The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-01-01
AMERICAN GIRLS
land PROHIBITION
INTEREST BRIT0N
Nv MARY HENkE.


BY MARY HENkE.
LONDON, Dec. 8.-Two subjects
concentrate the interest OF the visiting
Brttisher in the United States, accord
ing to communications that come back
from him to England. They are Amer
lean women and prohibition.
His consideration of neither is COM
plimentary. The American woman is
spoiled and prohibition is going to ruin
the country before the country knows
it A certain amount of pity is ex-
pressed for the American man. He is
regarded as a victim.
Most Englishmen who go to the
United States to investigate condf.
tons, study life thoroughly and seri-
ously from the confines of New York
hotel or a Sons of Britain Club and
then come back to demand solemnly
what the United States is coming
to-"
Easy to Get Drinks.
There are a number of wet" in
vestigators from the British Isles in
the United States now, and an Amer
lean must envy the ease with which
the investigators" get drink when
ever they want one.
The American woman gets the
blame for prohibition. In the States,
points out the Briton. the woman
rules and with the female way of 60
ing off on a tangent, has set her head
on taking away all the pleasures OF
life. He recounts, as warning, the
report that tobacco may be the next
to go in the States, and intimates
that if the women had been kept in
,al.% I4 80
today.
Girls Too French.
American compilations and styles
come in for a goodly share of the
criticism that results from a visit to
the States. The Englishman finds the
American girl too pale of face, and too
pert of manner. He acknowledges
that she has style, but considers it
too French" One writer complained
that she lacked the "disarray" that an
Englishman finds so attractive. They
all agree that she has her own way
too much.
Prohibition, is absolutely without eff,
feet in the United States, the English
men finds. Intoxicating liquor is sold
everywhere openly, he declares, and
the people are generally discontinued
and dissatisfied. Anti-prohibition propa.
ganda comes regularly from English
men in the United States and is
played up big" by the newspapers.
Comment over here on the treaty
action by the United States senate has
been guarded, so far. Although part
Of the press. hints that America has
"let the Allies down. the more in
t1uential newspapers express their con
dence in the United States and are
polite if not enthusiastic. The English
man Gin the street" does not under
stand the situation in America, as q
rule. He has an idea that Mr.. Wilson
and the government are synonymous
and cannot understand why the presi
dent does not get everything he wants
Most of the middle class Englishmer
are worrying too much about high
prices and their own insufficient in
come to care much about the intrici
ties of American politics, or even theil
own. except as their pocketbooks arr
affected.
Believe u S. Menaced.
Reports that have come over here
have led the English people to be
lieve the whole United States is men
aced by Bolshevism and industrial
unrest. One reads, of strikes, ex
plosions, police raids, and riots al
over America, and the impression
given here is that revolution must b.
imminent
The industrial situation in Englan,
is bad enough, but it sounds ever
worse in America. This fact seems Il
the Englishman to relieve to some ex
tent the menace of American trade
expansion, and so often what seems t.
be the serious state of the western
continent does not concern him as
might otherwise Trade prestige con
tinues to receive serious attention
here and America as a rival is watche,
with keen interest by the press ant
commercial public.