Show M J AAA-J I For or National Park Service ervice i ttA t-t- t A bill is under consideration in congress to establish a national park service The federal government owns fourteen national parks with witha a total area of or nearly five million acres all under under under un un- un- un der tho the Jurisdiction of the department of the In In- tenor It also owns thirty-one thirty national monuments monuments monuments ments of which nineteen are aro in tho the d department of the interior ten in the department of at agriculture agriculture ture and two In the war department Under existing ex ex- Sating fating arrangements there has been no central organization for tor the administration of at these splendid recreational possessions Each of the fourteen national parks is now under separate management It Is very desirable that these parks parle be administered through a general bureau at the seat of government government in Washington There is a constantly increasing volume ol of travel to the national parks and it it is necessary that there should be one central organization which h may furnish reliable information attractively attractively attractively prepared for the benefit of at tourists to the parks parIes Under the existing order of at things very little systematic work In this direction has been possible With a national park parle service equipped with facilities and a competent corps of at workers there might bo be o developed a fine bureau of at Information Information information In In- formation supplying to the tho general public the things It wants to know about its parks and monuments It is to be noted in this connection that Canada through its department of parks has so thoroughly exploited its several national parks that during the tho season of 1915 when there thero was such a large volume of travel through the West Nest tho the Canadian parks attracted In tho the aggregate aggregate aggregate gate more visitors than the parks parIes of the United States States- thus affording a fine fino Illustration of or what tho the government In exploitation of its recreational recreational recreational areas can do |