SB- 

 wooded glens and waterways. If a town were to 

 take advantage of these attract ions, or to 

 develop new ones, there might be a decided economic 

 gain in thus providing outing and summer vacation 

 attractions and there would be less of a dispersal 

 of the population to other sections of the country 

 during the holiday season. 



Another point worthy of consideration is 

 the fact that forest and scenic reservations tend 

 to provide an element of permanence in a district 

 and thereby aid in fixing real estate values. 



Moreover, "it is everywhere agreed that 

 it is important to the education, health and happi- 

 ness of crowded populations that they should not 

 be deprived of opportunities of beholding beautiful 



natural scenery. "^' 



13 

 in editorial in the Conservationist (1920) 



suggests that "with power driven machinery, steam and 

 electric railways, telephones, the telegraph, and 

 the wireless, and finally the aeroplane, all common- 

 places of our daily existance , we are prone to forget 

 that our grandparents lived under no such nervous 

 strain as these inventions have brought with them, 

 and that only three or four generations ago the high 



speed of modern life would have been actually incon- 

 ceivable. Relaxation from the physical and mental 



strain of modern industrial life is a vital necessity." 



