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22 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1925 THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS By Will Dilg (President, Isaak Walton League of America) OUTDCOR UNIVERSITIES ' H HE first requisite of successful farm management is knowledge and initiative in devoting each section of the farm to exactly the best crops suited to it. management of the natural advantages of a continent. The same thing applies to the successful If the out- doors of the United States were managed as efficiently as a farm, it would be divided up into various areas, and each area would be devoted to the thing it was best suited for. If you will watch carefully, you will observe that on most successful farms are little patches of trees and brush. Perhaps along a fence, perhaps in the middle of a field, you will see little clumps of trees left standing, like oases in a desert. Why are they there? They could have been cultivated. They were not as good land as the rest, but they would have yielded a certain small amount of grain, anyway. But the farmer is a wise person. - He has weighed the respective values of that little patch--often only a few yards in diameter--as a poor yielder of grain and as a most excellent place for the noon siesta. It is there that he stops for a rest on a hot afternoon, and it is there that the jug of water is left; and there, too, he sits to eat his lunch. The farmer has realized that such places are necessary to comfortable, and therefore to efficient, working condi- tions. What is lost in ground is more than made up in increased energy for the worker. To a certain extent this same plan has been followed in the United States as a whole. Some of the regions that are best suited to serve as recreation areas have been set aside. There are the national parks and monuments, and a large number of state parks. But there are not enough. The man- ner in which the people have flocked to the national forests and to every available outdoor breathing space has proved it. There should be more. Whenever financial advantage is held in one hand and the outdoors in the other, the financial hand wins. There are even now attempts to take away some of the recreation grounds that have been already established. We need these places not only as recreation areas. We need them as educational institutions as well. We ~ SACRED _ tel E discharge with dignity and effi- ciency the sacred responsibilities that entrusted to us. We appreciate the 4 honor of servin E 4 when service is so much needed. We Understand Ward & Buchholz Funeral Directors Lady Assistant 912 Chicago Ave. Phone University 600 } Private Ambulance Open Every Evening MARMON NORTH SHORE SALES and SERVICE 1008 Davis St. EVANSTON Greenleaf 1038 Service Station 1508 ELMWOOD AVENUE Phone University 4535 need universities of the outdoors just as badly as we need universities of the indoors. The basis of American char- acter is built on outdoor sport and recreation. Any observer of contem- porary life knows that we need more of these great outdoor places where people can see nature from the ground up. Before any more of our great nat- ural recreation areas that have been set aside, not by law but by nature, are devoted to a use of much less value to the nation as a whole, let us decide on their best use and devote them to it. We can build universities of book knowledge any time we want to, any place we want to. The great outdoor universities cannot be built later on. They must be preserved as they now stand. (Published in the interest of Win- netka chapter, Isaak Walton League of America.) Disorderly Motorists Get Fines in Wilmette Four men were arrested Sunday eve- ning by Motorcycle Policeman John De Groot on charges of driving a car while intoxicated and disorderly con- duct. The car in which they were riding collided with an automobile driven by Dr. Oscar B. Yeatman, 708 Church street, Evanston, who preferred the charges. The men were Helgo Johnson, 4620 Hazel avenue, Chicago, the driver, who was charged with driv- ing while intoxicated, Loger Johnson, 720 Central avenue, Highland Park, B. Ingstrom, 720 Central avenue, High- land Park, and C. H. Brown, 6143 North Clark street, Chicago, who were charged with disorderly conduct. The accident occurred at Sheridan road and Michigan avenue. The men were taken to the police station by De Groot and later released on bonds of $100 each by Police Magistrate D. M. Mickey. Helgo Johnson was fined $50 and costs Monday when the case came to trial and the others were fined $3 and costs, each. Both machines were seriously damaged. Don't Cross in Front of Trains, New Warning Additional precaution to insure the safety of pedestrians was taken this week by the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee railway in placing con- spicuous signs near the sidewalks at all crossings reading--"Do not Cross tracks in front of trains." The signs were placed for the pur- pose of curbing the general practice of pedestrians of walking around low- ered gates and "beating" approaching trains across the right-of-way. A young woman was killed in Win- netka recently when she was struck by a fast train which it is thought she had mistaken for a local. F. J. WEIDLING CO. High Grade Grand Pianos Buy from Manufacturer at Factory Prices. Substantial Sav- ing and Complete Satisfaction. 3945 N. Western Ave. Chicago, Ill. li \ NOW--A Stairway that Disappearsinthe Ceiling Use your attic. 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