ARIZONA CALENDAR

ALONG THE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS

Dan W. Young of Dayton, Ohio, spent most of the winter visiting with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. McMillen of Morenci. Charmed by the country, he enjoyed himself to the fullest, experienced every western pleasure. After reading about Arizona in ARIZONA HIGHWAYS for two years before coming west, Mr. Young declared Arizona was even more beautiful and attractive than he had visualized. "You must come and see for yourself," he says.

little foliage, stingy and sour looking, with no friendly personality. But one day in Spring it breaks into the gayest, sprightliest, yellowest dress you can imagine. Gone are the dour days of winter. The gay palo verde seems to dance in the sunshine and is the gayest of the desert family in the Easter parade.

NEW SUPERINTENDENT AT GRAND CANYON:

Dr. Harold C. Bryant, the new superintendent of Grand Canyon national park, who succeeded M. R. Tillotson upon the latter's transfer to the east, announces his administrative policy as follows: "Grand Canyon has passed through three stages acquisition, protection, and physical development in the growth of a national park, and has now entered the fourth that of best use, wherein is stressed the educational and appreciation phases.

"The park is sufficiently developed to provide ample comfort for visitors, and I now want to imbue them with its natural grandeur and charm. "I hope to develop an educational program here by numerous devices, will make my program operative through the medium of literature, appropriate signs and the entire staff. "I want our visitors to frequent the quiet, secluded spots where they can sit and dream. I want them to linger and rest and thus secure the best which a visit here affords. "My ideal here is a maximum of information and appreciation for every visitor to Grand Canyon." Dr. Bryant was born Jan. 30, 1886, at Pasadena, Calif. He is a graduate of Pomona college, and received degrees of master of science and doctor of philosophy at the University of California. He served as economic ornithologist at the University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology until 1927.

BOOKS: One weekend recently while we were waiting for the pinks and petunias to make up their minds whether to blossom or not to blossom, we glanced again at two very interesting books: "Sky Determines," by Ross Calvin, and "Pioneer Days in Arizona," by Frank C. Lockwood. If you are interested in literature of the southwest we recommend these books to you. In "Sky Determines," Dr. Calvin has a most interesting theme: that is, that the sky being responsible for the lack of moisture in the arid regions of the west, the sky then is the determining factor of the flora and fauna. His book makes you deeply aware of the sky, and you look up and suddenly realize what an important thing the sky is and how it effects your daily life. With so much sky with us in the west at all times, you suddenly become aware of it in "Sky Determines" and you are almost frightened by its importance. Dr. Lockwood's book, "Pioneer Days in Arizona," is an historical narrative of our state, beautifully and charmingly done. The history of Arizona is real and vital; it is a story of struggle, conflict between the red man and the white man, between man and nature.

SPRING: Of all the desert's beauty in the spring, nothing is so breath-taking as the blossoming palo verde tree. Most of the year it is a grayish green, gaunt with