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Handbook/ 1933/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • GREETINGS By E. G. Frizzell, President, Smoky Mountains Hiking Club Wahoo! Hearty greetings to you all, Smoky Mountains Hiking Club members and friends! May this year mean even more to you, and may your contacts with fellow members be all the more pleasant and leave fonder memories than ever before. As we look about us we are conscious that man's relations to his fellow creatures are far from perfect. In our feverish haste to acquire material things we have wandered far from the appointed paths. Let us make the year 1933 one of good fellowship and one of real conservation. In doing this we would adhere to the objects of our Club as set forth in our by-laws and code of ethics; to develop opportunities for the enjoyment of the out-of-doors in the form of hikes and outings; to provide related social and educational opportunities; to encourage and teach out- of-door ethics; to encourage the conservation of woods, waters and wild life in general; and to acquaint our members and the public with the beauty and grandeur of the Great Smokies and other mountains in this section. I cherish the hope that these objectives will help the membership, as well as our visitors, to appreciate the beauties of Nature—not only the beauty of color and formation, but far higher than these—the way in which they minister to the aesthetic nature of man. Longfellow has said, "In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand Iheir light and soul-like wings, Teaching us by most persuasive reasons. How akin they arc to human things" Then let me encourage you who love the blue of the sky and the tang of clean, pure air, the
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