Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-10
Home and Foreign Travel.

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May 1 answer your editorial on The
Home Corners i'm The Star of the 9Th?
For the sake of the education OF our
youth and for the sake of rest for the
business man, ! wish TO make strong
plea for European travel. To see Amer
lea first is the wrong educational prin-
ciple in the opinion of more than one en-
thusiastic Atlantic voyager. With the
opportunities for travel I'm our own coun-
try. made more alluring every year by
the summer folders and the other adver-
tisements of our railroad and steamship
companies, and made more easy and at
tractive by every comfort en- route, every
one who Is fond of travel is bound to
make way sooner or later to see what
appeals to him most in his own country.
With the wealth of appeal abroad to our
neglected artistic sense in this coun-
try, in the century -old monuments OF
wood and stone, in the quaint and ar
tistic form and coloring invariably found
in the streets of European towns OF any
size: with the intellectual stimulus in the
art galleries and museums, much NOR C
abundant there than here, and used to a
much greater extent there by people OF
all classes we need TO become acquaint-
ed this year, next year. and in the next
century. for the sake of our national de-
velopment. The loyal regard of patri-
otto American is not lessened by ac-
knowledging that our country Is raw,
new Just i'm the making. Every help
that we can get from the countries whose
cities were apparently finished before
ours We're begun we may well seek, both
for instruction and for the sake of avoid
ing further the mistakes that mar the
beauty and the usefulness of some of our
cities.
To open ones eyes on old world accom-
plishment is merely appropriating the
wisdom that has worked out there many
of the problems that We are just begin
ming to realize are ours, as our popuia-
ton grows denser. our cities more Sc
riousy pressed by crowded conditions.
The commission sent abroad eight years
ago by Congress to study city develop
ment has led directly to the plan for the
uniform development of Washington.
and. first of all, to the development OF
our water front and TO the making of
Potomac Park. Our beautiful Library of
Congress and our splendid new Union
station are examples in many of their
beauties of the influence of European art
upon our artists. as they had opportunity
to study in those art-loving countries.
Our means of learning abroad of better
government. in some respects, broadens
and instructs us. Merely to become ac-
auainted, for example. in Germany with
what is "yerboten" and to see the Ger
mans acceptance of that condition of at
fairs is a lesson in obedience well worth
the teaching to some OF our law-indif-
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the novelty of different languages and of
different customs gives US more rest in
the entertainment and i'm the effort 10
understand than any study of American
wonders can do The mere separation
of man from his business. the absolute
dropping of care upon other shoulders
necessary for this long journey is one of
inestimable value to man taxed at
home by the tremendous pressure of our
business world.
Take a little journey in our own coun-
try when a little money only is available
for a summer vacation. Find out how
to travel modestly abroad and take the
little money for a short trip abroad
whether you are young, with the oppor-
tunity to broaden by the education of
that most broadening travel, or whether
you are middle-aged or old. with the
need for freshening and renewing the
education worn threadbare by years Of
use. or grown rusty by lying on the
shelf. Give every young person i'm the
homes where money need not be count
ed a year or more of travel in Europe
and Asia as a part of his foundation
for lifes journey. Save money and time
and plan for trips abroad as often as
possible, for every rest that increasing
cares are bound to make necessary along
lfe's journey. Take first the trip abroad.
Let opportunity and circumstance and
accident determine our travels i'm our
own country. +. III. SIDWELL.