Arizona republican., 1921-07-18
FOURTH OF JULY SENTIMENTS
BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright. 1921. by Frank Cranel

You often understand things better when you get away from them. You see things truly when you stand off little.
 On the Fourth of July 1921 am in Paris looking at my native land of America from distance of some 1000 miles,
 How does it look?
 Good If anything, the farther I get away from it
 the more attractive it seems
 This, of course, is for a very simple reason. For know Americans. I am of them, was brought up with them and have practsed loving them hating them and getting along with them. know them-and what know like. We dislike only the people we do not understand
 But sizing up America from this distance it to me to be much worth while to emphasize the fact that they about the other folks than to think of all the ways in which they differ
 For matter of fact points of resemblance to the other nations deep and fundamental and our points of difference are entirely superficial.
 Differences are easy to see. A child notes them at once. And because all bit childish we have dwelt too much things that separate and not enough on things that unite.
 It may be that Frenchmen are voluble and English men stoid and Italians exctable and all that, but what do such things amount to more than one man having stub nose and another chin whiskers?
 We are all human beings and fundamentally inter- ested in just the same things
 The differences are trivial the resemblance is card inal.
 Out of my window facing an open square in Paris, see crowd of people in the street They are walking strolling riding in taxs, standing taking-all doing exactly as the people in Los Angeles or Cleveland
 They all have two legs apiece all have hats and shoes and probably the number have and ingrow ing nails, here just in Bloomington Illinois, or q Omaha, Nebraska.
 Eac. of these people has Home he goes back to at night and probably wife that wants to know where he has been and why, and little child that out of the door meet him and wants to be taken up and kissed, exactly as in Marion Ohio, and Sheridan, Wyoming. :. All busy making living, trying to get better job wondering how money, sorry for what they have said left unsaid wondering what they going to have for dinner, and little worried over that pain in the knee exactly as in Brockton Massachusetts, | or Niles, Michigan a All the cursing the politicians and yet doing what the party bosses decide complaining of taxes and avoiding their civic duties finding fault with the news papers and eagerly buying them every day. just the people back home in Buffalo, New York, and Norfolk, n Virginia
 The boys making up to the girls and the girls at fnessing working and some are loafng, most of the folks mnding their business and few looking for trouble here and they doing the same thing in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and in Kokomo, Indiana.
 Ia What people when they talk of Americans
 if they differed from Europeans horses from cattle y II cannot understand.
 We all cut from the piece of cloth Govern
 ments artificial Nationalties mostly holdovers
 from tradition Race prejudice is about ten-nnths ig S- nOrance. 10 I am American and proud of it. But am a to Human Being, and am prouder of that. And my Fourth of July this year is that it is ct about time Human Beings got together.