Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1916 — STATE PARKS WILL MEAN BETTER ROADS [ARTICLE]

STATE PARKS WILL MEAN BETTER ROADS

Park Moveaiant Wil Give Great Litt Toward Improvad Highways. It Is the general opinion over Indiana that the state park movement is going to give good roads the greatest push forward that the subject ol Improved highways has had. Report! to the Indiana State Park Committee, appointed by the Centennial Commission. are that throughout the state people are anxious to have one oi more parks in their own locality, and this means that as the parks are acquired the natural result will be tc immediately connect the whole park system with good roads. Along the Dixie highway, the Ocean-to-. Ocean route, and other national highways traversing Indiana there are widely scattered beauty spots that are at once available for state parks. Out of every city and town within easy motoring distance there may be found some wild scenic spot that the people of those communities are already familiar with, and to bring them into a chain of state parks would immediately spread their fame over all Indiana. Good roads now lead to these places, and all that is necessary is to acquire the beauty spots that they may be perpetually preserved for the use of the public. It is the mission of the State Park Committee to gather by public subscriptions as great a fund as possible and to buy as . many scenic ajid historic spots as it can. It is “up to” the public to say through their subscriptions how ,great the fund is to be and how many beauty spots are to be purchased. The state committee thinks that it will be time enough to select the spots that are to be purchased after it knows how much money it will have for the purpose. The time, therefore, for making subscriptions is at hand and they can be given to practically every newspaper office in Indiana, or they can be sent to the State Park Committee, room 80, State House, Indianapolis.