Judge — September 1938 — page 45: what you’re looking at

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OW long will it take us to get back the Euro- pean tourist habit? It is too early to say, be- cause we don’t know yet how much of Europe will be left when she is ready to resume business. If her new ruins are interesting Americans will want to see them. If her old stock re- mains for the most part unimpaired, it will continue to draw. The fall season of this year is spoiled for tourists, and it does not seem possible that Europe can 1912—14 be cleaned up for the spring trade. But we shall see. Those on whom the go- to-Europe habit is fixed must either go on with it or form some new habit, and it is much easier to fall back into an old habit than to form a new one. The return of the American tourist will be expedited by the sympathies of America and by the fact that Europe will need the tourists’ money—if he still has money—as she never did be- fore. Poor Europe! After her enormous losses and expenditures, she will wel- Late New England History JUDGE ALBUM* di come anyone who can pay. First there must be peace; then she must have time to get out of the hospital, resume rail- roading and reopen the hotels. But the more adventurous tourists will not wait for repairs to be completed. It is a mistake to think that because so many thousand American tourists had such a terrible time of it getting home this year they won't go back. Not all of those, but just as many more will go. Habit is stronger than fears, and curiosity is stronger than either. The raid upon the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad comicbooks.com