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Show lloraeTown FAIL TO RESPECT PROPERTY v Great 'Body of Americans 'Need Edu- cation Concerning Proper 'Usage f Public Places. The wjCTital uuikc-up 'of men and women Who scatter papers along tho highroads, who trample down growing crops, who break down furmers' J fOncos, nnd who nrc responsible for j mrninndlng our Woodland slrearas j with n beadwork of tdmnto cans la quite easy to understand. Such co- pie are merely primitive Individualists. They have not yet ndvanccd lncMll-' zntlon to n point where thry can visualize the property rights of others. 1 There Is another group of wa-j'far-ore which, though allleil closely to the llrst, wo both dislike and cannot understand. un-derstand. This Is the group which not only scatters refuse over 'private lands, but also lcn-s a trull, which he who runs may ravd, wer the land belonging to cities, frtabes nnil Mho nation. na-tion. A pubtlc paTk, n'hpfher It be but n triangle of prnss tit the Inter, section of thiTt lln-ge streets, or a rolling meadow land -set "down In tho henrt of a great rlty, 'or n forest reserve re-serve of n hundred Yhousun'd acres of Ihn national rtomatn, Is property to which encb and every one of us hns ' an lnnllennble rlpfltt. tTo scatter tnish , over a bit t)f grorn In 'the' heart of a , city or to trtnsli riff 'the'top of a pine tree In nntloml mntk Is' to damage part of the common 'Inn'd to which every cltlcen Is 'lnilr. W can imfleTfltiurtl ' how a man can disregard the flgllts of "a neighbor, . but It Is not o easy 'to understand how n man can Hcstroy the beauty of lund wli'lcli 'Is 'Ms own nnd his children's. Tf 'we are ' to continue to build pnrks In our titles nnd set nsldo wildernesses Tor "onr recreation, wo must also Inltlll up.'tn the mind and henrt or rvery citizen, a spirit of Jealousy Jeal-ousy for the 'beauty of these green places. Perhaps the present generation of Americans 'Is 'already past the rare, but there Is another generation of citizens tn the mnklng, nnd, If we are wise, -we 'Will do for them what the forestry 'association hns been tlo. Ing In the xilty of "Washington. If wo catch Yonng "America young enough, our pnrks rif tomorrow may 1h ns pop bottli'less as the beech-shaded swurd tf Ilampsteild heath. The Outloolc |