In France the highways are being
rebuilt to facilitate automobile travfel,
and special permits to touring motor
ists are being issued. For the benefit
of tourists who wish to visit the bat
tlefields, the railways have arranged
excursions to all parts of the war
zone. Aerial tours of the battlefields
have also been devised, the parties
being accompanied by a lecturer who
megaphones identifications of " the
principal ruins far below.
Switzerland and Italy are also tak
ing energetic mkasures to assure the
world that they are ready once again
to receive visitors. Both countries
have enormous amounts of money in
vested in hotels and various attrac-
tions for tourists, and it is undoubted
ly to tbe advantage of all concerned
that these shall once mora be fulfill
ing their original purpose.
No one, therefore, need fear that
in visiting Europe he will be like an
unbidden guest in a. house of mourn
' ing. He will not find the nations
bowed down with, cares. Outwardly
their only thought seems to be to re
pair the damage, and to make their
fair lands fit places In which to live.
One sees little of the wreckage of
war, ' either human wreckage or that
of mere material, unless ho goes in
sea.rch of it.
