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By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
UK recurrent miracle
c ■ of tlio spring stirs us
' all, for It is then that
/■ —8| the "Red Gods” call
/( IgLur * ou<,t>st i' n| l with most
V_L “SfiySp 4 Insistence. Their call
W&t' H 0t ‘ s t,u t from their
r ' abiding places the
/J unspoiled places of
•' earth, tlie silent
places, the places
where Nature is at her wildest and
best. And everywhere '’nil by every
one the call is heard. This imperative
call of the lied Gods is always the
same. And the message we get is
tills.
Come and play, all ye that work and
mo heavy laden. Drop the strenuous
life. Take up the simple life. You
well know the penalty for all work
and no play. Pause, take breath, re
lax. rest!
That's the message, simple and ■
clear. But' of course this message
means dlfTerent things to different
people, since we can Interpret only ac
cording to our Individual understand
ing and experience. Those of us are
indeed fortunate to whom the call
means but one thing—whether It’s for
eign travel or the fashionable summer
resort or the leaping stream where j
hide the trout or the camp beside the
placid lake or the broad highway that
lures the uu.emoldle across the conti
nent or the mountain trail to peaks of
everlasting snow. Or It may be that
some of us are so tired Mia' we would
say with the anonymous rhymstor:
I wish t was a littto rock
A-sittin' on a hill.
A-dotr' nothin' nil day long
Kxcopt a-sittin' still
I wouldn't eat, I wouldn't drink.
1 wouldn't even wash;
I'd Just sit still n thousand years
Just restin' up, b' gosh!
But many of us are not so fortunate
—and are more ambitious. To the un
fortunate the lied Gods' call bears no
clear message. They know not where
or at what to play. So the annual
spectacle of the American people at
play includes the saddening spectacle
of thousands getting no real enjoy
ment ami less rest —wasting their pre
cious vacation days.
Let us not bo or ttiese unfortunates.
Let us mix brains with >u' play. Let
us put a fair amount of -omnion sense
—md enough to spoil adventure —into
our vacation plans. Let us protit by
t; e successes ami failures of past va
cations. Let us play temperately; it
Is easy to make the play too strenu
ous. On the other band. ‘‘A-sittin’
still" does not bring rest as compared
with a change of occupation In a dif
ferent environment.
Getting right down to rock-hottoia
\ (lie rigid sort of vacation is a god
send, while the wrong kind may lie
worse than none. To come back from
playtime to rest up from the play—
that's one tiling. To return with re
newed strength and courage—that’s
another and very different story. Let
us therefore play wisely. So shall we
return to the duties of everyday life
refreshed and restored and with deter
mination to face anew its responsi
bilities.
Yes; we Americans are loyal and
devoted subjects of the lied Gods.
The United States Department of
Commerce reports that in 11)23 Ameri
can tourists spent $300,000,000 in
pleasuring abroad. The Tourist Bu
reau of Montreal reports that 132,905
automobiles from the United States
entered the Province of Quebec last,
year. It estimates that the 132,005
automobiles brought 300,000 visitors
nrnl adds that "a conservative esti
mate in regard to the amount ofi
money brought into the province by
automobile tourists alone amounts to
close to $17,000,1KK)." Every state in
the Union except Utah and Nevada
was represented.
However, the slogan, “See America
First!" has not fallen upon deaf ears.
Approximately 10,000,000 auto camp
ers hit tlie trails of the country dur
ing 1923, according to the touring bu
reau of tlie Chicago Motor club. Tlie
Scenic West —national parks and na
tional forests —attracted their share
of this tourist travel. Figures fur
nished by the national park service of
the Interior department show that tlie
national parks —tlie public play
grounds of tlie American people—are
a large economic asset of tlie nation.
Here are some of tlie figures:
Rocky Mountain National park in
' Colorado —the most easily accessible
and most popular of all the parks—
had an attendance of 218.000, The
official estimate is that ’liese visitors
spent $7,700,000 in and about the
park. About $2,000,000 was expended
in Yellowstone by visitors and $4,000,-
000 Was expended by these tourists in
the immediate adjacent states.
A large proportion of these motor
-Ists carried camping outfits. Some
always camped out; some used hotels
at their convenience. Every self-re
specting community in tlie Scenic
West lms an up-to-date auto camp
Tourists usually pass by all towns
that have no camp. The point is; The
American people are rapidly becoming
efficient campers who can lie comfort
able out-of-doors and are Independent
of hotels.
Two of the pictures herewith sug-
I gest the xx>ssibilities of such a pro-
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DAN I ELS VILLE, GEORGIA.
which is more or less unfortunate.
But tlie average is high. lake a
well-shaped American girl and put
her In a modern sport “get-up am,
she's just about tlie most fetching
woman in tlie world. So tlie genera
effect is pleasing. Moreover, trouser;
are necessary for many recreations
Tlie woman who rides side-saddle ir
tlie West is a genuine curiosity. And
mountain-climbing, if it’s the real
thing, cannot be done safely in skirts
The girls in tlie picture are Mount
Rainier visitors.
Mount Rainier, by the way, has it
on all tlie other parks. Tlie top oi
tlie mountain is always snow-covered
and winter sports in July are tlie
regular thing every year. And here’s
something interesting. Young Ameri
ca is apparently taking up wintex
sports —from coast to ccast. New
England was full of people playing in
the snow last winter. Koekv Mountain
had two months of It—February and
March —with many visitors. It's a
good thing, too. Chasing the sum met
tlie year 'round is not good for people.
A touch of frost is needed to harden
up the filler of a man and bring him to
full mental, moral and physical
stature.
Of course rhe real value to the
American people of the national parks
is their spiritual, educational and
physical possibilities. Tlie physical is
self-evident. The educational is as
evident, with reflection. These na
tional parks are vast natural museums
of exhibits of our earth in the making.
The people, up to tlie present, have
enjoyed them emotionaiiy. The Na
tional* Parks association, a nation
wide organization of nature-lovers, i
pushing a campaign of education. It
believes that with understanding of
these exhibits the visitor’s enjoyment
will he doubled, to say nothing of in
creased mentality. Most of tlie prin
cipal parks have nature guides and
lectures and museums in aid of this
laudable campaign of education.
As lo tlie spiritual: Tlie mountains
—Longs Peak, “King of the Rockies’;
Mount Rainier, the “Mountain That
Was God”; Mount McKinley, most
majestic of all North American peaks
—are majestic indeed, lint even more
i majestic is the response tc them that
I is awakened in the human mind and
soul. The man is a poor specimen of
the human race who is not bettered by
: association with the beautiful and
mejestic in nature.
OJi it ts there. I think, that all
Th > roaUs of learning end!
•\n.l it Is there Cue wisdom ts.
Our wisdom to transcend.
gram. The lowei
one is a scene ir.
tiic iion'h St. Vrair
Canyon, neat
Rocky Mount:! ir
National park. Tht
,nen—ami some ol
the women —have
been whipping tlie
stream for trout,
and now all hands
are busy getting
lunch. Thousands
of such scenes are
staged every day
all through the
West. The group
of cars contains all
kinds. The group
of humans contains
al! kinds. And may
be it doesn’t do the
humans good. Ang
ling, you know,
makes all men
brothers —at least
for the time being.
And eating together
warms the cockles
of the human heart.
The farmer from
Kansas and the
banker from Maine
and the merchant
from Louisiana,
after such an ex
perience, have a
better understand
ing of their febod
citizens and a kind
lier feeling. Greal
is the democracy
of the out-of-doors
The top picturl
shows a permaneni
camp in a national
forest. Camping,
by the way, is lh<
severest test of the
real worth of peo
pie. After a month
in camp, every one
knows every one
else for keeps. II
a person has a
lazy streak or and
mean streak or a
yellow streak it
will show as “sure
as God made little
fishes.” So a valu*
able hint for vaca
tion campers is
this: Choose your
company carefully.
The Scenic West
is the “Land ot
Knickers” in sum
mer time. Every
one wears trousers
Simple and Efficient Type of
Hog House and Farrowing Pen
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By WILLIAM A. RADFORD
Mr.. William A. Radford will answer
Questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
eubj : of building work on the farm,
for the readers of this paper. On ac
count of his wide experience as Editor,
Author and Manufacturer, he is, with
out doubt, the highest authority on all
these subjects. Address all inquiries
to William A. Radford, No. 1527
Prairie avenue, Chicago, 111., and only
inclose two-cent stamp for reply.
Profit in raising hogs, it is well
known, is in no small degree depen
dent upon housing the animals prop
erly. Yet this often is one of the
most neglected units of the buildings
which form the improvements on a
farm.
There is illustrated here a simple
type of hog house and farrowing pen.
It is a plain, shed-roof building, 14
feet wide and 50 feet long. It contains
four large farrowing pens and a feed
room in tiie center. As will be seen
in tiie floor plan, the feeding-gilley ex
tends along the back walls with the
pen to tlie front.
Each pen lias an opening to the
feeding floor and to tiie fenced-in hog
lots. 1 lie building is on a concrete
foundation and has a concrete floor
which extends outside as a feeding
floor. The building extends east and
west and faces north and south. The
many windows provide the pens with
sunshine and ventilation.
:\ll Houses Not Homes,
This Writer Declares
Do you live in a house, or do you
live in a home?
Tills is the pertinent question asked
by Better Homes in America, the re
cently incorporated national educa
tional institution which has President
Coolidge for chairman of its advisory
council; Herbert Hoover, secretary of
tlie Department of Commerce, for its
president, and Dr. James Ford for its
executive director.
One great trouble with the United
States today, it points cut, is that too
many people live in houses, rather
Ilian in homes. Take a straight and
honest look at your abode right now,
and make up your mind whether it is
a home, or merely a house. If it is
inly tlie latter, you are being cheated
out of the best tiling ltt'e lias to offer,
and tlie best advice that can be given
you is to exchange all tliat you have
for a home.
A house is permanent enough to
qualify as a home when it belongs to
the family whose members live in it.
But when is it sufficiently worthy to
be considered a home? Better Homes
in America answers, in effect, at least,
that a- home is worthy when it is of
such a type that its possession gives
satisfaction and'content to every mem
ber of tlie family circle. It must be a
conveniently arranged house, in which
there are contrivances for reducing
household drudgery to its minimum, so
that time is left over from the work of
housekeeping for the more important
work of homemaking.
A well arranged kitchen leaves a
mother leisure to cultivate companion
ship with her children. A comfortably
and harmoniously furnished living
room is a place in which spirits as well
as bodies ir.ay be at peace. A home
pervaded by dignity and simplicity
goes a long way toward producing lives
permeated by the same qualities.
The worthy home need not have over
stuffed chairs and imported rugs, but it
Proper Fire Insurance
for the American Home
The rate of tire insurance placed
upon a house may depend upon the
materials used in building, the tire
protection afforded in construction and
the location of the house, but it is
rarely as much as half of 1 per cent
of tlie value of the house, according to
tlie United States Department of Com
merce. bureau of building and housing.
Insurance is necessary not only to
I rn.- ot tlie mortgage holder, but also
the equity of the owner. It is always
required by tlie bank, trust company
f- building association making the
x -.gage loan.
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will have good books and music, amt
tiie parents will devote time to play
with their children, since these things
are of tlie spirit, and a worthy home
ministers first of all to the spirit. High
ideals are us essential as comfort or
efficiency in a home.
When is a house attractive enough
to be a home? Better Homes in Ameri
ca says that it is when it possesses the
priceless attributes of appropriateness
and harmony and beauty, no mattei
how modest its furnishings and deco
rations may he. —Blanche Brace in the
Chicago American.
Dreary Days Best
for House Hunting
“If I were going to look at a house
with a view to buying, I would make
it a point to select a stormy day. H
the rain came down in sheets—so
much the better,” said a Milwaukee
real estate man.
“How come?” asked a layman.
“Well, there are at least two big
reasons,” was the reply. “In the *' irst
place it’s a case of psychology. Al '
most every one waits for a pleasant
day to look at a house. Hence tlie rea
estate business is likely to be slow 1
tlie sun goes under a cloud and the
dealer will have ample time to show
you. He can answer all your ques
tions, go Into explanations careful y,
and in short give you extra service,
simply because the average customer
lias canceled his appointment.
“In the second place I would like i°
see how my prospective home is
to look on a disagreeable day. - ‘'
any place will look cheerful when tne
sun is shining outside. But a re
home has to be lived in when it ram*
as well as when it shines. In fnG t-a
is when you are cooped up most.
Hoover Says “Building
Loan Plan Effective
According to Herbert Hoover, “our
savings and loan associations
most effective stimulus to home o ''
ership and home building T k
have.” That the prospective Amen •
home owner must be cognizant "
fact is evidenced in the 19—- - 1 ,
of the United States League of L"; ■;
Building and Loan Associations
shows an increase In one year
256 individual members, either > -
toward ultimate home owners. up _
vesting to the end that others
cure mortgage money.
The report lists 1.009 bui’ a
loan associations with a total im
ship of 6.5C4.144. Assets of o*e.
000,000.000 more than the c ( - g
assets of our national banks ‘
been reached this year by Anie --
building and loan associations-