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Show SEE AMERICA FIRST The lecture which 0 M McFaul d s triet fre ght and passenger agent of the Southern Pacific delivered before mem bers of the Mutual Improvement asao tciat on on See America Frst treats of a theme -nhich should become n creas ngly popular all over the coun & try In the great eastern centers of population it would do much good espe cially now that the Panama Pac fie ex position is so near at hand fcj. The millions which the rich and well to do people of th s country spend each t year can be better spent by a tour of the west Seeing America first does not mean of course merely see ng the , west although this fleet on of the co in try has more to offer in the way of scenic attractions than the east .ev ertheless the east now has its best chance to see the west In poetio language Mr McFa 1 has numbered and described briefly but p c turesquely the beautiful and awe raspir mg natural scenory in Utah in the lellow stone park In the Yosemite val tley and he has told something abo t the histoncal ruins of the old Spanish m ss ons in California and the marvel ous trip by sea to Alaska These are ' the attractions which the people of the east shoujd know about Once they become acquainted with the charms held i out to them by the west they will no longer regret miss ng temporar iy the attractions of a Eu ropean trip and even those jvho can 4 not forget the lure of the d world willbe glad to make a v rtue of neces " 6ity and visit the r own country at a time when it is v rtually impossible for v tfiem to tour Europe because of the war Lectures like the one delivered by Mr McFaul can do much to turn the S tide of travel westward" during 1915 The benefit will be as much for he east as for the west One of the most valuable maxims of the anc ent Greeks was know thyself The md ndual who does not know himself is absolute ly meff cienthe is a failure it were better that a millstone were tied about his neck and that he were cast into the sea. So it is with a people If they do noknow themselves they can not accomplish their dest ny The are nationally meff cient Now is the t me for the east and west to become acqua nted for the mutual jr advantage of both |