Show sec firsta relent report from our consul at berne switzerland serves servet to recill recall an admirable piece of work performed a year or so ado ago by secretary of the interior franklin K lane consul william 1 P kent tells us that the tourist business in switzerland which is third in in importance of all the swiss sources source of income has been utterly ruined by the war its ramifications ficat ions are widespread wide spread and affect not only the hotels in which large amounts of capital are invested but also the transportation companies the pur purveyors byors of food the dealers in curios ind and the employment of labor we are sincerely s sorry that disaster has thus overwhelmed the tile swiss tourist trade we should like to see every swiss enterprise inter criter prise prosper america has the N very cry kindliest feeling toward that thrifty nation for it has sent to us some of our most thrifty and useful citizens ni ne and Nit without hout my any selfishness or extravagant self laudation we ne feel constrained to remark that we ne have hac here in in america ill all the essentials of a first class tourist busin business ss of our own on id yellowstone yosemite Yos YOSL imite glacier crater lake grand canyon mt nit ranier mt nit hood mt ahas taNia gira not to mention a thousand other attractions tr actions vc vve have a I 1 variety arit ty and extent of scenery which hill en even en S switzerland itz erland cannot attain this h ahten known knon in 1 I more or its N vague ague ay way iy tor man vears cars lane madette in information available in a ey convenient and ample form by the pu publication bli of I 1 olio of illus illustrated pamphlets which hichi are re distributed d free to the Artieri american iLan people at great fc we e have hac b built uit roads and trails in wr national parks we have hae arran arrants td d for the building build ng of hotels which would provide prude food and for tourists at prices limited by figov eminent regulation illation ula tion railroads have liae esta established convenient service and motor bust buses s are ready to carry the traveler to points bof interact inter ct switzerland has nothing to otter that cannot be had in equal excellence cel cell lence erice in our own fair land like the siss we e have hotels in which large amounts of capital have ben been invested transportation companies purveyors of food and when nhen the war is over we e shall have labor employment Mor moreover coNer we e shall have hae need of all the money we e can get to maintain and extend our ether other indus brits we shall have little to expend in SN switzerland itz erland or any other A country for things we c in get at home horne therefore all patriotic people who really and sincerely relieve in ameriba first will ill plan to do their touring in ill america however ho Never much we may regret the misfortune of switzerland |