Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-09-27

european WAR
HELPS AMERICA
MADE in America" and
"See America First" Ac-
cepted as Slogans.
KEEP MONEY AT HOME
Americans CaugM in War-Swept
Countries will Hereafter BE Most
Apprcciative Of the Home Of
the Free and the Brave.
KEEP MONEY AT HOME
(By Victor Elliott.)


Washington, Sept. 26.-To moment
ize an old saying, it's an ill war wind
that brings no peace good. While
the whirl OF woe sweeps through Eu-
rope, we watch and wonderland
plan. Out of many suggested plans
have come two definite ideas which
have taken the form OF slogans. One
is, made in America" and the other
is See America first"
The first slogan has geen given
due publicity and may be dismissed
with passing reference. Summed
up, it means this: Our merchants
hope to make the United States the
foremost exporting county of the
world in practically every line of
trade. Not only during the war but
for many years afterward, our manu-
facturers believe, foreign nations will
look for the made in America" brand
when they want the best goods at the
fairest prices.
The second slogan is a mixture of
patriotism and commercialism. One
of the arguments on the material side
is that money should be spent in the
country in which it is made. Ameri
can transportation companies and
hotels use American products and
employ American labor and they
should have the preference over for
eigners.
Again, why should Americans rave
over old world wonders before they
have done justice to the marvels OF
the new world? Have the ruined
castles of the Rhine anything" on
the Palisades of the Hudson? Who
can prove that the Sphinx is older
than the mounds in Ohio and adjacent
states? Who will boast of the rugged
beauty Of the Alps after eploring the
canyons OF the Rockies Wno will
say there is more than one Niagara
Falls? Where may the supergiant
trees OF California be found in Eu-
rope? There is only one Mammoth
Cave, and that is in Kentucky.
Americans caught in the war-swept
countries OF Europe will be the most
appreCiative of all the tourists who
travel over the United States next
year. This is the opinion of Franklin
X. Lane, secretary of the interior de-
partment OF the United States. Dis
cussing the subject recently, he said:
Vacations for Americans.
There are certain number of peo-
pie who want to enjoy some novel
scenes every year-people who have
no fixed place in which to spend their
vacations. The most of these people
have been in the habit of going to
Europe. Europe this year is closed
and next year will be a waste-a
scene of desolation. And these peo-
pie who have been overlooking the
attractions of the United States will
realize next year the opportunities by
way OF entertaining those who love
travel, beauty and scenic grandeur.
sOf course, the United States cam
not offer the art galleries and Gothic
cathedrals and the atmosphere of age
that one gets in the older civilization,
but it can offer beauties OF nature that
surpass those that Europe offers. Be-
sides, it is patriotic duty for every
American to see anc learn about his
own country. We have too many peo-
pie in the United States who have
made frequent trips to all parts of
Europe, but who have never travelled
west of Chicago in the United States.
Think of the ease and relatively
small expense of an ideal vacation
trip in our own country. Within six
weeks, for an expenditure of less
than five hundred dollars, one can
leave New York. go to Niagara Falls
and Buffalo, take the equivalent OF
an ocean trip by sailing through. the
Great Lakes, see the Yellowstone
park, the Rocky mountains, Glacier
National park, Puget Sound, the in
land waterway of Alaska, with its
glaciers, mountains and unequalled
bit of sea; Mt. Rainier, National
park. the beautiful Columbia river,
the great forests of Oregon and Wash
ington. Mt. Shasta, San Francisco, the
Yosemite National park, the orange
groves OF southern California and the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado.
Il have left out OF this six weeks
itinerary such interesting places as
the petrified forests OF Arizona, the
Cliff dwellings, the national forests
and the Indian reservations. These
side trips require more time, OF
course. In such an itinerary as that
you can hit the high places in every
section of the great West. Northwest
and Southwest.
In every five hundred miles there
Is some different attraction on which
trip man would see more national
wonders. more things of beauty than
he can see anywhere else in the whole
world in the same time and for so
little money"
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