South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-09
A Little Civic Pride
BY Ebert Hubbard.

New York city is the great gateway
into the New World.
New York city is hostess to thous-
ands of strangers, many Of whom do
not even speak her language.
And the emigrants find oppOrtuni-
ties for earning not only food but bet
ter clothing and shelter than they
ever had before.
And New York city receives them.
Here they eat their first meal, sleep
their first night in this new world.
How has New York taken care of
this cosmopolitan human swarm that
comes unlimited TO be her transient
guests? Wonderfully well.
No other city in the world can do
what New York does in caring for
this pOlyglOt mass OF people who
come bewildered inexperienced, un-
educated. unsophisticated in the
world, full OF fear, distrust, desire,
hope.
But New York has thriven because
of being this great, distributing center
of human beings. UnOrganized her
self, as are every city. every coun-
try ana the world, she has, in a way,
sorted and classified, chosen tnd kept
what she could use, sent on their way
TO the west-always to the vest
those who do not belong to this
metropolis.
If you want to see the poor of the
peoples Of the world, go to New York
If you want to see any people. born
In any country of the world, go to
New York.
If you want to see a cosmopolitan
city go to New York.
If you want TO see the best, the
most alert, the most energetic ex-
amples of American liberty-gO to the
city Of New York.
Foreigners have brought their eli
mate, customs, habits with them,
modifying all OF these only as neces-
sity dictates.
They speak their own language, sing
their own songs, build their own tenn
pies, weep their foreign tears, smile
1 the half-smile which the servitude of
ages has evolved
These people are foreigners They
Will never become Americans.
But their children will. Young peO-
pie are perpetually emigrating from
New York city into all-American
| towns From there many go to other
cities and become first citizens, emin-
ent business men in the financial and
! professional world of the United
States.
When people from little cities want
| to boast badness they say significant
/ ly. Il have been to Gotham" AS
/ though New York city is the synonym
of sin.
But New York city is the synonym
/ of hospitality, protection. wisdom,
patience, endurance, efficiency. 1t is
concentrated energy a dynamo of
work, a center of art and literature, q
! financial power in the world
! When YOU consider that the pro-
| gress of a city is possible only as it's
] citizens make it possible. and when
\ YOU realize that the inhabitants of
/ New York city were once most Of them
! foreigners, you marvel that the city
/ leads the world in progress, industrial
and financial.
Further consider that the mayor
or director of the city's welfare is
elected TO hold his office for only a
/ short period. that his continuing in
/ such Office depends upon pleasine
/ politicians and those who advertise
/ his faults. And we marvel that New
! York city has safety.
\ But YOU are safe in New York
\ city; as safe there as in your owT
n town.
II The discovery Of one den Of thieves
\ the advertising possibilities in a few
n Systematically planned murders, are
used as news which make interesting
\ reading. even in towns where the
n same kind Of events occur only il
n miniature and lacking in picturesque
N ness.
The marvel is that New York re
i presses, holds in check, dominates
controls vice-inclinations as she does
The marvel is that New York cit,
turns the Unestimable power that sh,
| has into industry, commerce, art, bus
mess.
IL is we'll that Americas metropoli
is symbOled by the Goddess of Lib
erty. which first meets the sight o
every foreigner who comes TO he
shores.
II is we'll that she IS symboled h,
the great. powerful mother heart Fo
like ZcnOhia queen Of PALMYRA sh