The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-17
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 Ian Hay (Captsin John Hay Beith) author of The First Hundred Thou sand" who is in this country recuper- ltiug from a year in the trenches with his Scottish regiment, bluntly tells his fellow Britons some wholesome truths about America in his little book, Get ting Together" just published under the joint imprint of Doubleday Page K Co. and Houghton Miffiin Co. For Captain Beith understands and sym pathizes with the American point of yiew--shows little patience with his countrymen who refuse tQAsee the inter- national situation as it has revealed 1t self to the American people Do l realize" says tine Englshman in his suppositious conversation with the American in Getting Together" that you are pro-Ally over here2 Well, somehow | have always felt it, but now 1 know it. When l get home l shall rub that fact into every one meet"
 Captain Beth also wants Englishmen 10 realize their debt to Americans.
 pU HIf tlbl EhtiNi iNh hbo uOi bNiB ed yon very much2' continues the typ. teal American Let Us consider the ways in which America could have helped. Military aid? Well, of course that Is out of the question so long as we remain neutral Still there are more than twenty-five thousand Amer ican citizens serving in the Allied Ar mics today"
 The truly great part that the United States has played in the war is point ed out in detail by Captain Beth and he cites the facts of Canadian army battalions composed almost entirely of men from the United States as well as those famous American airmen who are flying for France and her allies. l Nor have munitions, financial loans ar l Red Cross work been neglected by l Americans For says Captain Beith, there are hundreds of Americans dr,e- ing ambulances in the allied lines to- day and hundreds of American women working in allied hospitals. There are complete hospital units over there, | equipped and maintained by American money and American service. Some American Truths.
 Ian Hay is particularly able to ex- plain American British relations for as Ian Hay he is an accepted writer with large following. and as John Hay Beth. soldier. has won fresh hon. ors as a captain of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders and late mem Der of the British Expeditionary Force in France.
 Captain Beith believes that much of the bear and forbear" attitude should be assumed between Britons and Amer. jeans in the situations that have re suited from the war. When Americans and Britons talk together they are in- clined to forget that they are friends" Captain Belth declares. and adiures the Briton to heed the following ad- vice:
 Remember you are talking to man who regards his nation as the greatest nation in the world. He will probably tell you this Remember you are talk ing to a man who believes in public
 
 you do not advertise the fact you can not possibly be in possession of the goods. S0 for any sake open up little, and tell him all you can about what the British Nation is doing today for Humanity and Civilization-in oth- CT words for America.
 Remember you are talking to man whose patience under such outrages as the sinking of the Lusitania has been strained to the uttermost; so don't ask him whether he is too proud to fight. or he may offer you convincing proof to the contrary"
 The 6riton of Today.
 But there are things for the Ameri- can to remember too in his relation ship with his cousm-over these and Captain Beith calls his attention to the fact that the Briton also regards