Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-19
coNcEiT OF THOSE WHO SAY
THIS Is GODS COUNTRY"
There Can Be No Proper Understanding
o. Our ReIstIons WIN the Rest Of
sN. World Till We Under.
niand Otha- Mntlnro
gtsnd Other NatIonl

hNL lHy N the summer OF 1913 man
" from New York was looking at the rugs
In the Turkish section of the world fair In
Chicago. As he stood before q silk rug
about three by eight feet he wes joined b.
& man wh" looked Ike Uncle SRu. The
a.al vas dressed IL what We should today
CAL Khaki .rolorcd rlotMrR with a khaki
co!c-cd hr,, khaki colorcd whiskcrs on his
chin n7t kualu-colorcd compcxion lie
said Ne vas from Montana. After looking
ct ne -.g mon"ut oe two he saw the
price tas
Three t4oas,ad doilars!' he exclaimed
!,'7edu.oualy. what is there IN that thing
that rlaECs Il worth so much money!
Ele New Yorker explained that it was
SIX, IN the first piece, and that ii was made
~ Hand, in tha second place, with every
th-"al lied in separately
'ilant made, 49, III" man exclaimed again.
'Hnm7o' We DO not have to mae rugs hy
hand E2,g. Hhif i Gods cOuntry.'
This MoataaG UEric sam was more nea-,y
Representatives ot the sentiment Of the whole
nGtion ot tina. time than many OF US like to
admit. AHd, @.housh twenty seven years
have TGssri since ne made h's Contcmptuous
remark. aud although many things have hap
peHed II IT, :hervnl, it is the prevailing
belief that Tao substitution OF machine. mae
goods 70? those ,naie hy hand is the greatest
IstLa t''.l.'t 'tl'l-. GL LltitEn times ANA
sLat TIE Cr't"d States ie the especial jewel
Of :re rreator, priced more highly than any
other eio; 81 earth and of greater interest
I, Hin TN th" NiGEr,t world n Ia, Infinite
reaches - s.claC space,
4 ,"o,m- G,uOlnt ot SN.I-rStern j. &C..
sirQh!". but vhe1 it is carried to sIrh an
sX'-,l.n By H." ctizrns ot q nation it be
ro""s roNceitcd proyinCialislr that dis.
IL, L., st-.,
t1,msr,yrs. but fox u7dorstardirG their 70.
,a'inns y,.th The citizens nf other nations.
No D.y.r porr.cious formula was ever Dr..
-.ecd than that "tlis IS Gods country
J. has oo,orcd III" thinking Of American pol
i;iaiaus fu- hundred years. It has led
them 70 believe that ther" is nothing il ang
o'trc part Il tho world good "a the worst
nrrA and tie II y" are 70 p"cscryc or
institutions ~ must keep ourselves ;soiato1.
Whrr the rar,h NAs big it did NOT matter
ruri. "h3.. ar Thought ot the remote parts
O; L. But the machines Of which the Mon
ta3a uarle sam Was So proud have r":a.
p-.,,nd .Ia world undl j.. has squeezed the
u,ouos oIt of Il and las brought -. FO"ifr
coast ot tha United State into q" county
n.-- :, the Atlantis, We or" n.a- r"'rH.
hors {, Eg~or" and Asia. and r.,. L-r e.,
l,"'ty ,or".rnri with "n~. AarDrrs .hcra
&, .vory man Is concerned With Th9, :aH-
Y2:.A IN the house reNt d"o-.
Tae elected representatives - ~. T"opIe
Ia Congress will 'aiN cbout tines culnges
in tae world, but when tho; cone I" aH. they
ignore them autlrc,. This T.: bc"rus. key
are really REPRESENTATIVES. Tho gr"N: mass
oI tlo prople are indiNor"u, to world ''"Yr-
,.euts, jlst "a they arc Indifferent &. tnr
po,itira, C6ucfs ir thair ONE town. THey
are At, busy running ill., ,nurhi-ps Xii. ,rn-