The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-28
ChestertOn's Address
 Pleased Big Audience

of New England as far as I have been privileged to observe it, is more closely akin to 18th century England than any spot in England itself. I at tribute that partially at least to the fact that the 18th century was your heroic age and you have, particular ly in this section of your country where the great events of your coun- ura1ly preserved the atmosphere of those days. In England. on the other hand, our traditions are made up of layers of varying importance and while we have rich deposits from many stages of English history brought down to us, it is quite true that New England presents more vivid picture of the 18th century than England does of any period in her history"
 Chesterton's ready wit was exem- plified sharply in the answers which he gave to questions propounded af- ter his lecture, some of them fur nishing even more enoyment than his prepared lecture itself. In answer to a question from Frank J. Brennan, he said that the Kaiser hadn't been tried under the peace treaty stipu- 1ation simply because politicians are politicians and never keep then word, and if he had been executed it would have been an isolated re- yival of the obsolete practice of hold i ing the responsible man responsible. 1 CheStertOn'S Nl6W O1 WnaC He C1llS i the Anglo-Saxon myth is probably best epitoniZed in the nonsense rhyme l of Carolyn Wells:
 1 'I never saw an Anglo Saxon,
 I never hope to see one,
 | But I can tell you anyhow
 I'd rather see than be one.'
 He asserted that those who cfrcu- late the Anglo-Saxon myth might at | least free it from pedantry by suD-
 stituting the word Jute, as the JiIt s
 had just as much to do with the pres
 ent English nations as the Angf2s 3r H Saxons, and had the additional .'d- | vantage of a one syllable name. The | term Anglo-SaXon, he declared was | part of that ignorance of the I'luCat-
 ed which before the var decrIn1 c,.
 eIvtE.ng that did not nave a J.utopit
 origin. Because of th.S strange erroi
 of the educated. he declared, tn
 land who recognized that the German
 waiter was just much foreigne $ as the Italian, hence England's lac t i of preparation for war with Prussi; s When asked if he thought Ulstr | and the south of Ireland could eve | be brought together, the lecturer said V There I am dealing with a foreig ' | nation. I sometimes see a gleam i : the eyes of the Orangeman whic e leads me to believe that he hates Eng
 Hshmen as much as any other Irisl s man and there is always a possibl I | basis of unity in that very thing.. = Asked if the great mass of Englis e people wish to extend full justice Ireland, he answ cred: ITO begin wit . the great mass of Englishmen kno,
 very little about Ireland. An enoI
 nous number of Englishmen desir
 to do full and complete justice t s Ireland. Unfortunately they hay n been told nothing but lies on the sut IT ject.''
 d When reminded that he was SUI. f pected of not being strong for proh l. bition, he said that being guest T. l. felt reluctant about criticiSing tt
 customs of the country, but he woul
 go so far to say that those WI
 knew him best would entertain mol
 than a suspicion and that frankly I -s thought prohibition was bosh.