OWNERSHIP OF SCENERY 



the shore open to the public. A boy who 

 would go swimming or fishing simply has 

 to trespass upon some leading citizen's 

 property, — for, of course, the leading 

 citizens have helped themselves to all the 

 beautiful shores of the placid little river. 

 It happened that just a few weeks before 

 this untoward incident I had been employed 

 to make a landscape architect's report for 

 the improvement of this particular village, 

 and in my recommendations I had vehe- 

 mently urged the injustice of these private 

 holdings. So I sympathized with the boy, 

 and felt that the episode justified my plea 

 for a public river-front park. 



In a proper public economy we need 

 national reservations of scenery, state 

 parks, county parks, and, in localities where 

 the town is an important administrative 

 unit, town parks or public playgrounds. 

 The movement for national parks is well 

 under way, as is also the acquisition and 

 development of city parks. The two rela- 

 tively neglected fields are those of the state 

 parks and the town or country neighbor- 

 hood centers. 



State parks ought to be urged in every 

 American state and every Canadian 



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