The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-22
"AMERICA" or "GOD SAVE THE
KING?
Admiral Chadwick Discusses This Ma
tional Air OF Many Nations.

To THE EptroR OF TIE SuN-Str: rs
| ferring 10 "a. Il. G.s" letter on "Gei
Save tho King In THE SUN OF Janrssy
10, Lord Cromer in his excellent account
| OF his late caliphate discusses somewhat
the difference between the Eastern and
Western administration Of Justice. He
| tells a story OF a conversation between
French Judge and an Algerian shelk
on the introduction OF the French proce-
dure in Algeria. The gist of the story as
recall it is that the sheik remarked :
We'll have no more justice now: wit
nesses will be required"
There IL a depth Of philosophy in this.
a phase OF which ls that witnesses would
also have to he believed. In this case !
have no hesitancy in placing myself with
tho Arab for the psychical testimony far
transcends in my mind any of the sort
produced.
The air in question. call it what we
may. let US say America" is the ma
tlonal air OF Great Britain. the German
Empire, Prussia Bavaria Saxony, Wdrt-
temberg Norway. Sweden and Switzer-
land. My authority Is the official pub
llcation OF the Navy Department. pre-
pared for the use OF ships bands by
Sousa. II does not stand TO reason that
the wide distribution OF this as a ma
tional air. and established, too when inter-
communication was difficult and slow, and
interchange OF literature, music, science
and thought but moderate as compared
with to-day. should have been taken up
in any degree simultaneously In SO many
countries such things are not dono ut
haphazard. Even we, so largely British
in descent, have never used It except as
a popular air and never as a national
one that is, with the stamp of the Gov
eminent.
have not formed an offhand opinion
I'm this subject In which | have been IN
terested many years, and ] Will give "A.
e. g." even an additional authority on
his side tho Conversations xicon' but
all such. to my mind. fade before the
fact OF this widespread and ineSplicable
use In a matter In which national SEN
sltlveness Is usually extrome.
Aud / know. too. the habit OF our rela-
/ lives (not that We are a bit betterD 20
appropriate every honor Of the sort musl-
cal. poetic or scientific, or IL not sue
cessful to reduce II. as In the case OF the
Roentgen ray 20 the unknown quantity r.
In 1918 I unwlttingly raised "A STORM In
tho British contingent at Nauheim by the
casual remark 20 a very charming ana
cultivated elderly English lady that Home,
Sweet Home" was OF American compost
ton. Her Amusement and Indeed con-
sternatlon were extreme and spread
throughout the little colony Instantly.
DO you mean to tell me-" she said,
that Home, Sweet Home was not writ
ten by an Englishman?'
or like sort was remark made 70 a
! friend OF mine, well known In Europe as
well as in America. Discussing ltera-
ture with an English friend, the latter
1 said:
You'll be claiming our Longtellow
next"
Now. these two anecdotes are facts ard
they but illustrate a characteristic, OF
which We ourselves have full share. which
I longs 10 appropriate every good thing as
| OF ones own nationality.
Thus regarding the psychicat testimony
as much higher and more important than
/ any udventltious written or spoken sup
port from persons who had nothing d.
rectly 10 do with the subject, I sit with
I the Arab Cadl and believe the psychic
evidence. and that We, for instance. have
| as good a right 70 tho air as an Ameri-
can air as Britain has to II as a British
/ air: that is, no right at all az such. Had
Handel stated that John Bull tfor long
time u was so a.signed) or Carey had
written IL, I should succumb 70 such a
proof. but TO HANDLES amanuensl., mol
T.. r. CHADWICK.
NEWPORT. p. T.. January 20.