Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-08-07
GET RID OF THE GOING ABROAD GERM.

The Eastern lives close to the Atlantic coast that he
forgets his country has any other boundary line
In DIM distant way he has heard there cities and rivers
there he doubts.
He does not know if St LOuiss situated the mouth of the
Rio Grande or at the headwae of the ST. Lawrence but he
does know mote his pompous readD Just how much enjoyment
there is in a trip up the Nile
The big trees of California awaken no desire to see them
Il more interested he says "n the Black Forest of Ger
many"
He knows that somewhere in the West there is town de-
voted to the fourng industry but speaking of flour reminds
him of oaves of bread get abroad that half yard
long.
The petrfed forests of the West fail to awaken his interest
and auson that great freak nature that immense
chasm Mother Natures face the Grand Canyon of Ar
aggerated
Down the bottom of his thinks the Grand Canyon
OF Arizona is real live from New York could
jump it and have breath to spare
dam.
Wonderful wonderful he exclaims and refuses to credit
the mmeny of the great irrigation ditch that making the
cacuscovered plains of the West blossom like the
Up there in the Daotas there ranches so immense the
owner says weeks goodby to his family when he starts to
cross one and prosperous farmers domains extensive
that ne does not know their exact acreage himself
But all this and counts for nothing with the Fastener
He has been abroad.
lie is going again.
The chaeaus of France are more interesting to him than the
cliff dwellers of Mexico.
In patriotic red white and blue way he knows the political
and agricultural possibilities of the land lying west of the Miss
sp and the horse in him prances and paws at any hint
of foreign invasion.
while is something beyond his twobyfou comprehension
He has the European habit
He is infected with the going-abroad germ.
lie goes time he afford the time and money and
just as often when he can't
He sends his wife and his daughters that they may not be So
ca handicapped when they meet other wives daughters
who have been "over."
When ne can't send them his wife and daughters get up al
turing pamphlets showing pictures of Napoeons Tomb and the
Coliseum.
These they send out West with the information that they have
engaged IN conducting tourists parties at so much per-
Ihese pamphlets announce that the woman who will take
tourists under her travel wings per well versed in
al the foreign languages and is lady of culture and refine
ment. w ~
1t rare opportunity the pamphlets say to see Europe with
so much culture thrown in
In sections of the United States notably the rural Sec
tons the charge made that women become missionaries
so a they may get trip abroad with expenses paid to saw
nothing OF the farewell teas given by the church sewing circle
before they depart.
In the East the who wants go abroad adopts the role
Oh guide and becons to the unaveed of the West to come
win Their pocketbooks and so under her wing
II the charge against the missionary true which it isn't il
can at least be said of her that she doesn't expect to take her
The cultured and refined Eastern woman hopes to make
the dog ~ '' '"'U
II anything and any means to see Europe in the East
III is the Promised Land of the tourist who sails away eav
ing greater scenic delights in his country uncedted and
unseen ~ '
lie has put his land last
The fact is recorded to his humiliation and shame E;tor
from Chicago American by Frances L. Garside