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Show STILL AMERICA FIRST. "Stick to America," cautions Francis Fran-cis Miltoun, foreign representative of the Amorlcan Automatic Association, writing in tho April number of American Ameri-can Motorist on the probabilities of motor-touring the European battlefields battle-fields this year. "There's a reason!" exclainis Mr. Miltoun. "The French translate it: 'Et pour cause.' But it is tho same thing which over way it is spelled or pronounced. There has ever been a fascination for touring battlefields, not for morbid, sentimental, or even patriotic reasons alone, but rather from curiosity; war is really so far removed from the minds and intentions inten-tions of most that It is a pardonable desire that we should want to see the singed lanscapo If nothing more. "Gottyburg, Waterloo, and San Juan bill have all found their focus as historic touring grounds; why, then, not the Aisno, tho Marne, tho Somme and the Mouse? But write It down from me there will bo no battlefield bat-tlefield touring in Europe this year. Stick to America, "As I write a friendly neutral, just returned from Switzerland, tells me that automo-blllng automo-blllng in the mountain republic has now come to an end. Tiros are only allowed to be Imported upon government govern-ment ordor; there is no gasoline except ex-cept for most urgent needs; doctors only have free automobile circulation, and thoy practically are running on benzol. This is what war has done for a benevolent neutral. "Tho situation in Italy is practically blocked with tires and petrol and gasoline tied up tight. In England there are few private autos in use that are not on government work, esides, there is the tax on automobiles automo-biles and parts which war brought to free trade England, thus making it a protectionist country, and protectionist pro-tectionist with a vengeance, as, indeed, in-deed, Franco has become. You may import an auto into France only by paying a tax of 70 per cent." |