The Sentinel=record., 1914-11-03

'. Barnnm, that the people must find themselves a bunco game of some sort is recalled in a communication from Frederick J Haskin in the Chicago Daily News anent the health resort situation as it is in this country com pared with Europe, in the following:
 "The old word has done a tremen dous commerce in American tourists for many years. They have organized this business with every detail, and the American finds in Switzerland one of the most exact mountain scenery tariffs in the world. If we were halt as adept in commercializing our Rock ies as the Swiss are with their Alps, this western range could be made to pay off our public debt
 Hitherto the balance of the tourist trade has been overwhelmingly in ia. vor of Europe. It is estimated that American travellers have been spend ing from $200,000,0 ,000 to $250 100000 every year with the shopkeepers, the scenery, sport and society purveyors, the teachers and the hotelkeepers abroad. Then in every town of any consequence in Germany France, Switzerland and Italy there is an Americsa colony, which brings up the total
 This army of free spending tour ists has been rudely disbanded Even our foreign coionists are fleeing homeward. Europe has become so uncertain and so unrestful that prob ably it will be years before its normal tourist trade can be restored Mean while, those who advocate seeing America first" will capture the busi- ness for the home market.
 If Americans take to rambling about their own country in search Of a travellers distractions the foreigner may conclude there is a reason and flock here to ramble likewise. The European now occasionally visits the United States, but he seldom tries to see it. This is because he has lacked proper encouragement. He finds that net even the Americans themselves are conscientious explorers of the land Where the American goes to Europe with an earnest purpose of doing it. according to some thorough system, the European contents him self with a brief visit to New York. whence he returns home to write a book exposing us.
 The European has invented count less little traps for catching the tour ist's fancy. This we have almost en- tireIy refused to initiate. For exam pie, German chanced one day to pass some mineral springs around which there s'oughed off great quan- titles of the blackest, slimiest. most diabolical looking mud which he had ever seen. He straightway establish ed a health resort, one hotel, one band stand, one boardwalk and one bath and tourists have been wallowing in this hideous black filth ever since, in simple satisfaction with the novelty of it all. The mud cures all manner of bon ton complaints; it is harmless and costly and so the resort is pros porous. There is likely just as dis tasteful mud to be had in America, which now is being allowed to go to waste.
 Then there is certain Bohemian mineral springs. The waters of this spring are an abomination to all hon est and forward thinking people when not under the influence of the neces- sity of summering in proper fashion. The powers of this water to punish the sense of taste have caused thou sands of Americans and other tour ists to spend all their savings fot repeated he pings. Even this miser- able stuff might be initiated here at home.
 The tourist demands more than mere climate and scenery, either of which the United States has on hand in every conceivable variety The true tourist must be browbeaten with something in order to be made hap py. He must be put through the stir ring ordeals devised by the European health resorts and made to feel un- comfortable, expectant and not at home. Above all this discomfort must be administered in a superior way and cost something.
 Europe has the advantage of tourists preserve in wealth of art, an tiques and relics The stores Of all three of these accessories of genuine touring are increasing all the tima. How easily America might supply these needs might be shown at one or two Paris factories. A table and chair are fashioned according to some an cient style. New and shiny, they are taken to the factory yard, where crew of husky ruffians attack with axes, c.asp knives, broom handles and crowbars. Next the articles are bur jed and nightly drenched with water. Later, they are unearthed and the rough treatment continued until an- other complete set used by Pippin, the Squat, is ready"
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