The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-04-08
.HUXSOL HOME
FROM EUROPE
3 MONTHS TOUR GIVES HIM
FIRST HAND IMPRESSIONS
OF OTHER SIDE

When A. w. Huxsol walked into
his drug store Tuesday evening
and hung up his hat behind the
prescription case he completed a
little iaunt Of 26.000 miles that
Included SO of the famous cities
of the world and many Of the spots
around which the history and ira
ditions Of the past 5000 years or
more are woven. The time con-
sumed was three months and six
days.
America, The Unmatched
Once more in his own land, his
own state and town, Mr.. Huxsol
says that the big repeating reac-
ton to the whole experience is
glad satisfaction that he belongs
to America and could come back
\ to it. Liberty, unrestraint, indie.
lpendence, opportunity, plenty are
words that do not fit in most of
the lands of the old world-their
Iopposites must be substituted In
company with Senator Schnitzler
of Froid, Mr.. Huxsol observed the
places and people of which they
have told in four interesting travel
letters, the last of which appears
in this issue. He says it is quite
to picture from imagi-
nation places we have read and
heard of all our lives. In the Holy
Land, to cite an example, the out
standing impression one gets is
the leanness of the country and
poverty Of the people. Palestine
seems a desolate country. The
soil is exhausted and the patient,
drudging population wrest sus-
tenance from it by arduous labor
and ancient methods.
Still Living In The Past
Egypt, the home of the most
ancient civilization of which the
world has record, exhibits the most
marvellous relics of its ancient
energy and enterprise. Through
an abundance Of slaves and the
man power they supplied these
Egyptians accomplished engineer
ing feats that would be tough
propositions today with modern
methods. In great stone quarry
| is an unfinished obelisk, the
largest they ever attempted, a
square shaft tapering from a II
foot base to a point, hewn true
on three sides. 1t lies in hori-
zontal position and is more than
100 feet long, solid granite with
out seam or flaw. But the under
side was never cut loose from the
basic rock. Politics, war or dis
aster, perhaps, interrupted Num-
ferrous other similar shafts of some
I80 feet were finished and erected.
| It is strange to see these people
whose ancestors accomplished
such marvels Of engineering bail
ing water out of the Nile by hand
labor and relaying up the banks
to irrigate small patches of land.
More modern methods are also
used but the peasantry are not in
on these systems.
Government, Plus
Across the Mediterranean sea,
in the so called modern countries
of Europe, the traveller finds an
other world again, but a world diff
fering widely from America.
Busy, bustling Italy under the
iron rule of Mussolini is loaded
down with government. Every
tenth man is a government man
Of some sort. Foreigners residing
there must wear the fascist"
badge. At every boundary line
there must be inspections, duties
or taxes. Farmers must pay~a
tax on their vegetables or eggs
before they can enter a city to
sell the produce. Near Naples is
the partly excavated city of Pom
pei, deeply buried thousands of
years ago by a terrific eruption of
Mt. Vesuvius. There are found,
perfectly preserved, many works
typical Of ancient Rome at the
height of its power and glory.
Thrills Unlimited
1t is obviously impossible to
mention more than mere smat-
tering of the very interesting de-
scriptions and impressions Mr..
Huxsol has fresh in his mind.
Quite appropriate to the theory
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