The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS


 kindlier and profound respect of Eng land for America.
 AS I relied on general statements I thought it might be of some interest to analyize the American number, which was issued in celebration of the Fourth of July, and in this way show some of the things which the "Thundered" played up in order to make the United States better known throughout the British empire.
 l called attention to the spirited and hearty leading editorial, but now I wish to at least give the headings of some of the special articles. for they cover a. wide range of activities and were writ ten by men in position to speak with authority upon the topics set out. While the edition carried quite a lot of Amer ican advertising, it was in no sense a biz trade edition from the newspaper stand point
 The one exception to the American number being used to explain present
 
 found in the article by Lord Bryce, on What America Ought to Know" in the matter of Ireland setting out England's real attitude. The Times did this be- cause it believed that the American peo- pie, knowing and believing his knowl- edge and honesty would pay great re- gard to his effort to show the funda- me al hx. Irish question. But | mnot going to get mixed up in the fight and merely l give the above as information to any who may care to secure a copy and get his viewpoint.
 l cannot hope to touch on all the sub- I jects included in the very wide survey, | but, of course, the Washington corre- spondent's article on "The Treaty" and | the attitude of the United States, set out at great length the story of the Presidents struggle and his failure to have it ratified, because of the refusal of Congress, or rather the Senate, to accept the responsibilities which the peace of Versailles would have thrust upon the United States. It is a wonder 1 ful resume of matter which will be carried to the people III the November I elections.
 | General Leonard Wood has a conspic- uous place on the editorial page, for a short summary under the caption. "Our Common Task, in which he says: As the American looks back upon the worlds war, he will always remember the cordial treatment which he received at the hands of his English speaking cousins. whether they came fom any of the British Isles or from Canada or the Antipodes. He will always remember the soldiarly comradeship of those trying days. nor will they ever forget they stood shoulder to shoulder in one of the greatest, if not the greatest, crlsis in the world history"
 Job E. Hedges has a sympathetic and thoughtful article on "A Common Pur- peso setting forth the need of an alli- ance of sentiment, in which among other things he says: Hands across the sea- I is no longer a hope and oratorical stim- ulant. The sea has been crossed. Hands have grpped. The British and Amer
 
 our Revolution. the American people fought British officialdom represented by hired army. My contribution l to the Fourth of July issue is that Great Britain and the United States should start with the assumption that they have a sentimental kinship, that they have melted into joint responsi- bilities by the fire and heat of war and that we will save time by drowning upon word or act which shall divide us." I'll cite just one writer more on the ties that bind us to the mother country. Dr. Lynn Harold Hough, president of Northwestern University, acknowledges in a thoughtful and appreciative article "America's Debt to England" Skipping 1.-the sentimental, I'll quote concrete !statement: If everyone of the two mil lion soldiers which. America sent to France had been killed or wounded or |incapacitated through sickness, and q million more training in American can comments had met with similar disabil- Ity. the total would be 4s000 less than the British casualty list And every Eng lishman who died and every Englishman who was wounded or was laid aside by sickness was fighting our battle as well as his own"
 He uses the poem of John Greenleai Whittier with great effect. the first verse of which reads:
 70 Englishman! In hope and creed, In blood and tongue our brothersi
 We, too, are heirs of Runnymead;
 And Shakespeare fame and Cromwell
 deed
 Are not alone our mother's."
 I only have space to give a hurried ! re n If bo ot, easy to be seen that "Pussyfoot'' John. { son, who was our guest few days back, has put prohibition on the map ir England, as The Times gives more thar a page and half to it's discussions un der the heading: Two Sides of Prohibit tion,' arguments for and against the sale of liquors A representative of the Anti-Saloon League of America open v, the case, and James A. Seavey man aging director of the Association CD, kposed to National Prohibition, closes it 7 IT wish I had both articles in pamphle form for reference and also the one or "Vine-Growers and Prohibition" effect, in California, wines. grapes and syrups 2 by Robert G. Mason
 l I dare say that one of the most wide ly read articles in the American number was the one, Republicans and Demo crats," a survey of current politics f showing slight party differences, by pr Albert Shaw, editor of The \Review O Reviews, a man by training and profes f sion eminently qualified to handle thu subject. He is at pains to try and le the British in on some of the pecdiar. ties of a preSid(fltial election in thu