Adventure Magazine Cover — page 210: what you’re looking at

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cADVENTURE’S “GRAVEL cASSOCIATION A Service Organization with Stations and Experts all over the World (pee man dashes off to Europe for a few months’ trip and does what thousands have done before him. He touches the cap- itals of each large country, eats at restau- rants where other Americans eat, “sees a few shows,” comments on the traffic sys- tem, and is back. A second plans his trip almost lovingly. He does not try to cover more than he can comfortably in the time he takes. Hereadsand plans and asks questions. The latter jaunts leisurely through France and spends days in discovering off-the- track villages where quiet lives; and apple- cheeked women in starched lace caps and flying ribbons still pray at wayside shrines or beat their family wash with wooden pad- dles in the common streams. He rests at night in a whitewashed, straw-thatched cot- tage in the Carpathians and watches the hot-tempered Hungarian cattle turn off at their home gates as they are driven through the street by the town herdsman, while children and loiterers scamper for cover. He sails down the Danube to Roumania, past the old Turkish Island of Ada Kaleh, once the stronghold of the Mohammedan and the gate to Western Europe from the Balkans. The off-the-trail traveler drifts to a new little republic on the Baltic. Here the Letts, under Russian domination, were in- vaded by Germans; after the Armistice, having been declared independent, they were in turn overrun by the Russian Bolshe- vik forces. With the help of the Germans Latvia drove out the Bolsheviks, and a few months later had to turn about and drive out the Germans. emt 4 Here, and all over the continent, is his- tory in the making, a new Europe growing out of the soil rich with centuries of tradi- tion, friendships and hatreds. It is this Europe that the real traveler wants to know and understand. Whether he vists the great cities or the out-of-the-way nooks he wants to get the “feel” of the places, to learn as much as he can about the lives and thoughts of the people who live there. Many of the travelers who do the Num- ber One sort of tour would like to do the second thing if they knew how. It is for them—for the ones who know how and the ones who want to know how—that Adven- ture’s Travel Association is established. With a central office at Adventure headquar- ters in New York, and local stations all over the world, members of the Association can be helped along in friendly fashion from one spot to another. We plan to place at our readers’ disposal the services of our own Stations now being established and to act as a clearing house for every travel factor already in existence—government bureaus, steamship lines, railroads, touring clubs, and similar organizations. Arrangements are being completed to establish thousands of stations in Europe, the United States and all over the world. As for the more adventurous type of traveler whose interest lies in those re- gions least known to man, well, they’re pretty well taken care of already by our ‘‘Ask Adventure’ experts, but Ad- venture’s Travel Association is going to build further and very special machinery to meet their particular needs. More on this later. An interesting feature of the Association is the connection we have made with the Fashion Department of The Butterick Pub- lishing Company. Fashions in Adventure? Perhaps it does sound incongruous but you won’t think so when you plan a trip to Brazil in March or Norway in April. What clothes will you take—light, heavy, linen or silks? There are plenty of extremely 204 COmicCoooks. CO