Cañon City record., 1909-10-28

teries and government breweries and
slaughter houses.
And in coming north out of Italy
into Germany. Munich is as good a
place as any other to become aware
that all these activities are having
the realm OF private ownership and
control in Europe and entering the
realm OF public ownership.
Many of the public activities in
Munich are undertaken in the name
OF their mad king. He. and his mad
predecessor. in the days before people
knew how crazy they really were.
widened the streets. erected stately
public buildings, undertook vast pub
lie works and made the state brew
cries and state art galleries and state
heaters and state railroads of this
kingdom among the very best in
Europe. The prince regent is carry
similar work Is going on all over
the German empire. and the German
emperor. who is far from mad. is at
the head OF II all. The German en-
peror and the Socialists detest one
another. but both seem to be after
the same things. He would like to
put them in jail and they would like
to blow him into a hamburger steak
and they 30 on working apart for a
common cause.
Kaiser Wilhelm would give to the
German people the most advanced
and most psternal government on
earth as his benencence. The Social
lists would take the same thing as
their right Therein lies the differ
ence. II is a question of giving or
taking. And in Munich. which as
pires to be the rival OF Paris. as an
art center. the activities of the peo-
pie Of Europe are to be seen typi-
ned
But this is no place to set down
those activities. This journey is no
quest for Useful Information. IL has
nothing to do with the Upiift or the
Forward Movement at all. II is a
journey made for pure diversion in
an old brown suit case. and for a
large part from the promenade decks
of what. In the parlance of our be-
loved country. is known as the rub
berneck wagon.
The rubberneck wagon is typically
a large automobile with six or seven
seats. ranging upward to dizzy
height and carrying from eighteen to
twenty-four people. II goes whizzing
through the thoroughfares of all the
great cities OF the world laden with
tourists. who in two or three hours.
see all the principal stre>,J. plazas,
squares. monuments. public build
ings.- places OF interest and public
beauty and curiosity of any gi, 81
town.
A guide with a megaphone talks
to the ourists and tells them what
they are seeing. The. citizens OF the
town and all strangers In the town
who are not at the moment on the
rubberneck wagon themselves. smile
at the rubberneck excursionists, but
secretly envy them.
For there Ia no getting away from
this important fact: The rubberneck
wagon gives more for the money than
any other institution for travellers In
the wide world. The traveller who has
but day or two in a town can see
Il superfcially in three hours from
the rubberneck wagon. and then pick
out what he really wishes to visit at
length and save time and money.
And in our adventure into the north
OF Europe. wherever we could. we
mounted the rubberneck wagon.
threw shame to the wind. and when
ever the natives laughed at us. we
laughed back and saw the exterior
OF half dozen big. beautiful modern
cities in most delightful fashion.