134 ***** "OA, Ranger!" 



In practically all of the parks the main concessions are now in the 

 control of one company, charged with offering the visitor every service 

 he needs whether it is profitable to the concessioner or not; but this 

 company rarely has privileges in more than one park. Large companies 

 can do this, compensating for temporary losses in one branch of the 

 service by profits in other branches. Each year the concessioner must 

 submit a plan for his operations during the ensuing year, together with a 

 schedule of rates, to the superintendent of the park, who in turn submits 

 it to the Secretary of the Interior at Washington. In this way, the 

 public is assured of the services that are needed at fair and reasonable 

 rates, and the citizens who invest their capital in the expensive hotels, 

 lodges, and stage lines, needed to give good service, are assured that they 

 will make a fair return on their investment. It is the aim of the 

 National Park Service to have a type of service in every park to suit 

 every taste, ranging from simple housekeeping camps up to luxurious 

 hotels. 



It is part of the work of the superintendent and his rangers to see 

 that the visitor to the park receives the type of service he wants. Sage- 

 brusher Jones arrives in his Super-Four, loaded with Mrs. Jones, all the 

 little Sagebrusher Joneses, sundry bedding, camp stools, pots and pans, 

 and food. He wants to see the park as inexpensively as possible, and 

 intends to establish his own household with his own equipment, plus 

 whatever the park can supply. 



"All right," says the ranger, "there's a fine camp for you, right over 

 there. It costs you nothing. If you want a tent already put up, you can 

 get it for a dollar a day from the housekeeping camp headquarters. 

 There's a store over here and a cafeteria. Help yourself to wood from 

 this pile. If you don't find everything all right, let us know. Baths? 

 You can get hot or cold showers in that little building for twenty-five 

 cents apiece." 



The Simplex Sixes arrive in the park in their new car. They are 

 Sagebrushing it de luxe, as it were. They want to wear their sweaters, 

 knickers, and rough clothes. 



"Well, you'd better stay away from the hotel, then," says the ranger. 

 "You girls can get into the dining room in any old clothes, but the old 

 gentleman there can't get in without his coat on. I don't care if his 

 chamois jacket did cost a hundred bucks. The dining room isn't open 

 to anyone without his coat. You'd better go to the camps. There's 

 more life there, the cabins are just as comfortable as hotel rooms, and 

 you can wear your jacket if you want to. That's the way I would go, 

 if I were here for fun." 



Along come the S trait- Aights, with their liveried chauffeur. They 

 have the money and the clothes (in the big trunk on the back) and they 



