The County Democrat. (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, August 29, 1919 Page: 2 of 8
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THE COUNTY DEMOCRAT, TECUMSEH,
JOHN DICKINSON SHF.R
Photod.r«sbS5 6y FRANCES LA FOLLETFE
AMERICANS MISTREATED IN MEXICO
--a Dr. uad Mrs. Charles T. Sturgis,
victims of Mexican outrages, have ar-
k rived In New Orleans and will prob-
R ably tell their story to congress. Doc-
R tor Sturgis Is an American dentist who
went to Mexico 20 years ago to prac-
R tlce. lie acquired a coffee plantation
worth $10^000 near Depolan In Chl-
pas. In 1015 he married Miss Cora
J3Sf Keenrlght in Washington, D. C. Mrs.
IV Sturgis’ mother, sixty-tlve years old
W and In delicate health, went to visit
r the Depolan plantation. Here Is Mrs.
Sturgis’ story In brief:
“In Junuury, 1918, we were raided,
k The raiders were Carranzista soldiers
Bn. commanded by Capt. Leopolda Garcia
^ and Capt. Julio Castlllano. They over-
ran the house, made all the plantation
hands quit and told us they would run
every American out of the country.
%||||& . Captain Garclu struck me with the
butt of his rifle.
-J "June 20, 1918, Gen. Rafael Cal y
stripped the house and took us to a bandit camp,
uury 18, 1919. November 13, 1918, my mother died
eneral Mayor was a personal friend0 of the bandit
8, he sent me to Mexico City with a message for
my husband If I were not buck in two months. He
snn to watch me. I made the long trip on time and
-m f■;
, '
^ Natural '
Wonderland
in Indiana on
Lake Michigan
Should Be
Saved for the
\ People /
i life
IMPORTANCE OF OUR OUTDOOR LIFE
| j
milWAGHCC
outdoor Interests. ^
he believes was one of the greatest
Sain to cross the seas with an army
acquitting themselves as our boys did.
speaks. Retired under the uge limit,
his robust body and keen mind per- 'y
his fitness to the clean outdoor life I
he has lead. ^
in mind is the sensible conserving of
the game and fish we now have. No one
section of the country must be allowed
to overindulge its natural'wish to take game or fish to Its own detriment-or to
that of another section. A spirit of conservation should dominate all.
Whether we perpetuate a species fcy artificial breeding and distribution
or by common-sense restrictive legislation is not the point. The fact Is that
each and every American species must be. saved and increased to numbers
nermitting at least some shooting. We cannot afford to delay or quibble over
* V M ■ the shore of Lake Michigan
Wit JbHv' tween Gary and Michigan City
I am W The middle West has visited
the playgrounds of the people in
July 'PjWcgSS^ scenic West—the national park
all th'JgjjgS$Kfc the Rockies. Sierras and Casca
pose 1 It lius found them good. It has fa
no wa BBSAl in love with the national park 1
How How It Is asking: “Why not a
counti jtlonal park right here, lnsteac
have ,lulf wuy across the continent?”
centra' 8Cenlc national park worthy of
r,“[8te: «mee between Hocky Mountain m Colorado
Serin* ^S'YmHnnn/l’ninois and Michigan »
the di. tlonnl park, and they have picked out lire dun
Alth. the right place for It. __tnh
exhaus- How they ure going to bring about •
tributi. ment Is a big question. The proposed pa
able to is all under private ownership and Is belli •
should uiatlve prices on the chance of u second v
and ha being built at the head of Lake MielrgaU; r
ministc Bt actu„i values It would cost about $2,.»tw,w
. Rc'ne buy the ]3,000 acres most desirable for park
JN 1 ie, poses. The scenic parks of the West were tn
her nisi (rom tll(> natlonal forests and the public (lou
to he8Ifby congress. To date there Is no precedent
with' di Die appropriation by congress of funds to purcl
a national park area. Lafayette was presente
NC the government for national park purposes by
owners of the property.
To the Congress lias no national park policy. H <
tawati dailies with national parks as It does with >
T havPt)ther things. it is now generous with approi
izong of »|0I1S ,,ml again niggardly; for Instance, it ;
in Hrool WoUowslone $331,000 and Yosemlte
v".n >919 and kept Rocky Mountain, with twici
tii’il if f,many visitors as both parks, down to $1"
false renI’olltlcs enters largely into all national park
never wi latlon. In the Sixty-fourtli congress the Int.
rocks and stones and quicksands, sloping
gradually into deep water. There is probably no
finer freshwater bathing beach in the world.
Don’t think of the dunes as heaps of bare sand
in a desert. They are exactly the reverse. They
have water, trees, shrubs, vines, flowers, grass,
birds and small wild animal life. The truth is that
the dunes are a great natural propagating garden
with a most astonishing array of trees and plants
and flowers. This garden is packed full of flora
from the Lake Superior region, the Atlantic coast
the middle South and the western prairie. It
flu ms to have almost everything In the plant line
from cactus to cranberries and from pines to tu ip
trees. A list of only the most characteristic and
important plant species numbers 208. T
To the ordinary visitor probably the spectacle
of the “walking dunes” Is the most Interesting.
Ilore lie secs land in the making. Here today is a
towering dune crcfwned with flowers and plan s
and trees; tomorrow it is gone and where it was is
u great blow-out of glistening sand, with its steep
sides strewn with dead trunks exhumed from »n
ancient graveyard of a previous forest. Today
there is a deep gash in the bluff; tomorrow ts
place Is taken by a very lofty heap of white
■ sand that lias come up. grain by grain, out of the
lake, on which grasses and plants and shrubs and
treelets are already struggling for a foothold. To-
day stands a forest on the edge of a shallow pond;
tomorrow It is a cemetery, with even the.tree-
tons covered by sand marching in from the beach.
There is no question that the Indiana dunes are
worthy of national park honors. October 30, 1916,
a public hearing was held in Chicago by the in-
terior department in pursuance of a senate resolu-
tion. In September, 1917, a printed report by
Director Stephen T. Mather of the national park
service was Issued. This report eliminated from
consideration all of the dune, country except a
strip along the shore of Lake Michigan about a
mile deep between Miller’s in Lake county and
Michigan City. After describing the dunes with
considerable enthusiasm. Director Mather says:
“Assuming, without further description of actual
conditions in this dune' country, that the sand
dunes of Indiana are eqiThl to those in any oilier
section of the country; that they are the most ac-
cessible dunes; that they possess extremely inter-
esting flora and fauna; that they offer unparalleled
opportunities to observe the action of the wind
and its Influence on the sand and plant life; that
the Lake Michigan beach is beautiful and offers
bathing facilities for a multitude; that the recrea-
tional uses' of the region ure myriad, should they,
or a large section of %ern, be preserved for present
and future generations? If they should be pre-
served, are they worthy of inclusion in a national
park? And if they are worthy of consideration us
a possible national park, would it be practicable
to establish them ns such u park for the benefit
and enjoyment of the people?”
He answers the first two questions emphatically
In tile affirmative. He says tills region should be
preserved to tlie people for all time and that it is
worthy of national pnrk honors. As to the third
question, he thinks it one of legislative policy to
be determined by congress, inasmuch us the dunes
are not public lands, and private lands, have never
been* purchased for national park purposes. He
thinks tlie park should contain from 9.000 to 13,000
acres, extending 15 or 20 miles along the lake. He
finds that options secured by speculators vary
between $350 and $<>00 an acre, with one tract of
11,300 acres held at $1,000 an acre.
“Manifestly," says Mr. Mather, “none of these
lands -ire actually worth $350 an acre at this time.
A figure less than $200 un acre probably represents
the actual value of tlie average tract of land not
under the Influence of urban values, due to prox-
imity to cities. Practically all of the larger hold-
ings must be purchased in their entirety. I believe
that 9.U00 to 13,000 acres of dune lauds ean prob-
ably be secured for park purposes for approximate-
ly $2tx' an acre. The purchase price of a pnrk of
the size suggested would therefore be between
$1,900,900 and $2,000,000."
The proposed Dune National park Is really a
ADMIRAL “ROUGH-HOUSE” RODMAN
-—-—1 When Admiral Hugh Rodman first
____came to the Pacific coast years ago as
X a junior officer soon ufter his gradua-
: \ tion from Annapolis he acquired the
J sobriquet “Rough House” from men
ftg^t Returning now at the head of half
the American navy, he brings u deco-
I'y ' jllPlir in that country would cause him to be
II t addressed “Sir Hugh” as a knight com-
f niauder of the order of St. Michael
jfe|| Jyfx I Admiral Rodman throughout his
Jl'% #&***m*\ / unVal career has been noted as a dis-
. -a&fc, / etpllnarlan. “He got things done.” in
jf the words of the navy. Direct methods
of getting things done earned the fltle
' “Rough House,” bestowed in affection
by bis men and brother officers when
' v’;: hi was young. Years later the same
* „ ‘ X qualities brought him distinction from
HI ’he Hritish ruler, when Rodman was
commander of the Sixth battle squad-
ron of the grand fleet during the war with Germany. The order of knight
conferred on Admiral Rodman was similar to the distinction given Admiral
Sims by the British king at the same time, but neither officer could accept
because American regulations did not permit members of the military or nava
establishments accepting decorations from foreign nations. Later, acceptances
were allowed.
JOHN BULL CORNERING FUEL OIL
The senate has adopted a resolu-
tion by Senator Poindexter, Repub- jyf*r
llcan, of Washington (portrait here- yr
with), authorizing the federal trade f .
commission to Investigate recent in- J> SR
creases In the market price of fuel oil aps
In the United States, and especially on ** v !S|
the Pacific coast.
Action by the senate was taken '
after Senator Phelan, Democrat. Cali-
fornia. had charged that British Inter-
ests were attempting to acquire vast v * ” ° *1
oil interests in (California and that ; ^ J
Great Britain was endeavoring to cor- | ^jifl,1
ner the world ell industry. He de- |
clared that unless steps were taken Jjj&w
to encourage American oil operations . R
abroail the world's supply will be In \
th* bands of British pstionals within Anjjak.
a few yenra.
r nder the ri'xotutlon. the com ml v
• ion is authorized «» In v» ligate th> dot * ■*> -U % j
source an>l supply of oil in this roue |s^3RH|
try and also Inquire tnto what cor-
porate interests hav* conducted the production, refining and marketing of ou
to the past few yeow, and whether here hav* been any indication* of illogical
restraint of nude and or fair competition.
•uggest this interesting question:
en to the dunes when the supply
.rial stops?
vlil. and that comparatively soon.
>rth of Chicago will in a few years
«>!•. led by people who have money
vent furl her erosion of the shore,
i has already been stopped over
and In many place* the shore has
The time la coming when the west
mtected from erosion by piers and
'he «ti|>ply of building material for
>re>umabty atop. Perhaps then the
What will ha
of building m
>f the world.
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will he a prop
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Henderson, L. P. The County Democrat. (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, August 29, 1919, newspaper, August 29, 1919; Tecumseh, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc937224/m1/2/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.