Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-19 | Page 6 | How to Get Things Done

hand knowledge of the geography of their own country.. But somehow there remain a vast number of Americans with almost no travel in the United States to their credit and who traipse all over Europe to keep up with the Joneses, to view ruins and to furnish easy-money for- tradesmen who harvest the annual crop of our tourists with neatness and dispatch, not to say thoroughness. thorough-ness. They do nothing else. They don't need to. What is to be done about it? Well, congress con-gress might pass a law. Hitler has solved a similar simi-lar problem in his own Inimitable way. German tourists walking about in strange cities with virtually nothing in their pockets are held to give a false idea of the German people. peo-ple. Hence, the reich now forbids its citizens to go abroad with less than 10 marks of capital. "Marginal" tourists taking overnight excursions, excur-sions, say from Berlin to Paris, also are held to "lower the reputation of the German nation" be- ' cause upon arrival the next morning they do not look fresh and clean. The joker in this is that the nazi law does not permit tourists to take more than 10 marks out of the country. The net result is that Germans Ger-mans with wanderlust are just going to have to stay home on week-ends. Thii pales IntoJnsignificance. all the argu ments, campaigns, propaganda and speechmak-ing speechmak-ing designed to provoke Americans voluntarily to "See America First." It still takes Germany to do things the efficient way. How to Get Things Done 4 T THE TURN of the century, the late Fisher v Harris invented a phrase that soon resound ed all over the United States. As secretary of ' the old Commercial club he saw to it that rail-" rail-" ds, hotels, civic organizations and Just about ' N "T other group that could do its part in the , " mary work spread the news of a slogan UM evr since to encourage wanderlust within I ur onal boundaries. "See America First" hlh -oy thought With the coming of good roads ana k VimobUes to traverse them, count- 1 a"ht tfce ide- K probably - r Harris, more than any one man, caused AmeritiIJ to themselves to get first-