Evening star., 1925-05-31
BY WILLIAM ULLMAN.

Nnen are you going TO take your
vacation?
Il think I'll wait until October. The
weather's good then. Besides, I like
to feel that my vacation is always
ahead, not behind"
Now if you could follow the typical
car owner with October vacation in
mind you would trip over a very sur
prising fact. Whereas you would
naturally expect him to spend many
pleasant hours pouring over the tour
books in anticipation of that great
Two weeks tour under the azure sky
OF newborn Autumn he is, in re-
alty, busy grumblinE over business
and swatting flies.
We're not going away until Fall. !"
explains Mrs. Typical Car Owner 70
neighbors who appear TO be forever
setting forth upon ideal tours TO
everywhere.
The situation with regard to the
postponed vacation is not what you
would picture it to be. 1t is no Sum
mer of anticipation, but rather a
Summer of fleeing opportunities.
Nowadays when you speak of late
vacation the word late" is used in
very much the way the newspapers
refer to those whose passport into
eternity was but recently issued. A
soodly proportion of October vaca-
tionS never come to pass at all. The
struggle to pull through a devitaliz-
ing Summer. unaided by frequent
recreations with the car. often ends in
n Autumn trip to sanitarium
sometimes business gets tied up in
knot and the postponed vacation goes
over into the next year automatically.
Bird i'm Hand Best.
How many of you are so lucky as to
he totally unfamiliar with the remorse
OF showing the annual two weeks
reYel into the Fall only to discover
that the tires have gone enemic and
that the engine is Choked up with
carbon? How many of you have
never discovered that, in waiting until
Fall, many wonderful opportunities
for trips in Spring and Summer slip
by?
1t has become customary to pity
the man who arrarges for an early
vacation. Poor Blank" says the
office force. He'll be back TO work
June and his vacation will be all
over. Ours will be just commencing. :"
Blank may not fully appreciate it..
but he has the best arrangement of
the lot. He'll go a-touring when the
birds twitter and the world looks
- CSb dlu tHIiNiIS. Tie ii SIP away
TO the land of vitamines and ozone
before some little bug tries 10 hatch
sickness in his system. He'll dash
away TO the boarding houses that are
putting on their best front to bait
the coming throngs of vacationists,
and he'll take TO the open road be-
fore it is cluttered up with the scram.
bling humanity from the sweating
cities.
The man who puts off his annual
tour until the Autumn must assur-
edly avoid congestion, but he gets the
IeaV1ngS. He stops for lunch amid
the tin cans and litter strewn about
by an unthinking horde of Summer
Vacationists. He Chokes on the dust
of full-grown drought. He passes
all the smart mountain resorts that
are closed for the season. Every
where they tell him of the good times
had by those who came earlier.
DO your annual touring early"
one might say, borrowing a line from
the Christmas shopping stimulators.
One Trip Begets Another.
The outstanding advantages of
touring now is that instead of finding
1t all over with, you simply catch the
touring germ and squeeze out any
number of subsequent trips through
out the Summer and Fall. Instead of
finding your vacation a closed book
YOU get the fever and keep on va
cationing.
When the Fourth of July rolls
around you do not remind the family
that the vacation is coming and sug-
Eest the advisa ability of stinting now
in favor of loosening up later Rather
YOU look back over the profitable fea-
tures of the Springtime or early Sum
mer vacation and forthwith pack up
your troubles and tour, tour, tour.
Once YOU have the desire to tour
the details, such as time and the
wherewithal are easily arranged for.
We get what we want-provided we
first get the fever of wanting what
we want
The early tourist catches the germ
that spurs him on to full season of
motoring activity. The first trip of
the year brings such a wealth of
health TO himself and his family that
he will do without a lot OF things rath-
er than forego the opportunity of
taking another trip over the Fourth
or for the labor day holidays He is
4 new man because of his early va
cation, and the extra profits from his
increased Vigor and enthusiasm for
work put him in a position where he
can easily afford to make still further
investments in vacationing.
Meanwhile the typical car owner is
trying to appease a disgruntled fam
lily. The boss notices the work is
slipping badly and that business is
not coming in as it should. Many
bea utiful days pass with the machine
standing idle in the garage. The
family pines for fresh air and, above
all, change from the monotony of
a warm Spring and roasting hot
Summer. The car owner comes home