The Nome daily nugget., 1936-02-07
See America First" Now
 More Than Just a Slogan

New Hampshire and Connecticut you might well imagine you were on the British Isles. There is a section of the Maine hills which has been called the Scotland of America; 1t is said to resemble the home of the kilt and the bagpipe more than any other place on earth. Leaving New England, you may return home through the Irish hills in southern Michigan, whose slopes and lakes are reminiscent of the ''ould sod"
 You'll find Germany in several places on the United States map. Take moonlight trip down the Hudson river some evening. All you need is the deck orchestra playing "Zwei Hertzen i'm Drei Vertel Tacht" and 1t will be as easy as apple strudel to image you are floating down the Rhine, especially as you pass the "castles" of the United States military academy at West Point. If you're looking less for romance and more for recupera- tion, such as you might find in the baths at Baden Baden. why there are Hot Springs in Arkansas, French Lick in Indiana. Waukesha in Wisconsin and numerous other spas that rank with Europe's finest; you can find the romance there. too. if you want it.
 Or perhaps it's the weather you're worrying about. Sweltering in a stufy office or shop. or toiling in the fields with the torrid summer sun beating down, more than often gives inspiration to fanciful revels in fields of snow, skiing down mountain side or watching your breath dart forth in little puffs of steam as you sigh re- lief in getting away from the heat of July and August Where? At St. Morltz, famed cooling off place of the Swiss Alps?
 Forget the Alps.
 Forget about the Swiss Alps. The | Pacific Northwest Is calling you. Rainier and Glacier National parks, peaks beckon with promise of cool. clear weather and scenery not even surpassed in the Alps, Paradise val ley in Rainier National park Is one of the worlds greatest winter sport cen | ters, and the real winter season lasts well through June. Even after that you will find plenty of snow in the vicinity, for the giant glacier areas haven't yet wilted under the summer | sun.
 l Educational and historical relics, monuments and atmosphere are part
 of the magnet that used to draw American tourists to Europe. It Is true that EurOpe's attractions are dis | tlncty It's own in this respect. By the same token 1t is also true that Amer | ica has tradition and historical educa- ton possibilities that are certainly in-
 dividual. The American tourist has | too often overlooked the lore of old time battlefields and spots consecrat- ed by the blood of his ancestors right
 here at home.
 Historical Trips.
 | The South is replete with such at | tra ctions of more serious nature. So | | of the Middle West. There are many
 tour arrangements that plan complete
 historical trips for the vacationer, sandwiching In enough sport and en-
 tertanment to afford him sufficient
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 bors and keep him from going stale.
 Tennessee. Kentucky, Georgia, Vir-
 ginia, Mississippi and other southern
 states have preserved many of the
 most historic buildings and battletields
 of the Civil war; No Americans edu-
 cation is complete if he has not
 scanned the countryside from the
 crest of Lookout mountain, spent a
 few moments in reverie at the sites of
 the battles of Chattanooga, Chicka-