Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-02-01 | Page 16 | Enjoyment Lacking in Italy Travel

ENJOYMENT LACKING IN IT At Y IRA VEL VELV 1 V Worried el l l et Busl s Men 1 11 I Find Ind Rail R l and Sea Routes J Unsatisfactory r Irl BY I r. r t n t n I II S Hi 1 n I eu Jets N S SenJ Service cr Io and tuition I JaM u Ex Express I rl Traveling u. Tra In Inis Ita Italy nomo Pomo Jan 31 is Js still Ull far from being a pleasure Trains are crowded and none too plen plen- The tourist In search earch of or enjo enjoyment enjoy enjoy- ment Is la likely to arrive o at his hlA Journeys Journey's Journeys Journey's Jour jour- lIC ney's S end y cled disheveled and ana wholly disillusioned 1 A watchful eye eo must be bc kept on lu lug lue- habit of or vanishing vanishIng vanish vanish- g-a g gage c. c Hand Band kit ha has a Ing ins amo almost t under tho owners owner's eyes Nimble Nimble fingered fingered gentry hove hll boci beca known to lift all 11 the portable possessions possessions posses posses- brief his alom of or a ao o voyager during Recently a absence in a din dining Ins cur cal officer stepped out of or his ma sleeping compartment at Rome minus all aU luggage e and Ills his tunic The They had boon Ion abstracted through the open window during a halt In the tho nl night ht All AH his papers paper wore toro missing and he ho had hail some somo difficulty at first in proving pro that ho lIe was what he was as In n Tourists are arc still In the tho minority the Worried business men constitute bulk of ot tho the traveling tra public 1 You ou meet meat keen American banking agents English commercial men quite a num num- number ber Jor of or French and even en a few German German German Ger Ger- man representatives cs on the main hi high high- h- h creeping back ways The Germans aro aio slowly Two of or them sat tI In the tho lounge loungo of oC a Rome Home hotel last night arms arm length of oC a British officer and talked loudly oud of or tho the failure of oC lin BritIsh British Brit Brit- tish t- t ish policy In Syria Tho American hustlers arc are driven r ron on to despair Those I have o met are arc making mak mak- ing lightning trips to Italy and Franco for or a rapid SUf O survey of or tho the financial situation sit sit- They Thoy want to dart about as tile they do at home Slow trains madden them their passports drive thong thom to despair The Tho make things as ns easy aa nn possible The They aro are Invariably courteous and anti helpful Yet Tot the TI regulations regulations regu regu- lations In iu themselves make tra gU 1 a leisure leisurely business Cully CotI l Departure by boat is an even en greats greater great great- s I er trial A good man many people are w just juat jost now to go o to lo E Egypt pt PermIssion Permission Per Per- mission Is fairly cas easy to obtain a aberth aberth berth herth Is far tar harder A fortnightly service Ico front from Taranto and another from Gen Genoa a and Naples are arc inadequate to earn carr carry all who wish to cross tho Mediterranean One company compan Insists on half the passage money being forfeited forfeited for for- if the ticket holders do not sail suit Four British passengers detained be beyond beyond be- be I yond ond sailing time b by congestion con on the time I railways s 's had to pa pay tSO for tor the ex- ex ex The rho country countr IH in i badly cramped b by Jt Its Inadequate railway facilities Italy Itah suffers even cn more than her neighbors from rom lack of oC good wagons Needed Imports pile up 1111 near tho tiro frontier and at seaports factories cannot get raw materials Letters from England Englan 1 take four or five lve da days s sometimes a a. week telegrams from front one part of or the time country to another spend a n. da day often three on the Journey Journe The telephone service Is nearly as bad as ns in England Ian I of 31 Money Ione one one- 7 I Paper money Is 13 er e everywhere You I accumulate handfuls of ot 5 lire notes J I i u worth orth toda loda today about s. s instead of oC U Is i and of oC smaller scraps of or tattered marked 1 i lira which i greasy currency I dl ido o themselves into fragments in a most malignant fashion Yet In spite of or the topsy toPs of or things s tho tangled tang politics and land more moro tangled tang currency nc there Is nn an at- at of oC real optimism In the business busi busl- uess ness world Merchants and bankers ore are fully alive ali to the dangers clangers and difficulties dif dif- s of ot Italy's Hals present situation I but they the aio aro striving earnestly to surmount surmount surmount sur sur- mount them I The Tho a agent of or a lar largo o American I financial group tol told me that In hH his I talks talles with representative men who want rant substantial a advances ances in order to hasten recuperation ho was Impressed by by- their attitude e The They did not try to minimize or distort facts rhe They even rejected some soma of ot the illusions which aro are clung clun to In other countries For Kor example some of or them say quite frankly frank frank- ly that they see no hope of or a salvation salvation salvation salva salva- tion In a German Indemnity Germany the they are prepared to write off ort so far faras faras faras as financial help la is concerned They The want ant t to ty tight fight their theIra way a out of or the slough h with the help of ot friends abroad