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Show WORLD OUT I) OO ItS LONG, long ago. before man Inl-J Inl-J tiated his progress toward today's to-day's modern civilization, the world outdoors was a scenic panorama pano-rama of beauty In nature. It was a world of forests and glades, green growing vines and varicolored vari-colored flowers, dotted with shimmering shim-mering lakes set here and there like diamonds In a velvety field of green. As man's numbers Increased, so did his knack of developing new ways to divert the things in nature na-ture to his own personal use and services. He cut away the trees of the forest to make room for a shelter shel-ter and used the trees to build it. He laid bare the glades and meadows mead-ows and filled in the marsh lands for a new world of steel and stone. He took a note from the beaver and dammed lakes and streams to divert their power to his many uses. In his search for fuel to feed the hungry demands of his Increasingly-modern world, he scarred the face of the earth with claws of mighty steel and dug deep Into its bowels for the treasures that had lain there for centuries. With late-found wisdom, man one day came to realize that the destruction and conversion of natural nat-ural things had to be limited to a degree consistent with his needs. So he set aside certain areas of special beauty and gave them the protection of his laws. He planted new trees on expanses laid bare by his machines and shovels. He gave back to nature some oi the things he had taken away. And yet. there are a few spots today where the beauty of nature protected is left unspoiled. Mankind, Man-kind, it seems, eannot pass through the forest or glade without leaving leav-ing behind the unmistakable mementos of his civilization pop bottles, beverages, cans, candy wrappers, cigarette packages and Just plain Junk. |