Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-25

there are pamphlets printed and daily and weekly papers read and doubtless believed by some on both sides of the Atlantic which dissem- ble the love and conceal the trust so thoroughly that one is forced to be- lieve that there is neither love to dissemble nor trust to conceal in the minds of the writers, or at least in those of the men hwo pay the piper ard by immemorial right call the tune.
 Criticism Too Easy.
 There is nothing 1 regret more than to read in some American paper an article accusing this country oi quite impossible villainy unless in deed it be to read in some British paper the article reversed, with Brit ain in the role of spotless saint and America as villain.
 It is so fatally easy to criticize particularly at time like this, when human thought is boiling and break ing down the rapids. Within the con- fines of any country any critic on the, bank, in the spirit of the urchin of the streets, can shout directing to the man who lahors at the helm of the ship of state: "Yah! Why don't you keep straight? Bah! Why don't you do what you said you were try ing to do? Rotter! incompetent '' and so on.
 To all of which the laboring steers man can only reply: '1 do what l can not what I would. In this mill race of thought my first care is to save the ship, so that when we reach the calm waters of the bay we shall still have a well-found vessel beneath l our feet and not be compelled tc build anew the frangile coracles and bark canoes of an incipient civiliza- tiCn.'
 Helsman Loses Temper. When to the chorus of national criticism international voices arc joined, more particularly when these international Voices speak in the mother tongue of the hard-pressee pilot, it is only human that temper: should show signs of wearing thin /; and though to the early criticisms i the wise answer "l do what l can not what I would," may be returned 1 later critics stand in some danger o1 being answered less wisely but more l forcefully with recommendation tt st out on that journey which if tht pit be really bottomless, can have n' ending.
 i The habit of criticising other ma tions without the slightest regard fo' 1 their difficulties and fears is no ] confined to England and America l but it has dangers all it's own whel l hurled from America to England O. vice versa.
 The newspapers in the two coun tries that do these things, the speak CTS in the two countries that sa. 1 these things and the pamphleteer 1 who write such things use languag which in words is similar on eithe short of the Atlantic, but in wort values is wholly different and il methods of abuse is as the pole asunder.
 Criticism and Result.
 The result is that criticisms 0 ] Britain by Americans are at once tn intimacy almost of domestic criti cism and yet stands alone as inter national comment, because the criti cism of our doings by other nation | 4 do not understand the language o | their critic. = | have no doubt that with the part | reversed the same is true. I Universal experiences shows tha i nothing is more annoying than crit | cism which ignores the vital, modi flying factors, and 1 venture to sa. l that no American can feel all tn | legitimate pressures and considera ! tions which help to mold every de cision taken in the cabinet room a i Downing street, as l know no Britol would claim to have even an inkin! of one-half of the anxieties moldin. decision at Washington. We canno know each others problems in ever, detail. How could we?
 Difficult to Understand.
 History shows that it was not eas, for eighteenth century England t understand the New England of he day. In the twentieth century it i far more difficult for the British Elm pire to understand the American Elm pire, or the American the British. | It is true that both are in some though in different, measure sprun from the Joins of the England tha used to be-the England of Elizabeth of Cromwell, of the Stuarts.
 But since the day of separatio each has developed along it's ow lines, each has been faced by it's spe cial difficulties, each has spread it rule over vast territories, each ha absorbed by tens of millions people of non-English stock.
 In the process England has becom a unit, in the empire of her crea tion; New England mere fragmen of the great United States.
 I venture to urge upon the atten tion of Britons the simple but all important fact that in a cenury tn center of American population ha moved hundreds of miles westwar into what the movement began, wa the wilderness and the wild, w | know that this little island is no ! the British empire, but we are apt | speak as if, and l am not sure tha we are not apt to think that Wash ! inpton. Boston and New York ar America.
 I will never forget one fervid mid 1 die westerner with whom I travele 1 in a train the first time I penetrate ' into that great continent. He cross i edexamined me on my doings, ante | ooJC JCptc opJ fin o+e o,,