heart of a child, ready to count the day won for the shadow of a cloud, 
or a clump of long forgotten wild-flowers. All that has ever been seen 
at the Dunes is still there, but it is the woods and the wild, and though: 
"Every bush is afire with God, 
Only he who sees takes off his shoes." 
Louise S. Hubbard, 
Garden Club of Illinois. 
All this beauty is doomed unless something can be done at once. 
Manufacturers have bought cheaply what was little appreciated, and 
already hundreds of acres are covered with manufacturing plants and 
workmen's barracks. Gary, the United States Steel Corporation's 
new town, covers a large tract, and options are held by other com- 
panies on almost the entire Dune country. 
Many organizations are now joining in an effort to save at least a 
part of this beautiful and interesting region as a National Park. 
The Garden Club oe America asks you to write to the address 
given below offering your services to the Committee now being formed. 
Mr. Knotts will tell you in what way you may help and to whom pro- 
test may most effectually be addressed. 
Mr. A. F. Knotts, Chairman, 
c/o Mr. Everett Millard, 
69 W. Washington Street, Chicago. 
Seek to Save Dunes 
Another step toward securing the picturesque sand dunes in 
Indiana for a national park was taken yesterday when representatives 
from Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana met in conference at Tremont, 
a town some fifty miles from Chicago and in the heart of the dunes. 
An organization was formed called the National Sand Dunes Park 
Association, the object of which shall be to raise $300,000 through 
subscriptions amounting to no more than Si a person, and with this 
money to purchase 1,000 acres in the dunes. An attempt will be made 
to secure congressional aid. 
The Nation Gets More Land 
Your Uncle Sam has lately been made the recipient of two gifts 
of land, he who is so rich in that commodity, which are most acceptable. 
Mrs. Vanderbilt has donated generously of her beautiful North 
