Notes 
The fourteenth Annual Dahlia Show of the Short Hills 
Garden Club will be held at Short Hills, New Jersey, on Friday 
and Saturday, September 29th and 30th. All amateurs are 
cordially invited to compete. Schedules may be had by applying 
to: 
"Mrs. Charles H. Stout, Short Hills, New Jersey." 
This club has for many years made a specialty of the Dahlia 
and the finest of the new and rare varieties may always be found 
there. 
The Show, which is unique in this country, has been timed in 
order that visitors to the National Show at the Hotel Pennsyl- 
vania, New York, may make the short trip to Short Hills on the 
D. L. & W. 
The Silver Medals of both the Dahlia Society of California 
and of the American Dahlia Society as well as the Horticultural 
Medal of the Garden Club of America are offered at this show 
for competition. 
Price op The price for the Bronze Medal for Flower Show Awards 
Medals has been raised from $5.50 to $6.00 in order to cover additional 
cost and war tax. The price for the Silver Medal is $7.00. 
The All On July sixth the Senate of the United States voted for a 
Year Bill which would create an All Year National Park. The 
National territory consists of a dozen or more widely separated spots 
Park Bill wholly unconnected. These spots include the Gypsum Hills of 
Otero County, the Elephant Butte Eeservoir, and the Mai Pais 
Lava Beds, all in New Mexico. It was passed at a small session 
of the Senate, and it seems as though few of the Senators realized 
what they were voting for. This was for a National Park which, 
if maintained after the standard of other national parks, would 
require miles of telephone to connect the spots, a very large force 
of rangers and bring the Elephant Butte Reservoir into the 
National Park System, which would mean introducing water 
power and irrigation into it. 
The conservationists of the country and the National Park 
defenders have been fighting for nearly three years to keep power 
and irrigation out of the National Park System. 
If this Bill passes Congress it will negative every feature by 
which law, the practice of half a century, and the sentiment of 
practically every part of the country, distinguish National Parks 
from every other form of Government reservations. 
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