Washington County News | 1927-07-21 | Page 7 | Outdoor Good Manners

OUTDOOR GOOD MANNERS From the time they are able to comprehend com-prehend anything, children are taught that they must have "good manners." They are threatened and warned and cajoled into behaving when "company" comes and to act like they weren't little savages when they go to call on friends. "Good manners" have always been regarded as one of our best known "indoor "in-door sports'" But this Is a changing world and now we find that "manners" are classified. There is the "indoor" variety and the "outdoor" variety. And some of the grownups are lacking in the "outdoor" quality. The careless automobile tourist, who has left his mark from Harlem to San Francisco, has made necessary some new preachments on the subject of "good manners." The thoughtless camper who forgets to put out his fire and leaves behind paper plates, tin cans and the remains of his lunch is the horrible example of "bad manners" and a type that must be swatted in order to keep tourists as a class in good standing. The American Automobile association estimates that six million people will heed the call of the road this summer. If one-sixth of them are careless, an immense amount of damage will be done. Beauty spots will be defiled, property destroyed and the way made rough for tourists who have good "outdoor "out-door manners." Nothing is more disheartening than to find some picturesque spot among the trees left by automobile travelers and picnlcers littered with refuse. The rights of property owners in the country must be respected as religiously religious-ly as they are in town and city. This children can be taught. Some of their elders may be too hard crusted to admit of teaching. But the coming generation, at least, ought to grow up with the idea that the abuse of outdoor hospitality of parks and secluded spots in the country is as much a breach of good manners as to mistreat a home where one has been entertained.