Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-14
Senator Plans Flower Trip
Reynolds Maps 30-Day Journey to
West Coast for 500.
BYJOHN Jay DAILY.

~ ENATOR BOB REYNOLDS Of
~ North Carolina has got the
wanderlust. So ne intends TO
- hit the long, long trail. swing
around the circle from Washington to
Canada, to the West Coast, to Mexico,
and back again-in fiivver and
trailer-and do it all in 80 days and
on 500.
On September l the former cowboy.
sailor, lumberjack and soldier Of for
tune who now occupies a seat in the
United States Senate Is going to take
q month of to see America. He's been
around the world once, and has writ
ten two travel Observation-Disclosures"
and Gypsy Trails"-but he has yet
to see the Alamo and Calamity James
old Dugout at Deadwood, S. Oak.
what want to do" Senator Rey-
nolds said today, rs blaze the trail
for Americans-show EN- how to see
their own country In q limited time
and on a small amount Of money.
Chance for Education.
We've got more good roads, more
automobiles and more places Of in
terest than any other country on earth
I'm lighting out of Washington soon
as Congress closes shop, and I'd like
to have the youth OF America follow
my example-even' If they have to
splay hockey from school. They'd learn
more running around America than
they would in the class rooms, any
way. Travel is liberal education"
With his old friend, Col. Leo Cadi-
son of North Carolina, sub, Senator
Bob and darky-niechanic cook and
chauffeur-win start on the journey
from the East front Of the Capitol
The first stop is Annapolis. There
they will visit the Naval Academy.
After that, the Liberty Bell and indie
pendence Hall at Philadelphia. Then,
the Military Academy at West Point.
New York follows-with q peep at
Radio City, and-but the Senator bet
ter not let the folks back home know
this-Grant's Tomb.
After Boston and stroll around the
Common, the caravan goes to Niagara
Falls to look over the brides and
groons. Then across the river to Can
ada. At Windsor the party crosses
over to Detroit where they make the
kind of trailers the Senator plans to
travel in-sleep, eat and cook
Other points Of interest are the
Rushmore Memorial in South Dakota.
Pixies Peak. the Garden of the Gods.
in Colorado: Yellowstone National
Park, the Great Salt Lake, Boulder
Dam. the Yosemite Valley and the
movie colony at Hollywood.
Texas and Louisiana.
At Nogales. Ariz.. the Senator and
his companions will cross over into
old Mexico and then back to see the
Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.
Then to San Antonio. Tex. to visit
the shrine Of Davy Crockett at the
Alamo-on to New Orleans. to st.
Augustine, northward through the
Smoky Mountain National Park. near
Asheville, N. c.. to the Mammoth Cav
ems in Kentucky. and back to the
starting point by way OF Alexandria
with stop-overs at Monticello and
Mount Vernon.
IF I can do all that on 500. as I
plan" Senator Reynolds says. 1T
ought to be q mighty good example
for the youth Of America. want to
get the boys out on the road. It'll
do EN- eood-show 'em America, and
if they get to know their own land
they'll make better citizens. Yes
street"
The Senator's itinery calls for
$500 miles-so there is no time to
lose. 1t means getting started each
morning at 4 O'Clock and driving until
8 o'clock at night-about Is hours a
day.
And If I can stand that pace" the