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Show THE SUN, PRICE. PAGE SIX FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 21, 1924 FRIDAY. UTAE-EVE- RY 100 the site of ciiiuinuulty dwellings, lu Its orlgliiul condition the Aztec Ruin Itself was s stately stindHtiine structure, 3511 by 2SO feet, three stories high nnd built around a court. The 70,000 specimens already constitute moat the probulily co m p 1 e t e collection of a North prehistoric American culture. Mount Kiitimili a Mg , blew Alusknii volt-nno- off III bead In 1012, covered u vast peninsula nUli slag und darkened the skies all over the world with The explosion dust. also rreiitod the Valley of Ten Thousand one of the .Smokes, wonders of the world. It is live volcanic Asground, cracked hy sures und pitted by millions of fiiumroles of every hue which bubble and belch und send up ateum and suioke. And so It goes. Each national monument has Its own story. And uew national monuments are being crested. One of the newest la Carlsbad Cave In New Mexico. has been only explored but is Who says We Stand Back of This Tire? Next time you hear a tire dealer say that, ask yourself: Is he responsible? We are. Is he in permanent business here? We are. Does he give real servicer We do. Has he got a genuine quality tire to stand back of? We have Goodyears! It HERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES OF THE BARGAINS WE ARE OFFERING IN GENUINE GOODYEAR TIRES 30 x 3Vj Clincher Tire, from 8.20 to S14.00 32 x 4 Straight Sid. Cord from 15.65 to 22.50 16.45 to 23.20 33 x 4 Straight Sid Cord from 32 x 4 Vi Cord 529.20 33 x 5 Cord 37.35 partly stated experts far to surpass Mammoth Cave In size and In magnificence and variety The of decoration. latest addition to the list of monuments Is the Craters of the Muon, In Idaho, where 40 square miles hnve by asW by Tcs-Idun- t Cool Mg. It ! a lava - wonderland, with cones, tunnels, caves and all sorts of been znrjs-xczxic- o JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN UK national immunit-nru hundred yunw from imw will lie numlM-reposxcstjliiiiH of tinning the prirelf-.sI lie Ainerlrun At present ptxqilt. they ure pretty much neplwted, both by the federal Kovernmint und by the people. There ere .0 or more In eh n rye of the Interior rtepurtinent anil congress gives the national jmrk service but $12U0 to care for all of I :hem. Visitors to the 18 where records were kept numbered but 212,828 last season. Itut that la the fieople know almost nothing about the national monuments. Some day these nutlonal monuments will be made easily accessible and Used ap; then the iieople will flock to them. For all of them are well worth seeing and many of them are' miong the wonders of the world. With national parks and national forests and national monuments, etc., etc., the public Is mixed up on wliat's what Ilere's the right By s 271KZI2Z J'tZtt'JZAZtZCUtfc a llovenwet-p- Tumacscorl, jf that: There are 111 national parka, each established by I separate act of congress und all In charge of the national park service of the Interior department Primarily iliey contain scenic feuturcifof national Importance, lliouh two lint Sprlm-- in Arkansas ind lMatt In Oklahoma are medicinal. They tire ikiskHiIh in their original wild stnte kept :i far and are wild life xaiiclunrh-sThey are protected gninxl commercialism. Familiar names In the national park system tire Yellowstone, Yuseuiite, a n- - . Rocky Mountain and Grand Canyon. Unfiiyctte, on the coast of Maine, Is the only neenle national park east of the Mississippi. Congress will not purchase land for national park purpose and the only public lands nrc In the West. Lafayette was citizens. presented to the nation hy public-spirite- d There are six national military parka burg und Vicksburg are familiar examples control of the War department. Gettys- under There are approximately 153 nntlonal forests, under control of tlie forest service of the Department of Agriculture. They were established for scientific lumbering nnd for grazing and were originally purely conimerelal propositions. The Agricultural department, however. In Us persistent efforts to get control of the natlunal parks, has set up recreational features In ninny nntlonal forests In coniiietltinn with (he nitthuuil parks. NaNow we come to the nnllonul monuments. tional Lnndmnrks" would be n more fitting designation. Previous to llNHI the United States hod no provision for the establishment of national monuments. Public Insistence hicttnie so great for the protection of nntural wonders from vandalism thut In 100(1 the Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities' was passed hy congress. This act provides for the punishment of vandalism nnd for permits to excavnte nnd colled. Section 2 of the act reads : That the PreMilent of the United States Is hereby authorised. In Ills discretion, to dednrs ly publlo proclamation historic landmarks, historic snd prehistoric structures and other objects of hlstorlo or sclentlllc Interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the government of ths United States to be naiinnnl monuments, und may ' reserve. ns a part thereof parcels of bind, the limits of which in all esses shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the object a to be protected. Under Ihli ad alxiut 50 national monument are row established. About 30 nre In charge of the national park service and about 13 under control of the forest service. The Wnr department con-- ' train three, Exact figures cannot be given as change ure constantly occurring. Of those controlled by the forest service the largest Is Mount Olympus In Washington, which Is a region of mountains, forests und glaciers and the home of the Olympic elk. llandeller In New Mexico contulns mat numbers of prehistoric ruins nnd Is presumably slated for national park honors, lirjrcs Cunyon In Utuh of which more Inter Is an eroded canyon of 7,440 acres. The 1028 report of Director 8tephen T. Mather of the national park service to the secretary of the Interior gives In addition to Devil's Tower, El Morro, snd Ietrlfled Forest of which more later the following as ths list of ths national monuments under his chargee They have been grouped by this writer. Tbo llsti cliff-dwell- er 1922, prehistoric tow290 seres. Utsh-Colorsd- o, cliff dwellings. Arizona, 190S, ruin of Seventeenth esntury Franciscan mission, 10 acres. Orsn Qulvlra, New Mexico, 19v9, ancient pueblo snd early Hpunlub mission, iso seres. Csss Grande, Arisons, prehistoric relic, 420 scree. Tucoa House, Colorado, IBIS, prehistoric relic. 10 e y canic flow. Of tlie nutlmml monuments chosen for Illustration Bryce Canyon tins Jast been given national ns the Utah park honors. A hill for Its creation National park was passed In the closing hours of the last session of congress. Its feature Is a box canyon three miles long nnd two miles wide, cut 1,000 feet Into the Paunsnugunt plateau of southeastern Utuh. There la a wonderful variety of eroslonal form, which are painted In every color, shade and tint of tlie spectrum reds, pinks, creuins, tans, lavenders, purples, blues, greens, chocolates and whites. It takes high rank among Montezuma Castlx, Arizona, 19ul, prehistoric cliff dwelling, 160 seres. Chneo Canyon. New Mexico, 1907, numerous pueblos slid cliff dwellings, 20,b29 sore. Navajo, Arlxona. 1109, prehistoric pueblos snd cliff dwellings, SCO seres. , ers. pueblos snd , set twisted aud contorted furms of hardened vol- d nat-orall- Price Rubber Works Alger Auto Company aarea Aates Ruin, New Mexico, 111!, prehistoric pueblo 00 rooms, I seres. Pips Spring, Arisons, 1121, old stone fort and spring of pioneer days, 40 seres. Muir Woods, California, 1808. fins redwood grove, 421 scree. rook I'lnnsrles. California. 1608, many aplr.-llformations, S00 to 1.000 feat high, 2,651 seres. Natural itrldges, Utah, 1906, three very largo natural bridges, 2,740 sores. Rainbow Jlrldge, Utah, 1610, height 106 feet spaa 276 feet, 160 scree. Sitka, Alaska, 1910. park of hlstorlo association, 16 fine totem poles, K7 acres. Colorado, Colorado, 1911, wonderful example of erosion, many lofty monoliths, 1I.S88 scree. l'npugo Snguuro, Arizona, 1914, rhnrscterletlo desert tlura ami ninny piclogrsphs, 1.910 acres. Lewis and Clnrk Cavern, Montana. 1908, Immense limestone cave, 160 scree. Khnehimt) Cavern, Wyoming, 1909, large Umeetone osve, 219 scree. Dinosaur. Utah, 1915, deposits of foeell remains, 80 scree. Fossil Cyad, South Dakota. 1922, deposits of plant . fossils, 120 seres. Capulln Mountain. New Mexico, 1916, cinder cone of geologically recent formation, 681 acres Katmal, Alaska, 1118, volcanic phenomena. Including Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes," 1.640 acres. Verendrye, North Dakota, 1117, includes Crow-hig- h Iiiitte, from which the famous French exrl plorer tlrst saw territory, 252 acres. Scott's Bluff, Nebraska, 1919, point of hlstorlo Interest In winning of the West 2.051 scree. Ingi's of interesting matter could lie written about these national monuments. Take, for those of Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. They illustrate the history of tlie American Mouih-wefrom the prehistoric times of the cliff dwellers down through the ninny years of frantic searching for gold by the Spanish soldiers nnd the colonizing and proselyting hy the Spanish priest. Cortez conquered Mexico fur Spain In 1519-21- . It was wain looted. The Spaniard then turned his search for gold toward I'eru which Is (mother story and toward the unexplored wilderness to the North. The air was full of northern treasure myths El Dorado, the glided man, and a whole people clothed In gold; tlie Seven Cities of Cibola, with their golden domes; (Julvlnt, the city of gold. Ride by side soldier and priest Invaded the desert. Each despised the other; each used the other. Coronado's expedition from Mexico In 13-1that penetrated as far as Kansas Is one of the most romantic In nil history. of k. . trans-Mlsaou- st ' Gran Qulvlrn was once the flourishing pueblo city of Tuhlra, believed to le Qulvlra by the Span-lardIt was discovered In 1381 by Francisco Kunchez de Clinmuscndo. Francisco de Acedcvo rounded the mission In 1028. The Apaches wiped It out about li'iTO. The ancient pueblo held about 1.500. Tlie great stone church was built In 1014. ltoth still stand In Ibis ghost city of the long ago. Montezuma Castle Is one of the relics of the prehistoric preple culled cliff dwellers and Is very old. It Is a communal hottso of 25 rooms, built In u shallow cave In the face of a lofty cliff. Csss Grande (Great House) Is a prehistoric mystery. It was already a ruin alien Fray Marcos discovered It In 1539. It Is a large building of natural concrete called culeche, smoothly plastered within. It stands In a large conqiound of outlying buildings enclosed In rectangular wulL Aztec Hula was presented to the nation by Archer M. Huntington of the American Museum of Natural History. It Is being extensively excavated and restored. Centuries before Columbus one of the richest centers of prehistoric civilization was the valley of the Amlnias river In northwestern New Mexico, There, within the radius of a single mile vast mounds of earth snd fallen stone mark s. natural wonder. The act .provides that before Bryce Canyon becomes Utah National park, all lands In (be area must be conveyed to the United StRtcs. Utah and the Union I'adflc own 640 acre. The Petrified Forest contulns the most wonderful collection of petrlfh-- trees In the world. These trees He lp three groups, which really are not forests at all. for most of the trunks were washed to their present positions on an eroded plain by prehistoric floods from forests far away. Many of the trunks exceed 100 feet In length. One log, 111 feet long, bridges a canyon 43 feet wide. The state of mineralization of the wood almost places It among the predous stones. Not only are chalcedony, opala and agates on view but even Jasper nnd onyx. The Devils Tower Is an extraordinary masa of Igneous ruck nnd Is one of the most conspicuous fentares of tlie Black Illlls region of Wyoming. It has been s landmark from prehistoric limes. First there Is the level pluln, then a rounded wooded hill GOO feet high snd on top of that the tower, 000 feet high and a mile In circumference. Its sides are fluted by great columns which stand perpendicular, except where they flare out at the base snd la at the top. These columns, about 6 feet In diameter, are mostly pentagonal, but some are four-side- d and some El Morro National monument la a landmark to thrill a good American. Two enormous connected d eroded sandstone rise abruptrocks of arid the from plain. One suggests a castle and ly Is called El Morro. The other Is called Inscription Itock because It bears priceless historical record. For neuriy four centuries ago these wall echoed the clunk of the steel harness of Conqulstndores Thera anil the prayers of Franciscan Martyrs. was a spring there nnd n shallow rave ami soldier and priest turned aside to tlmin from the old Zunt trail. Anil there they cut their name and the why and wherefore of their comings nnd gulngs. An Inscription perhaps as Important ns any li this, cut by Dun Jnnn de Onnte 14 rears before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Itock: Pneo por sqnl de adelanUdo don Juan de onste di-dmcubrlmlento de la mar del sur a 16 el April del 1606. raised by here the provincial chief Don Juan da Onate from the discovery of the South Sea on ths Kill of April 1606. This approximately fixes the date of the founding of Bantu Pc, ns It Is known Onnte fixed his upon his return from the Gulf of capital tlu-r- . Trainin' for foreign service of government and business was offered in 1923-2in thirty-fou- r states and the District of Columbia, according to information jnst issued by the United States department of the interior, bureau of education. More than twelve thousand students were enrolled in foreign training subjects in colleges and universities of these states. VERY SARCASTIC 4 Hopper What's Snail! your' hurry, By matching a conditional offer of the general education board, Fisk University has established the first million dollars endowment for college education of the negro in the history of America. The income of this fund is to be applied exclusively to teachers salaries. $500,000 from Ut Social Saurian llsards1 not so bad predatory lad; At h.art an alligator y.t Ambitious to becom. a p.L A soolal As Is th Hall's Catarrh d Wrong-- Kind of Bubbler ONE e California. Scarcely less Interesting Is the Inscription, herewith reproduced. ly Don Diego do Vargas Zaputa Lujan lonce do Leon: Aqul pfrlnba el Grill Dn Do do Varga. qul.n a nuetra Santa re y la real corona todo el nueva Mexico s su coeta sno a. 1692. Here was the General Don Diego de Vargas, who conquered to our holy faith nnd the royal crown all New Mexico, st hie own year of 1612. Thu Indians hud risen against the Spaniards la Santa Fe la 1(189, massacred them and driven them out, nnd destroyed as for as possible all traces of civilization and Cbristlaulty. For twelve yenrs It whs they enjoyed their ancient Independence. Diego de Vargas who reconquered the region In cos-quts- expi-neo- io . 9 .003. There are more than 50 of tlieso inscriptions. They contain names great In those times Nieto, who escorted the first missionaries to Zunt In 1029; Lujan, who avenged the murder of Fray Francisco Letrado In 1032; Archuleta, Urlbarrt and 09 on down into the first half of tbo Eighteenth century. 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