The Pan-American Union and the United States

The Pan-American Union is doing everything possible and legitimate to persuade the travelling public of the United States and Europe to visit the Latin American countries. There is no influence in the world that helps more to advance friendship, comedy, and commerce among countries than travel back and forth of their representative men and women. The indulgence of critics and of tourists is sought for errors, few I trust, and efficiencies which may be discovered. That its youthfulness may be such as to convey to them a valid return is my earnest aspiration. To all Americans both of the Northland and of the South, this book with due modesty is inscribed in the hope that by inciting to travel and acquaintance it may promote