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Show OUR NATIONAL PARKS More than 250,000,000 persons have visited the nation's parks and monuments since 1916, according to reports from the United States Division of Parks. The number has increased each succeeding year with the exception of one, when the world was at war. A few years ago it was almost as much work as pleasure, at least for the driver, when a trip to the parks was included in the vacation itinerary. The roads were rough, dusty and filled with trouble. A great many places were inaccessible to automobiles and it was necessary to reach them by foot or pack train, consequently conse-quently the visitors must have been largely adults. Today our parks truly deserve the name of playgrounds. Each year has seen new roads built and new places made available to the motorist, until it is now possible i reach almost every sec-; tion over smooth highways, which are veil cared for and made ' dustle.ss by oiling. A visit to any one of the national parks and monuments is an education as well as a pleasure and should prove to be attractive to more and more people each year as long as the present progressive progres-sive policy of adding new oiled roads is continued. The cost has been more than repaid by the benefit which has been gained. |