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THB MeHENBY PL AINDEALER, McHENRY, IIAj feifC **• $«• '* „% *..• J+*j4£? i*>I c - '? • V,..w^ cw *«- -> .f r f1tf"' % •" "••• ' *?- mw I iwiyhl n Oy John Dickinson Shermais. si- -is&itei V - •?<$ «• ;'«,!? ^ **-• ,_ • ,C* Endorsed bn the Mississippi Valleu Association as a Part of One of the Biggest Economic Moves Ever Launched on the American Continent Z.OOKZM? JOUt&DOm X/fKX&SO* • /rwaetTwl 5SSB * , » s • < ! ? * * > > - ' y v , \ - r ^ f \ V 4 ^ - ^ ^ v-v<> ,^/5:v &, /* v>i£- -'; V HE Mississippi Valley association Indorses the plan to establish the Mississippi Valley National park along the Mlssfssljh pi river near McGregor, la., a ad and Prairie du Chlen, Wis." This action was taken at tb* first annual meeting of the Mle»" slssippl Valley association In Chicago. Five hundred delegates wer< jwsent from 22 states In the vast basin between the Alleghenies and the Rockies-- 1,725 square miles, an area about eight times the size of either France or Germany. It is one of the garden spots of the world. A century ago all 6t It to the west of the Mississippi was an unexplored wilderness. We bought that wilderness from the French in 1803 for $15,000,000. Half i ©core of states have been carved from that "Iyoul^ fan a Purchase." V* * The whole Mississippi valley contains more'thai half of our 110,000,000 people. 6 .,vf4<" "We have banded to promote the Interests of this big region'" said President Harry H. Merriek In bis keynote address, "and we are determined nothing shall prevent the accomplishment of our purpose. The Mississippi valley wants certain things. Some of them we shall have to get at "Washington. Our 22 states control 52 per cent . <of the men in congress, and if they don't do what •we want there'll be hell to pay and no pitch hot." The association would teach the valley interests from Chicago and Minneapolis to New Orleans and Galveston; from St. Louis to Kansas City, from Detroit to Denver, and so in and out and all along the line, that Mississippi valley means from the Dominion border to the gulf and from the Alleghenies to the Rockies, and that the easiest way out is not over the Rockies to the Pacific nor via the narrow bottle neck of New York to the Atlantic, bat bf "waterways nature intended for man's use. Value of National Parks. "We are putting American citizenship above the 'dollar," said Honorary President John M. Parker of New Orleans In the opening address. "We are considering conditions brought about by the war. These changed conditions open a new chapter In the history of our valley empire." The "changed conditions" of which Mr. Parker spoke include the recognition of the national parkf of the United States not only as one of the great oconomlc assets of the nation, but also as public playgrounds necessary to the mental, moral and physical welfare of the people. The United States now has 18 national parks. Their standard Is high. They contain some of the most magnificent scenery In the world. The system is to be still farther enlarged by creating several new parks. -- The army of national park enthusiasts will cry with one accord: "Would that the Mississippi Valley association coul^ establish the Mississippi National park as easily as it can its $25,000,000 bank!" But this Is one of the.things the association will "have to get at Washington," since it can be established only by an act of congress. And congress has no fixed policy regarding the establishment of national parks. It is a platitude to say that politics should be eliminated from the establishment of these public playgrounds. Nevertheless some of the fiercest political contests in con* Cress are fought over their creation. By way of example It may be stated that It took six years of persistent effort to pass in 1915 the act creating •Rocky Mountain national park, the most popular of all the scenic national parks, and ten years to pass in 1910 the Grand Canyon National park act. In each case, unofficial leaders of the national park movement say, the Influential opposition was the active hostility of the forest service, the bureau of the department of agriculture which haul charge of the national forests. The reason for this active hostility is plain. 6oth these national parks ' were taken from national forests and automatically came under control of the national park service, a bureau of the department of the interior. The creation of these two national parks thus took away a large area from the control of the forest , jservlce and correspondingly weakened Its political ' Influence. ' The forest service defeated the Greater YelloW- «tone National park bill In the last congress after (it had been passed by the house; brought to naught 'the Roosevelt National park bill in the house public lands committee after It had been passed by the isenate, and Is opposing the Greater Rocky Mountain National pa/k bill for the addition of Mount Evans. Students of political, conditions predict a she#-" down between the department of the interior and the department of agriculture in the Immediate tvtore. In the case of Mississippi Valley National park there will be no forest service opposition because the proposed park area Is In a national forest! Who lands are privately owned and must be a* qz& 77&11& quired by the federal government. If the forest service does oppose Its establishment, national park leaders say, it will be because it opposes all national park legislation. Again the reason for this general opposition Is plain. The agricultural department Is waging a public campaign to get the control of the national parks away from the in- : terlor department and hence is endeavoring to discredit the rival department In every way. The forest service was created In 1905 to take charge of the national forests, which were then . set aside for strictly industrial and commercial purposes--scientific forestry, lumbering and grazing-- and transferred from the Interior department to the agricultural department. Now the forest service Is developing the recreational possibilities t>f the national forests and wants to get back na- . tlonal park areas which have been taken from national forests by act of congress. In view of President Merrick's declaration that the Mississippi valley controls 52 per cent of the men In congress, the progress of the park bill In congress will be well worth watching,.... Middle West Has No Park. The progress of the bill will be well worth watching for another reason: The establishment of this park involves a question of congressional policy for which there is no precedent. This is undoubtedly the reason why no action whatever was taken by the last congress on a bill for its establishment. The question is this: Hitherto congress has established national parks out of the public domain; it has never voted an appropriation for -the purchase of privately-owned property for national park purposes. Will it make a new departure in the case of this national park? About 20,000,000 people are within a night's ride by rail of the park site. Thus the location of the park Is a feature of decided Interest. There Is no scenic national park worthy of the name between Rocky Mountain In Colorado and Lafayette In Blaine. Yet this proposed park lies in the center of a circle rimmed by Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Omaha and St. Louis. Several railroads touch it. River transportation is available. The bulft of the tourist travel to the national parks is now by private automobile. The park site Is convenient to the transcontinental motorist. The selected area lies along the Mississippi in northeastern Iowa and southwestern Wisconsin. It totals about 15,000 acres, land and water. The river area is about 4,000 acres; the two states own the land under the river; the federal government controls its navigation. One tract of land in Iowa of 1,071 acres has been appraised at $82,755. Another tract on the Wisconsin side contains 7,458 acres and has been appraised at $141,042. A third tract Is a Wisconsin state park of 1,651 acres; there is a reasonable prospect that the legislature would turn this over. Mrs. Martha B Munn of New York, who owns the 125 Iowa acres which form the scenic keystone of the park, offers to donate this land, appraised at J12.500. Thus the federal government is asked to appropriate $223,797.53 for the purchase of about 9,000 acres out of 15,000 acres. This area may be truthfully said to have scenic, historic and educational features of national Importance. Careful private ownership has protected the heavy forests, which are still practically primeval. The hills rise abruptly from the river to about 500 feet. The view from Pike's Peak, and the nearby Pictured Rocks, have more than a local "reputation. The broad sweep of the river Is magnificent and there are attractive Islands. There are deep ravines and valleys containing springs, lakes and streams. Many bayous, home of the water lilies, meander from the river. Indian mounds are many in the park site. There is, for example, a system of them half a mile long on the east hank. Their unique character makes them exceedingly Interesting from the scientific viewpoint. The park area is botanlcally and geologically interesting. Great Historical Interest. ^Historically the region is genuinely interesting. ' '^be first white man known to have journeyed by way of Green bay. Fox river and Wisconsin river was Jean Nlcollett; he may or may not have kept on to the Mississippi. Pierre Itadisson's suppressed "Journal," brought to light in Paris In 1885, shows that he and Jean Groseiller in 1859 went down the Wisconsin and the Mississippi and up the Missouri to the Mandan villages (Bismarck, N. D.). In 1673 Joliet and Pere Marquette, usually credited with the discovery of the Upper Mississippi, went down the Wisconsin and the Mississippi to the Arkansas, returning to Quebec by way of the Illinois and Lake Michigan. La Salle explored the region before going down the Mississippi to the Gulf in 1682 and taking possession of "Louisiana" in the name of Louis XIV. Local history begins before 1800. In 1737 Sleur Ifarln, a French commander, built a fort near Pike's Peak. In jl794 Basil Girard, a Frenchman, held a conference in midstream with the Spanish governor of Louisiana and secured a grant of 7,000 acres on the present site of McGregor. The United States confirmed the grant after the Louisiana Purchase. Prairie du Chlen Is very old. In 1778 It was a Sac and Fox village at which an annual mart er fair was attended by fur traders from the St. .Lawrence and the Lower Mississippi. In 1805 It was a trading post of the Northwest company, the rival of the Hudson's Bay company. Lieut. Zebu- Ion M. Pike, U. S. A., was there In that year, exploring the headwaters of the Mississippi. He crossed over to Pike's Peak and raised the flag for the first time in what is now Iowa. Though the United States secured the territory to the Mississippi by the Treaty of Paris (1783) the British hung on to the Northwest and we did not get full possession until a generation later. When John Jacob Astor established the American Fur company as a competitor of the Missouri Fur company and the Northwest company in 1808 he set up a trading post at Prairie du Chlen that played an Important part in the American fur trade. In 1814, during the War of 1812, the United States built Fort Shelby at Prairie du Chlen. It was captured the same year by the British and Indians and was called Fort McKaye until Its evacuation in 1815. It was burned and the Americans built Fort Crawford on its site. This was aban doned in 1826 and a larger Fort Crawford was built farther down the river; the ruins of this still stand. The arsenal of Fort Shelby Is still In existence. In 1831 the Black Hawk war broke out. Abraham Lincoln was a captain of Illinois volunteers. Col. Zachary Taylor and Lieut. Jefferson Davis also fought. When Black Hawk was overpowered he was taken to Fort Crawford. Colonel Taylor commanded Fort Crawford for a time and Lieutenant Davis was under him. Local tradition tells of the elopement of Davis and Taylor's daughter, Natives will show you the very window through which the young woman climbed. The last garri son marched out under Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson, bound for the Mormon campaign In Utah. When Zachary Taylor, "Old Rough and Ready," hero of the Mexican war, became twelfth president of the United States in 1849, Jefferson Davis was the pro-slavery leader in the United States senate. When Abraham Lincoln was president of the United States during the Civil war and commander in chief of the Federal army, Jefferson Davis was president ot»the Confederacy and coipmander In chief of Its armies. CAUSES OF FOREST FIRES | Instead of adopting the usual assumption that all forest fires not set Iby lightning are due to human carelessness, G. Raymond, in La Nature, (finds several other possible--and very probable--causes. Such fires always [occur when the weather Is not only jdry and hot, but when a wind Is added to those conditions. It is quite con- Iceivable that in a dry hot wind the branches may develop heat enough to Ignite such inflammable material. Another possibility is that minute drops of exuded resin may act as burning glasses and focus the sun's heat rays upon spots where fire is easily set. The high temperature noted In the thick mass of decomposing matter under a pine forest suggests that resulting chemical effects may fire resinous frictional electricity in pine needles, bits of bark and other material driven about by the wind, and it Is reasonable to suppose that this nray sometimes start fires. In the Sahara showers of sparks may attend the shaking of a blanket. ° yoor Just the Thing. English Friend -- Is this blootalln* garde® ? American Ditto--Of course It is. What else do yon suppose Td have a garden fort .. z. .a. vT*.r "x 1918 Earthquakes. The official report of the Georgetown university seismological station, Washington, shows that during the year 1918 there were recorded on the seismographs 98 earthquakes. From dispatches received the location of 87 quakes of importance was ascertained. Of these, three were disastrous, the first occuring ic Guatemala, the second In China, and the third in Porto Rico. No disturbance of any consequence Is tabulated as having taken place in the United" Stafc*. ' IN U. S. CEMETERY President Eulogizes American Soldier Dead; Says League Fruit of Sacrifice. MUSTPREVENT ANOTHER WAR Views Foes of Society.of Nations In 8ame Light as Those Who Opposed Union of NotW and South. Paris, May 31.--The text of the Memorial address of President Wilson at Suresnes cemetery, is as follows: "Mr. Ambassador, Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow Countrymen: "No one with a heart In his breast, no American, no lover of humanity, can stand in the presence of these graves without the most profound emotion. These men who lie here are men of a unique breed. Their like has not been seen since the days of crusades. "Never before have men crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause of humanity which they did not pretend was particularly their own, but knew was the cause of humanity and of mankind. And when they came they found comrades for their courage and their devotion. They found arm les of liberty already In the field-- men who, though they had gone through three years of fiery trial, seemed only to be Just discovering, not for a moment losing, the high temper of the great affair; men seasoned In the bloody service of liberty. Joining hands with these, the men of America gave the greatest of all gifts--the gift ef life and the gift of spirit. Praises Unflinching Courage. . "It will always be a treasured memory on the part of those who knew and loved these men that the testimony of everybody who saw them In the fieJd of action was their unflinching courage, their ardor to the point of au daclty, their full consciousness of the high cause they had .come to serve and their constant vision of the issue. "It Is delightful to learn from those who saw these men fight and saw them waiting in the trenches for a sum mons to the light that they had a touch of the high spirit of religion, that they knew they were exhibiting a splr it as well as a physical might, and those of us who know and love America know that they were discovering to the whole world the true spirit and devotion of their motherland. It was America who came in the person of these men and who will forever be grateful that she was so represented "And It Is the more delightful to en tertaln these thoughts because we know that these men, though burled in a foreign land, are not burled In an alien soil. They are at home, sleeping with the spirits of those who thought the same thoughts and entertained the same aspirations. The noble women of Suresnes have given evl dence of the loving sense with which they received these dead as their own for they have cared for their graves they have made it their interest, their loving Interest, to see that there was no hour of neglect and that constantly through all the months that have gone by the mothers at home should know that there were mothers here who remembered and honored their dead. "You have just heard In the beautiful letter from M. Clemenceau what I believe \o be the real message of France to us on a day like this, a message of genuine comradeship, a mes sage of genuine sympathy, and I have no doubt that if our British comrade! were here they would speak In the same spirit and In the same language, For the beauty of this war Is that It has brought a new partnership and a new comradeship and a new understanding into the field of the effort of the nation. Lesson Taught by Sacrifices. "But it would be no profit to us to eulogize these Illustrious dead if we did not take to heart the lesson which they have taught us. They are dead they have done their utmost to show their devotion to a great cause, and they have left us to see to it that that cause shall not be betrayed, whether in war or peace. It Is our privilege and our high duty to consecrate ourselves afresh on a day like this to the objects for which they fought. "It is not necessary that I should rehearse to you what these objects were. These men did not come across the sea nierely to defeat Germany and her as sociated powers In the war. They came to defeat forever the things for which the central powers stood, the sort of power they meant to assert in the world. "So it is our duty to take and maintain the safeguards which will see to It that the mothers of America and the mothers of France and Koflud and Italy and Belgium and all other suffering nations should never be called upon for this sacrifice again. This can be done. It must be done. And it will be done. The things that these men left us, though they did not in their counsels conceive it, is the great instrument which we have Just erected in the league of nations. "The league of nations is the covenant of government that these men shall not have died in vain. I like to think that the dust Of those sons of America who were privileged to be buried In their mother country will mingle with the .dust of the meu who fought for the preservation ef the Union, and that America might be united, these men have given their lives In order that the world might be - united. "Those men gave their lives In order to secure the freedom of a nation. These men have given theirs in order to secure the freedom of mankind, and I look forward to an age when It will be just as impossible to regret the results of their labor as It Is now Impossible to regret the results of the labor of those men who fought for the union of the states. I look for the time when every man who now puts his counsel against the united service of mankind under the league of nations will be just as ashamed of It as if he now regretted the union of the states. Fight Final Battle for Right. 'You are aware, as I am aware, that the airs of an older day are beginning to stir again, that the standards of an old order are trying to assert themselves again. There Is here and there an attempt to Insert Into the counsel of statesmen the old reckoning of selfishness and bargaining and national advantage which were the roots of this war. and any man who counsels these things advocates a renewal of the sacrifice which these men have made; for if this LI not the final battle for right, there will be another that will be final. "Let these gentlemen who suppose that It is possible for them to accomplish this return to an order of which we are ashamed and that we are ready to forget, realize they cannot accomplish it. The peoples of the world ere in the saddle. Private counsels of statesmen cannot now and cannot hereafter determine the destinies of nations. "If we are not the servants of the opinion of mankind, we are of all men the littlest, the most contemtlble, the least gifted with vision. If we do not know courage, we cannot accomplish our purpose, and this age is an age which looks forward, not backward; which rejects the standard of national selfishness that once governed the counsels of nations and demands that they shall give way to a new order of things in which only the questions will be, *Is It right?' 'Is It Just?* 'Is it In the interest of mankind?' "This is a challenge that no previous generation ever dared to give ear! to. So many things have happened andi they have happened so fast in the last four years that I do not think many of us realize what it Is that has happened. Think how Impossible It would have been to get a body of responsible statesmen seriously to entertain the idea of the organization of a league of nations four years ago! "And think of the change that has taken place! I was told before I came to France that there would be confusion of counsels about this thing and. I found unity of counsel. I was told that there would be opposition and I found union of action. I found the statesmen with whom I was about to deal united in the Idea that we must have a league of nations; that we could not merely make a peace settlemen and then leave it to make itself effectual. Spirits Not Buried With Bodies. "Ladles and gentlemen, we ail believe, I hope, that the spirits of these men are not buried with their bones. Their spirits live. I hope--I believe-- that their spirits are present with ua at this hour. I hope that I feel the compulsion of their presence. I hope that I realize the significance of their presence. Think, soldiers of those comrades of yours who are gone. If they were here, what would they say? They would not remember what you are talking about today. They would remember America which they left with their high hope and purpose. And they would say: M 'Forget all the little circumstances of the day. Be ashamed of the Jealousies that divide you. We command you in the name of those who, like ourselves, have died to bring the counsels of men together, and we remind you what America said she^ was borr for. She was born, she said, to show mankind the way to liberty. She was born to make this great gift a common gift. She was born to show men the way of experience by which they might realize this gift and maintain it, and we adjure you In the name of all the great traditions of America to make yourselves soldiers now once for all In this common cause where we need wear no uniform except the uniform of the heart."* 1WS WEAK, Tcflb How Lydia LPhMwirfii Vegetable Compound Restored Her Healdlb/ fftfladelphia, Pa.--*1 was very #eafc^ y » ; Always tired, my back ached, ana I fettt -'viM sickly most ef the* time. I went to a. . doetor and he saift 1 r< I had narvous iadi-» * v gestion, which ad~ , ded to my WMfepT "kg cotxfitfan kept mar '.H worrying most the time--and V | said if I coold noil i stop that, I cooldr not get welL bearasomuehaboot : LydiaE. PiaUnn% Vegetable Com*. rrand my husband wanted me to try it took it for a week and felt a little f ter. I kept it up for three months, i I feel fine and can eat anything without distress or nervousness.MflM : ' ^ J. WORTHLTNE, 2842 North Taylor StwK4 # - Philadelphia Pa. ^ ^ The majority of mothers nowaday* ' overdo, there are so many demands| " \.'i upon their time and strength; tha rescttr • , Jf is invariably a weakened, run-down, nervous condition with headaches, baek<< * ||f ache, irritability and depression-- soon more serious ailments devek«,t:*.."-r5 It, is at such periods in life that LydiaE|. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound wiOu % restore a normal healthy air 1>1 it did to Mrs. Worthline. . xS mm IN SHOES AS WELL AS CURS ItootsSase to be Added to mant of Hospital at Fort Wayne. Under the above heading the Detratt Jfas Pt***, among other things sayst "The theory is that soldiers Wbose net are in good condition can walk farther and taster than soldiers who have ootns and bunions iaoued in rawhide.** The Plattsburg Camp Manual advisee» men in training to shake Foot--Esse in, their shoes eaeh morning. There is no foot oomforter equal to Allen's Foot-Ease, the antiseptic,heallqg' powder to be shaken into the shots eaa ' sprinkled in the foot-bath, for hot, tired, aching, perspiring, smarting, swollen, tender feet, corns, bunions, blisters or callouses. What wouldn't you give to be relieved of one day's pain of your COtM and bunions? Here is relief for ww| day. You won't realize thl« tin til yon have tried Allen's Foot--Ease yoeaslL You simply forget all about your feet they are made so comfortable. Aak your druggist to-day for a package of ALLEN'S FOOT--EASE. T * A • Sooitt ma1 manage to talk deal without saying anything. "CALLUS CORNS" LIFT RIGHT OF!F' Apply • few drops oft; > • "Fieezone"---No painfl J Don't suffer l A tiny bottle qf Frstaone costs but a few cents at aap drug store. Apply a few drop* on the corns, calluses and "hard skin" on bottom of feet, then lift them off. When Freesone removes corns from the toes or calluses from the bottom at feet," the skin beneath is left pink and healthy and never sore, tender er, irritated. . $ Too many young men empty sand boxes on the first grade. YANK BRINGS BRIDE AND SIX Wiffe Baby, Mother-lrvLaw, Father-ln- %*w, Sisters-in4^w, Come, : Too. Brest, May 31.--American soldiers who escaped from the embrace of Mars but who fell before the darts of Cupid and married French girls are permitted by Uncle Sam to bring home their brides at the expense of the government. Recently there appeared at the troop "WHITE W*r TO BE DARK New York Association to Turn Lights Off for Five Minutes to Show Need for Mere Illumination. New York, May 30.--To demand more lights for New York s "Great White Way" the Broadway association announced that at 11 o'clock at night the famous thoroughfare would be "plunged into darkness" for five minutes by extinguishing all illuminated advertising signs. It Is planned to show movement office a burly sergeant accompanied by a woman bearing a babe In arms, three other anxious-looking women and another elderly woman. An i>ld gentleman also belonged to the £arty. They were respectively the wife, baby, sisters-in-law, mother-in-law and father-in-law of the sergeant. He wanted them to return to America with him. "You win." said the desk officer; "you must have been the greatest soldier of them alLM New Yorkers that without Us far famed signs Broadway would be "the poorest lighted of all the city's mala thoroughfares." Civil War Hero is Dead. New York, May 31.--Maj. Geo. Aq Bird Gardiner, former protessor of law at the United States Military academy who was awarded the congressional medal of honor for "conspicuous bravery and distinguished conduct durini the Gettysburg campaign," died Cutlcura Soap for the Complexion. Nothing better than Cuticura Soa|l . daily and Ointment now and then a# needed to make the complexion clea$ scalp clean and hands soft and white, * Add to this the fascinating, fragraai Cutlcura Talcum and you have tiMt Cutlcura Toilet Trio.--Adv. £<r. Baseball should be played on the square as well as on the diamond. PHYSICALLY FIT AT ANY AGE ; ft Isn't age, it's carelesa living that . " bats men 'Mown and out." 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