The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-08-02
WarAssures Closer Relations
Between Americans and British
Sir Thomas lEhn Great Yachtsnan, Merchant and Friend, Welcomes Yankees Who Have
Always Beaten Him Into the StMe-Wants Two Nations 10 Become Fast Friends For
ever-Prake Work Of Feet-Thinks Common Cause WIN Give People Better Under
standing of Each Other.

Invention sef labor saving agricultural
machinery; everything OF t~heasort%on
origin.
And you have another great advan-
Itage. You have hoover. In his work
for Belgium he has had more expert.
ence in feedingsmfllions than any other
man In all the world That. he, has been
placed in charge OF the great task 81
furnishing food from America for the
allies Is q guarantee of high efficiency.
He will find his new Job easier than his
old one, for he will be dealing with
trends While his task in BeIginrn, os
feeding he starving victims Of German
ruthlessness. meant not onlysathat he
had to supply and distribute the food,
but that he hadsto do so while working
ID conjunction with bitter, though veil
60. And there, too, he had to
feed a starving population directly
In his new position he merely will.
need to see that the food goes forward.
He will be dealing with the govern
ments. not directly with the hungry
people. America has been the greatest
food puryeyor in the history OF the
world since this var began n Hoover
is the greatest food general in the
worlds history. For a man on this side
to suggest American procedure would
be an impertinence. s
An immense thing has occurred In
The establishment of what amounts to,
an offensive and defensive Anglo
American alliance. Two Of the great
est and h most unselfish nations OF
the world have combined for unselfish
greatness; that in this union France,
the cradle of European freedom, forms
a. third, is an additional glory and a
! guarantee.
England has done much for the
worlds progress; America has done
much. Neither works in his war by
the motive power Of greed. BY acting
have the wish to see to it that the
smaller powers r treated fairly in
the future and that the world Is a safe
I place to live in.
That there eve should have been
the slightest friction between Britain
n America has been as unnatural as
~ mas been unfortunate. Never has
there been a year for a long time
which did not pour millions sterling
land a million sterling is $4,000, 000)
from the pockets of American tourists
INTO England, Ireland n Scotland.
The most palatial business and hotel
establishments inSEngland would have
been closed long before the war had
1T not been for h patronage of Ameri-
cans.
You are far more up to date in your
trade methods than the Englishman
ever has learned to be. Let me give
you an Illustration which will show
you how easysit will be for you to cap
lurea German trade after the war. It
Will be difficult for England. ecause
she IS less adaptable.
In India the hens lay little egg
which IN q British egg cup sink so low.
as to be hard to handle. Often I had
noted this and wondered why English
rag had not made little egg
cnps8for use in India. One day in Re.
mares j saw a small mouthed egg cue
winch held the egg well up, convene
lently. Enterprise at last, I thought. I
was right. But it was German enter
prise. Ihats q tiny Illustration Of the
sort OF lance which an adaptable peo-
An Englishman suggested in one of
your interviews last winter that the
PIE u those of America can find IA
parts Of the world. Trade? There are
uncounted quantities waiting every
where in the British empire to be picked
up by o
tries to sell folk what thew
want; England tries to make them b11y
that Which h wants to manufacture
But Germany scrinps and saves and
tricks TO the detrinaent of quality. Your
chance is to study foreign fields while
TINS war progresses and after it is over.
ana With your admirable methods ana
adaptable psychology to find new fields
when Will produce astonishing mil
lions. ~
newspapers of the two nations shn,,Is
arrange reciprocating visits. That Man
would be admirable. There is some
tning Tor one of your very rich men to
finance. =
There are no people in the world bet
ter h Americans. Some Englishmen
nave not always thought so, and the
frllls they have put on with YOU have
fpeen very sad affairs. They have be-
Y to take them off. They Will be all
Off, am certain, ere the war ends. They
eve would have been put on at all If
Englislamen had known YOU better anv
more than many times your fierce twist
ers would have twisted our poor lions
tail II they really had understood tha
paslc truth that we are all alike. that
we are just the same sort of people,
prone 70 err but trying hard in the
imam to do the right thing.
Our principal difference in psy-
chology is that you in the United States
never reel that you have nothing more
to learn. Another difference is that YOU
IN the United States always do your
isNei pest. 1 like h a expression, as /
ike much of your slang. An English
ma ndefeated for parliament very iileiv
may say with truth that if he could Inf
try It over he would work harder. An
american defeated for ngr never
can say that. Always he has done his
lever pest Q do o level best
best will be a high one
UNCLE WIGGiLY AND THE BLUE
81. BIRD.
Now do be careful today, Won't Won.
Wiggy DEAR" begged Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lad house,
keeper as the bunny uncle started