ittarFrwrrcTZAXgR ^ - ■/- AtKgmmmm ^ — ~ — ~ 1*1* /9l^» IMfl/ « ' Come, let us plan vacation days While yet the season's new! The secret of the trip that pays Is knowing what to do. By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN stuff—that of the poet! The Call of the Wild was In the air be fore the last snowflake out of it. Lots of us had our vacation days all planned before the curtains of the Old Fliv ver came oft to stay. Nay, nay, Pauline! Plan time Is over. This is doing time, along from now on. And yet the poet is flfty-flfty right at that. The secret of a successful vaca tion Is largely in knowing what to do. Those of us to whom the Call carries a clear message are indeed lucky. Nowadays a good many of us, espe cially city folk, haVe got Into the way of playing not wisely but too well. We work like mad things. We play j like mad things. Our avocations are as strenuous as opr vocations. And there are abundant signs that the American people are turning back to Nature to rest up from both their vo cations and their avocations. There seems to be a general feeling that Old Mother Nature offers a panacea for the ills of our complex modern civiliza tion. That’s why our through auto mobile highways this summer will carry processions of the people awheel and headed for the wild places. From one point of view it Is $*Joy to. see the whole country hustling to get ready for the people awheel; from another it’s laughable. Such a patch ing up of roads and a making of auto camps and a mailing of ‘‘literature'’ and a printing of display advertising! The tribe of the automobile gypsy is so Increasing year by year that there is no telling where it will end. In 1915 the various communities of the Scenic West spent about $350,000 to encourage travel in vacation time. This season Los Angeles alone - is spending $800,000; San Francisco, $400,000; San Diego, $150,000; Port land, $150,000; Denver, $100,000, and so on. States like Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota are doing their best In the way of setting forth counter-attractions. A most significant sIgnJoffthe times is the development of the atato camp— either free or with a nominal charge. The auto camp had its origin In the Scenic West. It has spread eastward like an old-fashioned prairie fire as far SS Chicago. There are few in the East, but the East will have to come to It. In the West no self-respecting, wide-awake community on travel lines is without it The American Auto mobile association has published a booklet containing a list of 1,000 of the best of these auto camps. In qther words, the gypsying motor ist has forced the country west of Chi cago to get started well lit the work of caring for him as he gypsies. Here’s ^texMXQAD, yns&tziZ' I what we’U see to a year or two every where: Automobiles to private own ership will have a passenger trans portation possibility of almost half of the population. No community will enjoy the development to which It would naturally be entitled If It does not see to its highway ap proaches and also furnish to the auto mobile traveler an equivalent for the union station, the information service, the dining car and the sleeper of the railroad. The pressure of dollars and cents Is already bringing this about. For the gasoline gypsy on his travels pays, and pays big. Maine, which has an up-to date publicity bureau, estimates 600, 000 tourists to 1922 spent in the state $45,000,000. The Canadian depart ment of customs reports for 1922 that 617,285 people entered from the United States for touring purposes, and that the visitors spent $108,000, 000. Colorado for 1922 reports thus: Visitors in 213 auto camps, 514,412; expended by travelers, $42,000,000. The national parks and monuments had 1,216,878 visitors in 1922, of whom approximately 75 per cent traveled In their own cars. The national parks have free auto camps. Some of the auto gypsies stopped at hotels; some camped out; some did both, as occa sion served. , It is estimated that they spent $200,000,000 in and about the parks—all of which wa%good Ameri can money kept at home aad In cir culation. j It is estimated that somewhere around 10,000,000 Americans are going vacationing in something like 2,500, 000 cars this summer. It is figured that most of them will bead for the cool places where there are shade and living waters—and fish. The people whose business It is to keep track of the vacationing public say that the national parks will set a new record of attendance. Anyway, everything is set for more than a million and a half. The rail excursion rates are low, and no strike threatens, as it did In 1922. Several roads have pat on additional trains. Much “good roads" work has been done. There are Improvements in the way of additional trails and new rest houses and nature museums, new auto camps and new and enlarged hotels and hotel camps. ▲ bulletin by the Interior department, giving the angling situation in detail In each park, predicts “one of the biggest fish ing seasons on record." Incidentally this bulletin states that 11.269,500 trout fingerlings were In 1922 put into the waters of Glacier, Mount Rainier, Rocky Mountain ang Yellowstone. The national park system offers all varieties of lnsplrthg scenery and cli mate from Grand Canyon to Mount McKinley. The season varies a little, according to location. Grand Canyon - Is officially an “all-tbe-year" park. So lb Rocky Mountain, which has as many visitor* as Yellowstone, Yosemlte and Glacier combined. So is Yo semlte, although the spectacular Tioga road, the gflft of Director Mather of the national park service, and Julius Rosenwald, will not be open through the Sierras until early in i July. Mount Rainier, probably the J snowiest of. them all, should be In full 1 blast by July 1. Mount McKinley, In Alaska, is still practically Inaccessible \ to the general public, although the government railroad that passes close to one corner has been completed. There Is only one trouble with our national park system—It offers so many different kinds of attractions that It’s hard to choose among them. Grand Canyon Is one of the wonders of the world. Yosemlte's mountain valley Is one of the loveliest natural beauty spots on earth. Yellowstone has Its geysers and other freak vol. canic exhibits. Rocky Mountain Is a bewildering combination of granite peaks and beautiful valleys, perched on the top of the Continental Divide. Sequoia has Its “Big Tree*,” the largest ’and oldest living things /ot earth. Crater Lake, deep and darkly ! blue, In the great crater of an extinct volcano, Is unique. v Mesa Verde Is the ancient home of a prehistoric race i of Americans. Glacier has' glaciers, ' marvelous rock formations and. vivid ' colorings. Zion’s deep gorge ^uncovers colored strata which make It a blase of color. Mount Rainier, the “Moun- j tain that was God," Is one of the most majestic peaks of earth* snow-clad on , top; flower-clad nex and forest-clad on jts lowest slopes. And so goes the list, each with Its own attractions. J The best thing Rbont our national parks, which have Increased In num- j her to nineteen since the Yellowstone— , the first national park Jn the world— was established In 1872, is that the American people have now- seised upon them as a part of their conception of the greatness of‘America. Thgy'arev passionately resolved to deferid" them from commercial invasion either enter pgbllc or private control. 4* write. >e Worlff. v«M a* on othcr Hay of thrift etnbi RADIO IS USED BY LEGION Widespread Membership of Veterans' Organization Reached by Na tional and State Officials. The voice of the American Legion is being heard over the radio by mem bers of the organization throughout the country. Aldost dally some offi cer or Legion leader talks to the' wide spread membership of the veterans’ association using the wireless tele phone as the means of dissemination. This is made possible by the installa tion of hundreds of receiving sets In the homes of local Legion posts throughout the country. In practically every post may be found some ex-service man whs worked with the wireless telephone through the days of the war, or who has become an ardent fan since the broadcasting • of regular programs came Into vogue. Officers of the Le gion recognize this fact and are tak ing advantage of the closer touch af forded them by means of the later* “miracle.” One of the first Instances of this use by officers was the broadcasting of National Commander Alvin Owsley’s “keynote speech" from Lincoln, Neb. This was heard by Legionnaires- all over the country, some as far away as the Atlantic coast. State department commanders In 'many Instances are beginning ti> make use of this method to reach their mem bers, many urging the installation, of receiving sets for this purpose. In the future further use of the radio Is planned. The Decoration day address of Commander Owsley in San Francisco is to be sent out' by a powerful statloe so that Legiopnalres In the West may hear the commander at this time. At Kansas City, Mo., when a new Legion home was dedi cated, Commander Owsley’s talk was heard by Legionnaires of flvq states, who were asked to “stand by”,, at ape clal meetings to begr the Legiod leader. Followers of radio, who are active In the Legion, predict that within a short time all official utterances of national officers of the eg-servlce men’s organization will relayed by gadlo to the more than three-quarter of a million members throughout the United States. And because: of the power of many of the broadcasting, stations, Legionnaires in other climes may soon be “listening In" on what their comrades at home In the states are doing. HASTEN HANDLING OF CLAIMS -- j Decentralization ef Legion 8ervlce Work Will Be Carried Out on Joe Sparks’ Plan. Decentralization of service work undertaken by the American Legion win be carried out by the use of a plan pat into effect by Joe Sparks, na tional chairman of the committee of the Legion. Hits plan, Mr. Sparks be lieves, will expedite the handling of claims referred to the Legion,, and will draw quick action on the pprt of the veterans’ bureau. ■ > Under the new system, all claims coming to the attention of the nation al service division will be forwarded direct to the Legion department serv ice office In the state In which the' claim originates. ■/ t Contact with the subdistrict offices of the United States veterans’ bureau will be maintained by these officers and the offices which have jurisdic tion over the claims presented will be regularly vial ted. Any Inattention or lack of co-operation by veterans’ bu reau heads will be reported to the national Service division. If for any reason a claim |a not Set tled satisfactorily by the subdistrict office, the department head ,wlll refer to the liaison representative 0f the American Legion et the 'district office of the veterans’ bureau. Files la the majority Of the cased art> In. the office of the district in which the veteraq lives. COOKIES FOR* DISABLED MEN One Hundred and Thirty Auxiliary Unit* of Kansas Make Regular Donations to Hospitals. -— I A coo id e-jar containing 11,720 cook ie* should satisfy the most ravenous appetite. That's the number of cookies pre pared by members of the! American Legion Auxiliary of Kansas for dis abled veterans In •hospitals'at Kansas City and Leavenworth. There are 130 units of the Auxiliary in Kansas. Each unit prepares and mails 12 dosen cook ies to the hospitals every month. > The cookies are sent td the chief H£t2T, W;wnw g Coder of tVqflret American Legion Kt to be organised In the United tee, 1117a claim that the Legion Is an organization tor service. From his activities In the Veterans' association, he has obtained many benefits, bnt he believes the utmost In service was ren dered when association with Legion affairs provided him with a wife! McRae, who was active tn the do ings of George Washington post In Washington, D. (X, was thrown Into frequent association with the com manders of the other posts in the city. He met Miss Lois May Beach, a past, commander of the Q. S. 8. Jacob Jones post, composed entirely of “yeoman ettes,” or, as they were known dur ing the war, Yeomen (F). Miss Beach had successfully guided the affairs of her post for a year and had left an active ffufy station in the naval re serve force at the close of her terns «f Legion leadership. Boon romance between the two Kenneth ' > It may take nine tailors to make i man, but It dpesn't take nine retailer USbreak him. It Is hoped that Einstein’s new theor will contribute something to the clarlt of human thought, Going up in a balloon may be som people’s Idea of a safe ^nd sane Fourt of July observance. •' - ' • One way to foil the sugar profiteer ! to fall back on that war-time patriot! method of using less. Use for Coal Screenings. Patents have been granted for process for utilizing anthracite eo screenings for fuel by mixing the with water gas- tar without compre sion Into briquettes. Thousands Have Kidne Trouble and Never Suspect It Applicants for Insurance Often Rejected. Judging, from reports from druggi who are constantly in direct touch w the public, there is one preparation tl has been very successful in ovsfcoomi these conditions. The mild and heal influence of Dr.. Kilmer’s Swamp-Boot soon realised. It stands the highest its remarkable record of success. An examining physician for one o< 1 prominent Life Insurance Companies, an interview on the subject, made the tonishing statement that one reason n so many' applicants for insurance are jected is because kidney trouble is common to the American people, and large majority of those whose appliesti are declined do not even suspect that t! . have the disease. Dr. Kilmeris Swat ' Root is on sale at all drug stores in hot* of two sixes, medium and large. However, if yon wish first to test 1 great preparation send ten cents to Kilmer A Go., Binghamton, W. Y., fo sample bottle. When writing be sure i mention this paper.—Advertisement. Ke Had Held His Own. Two middle-aged gentlemen pan on the bank of the pond tq. watch crowd of merry skaters circle rou ‘Td like to Join them flighty we said Mr. Rich to his companion, haven’t had a skate on my foot more than 20 years though, and I pect I’d look pretty silly." “Well, I don’t know," replied Little. “I haven’t worn skates i longer than that, but I believe I co skate today just as Well as I co when I was twenty years old." “Oh, come'now," repiled his frit “you’re an active enough man, bjit absurd to say that yoa could go there and skate as well as you co when you were a boy!" ‘1 think I could," persisted Mr. ! tie mildly. “I couldn’t skate at then, and I guess I could do quite well now."—Youth’s Companion. Trying to Understand Gender. Teacher had. been explaining meaning of gender to a dam of pupils. William had gone home a puzzled and that evening took troubles to hi* mother. ‘&|S§j L Gender was explained again. WHHam’sSnotW was Illustrating e genders—masculine, femii r. This time William th« [eratood the difference. To »ls mother had aaked hin lascullne and feminine gei nee. William, stilt perple t for a long, time, her” he said at last, "won! the masculine of cat be tomboyt" t ' mme