The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-25
EUROPEANS ARE
Il TRAVEL HUNGRY
Passport and Money Difficulties Pre-
vent Pre-War Movement of
People West.

Budapest, Aug. 24-The desire but
inability of once wealthy people to
travel westward to European seaports
and on to the United States, owing to
passport and money difficulties, is one
Of the results Of the war to be noted
in Central Europe, the Balkans and
far into Asia Minor.
The intenseness of this desire was
registered recently by Admiral Horthy
Regent of Hungary, who sad: s'Why,
wake up nights thinking of the sea,
and in my dreams / hear the sound of
the ocean. Consider I have sailed the
world around and now 1 can't even
get glimpse of blue water. I'm sea-
sick in a new sense" D
How / envy you in your travels
said Quen Marie, of Rumania to the
travel-weary correspondent Think
of the glorious freedom of going some
where, far away"
IF 1t were not for my duty to my
country said Mustapha Kemal Pasha,
the national leader, one hot, breath
less night in Sivas, Turkey, II should
be tempted to board ship and steam
away, anywhere, so long as it went
westward. No one but ourselves can
realize how tired and numb the mind
becomes, out here, through the loss
of contact with the countries and
people we knew in happier days"
Women, wives of teachers and pro-
fessors, of formerly well-to-do farm
ers, who have been so sorely hit by
the war, suffer especially from the
lack of the cheap holidays they were
once accustomed to take in Switzer-
land, the Italian Riviera, Paris, or
London, where they saw the old sights
anew, the styles in clothes. brushed
up their acquaintance with languages
and came home content to await next
years trip.
II really believe many of US shall
fall sick if we are not able to satisfy
this travel fever" said Mrs r. YAM
berry. wife of the Hungarian criminol-
ogist, who was great traveller as
was his father before him.
Have pity on we poor travellers.
To think that now / can't buy a new
dress, l who once had the money to
roam where / would"
The ministers of foreign affairs in
these countries are beseiged by ap-
plications of their fellow citizens who
want to go away as diplomatic repre-
sentatfves or consuls and many near
important men at home are willing to
accept positions as clerks abroad,
merely for the chance of travelling.
This fever is not limited to the
formerly well-to-do. Recently a no.
sice was published in a Budapest
paper that any able-bodied man or
woman wishing to work in the United
States would be furnished with a
ticket and $50 expense money by the
Americans. That same day the Amer
lean High Commissioner, u. Grant
Smith, had to request the military
authorities to keep away the mob from
his office in the Andrassy st.
The railways in Hungary, in Rou-
mania ard in every country, though
worn out by the war. are always
crowded, with people clinging to the
roofs of the coaches. thick as flies.
summer and winter. About the sta
tons are big crowds of men, women
and children, swarming up and down.
waiting whole days and nights for
trains.
Where are all these people going
TOT" the correspondent asked a con-
ductor at Bucharest
he stared moment in astonish-
ment. why, anywhere, nowhere" he
answered. They are just taking a
ride. They're travel mad"