Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-07-23 | Page 4 | Vacations in Wartime

p. p 7 Vacations in Wartime p ISHER HARRISS HARRIS'S patriotic slogan which bich T L Dated in the years of peace in Salt Lake See Sec America First just an idle phrase until Europe wa was involved in war Then people saw that tho European European Euro Euro- penn watering places were shut off and for the first firstI I t i t tune in their lives they turned their faces to the pleasure pleas pleas- ure Ufe resorts of America The result was marvelous for not only r did they find sights and pleasures rivaling Europe's but the they discovered that they aided themselves themselves them them- selves as IS they spent their money in the channels of or American business Now vacations vacation's realm is narrowed even more as ns j demands on the railroads railroads for the transportation o of Essentials makes it wisdom to abandon pleasure trips which require the railroad facilities so 60 o needed for the movement mo of troops and supplies As a result we find the he rc realm lm of the st narrowed down to 10 his native state or those parts which may be reached b by automobile or other modes of travel which have hn not yet been made iI a a part of the great national transportation tion tio system 0 This does docs not mean that the Uie vacation has hns lost its lures and pleasures A A. man without an automobile can I continue to visit the canyon canon or many ninny other places within w walking distance to find relief from worries of the office f ce At tho the same time his bis vacation docs does not interfere interfere inter inter- interfere fere with national efficiency The rhe man with an automobile automobile auto auto- mobile i c cannot find any other points such as ase we e have hae within the immediate vicinity of Salt Lake bake containing t as many scenic wonders wonder and sights of c educational value ite old saying that Familiarity arity breeds contempt was never truer that tha in the case of the who that ho has missed some somo of natures nature's wonders at tome by making long expensive Journeys abroad f f ten Pi Ra