East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-07-31

ilspiay idea by establishing q special
department for that purpose At that
time there was much comment on the
Innovation
'.It can't be done. flow on Garth
an YOU make window display Of
rs?" "Once you've put your tires
n the window--that's all you can do"
we're few typical comments.
But the fact remains that Goodyear
window Displays have helped in the
baking OF extremely attractive stores
I'd have aided mighty In selling mill
.ons OF Goodyear Tires--and many
're manufacturers. following the ex-
,mple Of that company. now have win
low display departments.
| America Is spending her 1920 sum
n-er vacation seeking recreation. out
door air and scenery. Her 8,000,0OO
motor ears are furnishing the trans
portation: over 100000 miles ~
roads spanned by vast stretches Of
scenic wealth supply the routes.
| From the business man, mecban'c
or farmer who steals'a day or two q
4 time for local jaunts. to the motto =
who rambles for weeks or months on
y carefully prearranged sched"'e,
every owner of motor car Is In the
midst of spell of motorlust.
Never before in the history of "as-
cline. motors. tires and. good roads
have the responses to the call of tho
open road been so pronounced. 20
IL the banner year of all time for mo
tor travel.
The favorite trails and haunts of the
motor vacationjst are clogted and
overlooking and will remain so until
well into the mounth of September
Reports sent in to the travel and trans
port bureau of the r. f. Goodrich
Rubber Company, from resorts. ma
tional parks. and tourist associations,
declare that all previous touring rec
ords have gone by the boards THIS In
spite of the fact that the peak of the
touring season will not come until the
middle of August.
An accurate check on the extent Of
national touring is had from the Good
rich reports, which eminate from Am
erica's leading tour ob1ectives. For in
stance, people from the Atlantic sea-
board territory. the South and the
Mid West as well as New Englanders
by the White Mountains district of |
New Hampshire. Exhilerating air, !
fishing, and just plain ''resorting" at |
tracts thousands of Michigan and Wis
consn. The magnetic force of Cum 4
berland mountain trails near Ashville, I
~. c. and the historic interest near
entices Eastern and
motorists: the national parks
or the Rocky Mountains are teeming
with motor campers and sight seers,
and long caravans of tourists are ex-
periencing the scenic lures and smooth
highways of California and the Pacific
Northwest
Statesnents from few of the auto
mobile tourist hotbeds made to the
Goodrich bureau indicate that the
exodus of Americans to European bat
lefields has had not the slightest ef-
'ect on Seeing America First. Some
IF the statements follow:
Pacific Northwest Touring associa-
ion: Records OF hotel reservations
nd from all other sources of infor :
nation the automobile tourist travel
o the Pacific Northwest promised a
ew weeks ago to be 100 per cent !
reater than last year which was far 4
way the greatest year in our history c
Asheyille, \. c. Touring Bureau h
Tourist travel in automobiles almost I
ouble that of last wear and easily 4
vice as much as two years ago. Roads r,
, Western North Carolina in prime OF
al
Yellowstone National Park Service: o
We expect greatest season this year ),
ark roads opened earlier than ever Il
efore and in splendid condition des
ite record SHOWS W
Michigan Tourist and Resort Asso- b
alton: Based on more than double "a
umber of inquiries and large actual Al
believe tremendous in OF
ease" A
New England; We find greater n,
ercentage of people travelling with h,
itomobiles throughout this section CO
IAN ever before as highways are all
good condition throughout New 81
ngland section" til