Evening star., 1930-06-01
70 Dobo,t,ueut Has Learned AbOut annual Exodus Ot
Uncle Sam s Children
and the Reasons tor
the Amazing Increase
in Foreign 7ra0eL

There are those who go to Rome or 10 Cne
Holy Land on religious pilgrimages
And of course, there is the ubiquitous traV-
cling salesman who may be selling shoes OF
tractors in Argentina, the capitalist VINO goes
abroad about foreign loan, the lawyer looking
at nroperty which is being offered for security.
the buyers of clothes and perfumes as well as
the buyers of raw materials, textiles or meat,
the buyers of jewels and antinques, WITH
sprinkng of financial advisers to foreign gov
ernnentS.
rrbere is the artist who must paint Euro
moan cathedral because somehow he feels that
it has more spiritual value merely because IL Is
European than would the dome or the Columns
of St John the Divine. There are the singers
who must make a European debut or concert
tour But alas! there no American lee
tlrers going abroad to aff1ict them as they
do
Harry K Thaw was once reported to have
gone abroad because his particular brand OF
cigarettes made in London, had run out ana
he couldn't get any more in America Ihe
son of a famous orator Is living abroad because
of the prohibition law.
Prosperity, easy money and several important
events have stimulated the "go spirit In Amer
ica in recent years. The World war gave MIL
lions of Americans their first glimpse OF for
eien soil They saw England, France, Italy or
Russas under abnormal conditions, and they
want to see those countries again under nor
NAL conditions The American Legion re-
tions and now the Government Is sendlng tne
Gold Star Mothers When one member Oh
family has gone abroad, the others want TO co.
too and eventually most of them do.
Sv~IE next largest class of travellers are the
nat,,ralized Americans who want to go
hack to see the "old folks" or their sisters ana
brothers and their friends. With them family
ties are stronger than the desire to accumulate
wealth. for many of them go on sums which
natiye-born American would not consider ade~
uIate to permit him to travel. In this group
also, comes a considerable number of natur-
allied Americans who have saved CONSIDER
able sum and want to go back and live In lord~
Iv fashion in the old home town. Even num-
dred dollars will enable them to DO so Tor
short time in parts OF Central Europe, wnere
manv persons seldom see money at all.
Some of them sail with the expectation or
living the rest of their lives abroad but only
''strut their stuff" for about six months before
they come pell-mell into the office Of the nearest
limited States consul and want to know what
to do to get back to America. They have got
used to creature comforts in America Whicn
they find it almost impossible to do without.
It is the old story of the country boy Who hav-
ing made good in the city, longs to return to
the farm, and when he does he finds that MS
life is no longer attuned to the tempo of farm
life
It seems odd that Americans in this day and
age should be colonizers, but each year the
State Department issues papers to quite num-
ber of persons who are going to some remote
region to live. For instance, there are about
$50 Americans living on the river rubber plan
tations in Sumatra, and recently numbers OF
Young oil men have been going to the same
island not to mention the considerable num-
ber of Americans connected with business en-
terprises in other portions Of the East, Neak
East and all over Europe.
Thus the great American exodus goes on an
nually-wanderers who desire to get the havOk
of Ellrope'S scenery wines and old masters.
and to bring home fragrant memories of lands
and peoples who are different" Meanwhfie
they are unwittingly balancing the international
payments Of those foreign lands to the United
(COpyright, I98ol