The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-08
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TOUR EUROPE
Americans Disseminated
Against In Rates and
Charges
SPOTTED FEVER
IN POLAND
Unsatisfactory Food In Germany =
Americans In France and England
May Be Tied Up By Industrial Diff
ficulties.
fculues..
by DAVID LAWRENCE.)
Downright by The Reformer.l


WASHINGTON, May S.-DisGuieting
reports have reached the United States
government concerning conditions in Eu-
rope that should discourage American cit
liens from going to the continent, These
reports have not been made public because
the government here has already been
pressed from every side to lift the re-
strictions ON passports and there is no
reason why the American government
should court the displeasure Of those Eu-
ropean countries which are eager to have
American tourists come abroad to spend
their money.
The writer has obtained survey of con-
dltlons IN Europe as revealed in official re-
ports and while France and England are
much better off than other countries,
nevertheless transportation facilities every
where are crowded to the limit and Amer
lean tourists are finding it uncomfortable
to move around
Fortunately France and England are
not i'll bad shape as eastern and souti
ern Poland and parts of Germany Ty-
| phoid fever and spotted fever have come
over the borders of Soviet Russia into
| Poland and while the Poles are striving
| hard to care for the patients, there are
difficulties galore in handling the situa-
ton. Food in Germany is hardly of the
| best and anyone who needs care and nour-
! ishment ought not to risk his or her
| health in tile central empires. The de-
partment of state is not issuing passports
ito any of the Central European countries
1 but at the same time there is no restriction
upon Americans going into Germany when
once they are in France or England or
Belgium.
Perhaps the most embarrassing phase of
the whole situation is the way the Eu-
ropeans are increasing their prices and
discriminating against Americans. This
is most noticeable. in Germany where the
supposition that all Americans arc
! wealthy is the basis for higher, prices for
meals or rooms or goods wanted by the
American traveller than the Englishman
or Frenchman. 1t is not an uncommon
occurrence to find an American paying
1 fifty marks for something which the Eng
4 lishman is asked IS marks and the
FIenchman 30 and possibly everybody else
only so.
j! Much of the same discrimination pre-
u walls in England and France though III bott
countries the governments are doing thell
4 utmost to keep it under control. They
realize that American tourists will not
long submit to such discrimination anc
Europe is too anxious to have American:
come abroad to spend their money to carry
the game too far On the other hand
accommodations are difficult to get and tn,
PAW of supply and demand is to some cx
tent responsible for the high rates being
l charged Then, too, there is a common
impression that every American who comes
abroad gets lot of money when III
changes his dollars into marks or francs
or English pounds For many months
Europe has suffered from the effects Of TIN
unfavorable rate of foreign exchange il
endeavoring to buy commodities i'll The
United States, and the American tour
list is now paying some of that deficit
Aside however from physical conditions
Of travel with hotels crowded, trains taNet
10 the very doors and aises, and gooC
food scarce in many parts OF Europe
there are certain dangers of blow N
that may any day cause American tour
lists inconvenience. Nobody can foretel
the future but the number Of strikes ant
industrial disturbances is increasing. II
one case Americans who went from Parl
to a seaport town to get their ship TO
America found a dock strike and mas
much as the sailing of the vessel wa
postponed they pleaded with the steamship
officials to let them aboard the ship a