Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-31
THE PEOPLES FORUM
Is Ours Really ''City Of Brotherly LoUe''?
A "stranqer" Gives Experience

To the Edfor Of tho Eucrino Public Ledger
slr--AIthoush ] have previously written
an article In your column regarding tine IN
b" spitolity Of rhiladelphians in seneraI,
wish TO again anIwe some Of your contrlD-
utors.
Now tha, is very unfriend!y. narrow
lninded way Of answering In which 'Mrs'
w l. "" unltindly says that the writers
must be from some Gopher Prairie. l
think that ~ tte typical spirit VI PnllRde!-
rhiars. why must people form frieno-
ships in youth. ard then never again f"rm
any LeCausc Of that condition? II would
be a v,ry sad world II every one had such
selfish We've. and I think our friend, or.
I pisht say. our ,nemy. Mrs. W. j" "
rGay some day come 10 feel what gEe now
seems to know nothing about 7 myself
come from another city, by no means pro-
vinCia'. but yet the inhabitants sull make
a show OF courtesy even II II Is 10 IT,
Stra niger within their midst.
II Is not always necessary to associate
with people. but one can be polite even II
they DO not intend to make nm ncGna INT
anCc or intimate Of another human BEING.
il costs very little to be Kind, but tn"
Phlad ,phtans DO not secm TO regard II In.
that light. Thay hnd II easier TO be rude
and unpleasant II iq positvel" true ihal
the people arc as the various strangers o.
residents Of a short perlrd have described
them. I am not prejudccd.
like PHILADELPHIA as a city very much.
as II has such wonderfully broad streets
and Il - nice and level. which certainly
appeals to mo. RuG nni. rCrrCt that tho
natives are TO different from their city
Tho storc1 are Ieligu,tui 20 shop In. aud
eli in ALL IKE u very much more thsr
the city "nme from. but reers; that tho
people ran down uude- the acid test. They
ars naturally snobbish and inclined 10 he
c,iduy ana clanniSh whore there Is no oc..
tasion 10 he 80.
One thing must say and that il to
praise the libcrality Of the EvrNrNG PCErIu
LrDGER IN publishing tho various articles.
irresIectNc OF the opinions cxpressrt.
whether detrimental or pra sew orthy. L.
only the citizens OF this burg were Ms lib
oral how lovely No might glide By while,
in thts Cty of Cnbrothcrly Love.
Thcr again, to quote MrI W. l.. Bacon
TN" stI anger in the city doesn't ut IL
wcll. WHY? lSl't that an uncha RI p he,
remark TO- an Intelligent woman to make
7 should liR" TO know? ! cannot rcsist an.
swcring SUCH stnt"meri7, decidedly thinI.
u more than "cattv'' to say IT, She had
er'irrIv satisfied Gig" she may ho made Il"
feel "a tho other wrItor quoted above
hore may somN day experience.
1t Is not spite on my part in making TINS,
remark, but merely that 7 have. rrs"lf
icon made TO fool bitterly alone thnt lltu
lost all its glow. Mrs. BnCun. this city IL
not like rthcr cities. 7 wish to take issun
with you on that point Nowhsr" IL one
'nad" :" feel so small and unnecessary and
unwnntad. I am willing 10 stand back Of
my assertion. that IL oil | care to say
fer 'h,s time. but II the editor WI bear
with me, should liiSo to express myselr
again at somo future time.
also wish to know moro about The club
for strangers. ns II. too. lntcrcsta me. Per
haps the editor or contributors can sug
Ccst practical plan OF putting N into
operation. I sHou.d 10 very glad to CO
operate Thanking lou for your previous
tuNori nnd courtesy ! am,
ONE or THE STRANGERS
Philadelphia. December IS, 1921