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est manifestations of unique scenery and primitive 

 life, is the supreme teacher." 



Scores of others upholding National Park ideals 

 could be cited ; these present a sufficiently wide range 

 of representative sentiment. 



Meantime, park making in completion of the 

 System was continuing. Rocky Mountain, Hawaii, 

 Mount McKinley, Grand Canyon, Zion and the rest, 

 were created between 1915 and 1919. 



Meantime, the touring automobile arrived un- 

 announced, bringing extraordinary new conditions 

 and perilous problems, changing all things. Mean- 

 time organized industry, alarmed for water sources, 

 fought cunningly and powerfully for privileges in 

 national parks which she conceived her own. And 

 local interest, suddenly aroused to opportunity and 

 blind to all but community profit, eagerly extended 

 grasping hands. It proved a kaleidoscopic decade filled 

 with emergencies which puzzled at first the amateur 

 defenders in Congress of the national ideal. The mo- 

 tives behind cunningly devised bills which skilful 

 companies introduced and skilful politicians handled 

 all became clear in time, however, and all these bills 

 were defeated. 



Of this absorbing story, more later. There re- 

 mains unsettled at this writing the grand campaign 

 to force eastern parks irrespective of standards into 

 the System. Out of it has developed one of mag- 

 nificent scenic quality containing a great area of 

 splendid primitive forest. To purchase the lands for 



