installed as a store manager in this 
town he would have exactly the chance 
in life he needs. From end to end of 
the great automobile trails one finds 
families who started from home on a 
“trip,” only to find that it was an ad- 
venture in life, changing their whole 
future from vague home-town discon- 
tent to happiness in new environment. 
TT OSRING disappoints only those 
who are negligent of their sur- 
roundings. Really, the great pleasures 
of touring are found in things learned, 
whether within or without one’s own 
natural habit of mind. In my own 
experience, every trip I make causes 
upheavals of practice and changes of 
ideas. I started, note-book in hand. I 
have written more than 2,000,000 words 
in notes, enough to make twenty books 
if printed as they stand. But I found 
that I could not begin to put down the 
things that I saw, that I wanted to 
remember. At one stroke I cut 
down the writing to the mini- 
mum. Long experience told me 
what I would wish most to re- 
member. 
A camera of small size—2% 
by 314—with a high grade (6.3) 
lens would in ten seconds give 
me adequate representation of 
scenes that would have com- 
pelled me to write from half 
an hour to five hours, if I would 
get them down in words. I 
have found that tourists more 
and more use their cameras 
with deliberate intention of re- 
cording useful as well as in- 
teresting accounts of their jour- 
neys. A civil engineer, with 
special interest in bridges, would take, 
for example, hundreds of photographs 
of different kinds of bridges over 
streams, railroads, valleys and other 
viaducts. A farmer would record a 
thousand farm scenes, in contrast with 
those of his own home region. 
THE camera, costing $15 to $150, 
can be made to add to one’s store 
of knowledge in practically any line 
of business or work. Consider what a 
window-dresser — artist of commercial 
goods display—would pick up in the 
store showcases and street glass expo- 
sitions going a thousand miles east 
from the Mississippi. A single photo- 
graph might by its suggestion give one 
' years of technic in goods-display ar- 
rangement. 
One of the most interesting automo- 
bile tours I know of was planned by 
two artists—commercial. They wished 
to obtain new ideas in their own lines. 
They were young and could not really 
afford the trip as a financial proposi- 
tion. But as education they needed it. 
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Accordingly, they started forth with 
their cameras, and paid they way tak- 
ing photographs for various farmers, 
other tourists, stores, individuals— 
pictures that were worth artistically 
and photographically far more than 
they could receive for them. The work 
was drudgery, and often drab and 
utterly uninteresting. But as_ they 
grew into it they found themselves 
specializing even in their own particu- 
lar lines of studies. 
HEY found the enormous _ back- 
ground of the United States for 
their own business—and to make them- 
selves important and large against that 
background became their task in life. 
They had divined the narrowness of 
their own home city; now they rose 
to the breadth of the nation. And this 
young couple cannot fail in the end to 
grasp their own opportunity—not as 
small-town folk, but as American 
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Auto touring should not be looked upon 
merely as a pleasure-giving sport. 
are many definite profits to be derived from 
a trip across country, which are not to be 
measured in ‘terms of money spent. 
the seeker of far places, the adventurer, 
the nature lover, the student and the busi- 
ness man alike attain their various ends 
through a common medium—the automobile. 
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citizens, With a view-point iricluding the 
Rockies, New England, the Ozarks, and 
the Deserts. 
I meet doctors, attorneys, civil en- 
gineers and other professional men in 
the tourist camps. They have their 
work with them—the doctor his case, 
the engineer his note-book, camera and 
drafting set; the attorney his brief- 
case. Twenty-odd years ago I talked 
with a lawyer in the mountains of 
Tennessee. He had gone to Bristol, 
Tennessee, on a case, one time. He 
went into a court house there and sat 
down to await the opportunity of pre- 
senting some matter to the judge. 
A CASE was under way, and the ate 
torneys, the judge, the court pro- 
cedure puzzled the visitor. He heard 
phrases he didn’t understand, saw cus- 
toms he had never witnessed, and list- 
ened to conditions that made him think 
he was dreaming. He was _ utterly 
embarrassed, . wondering if he was 
dreaming. And then a chance phrase 
illuminated the matter. He had gone 
There 
Thus 
into the Bristol, Virginia, Court House, 
not the Bristol, Tennessee, one—and 
by that chance accident he obtained a 
view-point on his own practice, his own 
training, which he could have obtained 
{fn no other way. At a single stroke 
he was driven to look far beneath the 
commonplaces of practice to the fun- 
damentals of justice. 
A? the cost of seeming to give advice 
to people who know their own 
mind, let me suggest that no tourist 
can afford to miss the opportunities 
which automobile camping-travel give 
those who enter the long trails even 
blindly. The mind will not generally 
miss striking and obvious beckonings ° 
for attention in one’s own lines. The 
history of the human race is one of 
opportunities seized—and opportuni- 
ties neglected. We know that Daniel 
Boone lost the fruits of his travels and 
explorations because he neglected the 
legal aspects of the land he 
claimed. Consider, however, the 
development of the copper re- 
sources of Helena, Montana, by 
the scientists of the government 
railroad expeditions. They went 
to study the land, and they re- 
ported immeasurable wealth— 
and claimed compensation for 
themselves, according to their 
deserts. 
The rewards of touring hark 
back to the individual. What 
does one value most? I am 
assuring those who feel that 
touring is profitless that in the 
most commercial aspect it is 
profitable. Business men can- 
not escape the temptation to 
make money out of their summer plea- 
sures. The professional man, however 
unlikely he is to bring his work on his 
trip, often does find himself granted 
& hint that changes his career — 
whether he will or no. Even the artist, 
resting his eyes from studio toil, is 
assaulted by a thousand ideas which 
years later, in most unexpected guise, 
prove to be inspirations beyond mea- 
sure in revelation. 
N O one can more than hint the possi- 
bilities springing from an auto 
tour. I am at constant loss to express 
adequately the simplicities, even of 
camping. The reason is that no two 
people will ever see camping and tour- 
ing, the opportunities of the highway, 
with exactly the same eyes. My ex- 
perience’ of twenty-odd years travel 
and touring, on foot, by skiff, shanty- 
boat, bicycle, motorboat, motorcycle, 
and automobile makes me more and 
more cautious as to anything but the 
one suggestion that every one should 
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