The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23
CEMENT OUR BONDS,
GALSWORTHY'S PLEA
Tells Lotos Club at Lowell
Centenary U. S. and, Brit
ain to Get Closer,
BARES FOIBLES OF BOTH
Sir Robert FalcOner Of Canada
Details How Dominions
Saved Empire.

Saved Empire.
On the hundredth anniversary OF
James Russell Lowell's birth John Gals
worthy suggested last night the estao-
lIshment Of an English speaking Acah-
envy of Arts Music and Letters as an
excellent means of strengthening the In
tellectual bonds between the English
speaking races, already brought closely
torether by the comradeship OF a fight
against despotism. Mr.. Galsworthy In
N speech at the Lotos Club. where he
was guest of honor at dinner. said he
thought the common heritage OF English
literature had been perhaps the most
potent thing in preserving the CLOSELY
knit relationship between the United
States and England.
Tonight our thoughts naturally turn
toward England. to whom we have oeen
bound by a glorious brotherhood In war
and with whom we seek n closer COM
relationship in peace" said Chester M.
Lord head OF the club. in introducing
the novelist. "Wo have been bound by
many ties. Our New England villages
are the prototypes of English villages.
and many of US feel the kinship of COM
mon ancestry and religion. But
stronger tie is the English language and
n common literature has kept US IN
touch with one another, and we feel at
home In the haunts of Scott. DR.. John
son and Goldsmith.
"Mr. Galsworthy has done quito as
much to foster this intimacy as any
writer His thoughts are clothed In a
beauty and purity Of language quite
unsurpassed by any writer Of the present
day"
Literary Men RELOCATED.
Mr.. Lord lamented that the days of
sixty years ago (when he said the girls
wanted literary men for husbands) had
passed and that this was an age OF ma
chlnery and commercialism and that
people no longer went to church on Sun
day for the intellectual pleasure OF lis
tenins to a sermon.
gwen our music is made by machin-
cry, while machies rather than brains,
are doing the work of the world" said
he. Our writer's OF to-day employ
whirlwind and barbed wire sentences
that explode. They employ verbal bombs
instead of PUT balls"
Mr.. Galsworthy, who received a great
demonstration from the 400 diners as ne
rose, recalled that his first public speech
had been delivered on his thirteenth
birthday.
'It was the only occasion Of the sort
upon which I have manifested any self
control" he went on.
ct happened to overhear one OF my
boy friends whisper to another Watch
him blush My spirit rose and my blood
fell and / disappointed them. You know
there are no more irresponsible crea-
lures than VIC professional tellers of I'M
truths.
His Discoveries in America.
"You can have little idea what a
pleasing voyage Of discovery 1t Is to US
primeval Anglo-Celts to visit America
Can you realize how much more enticine
It Is to my English mind than was the
Arabian Nights to your fascinating
dabuiist, o. Henry? We Of America
and England need to understand each
others needs. desires and dislikes. With
cut understanding. We enter watertight
compartments and shut them when the
ship begins to go down. We English
are set and made: you Americans are
On the making.
"I often ask Americans what is now
the American type and I am invariably
answered with a smile. To master three
or four of the aims ana characteristics
OF Americans Is as much as one Eng
'lishman can hope to do. For four years
we English speaking peoples have been
pictured as having all the virtues.
would rather dwell upon those lower
qualities We possess in common-com'
mon sense and energy.
Historians OF the future will say that
by those attributes we will flourish. We
on the button of life and making Il
ring. Our people have been so practi'
cal and successful that the only thing
they have missed is happiness They
had no time.
TT Is a melancholy fact that tho
complete man does not live by inventor
and trade alone. At the risk of beine
put out Of paradise. l put In a plea fol
beauty. A ag for the Sphinx, Shake
speare and Michael Angelo! They die
not elevate mankind. II we negiec
beauty we take q step backward. Thii
IS detcstable In a country which, un
derstand. has Just taken a ticket to tn,
Garden Of Eden"
Views an Empty Glass Sadly.
Mr.. Galsworthy held up a glass al
he spoke. looking at it with what ap
peared an air Of contemplative regret
fulness. and the diners with the pro
hibitory amendment in mind. broke int,
laughter.
II long to see fellowship between Eng
hsh speaking peoples, political and com
nercial. and also in philosophy and art.
Mr.. Galsworthy went on. THE highes
expressions OF thought and fancy are
nations life, and we ought to hang Their
in each others house. I almost thin
we ought TO establish a common Englis
speaking academy of arts. music an
Filters which wouf6fShrk on. felirGshf
or ideals. Understanding is for me tn
priceless thing In life.
II would like to do something for tn
kindness such as could have come fror
no other country which have receive
here" Mr.. Galsworthy said in CLOSING
"I feel like a child who has been listen
ing to wonderful tale and who asks tn
seller what happened next"
Calls Canada Full Grown.
Sir Robert Alexander Falconer, pres
dent OF Toronto University, told the cli
members and their guests that Canad
was now not merely an adjunct to Grea
Britain or In the process of being adde
10 the forty-eight States of the UnioI
but that she stood upon her own fee
and would continue to do so.
What our boys did overseas was nc
merely the result OF opportunity, but {
histoGy," said he. "If our history |
Canada had not been what II was ther
would be no British Empire to-day"
Sir Robert declared that Canada ha
Fought for her freedom just as much a
had her ne!ghbors south of the boundar,
although blood shed had rot been neces