EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON. President 



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OUR NATIONAL PARKS IN GREAT DANGER 



Few people in the United States today 

 realize that commercial interests which for 

 years have sought to gain access to the 

 National Parks have at last broken through 

 the strong cordon of protection hitherto 

 thrown around the parks by Congressional 

 action and public sentiment. These raiders 

 must be repelled and our nineteen great 

 National Parks held intact. 



Listen to this! At the last session of 

 Congress a provision was inserted in the 

 Water Power Bill, which turned over to 

 three members of the President's Cabinet 

 the authority to grant water-power con- 

 cessions in National Parks. This bill is 

 now a law! Only two votes, therefore, are 

 now required to admit the enemies of 

 the wild parks to an orgy of destruction 

 and desolation. 



THE REPEAL BILL OF SENATOR JONES 



Very naturally this Cabinet Committee 

 is being besieged by requests for permis- 

 sion to enter the National Parks for the 

 purpose of building dams, power-houses, 

 and other constructions for the utilization 

 of the water for power development 

 purposes. Two of these requests have come 

 from Los Angeles where commercial inter- 



ests are seeking to gain access into the 

 beautiful Yosemite National Park. This 

 portion of the Water Power Bill must, of 

 course, be repealed and it should be stated 

 here that on December 7, 1920, Senator 

 Jones of the state of Washington intro- 

 duced into the United States Senate a 

 bill for the purpose. At the time of going 

 to press this bill had not been advanced. 

 It goes without saying that it will meet 

 with strong opposition by those moneyed 

 interests who would exploit the parks. 



THE DESTRUCTIVE SMITH BILL 



On February 11, 1920, Mr. Smith, of 

 Idaho, introduced a bill to permit the 

 building of a dam in the Falls River basin 

 in the southwestern part of the Yellow- 

 stone National Park, with a view of mak- 

 ing a reservoir covering 8,000 acres and 

 then use the water for irrigation purposes 

 across the park line in the state of Idaho. 

 This measure was passed by the United 

 Slates Senate, after a Committee hearing 

 at which A. P. Davis, Chief of the Bureau 

 of the United States Reclamation Service, 

 stated that this little-known region was 

 largely swamp land and therefore of little 

 or no interest to tourists. Continuing on 



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