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Wednesday, September 29, 1971

THE REVIEW

The

BY JACK SCOTT
A columnist can’t really claim
to be close to his readers unless
they feel they’ve the right to

abuse him. That’s why. I’m

particularly happy. with. one. of
the letters that were waiting for
me yesterday.

It was from. a man who is
disinterested in. the occasional
travel pieces I enjoy doing and
thinks that I spend too much time
away from the realities of life
that, in his opinion, should be the

. meat-and-potatoes of my curious

trade. He could be right, at that.

“Your repeated forays, which
have made you King of the Will O’
the Wisps, strike me as a waste of
time,”’ he writes. ““You seem to
spend your life restlessly sear-

-.ching for the greener pastures on

the other side of the hill. Surely
you don’t believe that a man can
come to grips with life by rushing
over every beckoning horizon?”’

Naturally, I will take this to
heart, but, for. the moment, it
invites some reflections about
travel.

On one point only I agree with
my correspondent. Travel is no
automatic escape. People who
try to run away by taking a swift
airplane or a. slow boat are
doomed to disappointment. You
cannot run away from’ yourself
which, in.the end, is what every
escapist has in his mind.

But. that’s .a shabby - in-
terpretation of the urge to:rcam.
For myself, I like to believe the
urge is something finer, that it’s
bound up with every: man’s ap-
petite to broaden his interests, to
re-examine himself and his ideas
in the light of a new. landscape
and ‘new companions, to’ look
down ‘on his globe, as it were,

* from a height more lofty than his.

snug back yard.
The curse of the world today, it

‘seems to me, is that the mass of

people are chained. to. faise

concepts and. false values

, eal Virtue

determined by the niche they
occupy. Travel is the only sure
way to their enlightenment.

There are two types of men I

pity. :
One is the man who has’ a
burning desire to make -these
discoveries for himself, but who,
for one reason or another, is
compelled to stay at home. That’s
the cruellest form of
claustrophobia. I know. I lived
with it for many years.

I pity more the man who has
reached a status where travel is
within his means, but prefers to
vegetate in his own comfertable
precincts. 1 know many of them.
They’re lost. outside their own
well-insulated. — environment.
Their sense of importance, their
sense of. belonging, is jarred. by
foreign lands and foreign faces.

Travel as a steady diet does not
appeal to me. The older I get the
more. | recognize the need for
having roots. I’m always glad to
be home. The wanderers of the
world whose pursuit of happiness
takes them ever onward are
almost always lonely men on.a
long road without an ending.
They are not looking for
something. They are running
away.

But the traveller who rides out
from his fortress in the interests
of exploration and who returns to
re-assess his prejudices and to
grope ahead a bit for truth is a
better man for it.

Only recently I wrote of the
boobs you meet in travelling, the
people who do go out to look, but
so well-buckled into their harness
of preconceptions: that they’re
immune to any new experience.
These; as I said, are the ex-

ceptions. For the most part the

tourist is a man te be respected
and praised. — =:

Thepoint was beautifully made
by John Steinbeck in’ one of. the
last essays he wrote.

: “These People are offering the

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Cadets Welcomed Back

Members of: the 676 Squadron
Kinsmen Air. Cadets. were
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Sidney Council, urged by Ald.
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temporary use. of the. Tourist
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