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SEE AMERICA FIRST. * ? With this great country of ours, so rich in beautiful and interesting at tractions, with its many and vared en vironments, far famed for its numer ous places of historic note, the grand cur of its mountain ranges and the charm of its chain of lakes, magnifi cence of its landscape, the luxuriance of its foliage and the profusion of tho bloom and blossom drenching tho gentle air with sweet perfume, all com bine to create a panorama of almost ?S^Ldrcamed of loveliness and of won J'ful educational value. Then why ^ Jf. see them? Why not go around and get acquainted, and see for your self things you never knew of be fore, and you will he amazed? Now it is for that very reason that the Greater Baltlinoro Committee has launched tho movement to hold a con vention in Baltimore next May that ?will plctorially and i ypographcally show our people the many great things of beauty and interest we have In these United States. We want every body to cooperate with us, and every State in the Union fully represented In the display. "See America P'lrst" is the name we have adopted, and It is the idea to make the exhibition of such educa tional strength that it will serve as a powerful Instructor for Americans of Ameri'v's important attractions that most of them know so little about. The people of our country are fond of travel, but as the prose writer says "the young man's thoughts turn to love In the spring," so does the traveler's thoughts turn to a European trip In the early summer. Then away he goes, and when he returns in several months lie is just bubbling over with delight in describing to his friends the many attractions he saw abroad and telling of the tine time he had. At the same time he does not know a thing about the great attractions in America, be cause he has never seen them. Now it is all very nice <o make a trip abroad whenever you can arrange to do it, but by all means see America first. Why within a few hours of Bal timore, Phlldelphio, New York or Bos ton, there is unexcelled scenery and numerous places of Instructive and en tertaining interest. What makes a more delightful trip than diving in (lie exhilarating sea wa ter at such resorts as Old Point, Capo May, Atlantic City and many others that hug the Atlantic coast? Or If you are fond of mountainous life, what is more enchanting than a sojourn in the Blue Ridge or Adirondacks. or a mid-summer trip over the Rockies? If you are fond of hunting, you, can get all kinds of. game and all the fun and entertainment you want right, here In tho East, and In the White Mountains and other places, as well as in many places in the far West. If ?v you want to study game, go to the Na tional Forest in Oklahoma, which Is > a perpetual breeding ground for Amer ican game. It would startle us to know the number of European travelers that scour the Alps, motor in Franco, run through Spain for tho picturesque, and Actually do not know that we have in this country many peaks nobody has climbed; that there is In the very heart of America most . picturesque turquoise mines from which the finest pewel In King Alfonso's crown was taken, and that we have a sphinx In the West that antedates Egyptian nr ehaeogy by S.000 years, stone lions older than the columns of Phrygia, tho beautiful Yellowstone Park and the California orange groves. Or if you arc fond of the rugged mountains, with pleasant and refreshing atmos phere and nature's beauty and loveli ness in the streams of water that wind their way down the hills and through the fertile agricultural valley to the big rivers, wo have them right here in Maryland. If it is rh ? life and wild scenery you are afteT, where can you match Thousand Islands and the Adirondack region? Think of Niagara Falls, sec V ^ only in natural wonder to the . alls of Zambesi and so much more ? easily reached. If you want good sal mon or trout fishing, you can get plen ty Of it In the bright waters of Maine or in Columbian River. For the business man who wants to study commercial and Idustrlal con ditions In his travels, he will find plenty to Interest him In tho nimense manufacturing plants and enormously large commercial houses distributed throughout tho country, humming ac tively and prosperously and standing as monuments to America's wonderful Industrial and commercial develop ment. Now I have only reforrod to a few ?of the thousands of most Interesting things this country is enriched with, and wheh so very many of tho people that go abroad know so little about. Seo America first, and then you will ^'better appreciate the Importance and grandeur of your home country. I am rollably informed that th State Department of Washington a record showing that ab^ut r .Americana go abroad r cabin passengers and about 70,600 in the steerage, and that they spend around $200,000,000 exclusive of money spent for Jewelry and clothing. Now why not distribute some of that money among our own people in seeing Amer ica first and go abroad later on if you feel like it. Seeing America before going abroad affords opportunity to contrast this beautiful and promising land with for eign countriea. The contrast will even astonish American travelers. The United States contains as many at tractive spots as the whole of Europe possesses. To make the favorable con trast and be able to speak a good word for one's own country and be contented with its advantages as a land In which to live and die, strength ens patriotism and loyalty. How ro sorts have seen the great Natonal Parks which have been created by Congress for the benetlt of the Ameri can people and in which there arc na tural features and views that can not be surpassed. If the traveler seeks Alpine glaciers, he has only to go to Glacier National Park, where there are more glaciers in the same acre than in Switzerland, and if he wants to travel over finely built roads that rival those of Franco, Swtzerland and Germany, the Yellow stone Park extends an invitation to him. The forests on the slope of the Sierra Nevadas in the Yosemito, Se (|uonla and Genoral Grant Parks are more majectls, and Impressive than the Rick Forest of Europe, and the snow clad peaks of Mount Rainer In the State or Washington, will furnish sport enough to make the most daring for get the varied sports to be found in Buropeon travel. This is the reason we are planning to hold a great big exhibition right here In Baltimore?to show Americans some of the most Interesting and beau tiful things of their own lands and about which they know so little. Wo want to give Americans a chance to peep at some of the great things of their own land, and in doing this it Is both a business and a patriotic pro position, in that it inspires and stim ulates Americans with a greater in terest In their home, and it is thus calculated to influence them to spend money in travel among their own countrymen that otherwise has been going and might continue going to Europe. The community development cam paign is based on sound theory, and that is all it has to do with theory. It: is henceforth concerned with praeti&V Consequently It seems the time has^ arrived to find out what is best to be done, how It can be done, and then do it. 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