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BEAUTY IS INTERNATIONAL

The so-called national parks of the world are not national save in name. They are no more national than la good music, classical literature, beautiful pictures. They belong to the world. We people of Canada feel that the beauty spots within the United States that have been designated as national parks belong to u> as they belong to you. They are but placed within the keeping of the people of the States. We feel and we hope that the people of the United States feel, that the beauty spots of Canada that have been designated as national parka are aa much your parks as they are our parks, that they are merely placed within our keeping for the use of ail. Beauty Is International, regardless of the form in which It it expressed, and national parks are but the natural beauty spots of the world preserved for the people of the world.— J. B. Harkin, Commissioner, Canadian National Parks Branch, Department of Interior, Canada.

By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

OMPLETION of the Banff-Wlnder- • mere motor highway acros*. the central Canadian Rockies sharply em- > phaslzes the fact that the national parks movement is just about the livest non-polltical lasue of the times In Canada as well as In the United States. An increasingly International aspect is its latest development. On both sides of the most remarkable frontier in the world it

Is agreed that national parks are national only In name; that natural scenic beauty is international; that there are no barriers between parks save those placed by nature; that larger development of r<«nds should give the people of the North American continent easy access to the most splendid recreation region of the globe. It is a credible prediction that the near future will see a system of natienal parks from Mount McKinley in Alaska to Grand Canyon In Arizona under a working international agreement that will make It "a unique continental exposition of inestimable value to science and to the popular education of future generations," as well as a vast scenic playground for the people. I The Immediate effect of the opening of the 104mlle. two-way Banff-Windermere highway, making passage by automobile possible through the central Canadian Rockies, is that It completes a 500mile circuit of Rocky Mountains, Yoho. Kootenay and Waterton Lakes National parks in Canada and connects this circuit with the National Park-to-Park highway In the United States —a gigantic motor way that circles 6,000 miles through nine scenic western states and touches Mount Rainier, Crater Lake, Lassen Volcanic, Yosemite, General Grant. Sequoia. Grand Canyon. Zion, Mesa Verde, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone and Glacier National parka. The Canadians, call the highway from Banff io Lake- Windermere and on to the international line at Kingsgate the Banff-California Bee-Line highway because It keeps right on across a corner of Idaho to Spokane and Portland and thence south to San Francisco and Los Angeles, a distance of I, miles. They call the other half of the “Grand Circle tour” the Banff-Grand Canyon road; this crosses the international lire at Peskan, Mont, Just to .the east of Waterton Lakes and Glacier National parks. The formal opening of the Banff-Windermere highway this summer at the point where It crosses the Kootenay river was an International affair of considerable pomp aryl ceremony. Old Glory was much ln»evWence. The band played the national airs. A notable assemblage was in attendance. Dr. King, Dbsiinbrn minister of public works, welcomed the guysts. J. Ross Bakin, superintendent of Glacier NWonal park, was the official representative ofjSperetary Hubert Work of the United States Department of the Interior. The speech-making emphasised the international importance of thef occasion. Then the lieutenant governors of Alberta and British Columbia. Dr. R. G. Brett and Walter C. Nichol, cut the red. white and blue ribbon across the road and automobiles started east and west amid cheers.

DUCK-SHAPED POTTERY WAS USED ♦ —

Evidence of Pueblo Indians’ Religious Rites Found in Colorado by Explorers. ' Two important pieces of pottery of unusual historic Interest made by the Pueblo Indians were unearthed In southwestern Colorado this summer by • state museum expedition party beaded by Frank H. HL Roberts, associated path Curator J. Allard Jeancon of the

Several m<-tpr highway projects on either side of the international line are important in this connection. One Is a nearly-completed road that will connect Buffalo park at Wainwright, Alberta, byway of Edmonton with Jasper, largest and farthest north of the Canadian national parks. It is being built on 300 tulles of abandoned roadbed of the Canadian Northern, from which the government tore the rails in the World war to send to France. Another rond is nearing completion from Lake Louise to Field in Rocky Mountains. This runs on an old roadbed of the Canadian Pacific across the Continental Divide. In time it will be carried;, through to Golden on the Columbia, river. A proposed Canadian scenic highway through the heart of the Central Canadian Rockies runs directly from Banff to Jasper park, 125 miles in an air line, connecting at the base of Mount Robson at the headwaters of the Fraser with the Buffalo-Jasper road just mentioned. Three road projects in and altout Glacier in the United States have International interest. The National Park service has begun construction on the Transmountain road across the Continental Divide from St. Mary’s lake to Lake McDonald. Its completion will bridge the last gap in the National Park-to-Park highway by uniting the east entrance (Glacier Park) and the west entrance (Belton) of Glacier. It also supplements the All-Canadian circle by a United StatesCanadlan circle much smaller than the Grand Circkvtour. The se<s>n<l is the r->ad being built by Montana to parallel the Great Northern along the southern boundary of Glacier, closing the present gap between through east and west highways at this point. The third project Is the improvement by tha United States government of the Babb International Boundary road along the east side of Glacier. In accordance with a decision by the comptroller general that the entire cost of a state aid project through an Indian reservation may be paid from the funds apportioned Jo the states under the federal highway aet the Montana state highway commission ba« submitted as a federal aid project the Improvement of this rond

NO INTERNATIONAL LINE The tremendous and Increasing tourist travel of the last few years is proof of the appeal to the people of the North American continent of their national parks. The United States and Canada stand together in making more contented peoples by getting the public into the great outdoor scenic exhibits with which both countries are supremely blessed. We live in peace and friendship on the most remarkable political frontier in all the world. But in scenic beauty there is no International boundary line at all, no barriers save those placed by nature. The extension of our National Park-to-Park highway across the border by the opening of such splendid connecting links as the Banff-Windermere highway will be followed, I sincerely hope, by the larger development of national park roads in both countries until the two peoples are given easy access to the finest scenic attractions of the globe—Stephen T. Mather, Director, National Park Service, Department of Interior, United States,

state museum in archeological exploration work. The pottery is in the shape of a duck and was used by the Pueblo Indians in their religious ceremonials. So far as is known, tide is the first shard of Its kind discovered, and is valued for that reason. -Southwestern Colorado is a vast storehouse of treasure for the arch-

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eologist,” Roberts says, -and is scarcely scratched as yet” Robert ssays the apartment house, supposedly n product of modern American efficiency and ingenuity, was used by the Pueblo Indians long before the supremacy of the white man had been established. A high type of civilization prevailed among the cliffdwelling Indians, comparing favorably in some respects to that which exists today. Relics revealing Pueblo Indian civilization in its earliest stages were

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the importance of an “unique continental exposition” and requesting “the people and the congress of the United States and the people and the parliament of the Dominion of Canada to secure such amendments of existing law and the enactment of such new laws as will give to all units in the international parks system complete conservation alike." The international parks system idea much fpvor In both countries. The friendliest co-operation exists between Stephen T. Mather, director of the National Park service of the United States (photograph No. 2), and Commissioner J. B. Harkin of the Canadian National parks (photograph No. 4). In the*United States the idea has been generally accepted by the “National Parks Army of Defense," which has approximately 4,000000 members in affiliated nationwide organizations. The National Parks associaation, a leader in this army, Is promoting it. “I "thoroughly approve an international parks along the line and for the purpose set forth by the A. A. A. S„” said Mrs. John D. Sherman of the General Federation of Woman's clubs —they call her the “National Park lady” In M'ushington. “The general federation is energetically active In promoting national parks as ’Nfitlonal Museums of Native America’ and in bringing about legislation for their complete conservation, its national council at its last meeting- passed a resolution similar Ln effect to that of the A. A. A. S.” In Canada organization is well under way. The Alpine Club of Canada, which has twenty (ranchos, issued a general Invitation to a meeting In the fall at Lake Louise at which was organized the National Parks Association for Canada, with directors representing the Dominion Montreal to Vancouver; Affiliation with organizations of ffiany kinds Is'proceeding rapidly. Here is a situation which shows the need of concerted International action for. the protection of national parks against commercial invasion: A bill will presumably be introduced in the Sixtyeighth congress for the damming of Lower St. Mary's lake, just outside Qlacier. This will raise the level of. Upper St. Mary’s lake, just Inside Glacier, one of the most famous beauty spots of Glacier, and destroy much of Its beauty. Threefourth s of the Sow is to go to the Milk river Irrigation project of Canada. Two years ago the international joint, commission was induced by irrlgationists to recommend this project, but neither government cared to act in the face of popular protest. The bill per se stands no chance. But the Canadian irrigatlonists are planning to dam the Canadian end of Waterton lake, which lies across the international Live. This would spoil the part of the lake in Glacier. An "exchange of water” has been arranged to further the tyo projects, all of the St. Mary's lake flow to stay in the United State,- in return for all the flow to Canada from the Waterton lake dam. Glacier park is protected by law; Waterton Lakes park is not. Ingenuity and u-rsistence like that can only be met by concerted international action. As to the pictures: No. 1 shows the Red Gates „■ of Sinclair canyor on the Banff-Windermere highway In Kootenay. No. 5 ts a view of Mount K4lth Cavell in Jasper. No. 3 gives a glimpse of the buffalo herd la Buffalo park, near Wainwight, a fenced inclosuie of igg square. miles. Tlx herd, established in has increased migbtlly. In Novem'nsr 2,000 animals were killed, leaving 5.000.

discovered at Montezuma mesa. Some of the e irllest dwelling sites were examined carefully and 'information of great historic value was obtained.— Rocky Mountain News. Fog Help* Th. eves.’ Land a police records show that peek’d-picketing and similar petty crimes increase something like 100 per cent on a foggy night. A sort answer turneth away wrath; so also will soft strap. w

Uirough u»v . Indian reservation. The National Parks of North America I That is the new International conception of two systems that are essentially one in that they represent geologically and biologically a continent rather than two countries. Determined and per* sistent attempts at commercial invasion of the national parks of both countries have largely brought about this inter national movement. The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest scientific organization in the world, with 12.000 members in the United States and Canada, spoke for both countries when it recently passed a resolution setting forth the perils of the situation.

CARDS LEAD TO SLAYER’S ARREST Negro Voodoo Doctor Confesses to Murder of Nurse Who Sought Love Cure. •w* 0 . HIT HER WITH BRICK Pittsburgh, Pa.—Miss Elsie Barthel, twenty-elght-year-old nurse, was killed by Alonzo Savage, negro voodoo doctor, when she refused to give him $395 for curing her love ills, according to a confession city detectives said the negro made.’ The confession, according to Louis Lett, captain of detectives, was made after Savage was taken to the scene of the crime short- j ly after midnight. Under the glare of motor car headlights, Captain Lett said, Savage reenacted in detail his movements when he met the nurse beneath the portico of a deserted East end mansion. Slain After She Yielded Cash. The negro confessed. Captain Lett said, that he struck the nurse In the face when she seized the money out ] of his hand; felled her with a brick, and then dropped a 70-pound block of marble on her head. As she fell. Miss Barthel cried, “I’ll give It to you,” Savage is said to have told the detectives, but the negro stepped-to the outside of the portico and pushed the loose marble block from the wall, crushing the victim’s head. Details of the confession made public by Captain Lett recited how Miss Barthel met Savage while they were employed by an East end physician, ™li ! latfiHS^'' \ • ■' - 1 \nA r ~ \ w_ ~ j Fsllsd Her With a Brick. the woman as nurse and the negro as a butler. The nurse learned of Savage's ability as a “fortune teller” and approached him when she had culties with her sweetheart. Savage gave her six cards, held together by a black pin, and told her the “charm” would work if she returned the cards to him and paid him $385. Cards Lead to Slayer’s Arrest. They met under the portico late at night and Miss Barthel handed Savage the cards and an envelope containing the money. When Savage announced that “the cure” had worked the nurse grabbed the money from his hand. Then followed the killing. Savage picked up the money, but In his haste he dropped the blood marked cards. It was these cards that led the police to arrest the butler. In his home, they said they found a deck of cards with six missing. The cards found near the body completed the Captain Lett declared. Walter Haul, a taxicab driver, and friend of Miss Barthel, was taken to central police station for questioning. While talking with detectives Haul •pled Savage, who was being held. Haul then identified Savage as the negro he had taken in his cab to the East end district on the night of the murder. Woman Held With Man As Automobile Thief St. Louis. —Love of luxury, adventure and a married man made Elizabeth Luttrelle, twenty-eight, go on a motorcar stealing spree with the man, Samuel C. King of Clever, Mo., •he told police. The couple, under arrest here, has confessed to stealing a half dozen motorcars in Brookfield and Chillicothe, Mo., and Decatur, - Springfield and Champaign, Hl. They are held for federal authorities on charges of interstate transportation of stolen cars. Miss Luttrelle tired of home life in Brookfield, so she went to Decatur, got a job’fn a restaurant, met Kifig and started her campaign for what •he regarded as “the better things in life.” Holds Forced Marriage Valid. Port Worth, Tex.—The mob which forced Mark Livesay ‘and Ina Cartwright to marry at night on a public highway did no wrong, according to a jury’s verdict. The jury held that Livesay, under promise of marriage, betrayed the girl and then tried to desert her. The marriage now must stand, It was ordered. Tries Suleide Three Times. Kansas City, Mo. —Three times In one day Joseph Mazza, a cobbler, tried to commit suicide by hanging In his shop. Each time he was cut down by Meyer Rapport, proprietor of an adjoining shop. Mazza said he was tired of life. . ——. 1 s — Swallowed Teeth Laughing. New Orleans, La.—While laughing at a joke, L. Eriedburg swallowed his false teeth. The man was rushed to a hospital, where surgeons removed the set from hia stomach.

SLAYER OF OFFICER GOES HOME TO COMMIT SUICIDE Search for Muncie Murderer Ends When Body Is Discovered on Porch of Wife’s House. Muncie, In<j.—The search for Claude Michaels, forty-six years old, who shot and killed Patrolman Anthony Helis here, came to a dramatic end when Michaels committed suicide on the front porch of his wife’s home, near where he murdered the policeman. Members of Michael’s family were awakened about 2:30 o’clock in the morning by a shaking of the front door, and a moment later a shot was heard. Persons in the house were too frighti ened to leave, but lotiking from the ! windows they could see nothing unusual. About 4:30 o’clock a newsboy ! passing the house saw Michaels' body ‘ lying on the porch and notified the poi lice. Using the revolver with which the policeman was slain, Michaels had fired a bullet through his heart. It Is thought that Michaels returned to the house with the intention of kill- | Ing his wife, as he had threatened to do this before his encounter with the officer. The police learned that sevI eral weeks ago Michaels told a friend . that if he ever wanted to hide from i authorities, he would secrete himself in the abandoned ovens of a steel company, at the south side of the city, and it is thought that this had been the hiding place of the slayer. -1 The inquest, which disclosed that Michaels had had no food for several days, discredited the belief that he had . been harbored at the home of a friend. He was unshaved and his clothjng was torn and covered with burrs. Wounded Convict Fails in Attempt to Escape Baltimore.—ln the Union station | here, with a ticket to New York in | his hand and the announcer calling his ; train, the body of Frederick Ramos, | twenty-one, failed to equal his courage and a daring break for freedom i from the state penitentiary failed. According to Ramos’ story, he had planned his escape weeks ago. To scale the 24-foot wall he had improvised a hook and rope. At night he reached the top of the wall. There ,a guard saw him, fired, and Ramos fell outside with a broken leg. While prison authorities searched for him within the yard, Ramos crawled away and hailed a passing motorcar. He told the driver that he had been struck by a taxicab, but must get the train for New York. At the station Ramos managed to buy a ticket and reach a seat in the concourse, but when his train was called he could not rise. Seeing the youth was injured, a railroad officer had him taken to a hospital. Penitentiary officials found him there. J — Autoist-Runs Over Man Fast Asleep on Road Boston. —Ralph Campbell of West Lynn was driving his big automobile • near his home. He was passing a of bushes, running the machine near the side of the road. Came a couple of bumps. Ralph jammed on the brakes. Back in the I roadway was a dusty form brushing his clothes. “Did I hit you?” inquired the autoist. e • “You shure did, bo. If I don’t break that habit of sleeping with my I legs stuck out on the road, I’ll get ; hurt some day.” i Ralph will not even have to tell ! the judge how he ran over a man’s legs without knowing It j Two Sisters End Lives; Suicide Pact Indicated Asbury Park. —The bodies of two sisters, Mrs. Gussie M. Durr, and Miss Tillie were found on a cot in ■ their home in Ocean Grove, with the ■ jets ot a gas stove open. Nearby lay . notes indicating a suicide pact The women, both in late forties, had | often expressed the fear that one j might die before the other. On the dining room table were found two bundles of clothes, each bearing the initials of the sister for whom they apparently had been selected for burial. — - Firemen Save Corpse From Burning House Cincinnati. — When firemen, answering an alarm of fire, arrived at a home on Pendleton street here they found the body of Harry Frank, forty, shoe worker, who died recently, enveloped in had been started when one of the candles ignited draperies at the head of the coffin. The shroud was already partly burned away and the coffin and building were burning. The firemen found the members of the family and friends in great confusion. When the flames had apparently been put out the firemen attempted to lift the body from the coffin, but as they did so the excelsior, with jwhich the coffin was lined, burst into flames again. The men carried the body from the house and then returned and extinguished the fire. Smoking Cigarette in Bed Fatal. Havre de Grace, Md. —As a result of burns received when he went to' bed with a cigarette in his mouth, John Leary, forty years old, is dead. The burning cigarette ignited the bed cloth lug and Leary Aas fatally burned. Give Loot to Victim. Denver, Colo. —When bandits held up B. H. Wilson and found only 30 cents in his pocket, they refused to take the money. Wilson reported the affair to police, but requested that no effort, be made to find the bandits. 4J „ ..... /... ’ ... . ..... .. ’ '

feO? Daddy's Fdiry Tale GRAHAM BONNES. —"" IY VUTfKN UN:GM ■■■ ■ ■ — THE STRAY HEIFER It was early, early in the autumn and the young heifer had wandered off for adventures. The young heifer thought she was quite big enough for that. She was no longer a baby calf. She was almost a full-grown cow. Ah yes, she was big now and she was strong and she was wise and she knew how to take care of herself. And adventures would be such fun! To wander and then to wander some more would be very, very delightful. It was a good old world, so full of interests, so much to see, so much to discover. Now the young heifer belonged to a farmer who owned a good many animals. He was very fond of all of his animals. He had cows and he had sheep and he had pigs and he had hens and roosters. Oh, there were plenty of animals on the farm, and there were horses, too, and dogs and cats. It was, in short, a splendid farm. It was far, far away from where people lived though, and even the farms which were nearest to his farm were not near any large place. No, in this section there were not many towns and those towns which there were had in them but few people. It was very, very far north. Already it was becomlng»chilly. But the heifer wandered and wandered and before long the heifer felt very tired and very lonely. Ah yes, adventures were all very well but when it became chilly and night came along it was nice to have a nice lot of friends and relaI tlves and members of the family about. And the heifer began to feel quite sad. In the distance she heard some sounds —sounds which were familiar to her, talk which she understood. And she thought that she would go In the direction of those sounds and listen to talk she understood. This silence about her was beginning to make her quite nerTous. So she went in the direction of the sounds, even though she was tired, and even though she hated to walk any more. But it would be worth the extra walk and the extra tired feeling If she could be where there would be companions. On and on she trudged, poor weary young heifer that she was. And at last she came to another farm. There . were none of her own family about, but there were animals of her own kind and friends she could feel at home with, and it was happiness to be there. Everyone welcomed her, a little shyly at first, but she was welcomed. It was a joy to the heifer to be welcomed. There was a new farmer here, one she had never seen before, but he, too, was nice to her. He seemed surprised at first to see her, but he treated her as one of the family in no time at all. Day after day she stayed upon this • farm, and the days went Into as days have a habit of doing of which The Heifer Began to Feel Quite Sad. £ they’ve never broken themselves. And the weeks went into months. Yes, two months had gone by since the heifer had gone off for adventures. But she had not forgotten what her own family looked like. Nor had she forgotten what the farmer looked like. Nor had she forgotten what the farmer’s wife and the farmer’s son and the farmer’s daughter looked like. And one day they all appeared upon the new farm. “Yes,” said her new master, “I couldn’t understand it for a long time. And then I knew she must have wandered off from some other farm. , She must have come a roundabout way for there are nearer farms than yours. “I thought at first she had come from one of those nearer farms and went to find out. But she hadn’t and then I couldn’t Imagine where she had strayed from;” “It was good of you to take her In and give her a home and now be willing to give her back to me,” the heifer’s real master said. “Well, sue made herself so at home that we began to feel she belonged to us.” ’■ The heifer went back though to her old home. It was good to be back and yet she had been treated well while •he iffid been away. But oh, it was fun to feel sdch an unusual heifer—to have been away on a two months’ visit. No other heifer could say as much. She didn’t care to go again, but she was glad she had had such an unusual experience! Had Tried ’Em Herself. Willie the Kid—l found this empty ice cream cone. May I eat it? » The Goat —No, indeed, my son. It’s too tough and indigestible. Eat this paper pie plate instead. He Knew That , “Willie," asked the teacher of the new pupil, “do you know your alphabet r . “Yes, jntss," answered Willie. “Well, then,*’ continued the teacher, “what letter comes after AT’ “All the rest of them,” was the triumphant reply. Einstein. “James,” said a school teacher, “why are days so short In winter?” “Because the nights are so long,” James answered.