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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH. UTAH Choice bits of veal, creamery butter and fresh eggs combine with other tempting ingredients 'to give Libbys Veal Loaf its delicate, appetizing .flavor. Order a package from your grocer today. Libby, M9Neill & Libby, Chicago Parchmented iLeather Valuable. Parchmented leather has greater strength while lacking the elasticity of tanned leather, and the belting of M. Felice Gilardiri of Turin is designed to combine these special qualities. The hide being 'impressed deeply with a trelliswork pattern, the compressed portions are unaffected by tanning 'agents, While the interior of the meshes is tanned in the usual way. 'The product has the required elasticity and is claimed to be so strong that belts may be much narrower than the ordinary. -- ' Japan to Start Colony in Peru. A Japanese syndicate has bought 800,000 acres of land near Huanuco, Peru, o'n the Amazon watershed, ac- cording to a report. 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Holland. -They are a reliable remedy which nas been used by the sturdy Dutch for over 200 years, and has helped them to develop into one of the strongest and hearthiest races of the world. Get them from druggist. Do not take ' a substitute.your In sealed packages three sizes. Adv. Bayer Tablets of Aspirin to b genuine must be marked with tht safety Bayer Cross. Always buy an unbroken Bayer package which contains proper directions to safely relieve Headache, Toothache, Earache, Neuralgia, Colds and pain. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost but a few cents at drug stores larger packages also. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetie acidester of Sallcylicacid. 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 have 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 Has Happened Before. his relatives and friends are aware, George Wharton Pepper Is a nonsmoker. 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 beforeIt 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 medher husband: Some cigars came for you today evidently a gift from some ical corps, recently returned to Ellin-wooone. Kas., reports that ice cream soKnowing 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 Pngo-Pag- o Newfoundlands Memorial Day. naval station, and reports that Newfoundland celebrated July 1 this year, but not as Canada does. It was his patients took much more kindly to 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 Sympathy. year it is proposed to hold the comWhat 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 . Bachelor (chirplly) Well, old man, Night in Venice. Thanks. These poor Venetians hows everything? Benedict (gloommust have some awful nights. BirOh, shes all right. ily) As d, . If the toothache doesnt worry a man its because some other fellow has It. A pertinent query is a kick in mingham Age-Heral- d. Slam at the Gentle Sex. If dar was any sho-nubeautiful mermaids, said Uncle Eben, "a lot o human ladies would git jealous an drown deirsefs tryln to Imitate em. vVI A (VM alt ri is a notorious knocker Try hi It contains the vital mineral elements and all the nutriment of ;of . ill-heal- th! wheat ancLbarleyi ANTED : The Dunes National parkin the sand dunes of Indiana on the shore of Lake Michigan between Gary and Michigan City I The middle West has visited the playgrounds of the people in the scenic West the national parks of the .Rockies, Sierras and Cascades. It has found them good. It has fallen in love with the national park idea. Why not a naNow it is asking: tional park right here, instead of half way across the continent? For there is not a scenic national park Worthy of the name between Rocky Mountain :n Colorado and Lafalyette on the coast of Maine. naSo Indiana, Illinois and Michigan want a as dunes the out have picked tional park, and they ' the right place for it. How they are going to bring about its establishment Is a big question. The proposed park area is all under private ownership and Is held at speculative prices on the chance of a. second Gary being built at the head of Lake Michigan. Even at actual values it would cost about $2,500,000 to buy the 13,000 acres most desirable for park purposes. The scenic parks of the West were taken from the national forests and the public domain by congress. To date there Is no precedent for the appropriation by congress of funds to purchase a national park area. Lafayette was presented to the government for national park purposes by the owners of the property. Congress has no national park policy. It dillydallies with national parks as it does with most other things. It is now generous with appropriations and again niggardly; for instance, it gave Yellowstone $334,000 and Yosemite $255,000 in 1919 and kept Rocky Mountain, with twice as many visitors as both parks, down to $10,000. Politics enters largely into all national park legislation. In the Sixty-fourt- h congress the interior department supported the bill to enlarge Yellowstone and the bill' to add to Sequoia and change its name to Roosevelt. The agricultural department, because the proposed additions would be taken from national forests, and therefore from its control, opposed both bills, beating the former in the senate and the latter in the house. So there Is no telling what congress will or will not do In the matter of national park legislation. Can congress be Induced to appropriate money for the purchase of private holdings for national park purposes? This question has been put squarely up to congress by two bills introduced at this session. One calls for the appropriation of a million dollars or so for the purchase of Mammoth cave, Kentucky, and its environs for a national park. The other provides for the establishment of the Mississippi Valley National park on both sides of the Mississippi In southwestern Wisconsin and northeastern Iowa. Here the two states own the land under the river, the federal government controls Its navigation, part of the proposed area Is a Wisconsin state park, some of the land will be donated and the land to be purchased by the government has been appraised at a very moderate price. Can congress condemn private holdings for national park purposes? Nobody seems to know. Most lawyers would d that the state of Indiana can consay demn the dunes for state park purposes. And presumably the state of Indiana could transfer the land to the federal government. The national park service has been looking into, the question of condemnation. It is advised that the government can condemn private holdings inside of national park boundaries in fact, a bill is pending to condemn 160 acres in General Grant National park which the owner will not sell for a reasonable price. As to the condemnation of patented land outside of a national park the natioual park service is yet undecided. Condemnation of the dunes has been advocated by private Individuals and by the press. The creation of Lafayette National park has jstablished this precedent: The federal government will accept suitable land presented to it for national park purposes. So, while other questions are being thrashed out, the Indiana, Illinois and Michigan federations of the General Federation of Womens Clubs are engaged in a campaign to raise sufficient money by subscription to purchase the dunes and present them to the government for a national park, , off-han- . There Is no question that the Indiana dunes are worthy of national park honors. October 30, 1916, a public hearing was held in Chicago by the interior department in pursuance of a senate resolution. In September, 1917, a printed report by Director Stephen T. Mather of the national park service was issued. This report eliminated from consideration all of the dune country except a strip along the shore of Lake Michigan about a mile deep between Millers in Lake county and Michigan City. After describing the dunes with considerable enthusiasm, Director Mather says: Assuming, without further description of actual conditions in. this dune country, that the sand dunes of Indiana are equal to those In any other section of the country ; that they are the most accessible dunes; that they possess extremely interesting flora and fauna ; that they offer unparalleled opportunities to observe the action of the wind and its influence on the sand and plant life; that the Lake Michigan beach is beautiful and offers bathing facilities for a multitude ; that the recreational uses of the region are myriad, should they, or a large section of them, be preserved for present and future generations? If they should be preserved, are they worthy of inclusion in a national park? And if they are worthy of consideration as a possible national park, would it be practicable to establish them as such a park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people? He answers the first two questions emphatically in the affirmative. He says this region should be preserved to the people for ail time and that it is worthy of national park honors. As to the third question, he thinks it one of legislative policy to be determined by congress. Inasmuch as the dunes are not public lands, and private lands have never been purchased for national park purposes. He thinks the park should contain from 9,000 to 13,000 acres, extending 15 or 20 miles along the lake. He finds that options secured by speculators vary between $350 and $600 an acre, with one tract of 2,300 acres held at $1,000 an acre. 'Manifestly, says Mr. Mather, none of these lands are actually worth $350 an acre at this time. A figure less than $200 an acre probably represents the actual value of the average tract of land not under the Influence of urban values, due to proximity to cities. Practically all of the larger holdings must be purchased in their entirety. I believe that 9,000 to 13,000 acres of dune lands can probably be secured for park purposes for approximately $200 an acre. The purchase price of a park of the size suggested would therefore be between $1,800,000 and $2,600,000. The proposed Dune National park is really a wonderful place. In the first place, the dunes are an uninhabited wilderness. The fact that there is an uninhabited wilderness within a few miles of the center of population in 1910 at Bloomington, Ind and at the very doors of Chicago, the second city of the nation and the fourth city of the world, is in itself a marvel. Incidentally, the dunes are within a few hours by rail and automobile of people. This makes them unique as a public playground. Again: The dunes are a different world from the monotonous flatness of the Chicago plain. They are a country of hills and bluffs, gullies and valleys. There are all sorts of interesting variations: Little lakes, streams, bogs, meadows. The bluffs above the beach are imposing. The beach itself is a wonder broad, smooth, clean, free from rocks and stones and quicksands, sloping very gradually into deep water. There is probably no 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, grass, birds and small wild animal life. The truth is that the dunes are a great natural propagating garden 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 T important plant species numbers 208. To- - the ordinary visitor probably the spectacle of the walking dunes is the most Interesting. Here he sees laud in the making. Here today is a towering dune crowned with flowers and plants and trees ; tomorrow it Is gone and where it was Is of glistening sand, with its steep a great blow-ou- t sides strewn with dead trunks exhumed from an ancient graveyard 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 plants and shrubs and treelets are already struggling for a foothold. Today stands a forest on the edge of a shallow pond ; .tomorrow it is a cemetery, with even the tree-top- s covered by sand marching in 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 the dunes for a period reckoned at about 5,000 years. Previous to this period the level of the lake was 50 or 60 feet higher than now and the discharge was toward the Mississippi at a point 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 the gulf, the level dropped, the present lake currents set in and the building of the dunes was begun. Public land surveys made in 1835 and soundings of Lake Michigan furnish the data for these estimates : During the last 5,000 years the waters of the lake have washed away about 500 square miles of land from the shore extending from the Indiana state line northward into- Wisconsin. Where this land was is now water from 30 to 60 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 7,000,000 tons of soil is taken yearly by the lake from the shore north of Chicago. So there is plenty of material for building operations nt the dunes. These facts suggest this Interesting question: What will happen to the dunes when the supply of building material stops? And stop it will, and that comparatively 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 in many places the shore has been built out. The time is coming whea the west shore will be protected from erosion by piers and breakwaters. The supply of building material for the dunes will presumably stop. Perhaps then the dunes will stop walking. Let us hope that long before that time the Dunes National park will be a peoples playground, dedicated to public recreation forever. ice-gor- |
