Evening star., 1936-10-04
BY JACQUES FUTREI.LE, JR.


n refused to 60 home when Sep
II tember / rang down the cur
4 \ tain on the Summer season.
In wholesale lots, they scoffed at the
traditional fms. 1t was one of the
phenomena of the travel year, and sta
tistics will prove it if one cares to 60
into figures. We won't.
Anyway. resorters have been told
for years that there was another act
a gorgeous one called September-and
this year they, waited to see. Sure
enough, there was! They saw the
flame Of color sweep over the forests
to the north, gradually they shook
off their bathing suits for riding togs
and clumped out in the crisp mornings
for longer hikes, knowing that their
return at midday woud find the sun
friendly, not merciless.
The Summer season for travel starts
slowly in June and, by custom, ends
abruptly on Labor day. It's like q
large, city moving down Ito the sofnce
at the precise hour of 9. Resort and
recreational facilities are taxed to
capacity during those three months,
all too short for a yacation-minded
nation to satisfy its desire for change
in scene. Except for one thing, the
travel season could extend throughout
the year, for there's Florida. the Carib-
bean and California as outstanding
meccas for the colder months. In
fact, they do thriving business now,
but Winter vacations are by no means
as usual. And the reason is, school
tyrant of the children, and, in vaca-
ton, way, of their parents.
THERE is really no solution to this
= We've got to go home and put
Johnny and Mary Ann in school" ;"
For the month of September, though,
the blow can be softened. This is
what members of Adirondack resorts
9ntend to do.
Meeting recently, they inaugurated
q movement to delay the opening OF
schools in New York State. If the
parents want the scheme put into
effect--and hotel owners of this pic
turesque vacation land believe they
will welcome the idea-they can do
something to bring it about. For the
time being, the object is mid-Sep-
tember opening of all schools of the
State This they hope to accomplish
through the State Education Depart
ment.
The fame Of the Adirondacks hav-
ing spread throughout the country,
draws tourists from every State. While
would affect only residents of New
York State, the idea might develop
on a national scale. And If parents
don't like the idea--welI, it's demo-
cratic thing that takes care of itself
automatically. If the stay-lates are
in the minority. Labor day will con-
tinue to call the Nation home, and
only fortunate and relative few will
be able to enjoy freely the charm that
September holds.
CLOSELY allied with Americas
system of education is another
phase of the travel industry-attract-
ing tourists from abroad. This phase
Is languages.
The palatial liners that cleave the
Atlantic are built for and supported
by Americans. Europe has never been
sold on travel. in the United States.
Yankee tourists fill the ships going
across and they fill them coming
back, roughly to the tune Of three
Americans to one foreigner, Lately,
movements have been launched to at
tract Europeans to our shores. Even
an American with a prediction to
travel abroad will admit there Is
plenty to see, and II pressed might
confess that some Of the mightiest
spectacles in the universe spread over
the American scene.
It's an old story now, but Europe