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TRAVEL JOY

Everyone would explain the itch to travel in his own way. The psychologist would employ the jargon of escape, a word which can be used to dispose of any argument for is not every- one anxious to escape from some- thing, even if it be merely the dullness of routine? Many of them forget that, in the words

the ancient philosopher, those who cross the sea change sky but not their disposition. In other words you cannot escape from yourself. For all that,

however, there is for every

some place where the streets paved with gold, some Dorado, some haven of bliss. Once, it was the land of Prester John: now in a standardised World of motor-cars and electric trans, people find it in the South Seas But for everyone there is the final realisation that home is not such a bad place after all That is the ultimate

While men of action are not joy of travel. commonly credited with a deep

appreciation of natural beauty,

yet one does on occasion find

such a combination of qualities. Geneva And Health They were embodied, for exame ple, in that patriotic pirate,

The man in the street seldom. Francis Drake, who was nearly realises how much good work of as well pleased by the sight of unsuspected nature, goes on the Cape of Good Hope as by the under the auspices of the contents of a Spanish galleon. It League of Nations. This month is true, of course, that after a famous doctors from all parts of long absence from land the bar-the world have been meeting m ren desert might have seemed as the palais des Nations at beautiful as the fairest cape Geneva. They are the members nor did the Cape present the of the new Health Committee of same aspect to every mariner the League, and the "brains be who essayed its perilous seas hind the world-wide campaign Passengers in the Empress of against disease waged by the Britain which arrives in the Geneva Health Organisation. Colony on Monday morning,

..

This medical League of Na completing one more stage in a voyage round the world, would tions in its early skeleton form, hardly think of themselves as probably got into action more successors of the illustrious Sir quickly than any other section of Francis. They might, indeed, its first big job was to clean up the League after the Great War. echo his praises but they would

the post-War epidermics - of. be loth to follow his example typhus and other diseases which Drake's travelling was not threatened to sweep over Europe connected with singeing the

from Russia and Poland This famous beard of the King-of work was speedily followed by Spain and such like profitable

equally prompt measures for exercises. Certain it is that he dealing with the outbreaks of did not travel for pleasure or, as disease among the vast armies the saying goes, for his health of refugees who had flocked to It is only in our generation that Greece from Asia Minor. size of ship and "every modern

comfort have conspired to make But even these great achieve- asea voyage the undoubtedly ments on behalf of suffering beneficent institution that it is. humanity gave little indication Writing not so very long after of the pitch of organisation Drake had accomplished his voy-which would be reached within age, the great Sir Francis Bacon the short space of some seven- implied that he would as soon teen years The contract with the have undertaken a trip to the anything known before moon as a journey by sea Great War is astounding Last am too old," he wrote, "and the century when cholera was rife seas are too long for me to in Europe, it took the nations double the Cape of Good Hope forty years to agree upon the Rabelais held that one of the first international sanitary con- three things most to be repented vention. To-day, at Geneva, of was to journey by sea to any there is a permanent public place accessible by land, and health centre ready to deal with General Smuts is believed to any problem that may arise hold much

the same point of Many a time the League's

view. The 18th ame indeed, Health Organisation) das res

was fairly well advanced before ponded to appeals from indivi travel came to be looked upon as dual countries, as China --has- anything more than a disa

its benefit, and it has special studies of

Jable necessity.

travellers regaled wondering listeners on side. with tales of se hardly less fearsome

fabled Loch Ness monster and it was left to the contem aries of Horace Walpole to Cover

joys of the Grand

they still feared

then beg

also

made

old