The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-11
"'see Iowa In Daylight" Slogan Would
be Good Thing to Practice With
Opening Of Panama Pacific
Exposition
AUTO TOURISTS PROFIT
They Can Make Trip Across Excel
lent Highways and Carefully
Marked Roads-Trunk
Lines Also Help.

national slogan OF America and 1t
will be realized next year more than
at any previous time. The Panama
exhibition at San Francisco will at
tract thousands of people westward.
The war in Europe will have MOST
deterrent effect on European travel
next year and in addition will bs
highly impractical. Those persons
who travel next year will do most OF
it in this country and it is highly
probable that the west will draw the
greatest percentage of visitors.
James. G. Blaine once gave the adj
vice, cross Iowa in the daytime
This advic,, still holds good and is
given by many prominent in state and
national affairs who are familiar with
the scenic excellence of Iowa and
know that its glens, it's wooded dales
anu it's gently rolling prairies delight
the lover Of natural beauty Staunch
Iowa boosters and good roads enthus-
lasts are repeating the phrase See
Iowa in the daytime" rsf as s$
SSHigiways have heen greatly i'm.
proved. in. Iowa. during tho last year:
Several highways are completely
marked across the state and pass
through some OF the most beautiful
rural scenes in the world More mo.
florists will pass through Iowa during
the next spring and summer than HAYS
ever done so before and It Is the SEN
ttiment See Iowa In the, daytime" that
is beginning to prevail among the
thousands who are contemplating
sightseeing by automobile.
Slogan to Be Reality Here.
Tourists who have been in the habit
Of going to Europe In the summer are
now going to be compelled to "See
America First" This slogan will be.
come az decided realty next year. The
fair at san Francisco will doubtless
attract thousands OF tourists whoswill
pass through the west in motor cars
and in vestibuled trains. Iowa will
not be the least Of the attractions
that will be offered for the delecta-
ton Of the travellers who are planning
to travel across country next summer
Iowa, by an excellent system OF
ludIAcU +ll4SAWd4 . .aIlQ - uI.AS sAIAoA IL
alton will help to guide these tourists
and likewise encourage them to make
the start and see the country from a
motor car. All trunk line steam rail-
roads operate trains which cross
Iowa in the daytime and they also
schedule many trains which cross
Iowa in the night time. But the ad-
vice which James G. Blaine gave a
number of years ago, cross Iowa in
the daytime should be used by all
tourists. In the days of James G.
Blaine, the Greater Iowa movement
was unheard Of, but Blaine was boost.
ing for Iowa Just the same.
Reliable information from steam
ship lines says that steamship travel
will be about Go percent below nor.
NAL. The big tours conducted on the
Nile and on the Mediterranean will
be abandoned next year for the first
time in twenty-one years. 1t is also
said that none OF the big ocean liners
will leave New York for Italy or Alex.
andria next season
Correspondents from eastern rout-
ing bureaus gives evidence that tour.
ist traffic will far exceed anything
ever before known throughout the
middle west. 1t is said that repre-.