efficiency, kindness, hopefulness, and high ideals. 

 Recreation in parks tends to prevent wasted Hf e 

 by preventing disease and wrong-doing. The 

 conservation of scenery, the use of scenic places 

 for public recreation parks, is conservation in 

 the highest sense, for parks make the best eco- 

 nomic use of the territory and they also pay 

 large dividends in humanity. 



The travel industry is a large and direct con- 

 tributor to many industries and their laborers. 

 It helps the railroads, automobile-makers, hotels, 

 guides, and the manufacturers of the clothing, 

 books, souvenirs, and other articles purchased 

 by travelers. Perhaps the farmer is the one 

 most benefited ; he furnishes the beef, fruit, but- 

 ter, chickens, and in fact all the food consumed 

 by the traveling multitude. A large travel in- 

 dustry means enlarging the home market to 

 gigantic proportions. 



The courts have recently expressed definite 

 and advanced views concerning scenic beauty. 

 In Colorado, where water has a high economic 

 value, a United States Circuit Court recently 

 decided that the beneficial use of a stream was 



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