In planning the itinerary of a tour that must be completed in a given length of time, it is usually necessary to decide between the importance of visiting a small number of towns and of making a long stop in each, or of visiting a larger number for fewer hours or days. Some trains have made from five to ten stops in a day, while others have spent from several days to a week in one place. A day to a town, however, seems to be the more general rule. A stop may be limited to an hour or so because it is thought more important to cover a given amount of territory within certain time limits than it is to stay long enough in a place to reach a large share of the population or give much information. Or the purpose of the tour may be accomplished by presenting to an audience, all of whose members arrive at the same time, a single program lasting an hour and dealing with easily understood facts or ideas. The Liberty Loan trains furnish good illustrations of a purpose of this sort. If your campaigners are not in a hurry to get over the ground by a certain date they will probably find it more satisfactory to spend a full day and sometimes longer with the people of each community visited. The program may then be repeated for a number of audiences and the traveling specialists will have an opportunity to promote closer relationships with local leaders. However, conditions that govern a decision regarding the length of time to spend at a place differ so widely for individual enterprises that general suggestions have not much value. The stops of a truck tour are more easily arranged than those of a train since the latter is dependent upon the convenience of the railroad. One gain through this greater flexibility is the possibility of return visits to the same place. In this way the truck helps in its own advance publicity work by making a brief stay which attracts attention and spreads the news of its return for a longer stay a little later. In its work in the congested districts of the city, the Cleveland Children’s Year Special followed what its director called a “skip stop” system, visiting a neighborhood long enough to leave a number of people sufficiently well informed to talk about it, and coming back two or three days later to find an appreciative audience ready for the program. RECEIVING THE VISITORS[8] Visitors are the real reason for the enterprise which is undertaken solely for their instruction or benefit if results are hoped for, and they should not be forgotten at any stage of the planning. We have already considered them in the choice of subject matter, the form and quantity of the material, and its arrangement. Now, having equipment and plans ready, what shall be done with the visitors when they arrive at the train?