines will presumably riop,. Perhaps lhen,tbq w dunes will stop wnlking." Let us hope that long before that time the Dunes National park will be a peoples playground, dedicated to public recreation forever. tree-top- Ice-gor- -- - - |