Pack up Your Troublesj Though the Sun May Dodge, and Smile, Smile
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Courtesy Union Pacific System Pack up your troubleSj though the sun "Sure thing, ma'am," replied an easy the wonders on the auto stages, and may dodge, going cow-owner who had drifted in for 'sage-brushers' is high polite for folks And smile, smile, smile. the evening from his ranch house down who come in their own cars. The four Count yourself lucky you're at Zion the Mukuntuweap. "She and the pink young ladies who've been getting off Lodge; warbler next to her are heavers. The their low song on us are college girls— Smile, dudes, that's the style. third one is a sheet snatcher. The black- the diggingest kind of digs—in the fall, Give a look at the scenery, haired queen on the far end is a pearl winter, and spring; but when they're out 'Twill make you grin a mile— diver." So pack up your troubles, be a sport here for the summer, hustling their to-night. " 'Heaver'? 'Sheet snatcher'? 'Pearl heads off so as they can go on being col And smile, smile, smile. diver'? Why, what in heaven's name are lege girls, they are proud to be 'savages.' you saying about these young women? You've guessed it about those heavers; m ~^HI^ S lively parody of a war-time They must be worse even than their they're waitresses. That sheet snatcher song came from a quartet of girls crude song would indicate." will begin to caress your bed the minute swaggering in the light of a "Excuse me, ma'am," apologized the you're out of your cabin in the morning, camp-fire in the open-air theater in front cowman. "I hadn't noticed you were a and if you meander out to the kitchen of the stone lodge in Zion Canyon, Uncle raw dude." after breakfast that pearl diver will show Sam's newest National Park in southern "I a dude?" The lady visitor's face you hoT/ fast she can fish dishes out of Utah. Lady Mountain and Mount was the color of Mount Majestic when soapy water. By the way, if you're Majestic, rising sheer thirty-five hundred the morning sun is revealing all its coats waked by a bass voice hollering, 'Fire!' feet above the valley floor, sent the of red paint. you needn't get excited; it'll be one of words reverberating up the mighty gorge "Sorry, ma'am, if I guessed wrong. the pack rats who's out here on parole until they were banging against the You're a sage-brusher, you mean?" from Yell College. All he means is he Great White Throne and doubtless The lady's stare was colder than the wants to breeze in and put something in shocking any angels who chanced to be air in Refrigerator Canyon on the way flammable in your little tin stove." lingering on Angels' Landing. They also up to the West Rim. "I'm a school The lady from Boston was assisted in shocked a mature lady of highly proper teacher in the city of Boston!" she her return to normalcy by the fact that mien who sat with other guests before cried. the quartet broke into a new song that the camp-fire. "Well, of course!" The cowman was far from frivolous. It had a glorious "That girl on the end there!" she ex waved an understanding hand and smiled swing to it, and the singers showed that claimed, as she indicated one of the his tolerance. "I can speak Bostonese they were trained vocalists by the way singers. "Isn't she the waitress who too when I try. 'Dudes' is just polite they went after it—"Oh, Zion, dear served me my dinner?" National Park for folks who come to see Zion, home of the free." It was a song 56 PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED The Outlook for May 12, 1926 57 the Mormons sang in the days when they season. In addition to those pictur while riding along and bumped her were struggling to bring Utah out of a esquely denominated as heavers, sheet head." wilderness and under cultivation. The snatchers, pearl divers, and pack rats, A besetting danger to the poor driver appealing thmg caught the ear and there were gear jammers (auto-stage is thus commemorated in a song which heart of thousands who visited Zion drivers), pill pushers (camp nurses), and the savages sometimes sing at the nightly Park during its first wide-open season, steam queens (laundry workers). They camp-fire show: and with a little remodeling of the lines were chosen by women agents who vis Keep your eye on the wheel, gear jam it may easily become a Nationally popu ited the colleges and made careful inves mer; lar sentimental song—sent on its way to tigation of the scholastic and personal Keep your eye on the .wheel, gear jam mer. fame by a sheet snatcher, a pearl diver, record of every student who made appli and two heavers. To be sure, the girl is fair. cation. To judge by the predominance But you need your eyes elsewhere; The opening of the new wonderland, of sweaters with a big "I" and other tell Keep your eye on the wheel, gear jam with its tourist lodges at Zion Canyon, tale-insignia all the way from Estes Park mer. Kaibab Forest, North Rim of the Grand to Grand Lake, the applicants from the Canyon, and_ Bryce Canyon, proved be Iowa institutions must have qualified in Have a heart, dude lady, have a heart! yond a doubt that the college youth, something like 100 per cent. Have a heart, dude -lady, have a heart! male and female, intend that as fast as Roads are narrow, mountains steep, National Parks come into existence the T every camp there is a Savage Alley, Gulches wide and canyons deep—• serving of the summer guest shall become A where the girls live in "the Dorm" Have a heart, dude lady, have a heart! a matter for.their own capable hands. In and the boys in "the Rats' Nest." De IV/TOST of the savages, in addition to several of the older parks—Rocky portment and discipline are as carefully •^ *-*• needing the money they will be Mountain, Yellowstone, and Yosemite, looked after as on any campus in the able to earn, have a very-genuine interest notably—the undergrads from many col land. in the parks where they accept service. leges regularly constitute the "help" in "There is just one thing to be said In their leisure hours they don hiking the camps and in many of the hotels. about the savages," declared A. K. clothes, and it is difficult to distinguish There are some hotels which, in spite of Holmes, wise manager of the Rocky them from the guests. They often learn the proved high efficiency of the savages, Mountain Parks Transportation Com more about the natural wonders than the still feel that a Ritz-Carlton training is pany, which operates about one hundred paying guest, since they have a smatter requisite to the proper unjacketing of a auto stages and cars and various chalets ing or a scientific understanding of geol pair of eggs. and hotels. "They fill the bill. They ogy, zoology, and forestry. At Zion The savages in all the parks have do their work better than any other class Lodge and the other camps on the Zion been hand-picked and im^pressively fore of help we've ever found. They are tour during last summer there were sav warned. They understand from the outset courteous and kind, and get a world of ages from practically every university that they are being taken to the hos- fun out of situations which to workers and college in Utah, as well as from sev telries, which, while under General Gov who lacked their spirit would prove very eral other States. These students showed ernment supervision, are under private trying. They get the guests' good will an intense interest in this newly opened management, to work, and to work-hard; by winning it. A lady eating her dinner region and carried on much exploration and they understand equally well that will discover that her waitress wears a on their own .account. They helped make most persons are skeptical about the-am pin of the fraternity to which she herself trails to peaks as yet unchristened, added bitions of young collegians to hustle belongs; there is an exclamation of to the available-pictures of majestic sce along an order of soup while -it is still amazement, arid in about a minute a nery with their cameras and sketching palatable or to 'fuss up a bed so that stanch friend has been made for our kits, and found and reported on primitive sleeping in it becomes less than an or company. They accept tips, but they cliff-dwellings in inaccessible ledges and deal. During every day of the .long sum are not tip-chasers, these collegians. canyons. It is only fair to say that the mer they are out to "show" both the They need the money, but they are ani girl savages, in their attractive outing management and the guests. Neither mated by the finest spirit in the world. costumes, increased, all unconsciously, does their service end with sundown. They desire to serve. We try to catch the guests' enjoyment of many a fasci Next in importance to feeding its guests them ui their freshman year; then, if they nating view.