Evening journal., 1917-03-31
CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL,

= CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL.
lecial to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
NEW YORK, March 31.-What do
pu think of this old town NOW2
have lived here 80 years, OF and
4. and I tell you frankly It has got
Q going
It used to be the most material, Gym
al, wOoden-faced place in America.
old-drawn business and all that, and
for patriotism you might as well
" to strike fire from an icicle.
That's what we used TO say Patriot
SIN in New York-there wasn't any
uch thingl All the rest of the coun-
ny in an emergency might get up and
roller but little old New York would
stich to its dollar-chase and never
give a hang for anything else.
Well, we were wrong; that's ALL
The emergency has come all right, and
instead Of giving il the Icy Stare as
we prophets all predicted, the old girl
has popped up with an enthusiasm no
body knew she possessed. What do
you know about that?
OF course. too, New York. for such
q showing, has every kind of handicap
there is going and then some. Il is the
grandest mixture Of natlonalities UN-
DER THE SUN. You can find here
every kind of man that walks, hops or
crawls. You know all that good old
dope about New York being the fourth
German city of the world, at the same
time that It is the second Hungarian,
and the second Greek, and the third
Italian, and so on. All right. But 1t is
also THE LARGEST AMERICAN
city, and in these days it Is coming
across with some good old American
ism Of the best brands.
After, of course, you get past some
aliens, anarchists. Germans, German
agents and German spies, dodos
dreamers and peace-at-any-price mol
lusks. That is to be expected. But the
majority is not only all right and
sound after having been for genera
lions the scorn of Three Oaks and
Rolling Prairie, but is now giving les
sons in patriotism to the proud in
terror!
The streets are afame with Ameri
can flags, often in masses very won
derful and moving About every Other
man you meet has an American flag n
his button hole. At every meeting
John w, q feeling is extraordinary
Otto Leo on go the people are talk
S1dss;pps ~" and among all Americans
Henry Pc wn the finest possible
" II Ly- you might summarize
1853 ii lments you hear, abou
like this
We are : a state OF war, not fol
dollars, buslr SIS or selflnterest, bu'
for the sake # an Ideal. II Is bettel
70 fight, sacrifice or die for an Idea
than to let all Ideals perish from thu
earth. Whatever the cost may be, w
are In. we are right in being In, ant
we will 60 straight through to thu
end, whatever that may be.
I think that is pretty fine spirit-fo
city supposed to be without human
feeling. Also men say:
mo nonsense goes with us about
merely defensive war or any nice littl
sword-dance staged where nobody will
get hurt. Let 60 with everything "
have and let go quick. Clean the 10
I'D right that the world can have peace
have Il soon and have Il to stay.
More than that, I can report ths
any attempt to turn those fat oil
ricks that were turned in 1898 an
gouge profits out of the necessities {
the government, will not be very popl
lar in New York this trip. There is
very different feeling now In the mi
terial old place. What goes now is
give what the nation needs and b
glad of a chance to give It, WHAT
EVER IT Is!
sat Friday at table In a dow
town restaurant with five other mel
all typical New Workers., and In tn
course of luncheon the fact came OF
casually that each Of the five had o
fered something freely TO the govern
nent-a yacht, a motor boat, an aut'
mobile or the man himself and a
quietly assumed that ALL OTHE
MEN WOULD DO THE LIKE.
And TO a great extent they will
greater extent than we have ever see
before In this natonl
The truth is, brethren, a strange, mex
unselflsh feeling takes possession
all Of us when we stop to contempla'