Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
SEE AMERICA FIRST" SLOGAN
FORGOTTEN AS EUROPE LURES
$500, 100000 Being Spent Abroad Annually
By Tourists, Many of Whom Overlook
Wonders of Our Own Country.

| There can be no quarrel with that. It
most certainly is the individuals own
business.
But why not continue the effort to
influence that individual to a knowledge
that here in America is the worlds
ideal vacation-land, that it should be
seen by every American, and that the
more one sees of 1t the more one desires
to see and know It's countless, limitlesS
wonders and beauties?
Natural Wonders Remain.
Surely it cannot be that America has
lost the natural wonders-the historic
points of interest-which in former
years lent so much substance to the
concerted campaign to direct the at
tention of Americans to their own
America.
That foreign travel exerts a strong
allure cannot be gainsaid, and there Is
no thought that it should cease. How
ever is it not possible that many who
do go abroad have overlooked the many
things which their own land has to
offer the tourist and vacationist?
North, East, South. West, in every
direction one turns, this country offers
natural beauties and points Of interest
which compare favorably with any to
be found elsewhere, and in scores OF
instances are not approached anywhere
throughout the world.
Switzerland's mountains are pygmies
beside the rugged splendor OF the
American Rockies. Our manifold sea-
side resorts are not bested by Ostend,
Cannes. Nice. The Rivera offers no
more dangerous climate than Florida
nor Southern California. What lakes
are more beautiful than those OF the
mountains of Pennsylvania or New
RnSm0n0l1tAn
centers than New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago, Washington, San Francisco?
Where more atmosphere than in New
Orleans?
What place in the world has more
spots and things of interest to 1t than
those in juxtapcsition to Washington,
the Nations Capital? An hour by
motor from Washington will reveal to
the motorist more historic and natural
things of interest than any other hours
motor tour in the world. Yet millions
that have never seen the sights that are
afforded him near his own country S
Capital.
How many Americans who in latter
years have made the beautiful Rhine
trip ever travelled q packet down the
Mississippi? How many who have
wandered about Heidelberg's ancient
university buildings ever idled along
Princeton's shaded walks? And are
Norway's fjords more enchanting than
1.-The stern and rockbound coast" OF
Maine?
Thousands of Americans have seen
the field of Waterloo. One wonders
of that number how many have ever
gazed upon Yorktown, the Underwater
Virginia village which should be the
shrine of every loyal citizen.
The tomb of Napoleon each year
draws countless Americans. In Spring.
field, Ill, there lies buried not only
one of the greatest Americans, but one
of the towering, monumental figures
of all hlstory-Abraham Lincoln. The
eyes of the world are focused more and
more upon his character. How many
Americans who have visited Napoleon's
bier have seen that Of the Empanci-
pator, located in a veritable wonder
land of agricultural richness?
National Park Beauty Unsurpassed.
The great national parks and ma
tional forests of the United States offer
vacation grounds of unsurpassed beauty
beauty of a more breath-ta ma
ture than any Europe has to offer.
And If the legendary romance of Sa-
haran days Is so compelling, the Great
American Desert surely provides rich
lore as well as every natural concom-
liant of the storied African waste.
Strike out where the tourist will in
this country, he cannot but encounter
scenes which will make as lasting an
impression as those to be found with
out these borders. So lavishly has
America been endowed that it encom-
passes within its own frontiers the adj
Vantages and attractions Of a score Of
nations.
This year, especially, why not spend
some of that 800,000,000 treasure in
the United States and really and truly
See America First?