The Chattanooga News. (Chattanooga, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 7, 1922 Page: 3 of 6
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EVENTS OF STATE
E INTEREST
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ALL PARTS OF OKLAHOMA
TOWN HAS BUILDING BOOM
Elx Business Buildinos are Being
Erected At The Present
In Salina.
Salina, Okla.— With six bri^k busi-
mss buildings either just finished or
under construction, several residence
buildings, a large club house in con-
templation, the recent improvements
at Radium Springs, with the building
of the Mayes County Fair building,
there no* going on, this city is en-
joying an unprecedented wave of pros-
perity and grow 111 This is made pos-
sible by th% new lumber development
in Delaware county„
A brick school building was made
possible a short time ago by a bond
issue and it lias been completed ready
for the use of the school children this
month. It has a beautiful campus and
is located on [he south side of Ferry
street.
The club house, if built, will occupy
a high site on the bluff overlooking
the river just northwest of this city.
Already there are two club houses
wai here, and Morgan Ijn, just
north of the city, and several cottages
are being plann'd for summer homes
overlooking the river.
The Progressive club, composed of
tbe business men of the city, is doing
much to make possible the building
activities of the city.
STATE LEADS IN HOSPITALS
Record of State in Work For Disabled
Soldiers Shown.
Sulphur, Okla.—Oklahoma has out-
stripped the federal government In
providing beds for the disabled v.ter-
ans of the World War. The Langly
bill, which passed congress in March
of 1921. provided for a 9,000-bed pro-
gram. appropriating $18,600,000 for
that purpose. To dale 850 beds have
been made available for use.
In" May of 1921 the Oklahoma tr^is-
lalure appropriated $1,250,000 for hos-
pitalization purposes and by Septem-
ber 15 exactly 675 beds will be avail-
able. One hundred of these beds at
University hospital at Oklahoma Cily
and seventy-live in the hospital here
are ready for use. Muskogee hospital
Till have 500 additional beds in readi-
ness by the middle of September.
That in substance, was the report
of H. B. Fell, of Ardmore, chairman
of the soldiers' relief commission, in
1lie principal address at the dedica-
tion services of ihe soldiers' tubercu-
lar sanitarium here r-cently.
Fell added that 138 tubercular pa-
tients are now being treated in gov-
ernment hospitals in other states, in
cddition to thirty-eight nemo-psychi-
atric and forty-six general patients,
who are under treatment in hospitals
»Isewheie.
TELEPHONE MEN GATHER
Campbell Russell To Be Cfcjef Speaker
on Program at Clinton
Clinton. Okla.—Clinton has been
selected for the next convention of
the telephone division of the seventh
district of the Oklahoma Utilities as-
sociation, according to Joe Higgins of
this citV, secretary. The convention
will be held September 12. The dis-
trict comprises Roger Mills, Dewey,
Custer, Washita. Caddo, Comanche,
Beckham, Kiowa and Greer counties.
The convention will be held in the
city auditorium. Campbell Russell,
i chairman of the state corporation
commission, will be the principal
spedker. A demonstration of the lat-
est telephone equipment will be on
the program. Classes of instruction
have been arranged by J. A. Wright
of Carnegie, chairman of the district.
He also has prepared for a banquet at
which the families of the delegates
will be guest*
STUDENTS DON UNIFORMS
Drastic Changes Are Made in Rules ol
Hastings Public School
Hastings, Okla.—No more will pa-
rents at Hastings, Jefferson county,
have to worry about what their child-
ren shall wear to school. For uni-
forms will be compulsory style for all
students in the bighschool next term,
according to an order just posted by
E. J. McGlatery, superintendent.
The uniforms will be of brown duck
or khaki, the order specified. They
are to be adopted to save embarrass-
ment for children whose parents are
unable financially to provide clothes
as good as worn by some pupils, Mc-
Glatery pointed out. Patrols are com-
mending him for his ao Several
other radical changes are to be made
in the school 'ules next term, the sup-
erintended id. All buildings and
grounds are being improved.
"UNSEEN COPS" TO REPORT
Plans Large Force to Stop Danger
On Streets.
Holdenville, Okla.—Special force of
twenty-five "unseen policemen" will be
appointed to report ail speeders in
Holdenville, if plans now under way
by the mayor and chamber of com-
merce are carried out.
Speed laws are to he made strict,
it is planned, and the special police-
men are to be on duty without pay.
They will take the numbers of all cars
seen violating the traffic rules, and
the owners will be brought before po-
lice court the next morning. The Hold-
enville chamber of comtfierce is push-
ing Ihe plan, and action will be taken
this week it is expected.
PLANT HAS RAPID GROWTH
Many Cities Get Electricity From
Sand Springs Power System
Sand Springs, Okla.—From a small
power company supplying electric
Jty only to Sand Springs to the
largest ' power company in the
state is the record of the Sand Springs
Light and Power company, in less
than eleven years.
In 1911 the company furnished light
and power to Sand Springs, later to
the vicinity between here and Tulsa.
Now this company not only furnishes
power and light to a great part of
the residential and business firms of
Tulsa, but also to all towns between
here and Pawhuska.
This great expansion has occurred
during the last two years. The elec-
tricity is sold to the Eastern Okla-
homa Power company, which has
franchises in the \aiiotis towns
Among the towns supplied with Sand
Springs electricity are Ochelata, Ra-
mona, Avant, Vera, Pershing, Nelog-
tny and Osage.
Seeking Aid For Mine Road.
Miami, Okla.—Federal aid to the
amount of $30,000 is being sought by
Ottawa county to match a like amount
flready set aside by the county com-
missioners for the construction of a
hard surface road from Miami north
through the mining district to the
Kansas line, there to connect with
other ronds leading lo Kansas City and
points further north in Kansas and
Missouri. Construction work on the
first link of the road from Miami to
commerce will begin as soon as tho
federal aid board makes its approp-
riation.
Flying Circus Will Entertain.
Bartlesville, Okla.—A squadron of
army airplanes, led by Major Mayfield
Of Post Field, Fort. Sill, will stage a
flying circus at the state convention
of the American Legion here Septem-
ber 11 and 12, Pat Cassidy, #-rvice
officer of the local James H. Teel post
lias announced. The planes are ex-
pected to arrive in Bartlesville the day
preceding the opening of the conven-
tion and will put on the flying circus
on the first day of the aonvention.
be en bp |—:—-"sIqebb d d
Electric Line May Be Built.
Possibility of an electric railway be-
I I ween El Reno and Piedmont was
| strengthened recently when it was an-
| nounced at a hearing before the cor-
| poration commission, on application to
j junk the St. Louis, El Reno & West-
J ern railroad, that a move had been
| started to electrify the southwest end
j of the line. This is the single remain
ing hope of persons living along the
defunc,t railway line, for outside con-
[ nection. There is little liklihood of an
| effort to salvage the other twenty-five
: miles of road, from Piedmont to Guth-
; rie. It was brought out at the hearing,
j The distance between Piedmont and
; .Ti Heno is fifteen miles. Plan is to
have this- section taken over by the
Oklahoma Railway company and
made a branch of the El Reno Inter-
urban line. The two towns along the
road most active in fostering this proj-
ect are Piedmont and Richland. Last
year nearly 300 carloads of products
were shipped in and out of Piedmont.
This number has remained the same
for five years. Shipments to Richland
are about 60 percent of that received
by Piedmont. Both towns have im-
portant grain elevators.
Chief value of the road's property
lies in steel rails. The company owns
little rolling stock or other property.
The commission has taken the case
under advisement pending negotia-
tions to electrify the El Reno-Pied
mont strip.
Ginning Rates Are Set.
Ginning 'rates for 1922-23 were fin-
ally set by the corporation commission.
All three commissioners signed the fin-
al draft of the rate settlement.
The order as issued is the same as
for last year except for a 5-cent In
crease, made to meet the increased
price of fuel.
For eastern distrj{;t'30 cents a hun-
red pounds of seed cotton. For central
district, 32Vs> cents a hundred pounds.
For western district, 35 cents a hund-
red pounds. For ginning "boflies" a
rate of 50 cents a hundred pounds, ap
pllcable to all districts.
Charge for bagging and ties Of $1.25
per standard pattern of two-pound bag
glng. "All cotton ginned during the sea
son to be charged for on the seed basis
as is the custom the present time,"
the order says. "Ginners who have
not installed seed scales will in In
stances where they are unable to
agree upon an estimate of the amount
of seed with the farmer, be required
to catch and weigh the same."
In communities where along staple
cotton is growb the order provides
that the glnner designate particular
days for this type of cotton.
TELLOWSTHNES SEMI-
CENTENNIAL i RKS IT AS THE
FIRST OF NINETEEN GREAT SCENIC
PLAYGROUNDS DF THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE
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Our third president, The
IFTV years of National Parks!
lows! one has been celebrating - -
semi-centennial this summer. When
it was established by act of congress
In 1872 it was the first public play-
ground of (lie people created In all
history. Now the United States has
nineteen and several other nations
have followed our example.
^ el lows) one is a land of wonders
in keeping.
Thomas Jeffer-
son, bought the Louisiana Purchase—
the unknown land betweenvthe Mississippi and the
Rockies—from Napoleon llonaparte In 1803. In
the spring of 1804 Jefferson started Lewis and
Clark westward from St. Louis to see what we had
got for $15,000,000. THv went to the mouth of
the Columbia and returned to St. Louis in 1806,
after being given up for lost. Both going and re-
luming tliey passed a little to the north of the
Yellowstone, but heard nothing of it.
John Colter, one of their men, turned back be-
fore reaching St. Louis to trap heaver on Ihe
headwaters of the Missouri. He discovered the
Yellowstone In 1807, returned to St. Louis In 1810
and told about the geysers and other marvels. St.
Louis refused to believe and laughed at the Y'el-
lowstone as "Colter's Hell." Gen. William Clark,
Colter's commander, was apparently the only man
to believe; on Clark's official map of the Lewis
and Clark expedition you will find traced "Colter s
route in 1807."
Jim Bridget-, one of Gen. William H. Ashley's
lieutenants in the Rocky Mountain Fur company
rediscovered the Yellowstone in 1827. Bridger was
ns good n mountaineer, plainsman and guide as
this country ever saw. But he was a practical
joker along the lit\e of monumental lies—he was
the inventor of the obsidian cliff, boiling spring,
alum creek and echo canyon stories which have
been Western classics for nearly a century. So
his report of the Yellowstone wonders was set
down merely as "another of Jim Bridger's big
yarns."
In 1842 and again in 1802 men reported the won-
ders of the Yellowstone. Nobody would believe
them. In 18(10 the semi-official Washbiirn-Li;ng-
ford expedition from Montana succ.-eded in get-
ting a hearing. But ll was not until 1870 thai a
special federal government expedition established
the existence «>f the Yellowstone.
Thus It took sixty-three years and more than
six "discoveries" lo put the Yellowstone officially
on the map.
Cornelius Hedges—he has deserved well of Ills
country—September 18, 1870, by a camp-fire In
the Yellowstone, proposed that the wonderland be
made a national park—a public playground set
aside for the people's use forever. The Idea took.
Congress established tbe Yellowstone National
park March 1, :872.
The United States now has nineteen national
purks containing 10,859 square miles or 0,949,700
acres. Chronologically in the order of formation
they are as follows:
1832—Hot Springs, Arkansas, 911 acres, origi-
nally a reservation, made a national park this
year; 46 curative hot springs.
1872—Yellowstone, Wyoming, Montana and
Idaho, 3,348 square miles; geysers and other vol-
canic exhibits, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone,
large lake, great animal preserve.
181)0— Sequoia, California, 252 square miles;
12,000 big trees over ten feet in diameter, and
■otoe over thirty-five feet and 5,000 years old.
1890— Yosemlte, California, 1,125 square miles-
•r, '~u*- w-5*
THZArap^raArf AT T-ZAY ACMJ, ccUrt™v as forest Me
1 o,seinlte valley, high waterfalls, three groves of
big trees.
1890—General Grant, California, four square
miles; big trees,
1899—Mount ltalnler, Washington, 324 squnre
miles; Mount Rainier with forty-eight square miles
of glaciers.
1902—Crater I.ake, Oregon, 249 square miles;
lake In crater of extinct volcano, with sides 1,000
feet high.
1903—Wind Cave, South Dakota, seventeen
square miles; cavern with many miles of galleries
urn! chambers.
1904—Piatt, Oklahoma, 848 acres; medicinal
springs.
1904—Sullys Hill, North Dakota, 780 acres; wild
animal preserve.
1900—Mesa Verde, Colorado, 77 square miles,
prehistoric cliff dwellings.
1910—Glacier, Montana, 1,534 square miles;
mountnlns. lakes and glaciers.
1915—Rocky Mountain, Colorado, 397 square
inlles, heart of the Rockies, Continental Divide,
peaks up to 14,255 feet.
1916—Hawaii, Hawallnn Islands, 118 square
inlles, three famous volcanoes on two Islands, trop-
ical scenery.
1910—Lassen Volcanic, California, 124 square
miles; only active volcano in United States proper,
other volcanic exhibits.
1917—Mount McKlnley, Alaska, 2,200 square
miles; highest mountain in North America (20,300
feet), great wild animal preserve; not yet acces-
sible.
1919—Grand Canyon, Arizona, 958 square miles,
gorge of the Colorado river.
1919—Lafayette, Maine, 5,000 acres; group of
mountains on Isle of Mount Desert.
1919—Zion, Utah, 120 square miles; gorge of the
Itlo Virgin.
Many volumes could be filled with photographs
of first-class scenery in these national parks. The
photographs reproduced herewith were selected
for these reasons: Yellowstone Is the oldest, larg-
est and best known of our national parks. Rocky
Mountain Is the most populur. Grand Canyon Is
the greatest natural wonder In the world. Lafay-
ette Is tho only national park east of the Missis-
sippi. Zion is the newest of our nineteen. The
remnlnlng picture, a scene on*the way to Rocky
Mountnln, Is typical of the American people at
play In the rational parks.
The visitors to the national parks In 1921 num-
bered 1,007,335; the private automobiles numbered
175,825. Rocky Mountain led with 273,787 visi-
tors and 57,438 automobiles. Hot Springs was sec-
ond with 130,908 visitors. Yosemlte was third with
with 91.513 visitors and 18,947 cars. Yellowstono
had 81,651 visitors and 15,736 cars.
Appropriations In 1921 were $1,031,549 and reve-
nues were $390,928. Eventually the national parks
will be practically self-supporting.
The act of 1910 creating the national park serv-
ice, a bureau of the Interior department, sets forth
that tbe fundamental purpose of the national
parks Is "to conserve the scenery and the natural
and historic objects and the wild life therein and
to provide for the enjoyment of the same In BUCll
manner and by such means us will leave them
unimpaired for the enjoyment of future genera-
tions."
There will be more national parks. The policy
of Ihe national park service, as set forth In 1918
by the late Franklin B. Lane, then secretary of the
Interior, is that the national parks of the future
should be justified by "scenery of supreme and dis-
tinctive quality or some natural feature so ex-
traordinary or unique as to be of national Interest
and importance. The nationul park Bystem as now
constituted, should not be lowered In standard,
dignity and prestige by the Inclusion of areas
which express In less than the highest terms the
particular class or kind of exhibit which they rep-
resent."
The national park movement Is now nation-
wide. There is an army of enthusiasts. These
enthusiasts are preaching that the mission of the
nutlonal parks Is manifold; that general use of
them hy the people will bring physical, mental,
moral and financial benefits. -
This national-park transcontinental tourist traf-
fic by private car is getting to he a big thing, with
tremendous possibilities In dollars. The Scenic
West was literally full of motorists this summer
on vacation trips ranging from two weeks to the
whole season. All sorts of estimates have been
made of what this means financially to the country
to have this money spent at home instead of In
sightseeing abroad. It is purely guesswork to esti-
mate what the million and more visitors to the
national parks this summer paid out In money. An
arbitrary minimum estimate of $1(K) each gives a
total of $100,000,000.
The national park enthusiasts have formed an
organization of their own—tbe National Parks as-
sociation. It was formed by uhoflielal friends of
the national parks to enter a field of the move-
ment which t fie federal government apparently
does not intem] to occupy. The present policy of
congress—if it has any nutlonal park policy—Is
merely to provide for the protection, maintenance*
and development of the parks, leaving It to the
people to determine the use they shall make of
them. The association Is an r/ganlzatlon of the
people themselves to enable them to use effectively
these public playgrounds. At present the enjoy-
ment of the American people of Its national parks
Is largely emotional. Among its many other ac-
tivities the association purposes a campaign of
education to double the enjoyment of the people
by adding understanding. It snys In effect to the
American people:
"Our nationul parks are nature's great labora-
tories and museums. Tliey are not merely won-
ders and scenery. They are exhibits on a mighty
scale of the processes by which nnture has been
and Is muking America. You may double your
pleasure In these exhibits by comprehending their
ihenning through Intelligent study. Let us 'See
America firstI' But let us also know America!
Let us know its natural history ns well as Its
national history. 'Let us differentiate, distinguish
and appreciate. Then we shull really know. Then
we shall really enjoy.''
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