Arizona republican., 1918-09-17
Twenty Fourth Installment


 ditions in Battle Torn Europe.
 Twenty Fourth Installment
 CHAPTER VII (Continued).
 We came at end end of the morning to a port in France" From there We were to take the boat for England. And t seemed to us that the whole place was bent on the same errand. English soldiers going home on leave Ilmmcd the streets. They filled the hotels. they crowded into the shops. Aud the whole town was made over Cor them. French Spoken Here" was .hc acetious sign someone had struck un postcard shop near the grey old church on the main thOroughfare. It Ie curious how the English put their lvie mark upon the places they oc- .pt. These French ports filled with British soldiers look more English than fL-.aud. The English demand their .Nu cooking. their own merchandise, 'hoIr own tobacco, their own beer which is stale flat and unprofitable enough these days-and they demand heir native speech. When he gets in sight of his native land the British Tommy quits saying "Donny moi, de tahac, Ma'msclle." But bellows forth both loud and long. I say, Lizz, gimme some makln's! and look alive, please!
 An Easy Transition
 So when WIG went to bed in our boat ln a French port, and slept through II submarine zone. and walked up Tn an English port. there was no vast differ uvc m Inc places. Today Southamp- ion and Dover are much like Calais and Havrc. for there the English do most congrcgatc. But back of the french ports it is all France, and back af thc English ports is England, and worlds hc between them. England fs ouc rides through it who lives be- ,uud inc sCas and uses the English tongue. always must seem like the un- folding of au old. old dream. England -Ircs hcr stcp-childrcn the impression nIt they have seen it all before, And boy have. m Mother Goose, in Dick ns iu Shakespeare. in Thackeray, in rronopc. in the songs of British poets u thc landscapes of British artists. N every turn of the road, in every facc at the window, in every hedgerov and rural village is the everlasting re- hinder that VIC who speak the Englist tongue are bound with indissolublt links of our foster memories from tho hooks and the arts, to ways of think
 
 tIat we call English.
 More Than a Civilization
 lt is more than a blood or breed more even than civilization, is thi spiritual inheritance that comes iron This English soil; it is tho realization r lifc ot philosophy. the dramatiza lon of 90 human creed. It may be un dcrstood. but not defined, vet it is a ullpahlc and substantial in this cart ne amy material fact. Germany know what this English philosophy means and for half a century Germany Ina Dv,u preparing to combat it. Napo frin knew it and believed in it, whc hc declared three fourthS of every fac us spiritual value France has il new Russia is struggling for it. Amcri au hfc has it as an ancient inheri fancc. and as we Americans rod trough inc green meadows of Englan DO from thc coast to London, -foreve .rNIcWmc familiar scenes and fac and aspects of life that we had neVC -rcn before. we realized how muc loser than blood or geography or poll les mon grow who hold the sam reed So Henry, feeling that restraint no longer were necessary when W Ncrc as near homo as England, bega 'ussinr with an Englishman abot spmcthiug a speaker had said in paI iamcni tho day before. We may lOv Inc French. like the ladies, God bles