The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-03-29
PUNCH GIVES VIEWS
OF AMERICAN PEOPLE
-ENGLAND'S GREATEST COMIC
PAPERS EDITOR VISITS THE
UNITED STATES

ONA1 Ell AlEO
The editor of Punch" the Ieadin
humorist paper of England, recent
visited the United States and was il
terviewed by a reporter for d hi
New York paper. The editor of Pune
who is called THE Sage tells Of tn
interview in his own paper. 1t fol
lows:
The liner de luxe had swung in pas
Sandy Hook, and the tender had al
ready come alongside with its mai
and Press-gang There ensued rur
ious race to interview the most dis
tinguished passenger, and it was b,
the representative of The Democratic
Elevator, who got there first, that tn,
Sage, In the very act of recording tn,
emotions provoked by his first sky
scraper, was abOrde.
Mr.. Punch, | guess?" said he
PLEASED, to NEE you, Sir. And whal
do you think of the American nation 2
Shall tell you now asked Mr.
Punch, COR wait till I've actually seen
it?"
Right here" said the interviewer
and drew his notebook.
Well, began Mr. Punch, Il think
a good deal of it mean, | think a
good deal about it. And it nearly al
ways makes me smile. Of course you
won't understand why ii nearly A.
ways makes me smile, because we
don't see fun in the same things.
You don't appreciate our humor, and
therefore you say that we haven't any
And if we don't appreciate your hui
NOR that proves again that we haven't
any. So you'll. never understand why
it makes me smile, sometimes gently
and sometimes rather bitterly. to
think about your nation; but I'll tell
you Just the same -
7 In the first place, what you call
America is only small part of the
American continent, not even as large
RS British North America. And in the
second place what you call your ma
tlon'-well, some rude person once
said of it that it isn't really nation
at all, but just picnic. | won't go
so far as that, but | hardly suppose
you will be much better pleased if I
'all it League of Nations. That is
phrase that you hate, because your
resident wilson loves 1T.
by the way, I must be very careful |
low / speak of your president, be-
'ause you're so sensitive on that sub !
ect. You allow yourselves to abuse .
lin as the head Of political party,
tut if other nations so much as cues t
ion his omniscience he suddenly be-
ONES the Head of Sovereign State.
IN English Cabinet Minister once
old me how an American gave vent
n conversation to the most violent
anguage in regard to the policy o.
he president of the day, and when
t the end the Englishman verv
uietly said, 4 am inclined to agree
18th you,' the American turned on
i'm in fury, saying: Sir, / didn't
0me here to have my country in
lltedl'
However, to return to your League ,
Nations. In England (where come {
'om) they are just now reviving :
ay by Mr.. Israel Zangwill, in which, :
| recall it rightly, he makes out 6
our country to be the Melting Pot !,
to which every sort of fancy alien :
pc is thrown, and turned out a pat :
IN American citizen, member of
United Family | wish l could be- :
I'VE it. 1t seems to us that your b
srman, even after passing through s
e Melting Pot, remains a German; v
at your Irishman, however much he !,
nericanises himself for purposes of i
litical power and graft, remains an :
shman. You never seem to get to- /:
Their as nation, except when you
to war, and even then you don't
ep it up, for you're not together
W, although you're still at war with
rmany. The rest of the time you l
I'm to spend in having elections and
acating' q think that's what you
i it, the German interest, or the
gro interest, or the Sim Fein in
est.
And this brings me to the point
1t makes me smile most of all
en- it doesn't make me weep. Isn't
a pathetic thing that really great
| strong people like you should be =
weak and little IS to let your press
npathise blatantly with the cam q!
On of murder in Ireland; to suffer ~
t campaign to be actively assisted 81
gunner; to look on while gI
5 being financed by American mon M
here employed in conjunction with SI
resources of that very Bolshevism g6
oh you take care to treat as .crimi- 1E
in your own country? "a
Isn't it pitiful that you should re- rs
d reprisals (hateful though they 0S
= be) as worse than the hideous IN
'ders which provoked them; for 81
ing your own addiction to lynch gS
=; forgetting too Gas some of our ~
people forget) that the sanctfty S1
he law depends as much upon the rs
/ will and assistance of the popu ny
as it does upon the police, and IN
Tot else be maintained? rs
indeed your memory is not very ~
|, Your Monroe Doctrine. which 20
,ts that nobody from outside shall g6
rfere with your affairs; escapes o.
whenever YOU want to interfere gu
other peoples. You even forget, 9