Life — January 28, 1915 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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Travelers SPRING is coming. The American people is partly dressed up and nowhere to go. Even should the war end, it would take a reasonable length of time to get the scene of it into con- dition to receive visitors. Various reasons have been given why the Americans are so ignorant of other lands. The best one is that they travel so much, Nobody who travels through a country is likely to learn much about it. Having once been there, travelers are almost invariably deceived into the belief that there is nothing more for them to learn from that. particular country. Or to put it in another way, it is always possible to learn about a country until one goes there. Then you think you know it all, and don’t want to learn any more. The basis of true knowledge is a proper hu- mility. Travel in a land removes one’s humility about it. The result is, for the great majority, an accumulating ignorance, To test this one has only to talk with people who have traveled to dis- cover how little they actually know about the places they have v they are honest about it—as most of them are not—they will be frank and say that they do not travel to learn, but to kill time. There can be no doubt, however, that one’s enjoyment is increased by knowing something about the country one visits. Many of us have learned more about Belgium since last August than we knew before, even those of us who have visited it. Later on, maybe, when we wish to learn some- thing about America, we can live in Europe long enough to learn about it, assuming that there is anything left of Europe. T. L. M. Tuere is a Chicago man, quoted by the Tribune, who translated Deutsch- land iiber Alles to mean “It's all over with the Dutch .—Kansas City Star. Grad Marnier tIQVOR MADE IN PARIS Purity certified toby theFrench Government WILLIAMS & HUMBERT ULS.Agents, 1158 Broadway, NewYork 1915 HUPMOBILE Westinghouse Electric Systems Starting—Lighting—Ignition For the 1915 Cars of Quality every man who knows Automobiles, three things in connection with the Westinghouse Systems are of especial interest. Simplicity of design. Workmanlike construction. Remarkable record of operation. The experienced motorist recognizes the high grade of every detail of Westinghouse generators and starting motors—the sturdiness of construction—the economy of oversize; and he appreciates the stand- ing of the great organization whose reputation is staked upon the success of every machine that goes out under its name. Read the list of 1915 cars regularly equipped with the Westinghouse Systems. Buy any one of these cars and you are insured against the annoying little troubles that are possible with cheap systems. The Westinghouse Systems give the kind of service that goes with the high grade automobile. * Allen, * Davis * Lenox t Pierce-Arrow * American La France * Dorris *Lexington-Howard ——* Pilot 4} Amplex LAT. ‘Locos # Pullman 3 Atterbury te. “ cee # Richard bead * Halladay * McFarlan * Briggs-Detroiter Hi t Moreland : * Cae Kis t Norwalk # Standard Steel Car t Chadwick e + Ohio * Stewart * Crawford $ Lauth-Juergens * Pathfinder + Vulcan * Starting, Lighting and Ignition. 4} Starting and Lighting. % Lighting and Ignition. Sold to Automobile Masulacturers oaly Full information eent oa request Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company Automobile Equipment Department Main Office, East Pittsburgh, Pa. Forty-five Offces. Service Stations in Principal Cities. The Census HE Census is a device: First, for sending out a large number of unrcliable persons to gather facts which, at the time they were gathered, may have been facts or may not. Second, for compiling and tabulating these alleged facts in such a way as to make them as uninteresting as possible and as difficult as possible for the average inquirer to get any information from them; and, Third, for publishing these compilations and tabulations so long after the gathering that most of the facts have long since ceased to he facts, and nobody can be certain about any of them,