Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-19
nIscoVERINe AMERIcA

Already the European war IS stmuaIug an AlheIi can industry that hasn't anything do with contraband hut great deal to do with American prosperity lts the tourist industry.
 Americans must travel; it's in the blood. By hun dreds of thousands we turned to Europe in recent years led by curiosity or quest of culture and have left there hundreds millions dollars Now with lines of bayones barring every European trail cities barred o their usual interests hotels closed pleasure resorts wrapped in gloom the pail of battle and death over a the tide of American travel is turned back upon it. self and broken up in currents that flow hther and hih CT all over America.
 The winter tourists have begun to scatter down Che Atlantic coast through the sunny southland and west ward to California Florida becomes than ever tho Riviera of the East and soutehrn California of the West and Hot Springs of Virginia and Arkansas conn into their own The Gulf Coast alures, and New Orleans wakens to greater popularity.
 Times may not be particularly good ;the American reople as whole may be in more economical franc of mind than usual; but the money saved from Europea travel makes golden stream up and down and acros ,he land that will grow and strengthen as the wnte nerges into summer and the traffic increases,
 We all gain by it. The tourists gain, through adde knowledge of their own country The East will see mor of the West the West will more of the East the North more of South and the South more of tn North Aad greater familiarity will give us not onl fuller knowledge of the greatness land and people but broader sympathy and stronger patriouslh
 The railroads will gain, in added traffic, much the income they need to restore their waning prosperity The hotels will profit and improve as their paIonag' increases
 Merchants everywhere. drawing the trade of vaco toners with money to spend, will feel the reyying in nuence And the money disbursed in this big indusr, will stay right here to keep American credit sound sur rlemeutng the official efforts the regional reserve board.
 We'll see our own country-and what country it i to see, What is there in Europe except ruins and ba smells that we can't duplicate? If the tourist seeks cit es we have them vibrant life and unique in char acter If he yearns for mountains here the Rockies vaster and grander than the Alps, and other range to match the Rhine and Danube and our Great Lakes tbe biggest and lovees fresh system n the world Here are plains as vast as those of Russia and fores that surrass Germanys; and for deserts, ravele enamored of utter and sublime desoation can find | in Utah to match the Sahara We have our Yellowston Park and Glacier National Park with their wonders, am the beauties of the Yosemite, and the ncomparabI
 
 variety.
 The tourist can have his choice Of climate for th asking He can find civilization wilderness and spor without end And everywhere he will meet his own km' speaking the same language thinking the same thoughts
 with only the slight sectional differences that lend pleas ant variety and charm-members of the same grea unanimous race that has subdued the continent and mad every part of it accessible to every citizen.
 Our travel will overflow our own boundaries n' tbe greater America outside. There are the Latin II pubics to ,he south with their older and more allie culture. and the great South American continent to~ar which the stream travel and business tends nor and more There the West Indies. and our O" Hawaiian Islands and the wild scenes of Alsaka All ( them tne coming year, will take on new interest an life and become real than ever before to the ! 1epressible American tourist