Show i ifor for national park service e A bill is under consideration in congress i to v i establish a national 0 park service th the d ife federal deral government owns fourteen national parks parka with a total area 0 of f n nearly early five million acres all under the jurisdiction of the department of tha iha interior gerior it also alio owns thirty one national nat ionni monuments of which nineteen are in the department of them the interior ien ten in the department of agrical agri cul s ture and two in the war department under ea eai ea i asting arrangements there has been no jao central central organization for the administration of these splendid recreational possessions each of the fourteen national parks Is now under separate management it to Is very desirable that idesa parks parka ba administered through a general bureau at the seat of government in washington gion there Is IB a constantly increasing volume volumes or oc travel to the national parks and it Is necessary that the there e re should be one central organization which may furnish reliable information attractively ve y prepared ford forthe the benefit of tourists to the arhl paras s under tho the existing order of things very little systematic work in this direction has been possible witha with a national park service equipped with fact facilities liti es and a competent corps ot of workers there might be developed a fine bureau of information supplying to the general public the things it wants to know about its parks and monuments it is to be noted in this connection that canada through its department of parks has so thoroughly exploited its several national parks that during the season of 1915 1916 when there was such a large volume of 0 travel through the west the canadian parks parka attracted in the aggregate inore more visitors than the parks ot of the tha united states thus affording a fine illustration of what the government in exploitation of its areas cau can do |