Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28
EUROPEAN TOURIST
TRADE IS GROWING
Tremendous Increase |
| Noted in Recent Years.
Visa Fees Abolished.
By JOHN r. SINCLAIR.
al Dispatch to The Star.

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Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, October 28.-SissleI
Huddleston believes the timetable l:
q most effective means of promoting
peace among nations.
Hundreds Of thousands of time tables
Of foreign railroads are distributed in
the United States every year. Tourists
expecting to Summer abroad go over
these carefully during the Winter and
work out their plans It is estimated
that the traveller going to Europe spends
about $l,254 on the trip. This, OF
course, is the average.
Tourist trade has been of distinct Serv-
ice in helping to rehabilitate Europe
since the war. American tourists 10
years ago spent $50,000,000 aboard; in
1890 they spent $150,000,000, and by
1928 this amount had leaped to $780,
600 900. Two hundred million dollars
was added in 1925, and this last year
the sum has gone over $800,000,000.
So~now throughout the entire world,
governments are working hand in glove
with transportation systems to attract
the visitor to their particular countries.
Every effort is being made to do away
with visa fees. Some countries still have
them, but these are fewer all the time,
ing various other plans OF taxation that
discourage travel.
"FSow are the citrus growers, espe-
cially those dealing in grapefruit, going
4, to survive In Florida If they cannot
send their fruit out of the Slater" asked
reader.
This problem has already been solved
by the use of heat sterilization OF
Florida grapefruit which is used in
the packing houses preceding the pack
ing Of the fruit.
Last week United States Secretary Of
Agriculture Hyde announced that this
meshod had practical application In the
case Of some 20 carloads of fruit which
sold ct top prices In the Northern mar
kets. 1t must be understood. however,
that no method Of sterilization is of
value In the case of infected fruits or
vegetables. They are destroyed by the
packing plants themselves.
The plan, worked out by the research
department of the Department of Ag-
ricUlture, is of great benefit to the fruit
industry of Florida, California and
Texas. 1t will allow these States to
carry on their work in an orderly way
with the least possible expense, all the
time keeping up a relentless warfare
against the Mediteanean fruit fly.
Finland, world famous for athletic
prowess, until now has never had golf
healthy, rudy compilations and their
physical and mental vigor.
Helslngfors. the capital, is one Of the
most lovely cities in Europe. It has a
style of architecture which would grace
any city In the world. HelsingforS re-
mfads one of the beautiful Swiss cities
clean, orderly, fresh.
Now private golf course is being
built for the use Of the officials of the
KyInmene Co., one of the great paper
mill organizations In Finland It Is ex-
pected the links will be completed in
the Spring of 1880.
This is the first attempt to build a
golf course in the Far North. The
grasses which are used in other coun-
trieS for greens will not grow in Fin
land, so native grasses are being tried.
It Is expected the course will be played
from the middle Of May until the mid
die Of September. If this effort proves
successful a full 18-hole course will be
constructed.
The Institute of Pacific Relations
meets at Kyoto, Japan, today. It should
be an epoch-making and historical
gathering. Something beyond good will
and courage are needed If the present
trend toward international cooperation
Is finally to develop and build the per-
marent foundations for warless world.
The international conference, with
delegates from every country interested
In She problems of the Pacific, is ex-
pecsed to take stock of the forces which
make both for peace and for nisunder-
standing.
The United States is represented by
mary of its leading citizens, including
r.. W. Boyden, former unofncial men,
Der Of the reparations commission for
the United States: Jerome D. Green Of
Lee, Higgirson & Co.; Roy w. Howard,
newspaper publisher; Dean Charles e.
Martin, University of Washington,
Seattle; Prof. Quincy Wright, Univer-
sity' Of Chicago, and James G. McDon-
aid, chairman Of the Foreign Policy As
ISOLATION.
Among Great Britain's representatives
are Lord Hailsham, former lord chan
cellar; Malcolm Macdonald, member Of
Parliament, son of the prime minister
and member of the London County
Council; George s. Sale, Hudson Bay
Co., and William Aston, son Of Viscount
Asthr.
Canada has a strong delegation,
headed by the Hon. N. w. Rowell,
Toronto, and including Sir John Arid,
president of the Canadian Bank of
Commerce; William M. Birks, member
OF the boards of directors Of the Bank
Of Montreal and McGill University, and
Tom Moore, president OF the Trades
and Labor Congress Of Canada since
1918.
The meeting is divided into sections,
each dealing with certain specific prob
iems-food, population and land utili-
Sation particularly.
fCoSyriEiat, 1928. by North American News
paper Alliance.l