The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-04-09
FAULTS IN BOTH
SAM AND ]. BULL,
SAYS j. s. EDITOR

LONDON-Callingt the English in
animate objects" due to cold reserve
superinduced by shyness, his lecture
on John Bull and Uncle Sam" was
given to a London audience by Fred.
erick William Vile, an American
journalist, who is leaving for Washing.
ton to become correspondent for
Philadelphia paper after II years
service with the London Daily Mail,
most of the time as Berlin correspond
ent.
Mr.. Wile's criticisms were made
with good-humored irony that brought
storms of applause. He told them they
were "eceedingly chilly propositions,
that our soldiers and sailors found
most of them alright compartments"
and reminded them OF Dan O'Connells
appraisal that an Englishman has all
the qualities of a porker excepting its
occasional warmth. Every man, wo-
man and child of you grow up with
an ambition to be an iceberg" he
declared.
While he was in Berlin he said he
had an English friend that ran Luna
Park there, and that this friend, real
izing his painful modesty, had en-
gagged an American advertising man
aKer. The Yank was great success
and the crown of his achievements
was to recommend the erection of an
electric sign 100 feet long, 80 feet high,
that could be read from four sloes
for seven miles on foggy night.
When the plan was laid before the
English manager he squirmed in his
chair and said, We'll, Frank, l must
saw YOU have worked it out beautifully
but aren't you afraid-don't you think
it would be too conspicuous?'
Reserve Hurt Britain.
This reserve, said Mr.. Vile, had
cost Britain heavily in Americas ap-
probation of British accomplishment
in the war. He recently returned from
America, where he had delivered 1875
lectures and found a general ignorance
of the facts that Britain had nearly
as MANY men killed as the United
States had in action; that the British
had conducted war doggedly and man
fully on seven fronts all over the world
before the United States took part;
that not only had the British Isles,
apart from the dominions, been the
greatest factor in the allied battie
mower. but that the British mercantile
marine, assisted by the British ar
madas, had also been of first import
snce. In that they brought nearly all
the food and most Of the American
soldiers to Europe.
Mr.. Vile recommended reconstruc-
ton of opinions on both sides or the
Atlantic He said he had made a
hyperdermic exploration Of British
character and found nothing out soou ;
but that he had found that the chase
for the sovereign was quite as strenu-
Gus. if not more strenuous, as the
chase for the dollar in America.
He suggested an amendment OF
school history in the United States
that should not omit one iota from the
iufamv of the revolutionary war on the
British side, or one iota from the glory
of George Washington and the col
onists on the American side, but
which would load the blame on George
III. an importation from Hanover VINO
had not learned to talk or read Eng
lish at the time of his death.
He would have told how many BRIT
ish officers gave up their commissions
rather than fight,and how many Brit
ish families withdrew their sons rom
the army rather than have them take
part in the buccaneeTing campaign II
the United States.
He would tell how Pitt and Fox enc
Burke had lauded the rebels openly
anu CONTINUOUSLY utl llS llAN w al stAie
that the Monroe Doctrine was formu
lated at 10 Downing street, the office
of the British prime minister. He
would include the incident at the bat
tie of Manila when Admiral Dewey
was assured by a British admira
that if there were any interference
by the hostilely disposed German
ships in the harbor, the British fee
would take care OF them.
Tells of Sim Fem.
Mr. Vile told Of the resumption o.
open propaganda by the Germans ii
America who are associated with the
Sim Fein movement. He said thai
the Sim Fem propaganda was mo-
dangerous in the United States, but
that until the Irish question is settled
the Irish agitation will continue, anc
chiefly because there is no answer b.
the British He spoke as man who
had been educated in an Irish Catholic
COLLAGE in America where he had re