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fessor of botany or geology. Reference
to these organizations will appear in
The Guide as well as much Informal
ton for motorists, as we'll as travellers
their excursions.
"Of course, we shall not neglect the
traveller of means. Abundant informa-
ton TO help the members i'll planning
by rail or air. will be included, giving
the best routes of travel and telling of
places worth seeing both along the
popular highways and the roads which
lead off from the beaten track
Guide Will Aid Business.
The stimulation which will be given
the See America First movement
through the publication Of The Ameri-
can Guide and the local guides will
have favorable influence everywhere.
Through the use of the guides, people
will find new centers of interest in
| their towns and vicinities which they
will want to visit for their own ainuse-
ment and instruction or for the en-er-
tainment Of guests. Americans are
famous for their love of novelties end
The Guide will outline tours of scenic
and historic sights which will make
access TO communities easy and pleas
urable for strangers. This does not
mean that The Guide will in any way
interfere with private publications. On
| the contrary by revealing the interest
! ing sights to be encountered along the
highways and by ways of the land, it
should augment the use of the private
publications
The nationwide quickening of in
terest in the sights and advantages
which America has to offer Americans
will develop traffic most noticeably III
many sections now unappreciated,
directing into their restaurants, hotels,
| boarding houses and commercial
establishments transient customers from
many other cities and states.
The increased acquaintance with
America by Americans, it is expected,
will go much further than merely in
creasing the temporary satisfaction OF
vacation making. Families will wish
to relocate amid new scenes where they
will have pleasanter surroundings. or
better educational advantages for their
children, or where they can find more
congenal forms of employment or out
lets for their business enterprise.
Helps for Foreign Visitors.
| According to report recently pub
lished, the number of Europeans travel
ing in America is rapidly increasing
Descriptions in The Guide will give
foreign sightseers new and stronger
reasons for coming here. With their
present limited facilities for obtaining
knowledge of this country, most for
eigners arrive with very limited
conceptions of what they want to see
and where they want to go. OF course
all desire to visit New York City and
Washington, .. c., they have all heard
of Niagara Falls. the steel mills OF
Pittsburgh, the stockyards Of Chicago
and the automobile plants of Detroit
Unfortunately, the belief is current IN
lsome places abroad that the redskins
still haunt the primeval forests sup
posed to begin Just north of Yonkers
and that the traveller in America is
constantly exposed to the danger OF
being scalped.
i Every community of the United
/,
States desires to assure foreigners that
it is competent to protect visitors as
well as to show them sights to interest
and edify them. The Guide will I'M
questionably give smaller communities
the best opportunity which they have
ever had to gain the attention OF for
eigners as well as of native Americans.
The Guide as Period History.
From the point of view Of the student
Of history, The American Guide will be
an epochal publication. The nations
of old made the first essays in govern
ment sponsored history writing. The
inscriptions which they had cut on
columns, pyramids arches and The
walls and sides Of public buildings sur
vive to give US many facts of antiquity
which would have been buried IN
the rubbish of fallen cities, if their
permanent recording had been left to
private initiatives In The Guide, the
government will have prepared period
history of America and the American
people which will far transcend in its
variety of topics and accuracy OF re-
porting the engraved records left by
ancient races Historians generations
hence, will look upon The American
Guide as. mine of information from
which to reconstruct the past and 1t
will always, while civilization lasts
serve to assert and establish countless
details which form the background Of
Twentieth Century culture.
Conservation Stimulated.
The inspiration which localities will
derive from having their notable
features presented to the world through
an authentic publication of the Gov
eminent is expected to advance the
efforts now more or less sporadic, to
preserve national literary and historic
\ shrines, to exploit scenic wonders and
to develop natural advantages such as
mines and quarries. 1t is automatic
that people often underrate their adj
vantages and possessions urftif outsiders
begin to take an interest in them, and
the nationwide discussion of the
treasures and natural resources OF the
communities will reawaken, or perhaps
awaken for the first time, in them a
sense of local pride of possession When
| we read the reports Of Psychologists
and learn how the tombs of the ancients
have been invaded and spoiled by the
people living about them, we are wont