Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-07-13
WHY VISIT SWITZERLAND?

a recent visitor to Tazewell gives
the following expression to his feel
ings after visit to Burke's Garden:
"The tourists Of America spend
millions each year to visit the scener-
les of Switzerland. They stand In
amazement and gaze Mt the noun
tains from the fertile valleys and
then from the mountain peaks they
look upon the low lands and no doubt
quote portions of the twenty-third
psalm as they imagine n human be-
ing plunging from those high peaks,
Yea tho | walk thru the valley of
the shadow of death | shall fear no
evil, or surely this is none other
than the handy work of u mighty
God. And on a moonlight night they
stand in reverential awe, surrounded
by the beautiful scenery as they
glance into the heavens and behold
the natural beauty of the hills, they
say, "The heavens declare the glory
of God and the armament showeth
his handiwork."
"All this and even more are the
sentiments offthose who visit Swift
erland every year, and rs these low
ers of natural beauty return from
their heavenly feast, as it were, they
make their report to their friends
in poetic speech and they, too, are
inspired to make the adventurous
tour to behold the wonders of the
world bevond the seas Thru this
medium of advertising, together with
the keen insight of the passenger
agents Of our great railroads and
steamship lines, it has become the
ambition Of every school girl and boy
to complete their education and then
as matter of highest Importance
follow in the foot prints of their
parents and friends and spend an
extra thousand in touring across the
ocean to behold the sceneries of Swift
zerland and the chalk cliffs of Eng
land. These are worthy ambitions
and we admit both the beauty and
grandeur of a trip of this kind.
"BUT WHY spend our millions IN
see the same things that we have in
America and even that which is infe-
rior. To any man who for the first
time beholds the grandeur of Burke's
Garden and the country intervening
between there and Tazewell as did
the writer last week, can't help but
feel like Offering a constructive eco
nomic criticism to those who seek to
enjoy the beauties of nature and the
handiwork of God and leave at their
doors the limestone hills of South
west Virginia. covered with thorough
bred cattle and horses, intersected by
roads almost equal to the famous
"Appian Way; the wheat fields with
their golden grain, the sweet scented
clover swarming with humming birds
and honey bees, the shepherd and his
flock by the cool mountain stream,
with thousands Of acres Of bluegrass
unsurpassed in the United States
all this enriched by chain of forest
ed mountains. with limestone cliffs
rising to height of more than three
thousand feet makes this vast plat
eau a modern Garden of Eden"
with all her fruits evident and none
forbidden to the lover of natural
beauty whose privilege it is to feast
as it were on an everlasting plenty,
each morsel favoring the next Till
you will inevitably find yourself in
the midst of what some cali God,
Others cali nature, and not until then.
perhaps, will YOU wonder why we 20
from the sublic,e hills Of Southwest
Virginia with scenery and natural
beauty superior 20 that Of any other
country to partaie of that which 10