New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
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"it ever get home I'm never going to leave
1t agaIn-never. You have to get away to
'preciatc your own home There's no place
10 stay here, so you 60 down street You go
into cafe, and another fellow says, Have a
drink. SO you have it, and you drift through
the evening" and it's cost you ten or fifteen
francs. Go into barber shop, and you can't
get out again without dropping five francs.
Here's American they say. Hes mill
'onaife' Go into shop for most anything
and they charge you four kinds of prices
lheFe's one price for Fcenchmen and there's
TOUR kinds OF prices for US. Those fellows
that came early, the Field Service crowd and
Norton-Harjes, they're well-to-do fellows
They gaTc the waiter five-franc note and
spoiled him. Now you can't get decent treat
hent unless you spend money"
am going to tell in these articles of the
Interpretation that is now being made Of each
nation to the other-of the Americans to the
French, Of the French to the Americans: Of the
British to the Armericans; Of the Americans
t" the British. SO | begin with the story OF
what g young American, just in for rest
IN Paris after four months Of ambulance ser
wee, said tonight in my hotel as he stood
wondering where he would go for the even
ing.
Making Us Friends
Something permanent and constructive in
good will is being wrought out of all the
hate and horror Of war Something that
makes for lasting peace. But to tell Of that
must first tell Of the little irritations that
separate us. Until now we had the Lafayette
ana Rochambeau romance, but that hasn't
really meant much to the Danish boy from
Tyler, Mimi. 1t is all right to use catch
phrases about making the world safe for
democracy. But if that means anything il
means simply that more people arc going to
get together in neghborly way This war
IS going to make more people friends than
ever were fricnds before. 1t is going to make
Americans, French and English friends.
Americans in France have caused series
OF reactions to the Americans and to the
French There have always been Americans
IN france, domesticated and popular In the
provinces you meet an occasional countess. a
little homesck, but adapting herself gra-
ciously to conditions unlike those Of Chi.
cago. There are charming American wives of
distinguished Partisan pubicsts.
There is the American colony. It would Gll (
book to tell the story of the American col.
ony in Paris. 1t contains expatriates like
James Hazen Hyde and James Gordon Ben
nett. 1t contains passionate patriots. such "a
Whitney Warren and Professor Mark Bald
win and Charles Prince who chi1led a tardv
administration by long-distance communica-
ton and preached historic Anelo-Saxon
Amerlcansm to the professors and politicians
and publicists of France
Who Brought Us In?
"Wait. You'll see," they said. "Amer;ca
VIII come. because she must in honor come"
Mr.. Roosevelt was their orhamme. There
are prominent Frenchmen to-day who believe
that Whitney Warren brought the United
States into the war
These Americans and many others carried
on rellet work, which resulted in much imme-
olate help to suffering nation and which
contributed to Franco American good will
Laurence Benet conducted the American
Hospital at Neuilly, which won the affection
OF wounded French soldiers. B. j. Shoninger.
former president OF the American Chamber
of Commerce, became president of +he Soc;e,,
of Reeducation for the French Crppled Jaross
barbour, II. o. Beatty and their associates
displayed executive ability in their conduct
OF the clearing house. and enabled supplies
TO flow il al unbroken stream from New
York to the war hospitals, instead Of be;ro
damned up on the dock or scattered to
unstrategic points. Mrs Robert Woods B,;ss
wife of the first secretary of the American
and her friends instituted the "Ser
VICE de distribution Americaire" and ther
organized work for frontier children. Mrs
Wharton turned from making her contr;hr
ton to letters and devoted her ful s+rsro.,
@ the American Hostels for Refugees ,"Chu
lren of Flanders Rescue Commitfeev and +ho
work for "French Tuberculous War v;ctir,s .
"A "ioe group of persons. including Judge