Show THEY ARE COMING this year they are seeing america first which means when translated out of the bromide in prophetic english that it will not be the last time they will see it for the wide open spaces of the united states its mighty waters and its towering mountains its far reaching horizons rolling prairie sand dim forests have a charm which we doubt any part of europe can excel and few indeed equal seeing america first means that you are not seeing it last the trouble has been to get the dwellers by our eastern seashore to look upon it for the first time but now since they must go some where in the summer season and europe is barred they must perforce look us over we will need no rehearsals for the review let nature smile as is her wont and there will be charm enough to serve as an invitation to call again which will be sure of acceptance secretary of the interior lane estimates that heretofore spent in europe by our summer tourists will this ye year ar be scattered in travel between the atlantic and the gulf the secretary puts it down in plain figures and bases his estimate on the unprecedented flood of inquiries as to our great national parks and the increasing number yosemite and others and between these high spots in their road lie worlds of beauty and of romance and of historical association cia tion for though we have no ruins of our own we have many spots where we once made ruins of others trying to make ruins of us 0 |