| Show F out t 4 maa saw ck tier t ge out ji 01 7 tot oro oni id 1 II 11 I 1 so 4 d ash or the gentle mail my ge f opy estu gh t e 4 lit 0 I 1 A vies 7 7 py JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN HE vacation season Is in full swing again and several million american moto gp are chug drugging into every nook and cranny where a flivver v ill go incidentally they are camping by the way any and industry Indus Indu trl bously spoiling the wild places they are hack ing down trees polluting waters maters lit bering campsites with bottles cans boxes and neus newspapers papers and otherwise defacing the fair face of nature one cannot of course indict a whole people and it Is not true of all till these millions but it la Is true and true to the extent that it la Is a national dis a grace that our outing manners are shockingly unbelievably bad it only the riffraff went nent on wheels heels there might be some accounting for it IL apparently some of the riffraff docs does go but so 80 do people of means education and position and their enting outing manners are seemingly no bet ter america americas a the land of lie the free vie IN e are the people hooray I 1 let a got go I 1 it has got to be so bad has pot got to be done about it the ameri amerl can people have gone motor mad in the last five year years the motor gypsy tl Is no longer a local but a national problem lern th amerl can automobile association has appealed to the motorists them se lvell states are passing laws to prevent the extinction of wild wildflowers flowers state bethway boards and boards of health are mailing making stringent r road 0 an A and camp regulations forest rangers in the national oat lonal forests are short and ano harp sharp elih people ho litter up their camps and are ca relves with are park rangers la in the national parts parks eject people who do da not obey the park regula blons in another year or two if our outing manners do not radically improve the mo me tor ter gypsy will get the cold boulder shoulder everywhere except in municipal auto camps where the police will keep him in order there are already motor eh chicles irles in the ignited states apparently parent ly every man who iho has a car has an ambition when summer comes around to load it up eiith v ith passengers and camping outfit and start off to go as far as he can why nifty a large proportion of the motor gypsies head for the scenic IN est the national parks and the national forests that a why the scenic I 1 est right now Is alive with motorists tourists drifters people in search of new locations and new jobs some have lots of money come some only a little gome some none at all but one cant can t tell by their clothes or their cars chos hos who and which Is which the well todo to do are just as apt to tw be camping out as the others but apparently they are all pretty much alike when it comes to mussing up the scenery of coarse course not all of them do it wantonly some of them are too ignorant of outdoor life to take care of themselves or their cars or their baggage to gay say nothing of pitching a camp right or keeping it la in order or cleaning up afterward for instance what can reasonably be ex pecked of a middle aged woman who wears boudoir cap sweater khaki trousers silk stockings and high heeled no and undertakes undertake 11 to dim ogg 14 foot mountain in th lint at clr rill in the file meantime meant line lie the people b along the highe a a of the scenic T art lime haie len forced to protect thennes 10 A flivver tourist would soon he MP if it he lie got a dollar beery tint time be bif f n keep out sign and these the df awl evl bagin out 11 here tho the et est be beila ft ty where there a more of singing attil o 0 of NN here there a more ot of giving to of buying and a man make makes friends without li trying prill at fant the man along the road I 1 T combed the camper and even toot took 93 e hond in pitching his camp 1101 boic cean aall time man in Is apt to viarn a off acta ailt len with a gun it if necessary 7 cabal IS ata to bris brig polluted waters mutilated t is tl and inci incipient plent forest fires have pt a i tu was this inane nerves aphis and our bad outing a 13 as b than t this Is in in many pa I 1 a 11 est it ie is almost alTi impossible im isible te to a bost t a perfectly ly good check elpe to ja a has taught these people to 9 trust ea bodi dod places where lodging tu will food used to be had free for the th a lib berb arc are now inhospitable too much to be e t ware mare and bedding has been tank at that tales of trouble fall on det deif far w 1 too many sobbing women with w fib b lab wha ta have been along the road if it a by on foot asks for a lift the local mn be a does not stop hes picked vy too many strangers rangers Bt dheil and An antheil hes 19 in 11 step on the gaa gas it if a woman hilli hau V A by its got so that it the roadside lai is safe if it can carl be lau thes ried off A disabled car left w I 1 night Is stripped bare Eveatt even the tto lett boxes of the forest rangen arturd ar abnit he open and the alire fighting tool te 94 all this Is too bad for tn in a mm aspects this motor of 0 6 the e american people Is a asplen splendid te they TOI for the country they L k the average each car carrle carries foni alep pie and find even the most economic am fit ot spends considerable money te cal theay the it means so much port that every self respecting in the scenic west bas has an it tuto uto CM 1 it cannot afford to let the mot cotou us S sta 14 without stopping go through LIS like maine michigan wisconsin INIs cona IE 1 J desota colorado and in many millions of dollar dollars evertis eberl mer and everywhere ei better bett ra better fat tlona and ort dent clent info a 01 M reaul til and of conn 0 1 thill a general for of dal 0 thi pie in OKI theory doubtless doubt lese ar V at nl fact at it Im ImproTe F lu lit j knowledge of tin te country and their t low citizens brod their outlook oa 01 ia decreases dec ifil get feeling and p proc W democracy dero AM nl fai otisa so keen it ob ht in P a ua of the time times 80 ff li 1 dent cizes 1 the fact facto all bo this motor PR of the amerl rt pie haa has to t F th portions por tlona nj that SO tt of national g that to d pr tance less one of 0 tbt 1 P xa sons ons which led b 0 call the recent bonal COnfer esef bu washington to 11 t or crt 00 do hundred a I 1 ta of interested in the ot of doors sent 11 gs atea tel it ili at to pour purpose pose was about a comp national |
