The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-23
GOLD RESERVE LOSES
 GROUND IN ENGLAND

London, Sept 23 - The war or England The o1d-time reserve. some of the pre-war ''timidity.' has been shaken out of England's people.
 The war was followed by promises Of new world and further demo- cratization of these tight little islands. many printed assertions that the na- tion which worked as a family, high and low side by side, in time of need, was relapsing into its old class distinc- t1ons-that hummineSS had been wiped from the late.
 First, the new brotherhood of man was discussed on the platform and in the press. And then, in the press, Br1tain's presumed failure to live the lessons Of war in peacetime came in TOT round humping at the hands of persons who saw a return to the old Iron-class reserve.
 The publicists of Fleet street and adjacent territory haven't observed all the signs Perhaps the signs aren't at all visible to an Englishman. To an American who has seen England in both periods and. in both instances seen not merely the downtown life, but the home life we'll, there are unmistakable slgns that John Bull has retained a sizeable portion of the spirit of comradeship he learned in four bitter years.
 The other day a parsonage of some importance, distinctly a somebody, had been selected to unvei1 war memorial in an English village He fe11 in. The village dustman, a cor poral and a frst-rate fighting man, with three or four ribbons was se- lected Instead of the titled person. age It couldn't have happened a little while ago. Such things were done during the war. obviously, but not before. And if the back sliding of Britain had been as bad as some have contended, it couldn't happen in
 Reserve Breaks Gradually.
 The other day I attended a garden party in a district where I had lived nearly four years ago. In those days, in the last year of the war. milady work. But in that neighborhood. with few exceptions, the residents were shut in airtight compartments. Each family about seemed to know" a half dozen others and no more. There was an air of typical British reserve about their relations
 But this garden party started at 2:so, with children's games, a ver- itable riot, with all the grown-ups on the side lines, and many competing. and continued straight through to 1:30 next morning, when the lights guests home. The feature of the evening was a fancy-dress dance, and it was, figurative1y speaking, glddy as the big tbust of the year might be in Western university.
 The well-known and much carica- tured "compartmented" Englishman was not among those present
 Aloofness Jo1ted.
 Four years ago a family moved into this neighborhood and after year very nearly sold their home be- cause in that time they had not met a single neighbor. Today they are the center of any party, and new corners to the neighborhood are vot- ed into everything with almost the spontaneity and enthusiasm to be found at an Elks' convention.
 Something has happened to Eng land. This is an isolated instance I cite it because it is the one I know best It may be an exaggeration, not applicable over the entire coun- try. But many signs show that it cannot be any great eXaggeration.
 Fancy the canny Scot calling the Yankee Rotarian by his front name in the good old pre-war days. It wouldn't have been done, don't you know, and during the war even II would not have been done with any convincing spontaneity, no matter how strongly the Department or Tn, formation recommended open-handed as an act of delft propaganda But it was done at Edinburgh.
 The signs are too many TOT re- counting. Leave it at this: Some thing is jolting England and the Eng fish from their one-time aloofness. It is perhaps only small peslnnlnS hut A beginning 1t is.