Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-24
AMERICA The BEST PLACE
Frank Crawford is Convinced This
Country Excells Europe,
LATTER IS POOR PLACE TO LEARN
Thinks 1t All Wrong for Americans
to spend So Much Money Travel
ina Abroad WheR IL is
Better at Home.

After a ten months visit at oxford where
he and Mrs. Crawford studied In the Eng
fish university, Frank Crawford returned
to Omaha Saturday. Mrs. Crawford re-
maincd in the White mountains TO stay
with her relatives there for a month.
Mr.. Crawford said that ~ near as he
could figure It out by reason OF hard work
and under the stimulus of new environ
ments he had succeeded in Tearing about
two thirds as much as he would IL he had
stayed at home, but the satisfaction Of
convincing himself by his own eyes as to
what Europe really is fully compensated
him for any loss.
He left Europe before the vast horde Of
American tourists arrived. and thus es-
capped the pain of seeing them "plucked;'
but he saw the European preparations for
this plucking, however. and overheard many
an adverse comment against the American
tourist, who is loved in Europe chiefly for
his money.
He said that whenever he saw an Ameri-
can abroad struggling for knowledge under
difficulties, his heart always went out in
sympathy and admiration but when he
reflected that Americans spend annually
nearly 100000 900 simply for poor food, poor
Of luxury, he could hardly refrain from
looking upon the tourists as rather a lot
OF fools
Il believe" said Mr. Crawford that the
average tourist does not reflect any great
credit upon America, and is hardly up to
the highest standards Of American citizen
ship. At all events they are not very well
liked and are despised God bless them
for. \ Nv he
maniace."
See America First.
Mr.. Crawford said he was a firm believer
in the motto See America first; that
undoubtedly a European trip could
be very profitable, but that he doubted
II the average tourist got the worth
of his money out of it, and that
from an economic point of view some
thing must be done to stop this circulation
| Of gold toward Europe which never finds
| it's way back excepting by the sale Of bonds
or the stern laws of business, He said Il
was rare enough for an Englishman Il
spend a dollar In the United States snt
that very few of the wealthy or aristo
cratic Englishmen had ever been to the
| United States.
Mr.. Crawford said further that in hi
Judgment Europe was no place TO 30 IOl
advanced study; that it was simply JOKE
for professional men returning from a few
months study abroad to assume TO them
| selves any superior qualifications in con
sequence that 1t was about time for thu
people to know the truth about this matter
BY way Of illustrating his point he sale
that he pretended to know the Bnglisl
language and for that reason went TO Eng
land rather than to continental countries
to study and attend lectures by prominen
men, that simply on account of the sligh
difference between the EnElish OF England
and the English of America he and Mrs
Crawford were unable for quite a time t,
follow the lectures in close reasoning. i
Is all CANNON for man to think OF getting
| much in a country where the language Il
not perfectly understood and that bar
out all countries, but home. He said 1t wal
amusing to watch the antics of American
professors taking their Subbatical year ant
fooling away their time, and learning moth
ing. except that Europe is a poor place foi
them, but it would doubtless be still NOR,
amusing to see them pose and strut anC
swell while RECALLING the dear folks at hom'
with their superior learning. Mr.. Crawford
came over in the same boat with Mr.. Roose