Show V Value lue of Parks Park The American Civic ChIc assocIation the American Park socIety and the American American Ameri- Ameri can Institutes of Park Executives held helda a coordinated conference In Wash Wash- W sh Ington recently At the conference the Importance of national state and city parks to the welfare of the nation was stressed On the general significance and importance Importance Im- Im of municipal park planning Frederick Law Olmstead Jr who served on the senate park commission for several years ears said Nothing serves ser nil all the purposes efficIently efficiently ef- ef and well as a party system There are probably none except highways high high- ways and perhaps schools which involves In- In I olves so large a capital investment In The productive e value of this invest invest- meat ment Is largely determined by the skill and wisdom applied to the Innumerable innumerable In- In numerable determinatIons of detaIls |