Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-20

oNDON. Aug 10.--'Why DO
Americans seem vulgar 90 Eng
lsh people; and are we vulgar
asked c. X. Chestcrton. the
modern DR. Johnson, broathed heavily
and the CHAIR he concealed squcokod
i'm protest
Tradition ne mildly exploded mere
tradition. just as we are told that
Frsnchmcu dance and eat frogs legs,
go We arc told that Americans are
vulgar. Tradition. not Impression! In
fact my impression has been that
Americans arc too refined. Their sail
ont Characteristic Is certain high Sc
robustness. an earnest idoalism, the
must-see-the- pyramids or-dle aenti-
mont This among other republican
virtues must be inherited from their
Puritan ancestors.
Real cynlcism I'm an American IS
rare You can meet on any London
street people afflicted with that corr
rupt fatigue. that rolling decay.
OBVIOUSLY tho Americana reputa-
ton for vulgarity arose from the
friehtful commerclalism Of his country.
Americans do not worship money
they do. however. worship strength or
intellectual force, Of which getting
money is a proof IN this sense Meth
or Englishmen nor Americans worship
money.
Money. nevertheless. is the symbol
OF two different things IN the two coun-
tries I'm America one measures tho
force Of a mans victory in life's con
nlcts by the extent ~ his wealth. In
England, money rs the symbol Of be
ing established, having Tot behind
you.
FROM GUTTER TO GUILpHALL.
MANY mon go from the gutter TO
| the Guildhall An American wishes 10
| go to the Gundhnll iu order 70 say
| that he has been there. an English
man wishes TO look as though ne al
WAYS had been there. This difference
accounts for the fact that Englishmen
| retire from business earlier in life than
| Americans do. they go To the country
| and set M as fine old families on
/ landed estates.
what. I'm an American who has
| arrived, is poetical snobhisnness' IN
| an Englishmau a. poetical caddishness.
II he hasn't got on, an American
! feels that he has lost prestige ih
While the ideas OF Americans and
| Cosmos wore rolling In Chesterton s
mind the buttons on his waistcoat un-
| dulated madly.
| tell us What Is wrong with the world y
| As I haven't read the book yet would
| YOU mind telling me what's wrong
| I asked.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH WORLD
The devil he replied, "is the an
| swer People nowadays ARE over syn
bollc. over poetical. and not practical
| IN their viewpoints. They haven't sur
| ncient liberty Of mind 20 attack things
| directly II YOU tell them you dc-t
| ike white elephants they say on, but
| YOU must because white elephants We're
| evolved from the prim1rdIal elements
| Then there was that mystical way m
| treating the recent prize fight az "a
meeting between the white race and the
| black race II was merely an engage
ment between two specialists. In tho
same way people might deduce equally
| weird theories from a serpent or beard
, cd lady In a circus. It's toss up what
| nationality the bearded lady may be-
| hut II she comes from Ireland, people
| exclaim All. Ireland Is the place Of
| masculine women
THE title Of my book. by the way.
| Is more sweeping than ! had intended.
My stuff was sent 10 the publishers
| labeled What Is Wrong? They insist
| ed on adding with the world. Ncster-
| day read over the book for the lrst
! time since II was published ana II