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Show WOULD DOUBLE RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY The Scripps -Howard newspapers have statred a movement to double dou-ble recreational travel in America. "Let's make at a $15,000,000,000 business,"they say. In view of the fact that Utah has 24 major scenic attractions and more than 124 minor scenic attractions and is located lo-cated on the cross roads of the nation, the Utah department of publicity and industrial development develop-ment is heartily in accord with the suggestion. The Srcipps-How-ard people mention Ralph Towle, the high American Express company com-pany official and his prophecy. Said Mr. Towle, "This 5 or 6 billion bill-ion dollar travel bill of the American Amer-ican people is nothing compared with what it will be 10 years from now. I estimate it will be ten billion bill-ion annually." Garth Cate, nationally nation-ally recognized travel expert predicts pre-dicts that Americans will spend 10 billion dollars for vacation travel in 1946. Utah's l-48th would a-mount a-mount to 208-million something to reach for. Highly significant are questions the Scripps-Howard people ask: "Why have we been working for the last year (and very successfully) success-fully) to interest the department stores in the sales-making potentials poten-tials in basing year-around merchandise mer-chandise promotions on recreational recrea-tional travel?" Why have we suggested sug-gested that basic amateur photography photo-graphy be taught in high schools?" "Why have we presented the new trends in vacations, the up-surge in hunting and fishing and camp-ping?" camp-ping?" Because, they say: "We believe that vastly increased recreational travel will spread employment in all trades, and profesions, and create cre-ate employment in the service and transportation trades, and thus cushion the shock when the 'postwar' 'post-war' production boom is over; that it can be a major contribution contribu-tion to the maintenance of full-employment. full-employment. We believe that li billion dollars spent voluntarily b . the people of the U. S. in recrea- tional pursuits would be more effective ef-fective than 30 billion dollars spenl . by the Government in 'make work |