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Show POWER SITES IN NATIONAL I PARKS TOPIC Western Beauty Spots Threat ened With Ruin, Conference Confer-ence Is Told ! AMrTKRST. Mass,. . ; u. The ' federal water power commission has agreeel to refuse to accept any application appli-cation of power permits in exisiim; national parks until congress has In n given a full opportunity to pass upen I the entire question of power deVelop- ' ment within such pdrkS -J Horace i Mcl'arland of Harrlsfburir, Ps . president presi-dent of the American Civic association, announced today at the opening ses- . sion of the sixteenth annual convention conven-tion of that organization. Mr. McFarland also announced that Senator Jones, of Washington, had promised Secretary of ihe Interior ; Paine, a member of the water powei commission, to introduce a bill withdrawing with-drawing the national parks and monuments monu-ments from the provisions of the fed- I eral water power act and to urge its early passage ( sl'oll, I'NKkV "The water power people now have the right.' said Mr McFarland. i "to file claims on everv drop of falling fall-ing water in any fe-deral reservation, j be it park, monument, forest or even I cemetery, i The national parks are now in im-l im-l minent peril. The Irrlgationlsts want i to dam Yellowstone lake- in Vellow-stone Vellow-stone National park They want to use Heart lake, Lewis lake, Shoshone I lake. In tin- same park. They have pushed through the senate and have i poise d on the brink of passage In the j house, a bill permitting the destruc-, destruc-, tion of Falls River basin Thev have already ruined forever the wonderful Jackson lake just outside the park CONTROL CONGRESS. These folks conirol senators and representatives, some of whom threaten threat-en to block all appropriations, all road building, all developments in the park! for your benefits if their clients arc not given first use." The convention session was givon j over to tho discussion of national parks, Stephen t. Mather, director of the national parks, laid particular stress on the increase of visitors to thc national park this year. Colonel WlUlarn B Greeley, chief forester of the United States forest service, discussed "the national forests for-ests with particular reference to a definite national policy for tho development devel-opment of the national forests and I the national parks." |