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be independently wealthy so he could afford to be a bureaucrat.
Stephen T. Mather went on down to Washington to be the first director of tHb National Park Service. The agency was created by an Act of Congress signed by President Woodrow Wilson, Aug. 25, 1916. The Organic Act set down the mission of the National Park Service. The mission is: “to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”
Mr. Mather took the words to heart. Mr. Mather had made most of his fortune in borax. In doing so he’d traveled through much of the country, visiting national parks for recreation. He wanted others to support the parks, too.
His new agency was very small, and Mather personally underwrote many of its earliest operations. He was a booster of parks and people visiting parks. He cultivated friendships with the rich and powerful, including the editor of “National Geographic. "remember, this is the era before television and “USA Today.” A picture in an issue of “National Geographic" was worth far more than 1,000 words.
It touched thousands of people.
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