Arizona republican., 1909-08-04

hands the nations moral health will remain sound" For it's ethics. or lack of them, and its provincialism New York's type is mercilessly flayed and cauterized. also ridiculed
 The ethical and intellectual censor ship of the United States" he says, Ties with the woman of the province the country girl she might proudly prefer to be called. The censorship is where it should be-in the hands of Molly Stark. While it remains there the nations moral health will remain sound. When it passes elsewhere it will he time to emigrate-for the chil- drcn's sake.
 "A theatrical manager of my sc- quaintance will sometimes say of a play. Tt won't do for Chillicothe. Ohio. I don't want it" He declares that Chillicothe gives his productions an audience of wider culture and keener intelligence than he finds in New York. Chillicothe he asserts, still cares for Shakespeare. and he goes on to say that Chillicothe knows who Shakes pore was. which. in his opinion, Broad way does not 'Chiuicothe.' says this manager. has time to think, Broad way. he observes, will often crowd to an indecent performance: Chillicothe will not.-the women of ChilIicothe won't let it. And the plays that he rejects because they won't do for Chillicothe. ohio" are the salacious plays. the cheap, the decadent and the stupid
 Certain influences detrimental to the growth of mind (particularly dur ing youth) attend residence in very large cities, and the most potent is boulevardism or the concentration of the residents whole interest in the passing events of his own locality. It may be defined as neighborhood ab- sorption without the neighborhoOd's re- lation to the rest of the universe. Thus the boulevarder is a gossip-in-little- the loafer of the court house fence.
 Outside of the orient, Paris-of all great cities-most limits itself to it. self: after Paris, New York. The New Yorker, like the Parisian, has little real interest in anything that does not af- feet what lies within his own field of vision The New Workers ignorance of the United States is notorious. He is a mere burgher and his town is walled town. Within the walls he keeps to his own guild, his own daily walk; he is suspicious and will not even take the air of an evening save in the company of tried friends; he knows little Of his own town. It is only the stranger within his gates-the tourist from Chillicothe-who studies the mint, the Metropolitan museum and the navy yard. Last year a rumOr was flOated that native of Manhattan had visited Bedloes island. Personnaly I cannot believe it. The New Yorker is a provincial even in his own province. Nay, he scorns a wider knowledge of it, and the investigatOrs-real travellers who acquire more information about New York in a week than the native in his life-he names in derision, Rub bernecks" That is the New Workers name for us when we come seeking wisdom in New York!
 He calls all of his country outside of New York provincial" and the piteous thing about that is, he honestly believes it. If it were not for our mourning his condition we might with undimmed joy accept the compliment, for it is not in the metropolis, but in the provinces that the morality, the same enthusiasm and the patriotism of a country lodge. IL is the women of the provinces who make it SO"