Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-07
MAIN ST. AND FIFTH AVE.


Marwot Asquith announces that she
will write a book on America. The
majority OF foreign writer's who visit
America do that. sometimes With lu-
dlcroua results. Tho outpourings OF
these Observers can. a. = rule, be put
Into three classes: tho unfrisndly and
unsymrathctio studies, OF which
Charles Dickens american Notes" Is
n prototype. the ignorant type which
only scratches the surface OF Uncle
sam. and the truthful attempt TO in
terprct us In our own terms.
The last named class IL all too rare.
Ono OF the few authors who sue
cecdcd fairly In that class Is W. L. |
George. who travelled practically In
cognito through America for six
months or moro before he scratched
pen TO paper. He did not get his ma
t.rtai from New York drawing rooms.
His local color came from talking
with travelling statesmen In smoking
cars. by hob nohhing with party poll
tlcians in the mid West. by eonversins
with friendly darkies In Tennessee. by
living with the haute noblesse In New
Orleans. and in seeing the new west
cf oil and agriculture at fryt hand.
II Margot wishes to interpret the
real America she must forsake the
"tea nxats" being given In her honor.
snd make a pilgrimage to the heart OF
America. Main Street" L. more typi-
eslly American than Broadway. the
Eastern Shore 10 more so.ly than Fifth
Avenue Let her go down into the
heart os Delaw ware. and live for q week
with persons who yet inhabit homes
that wsrs built by their ancestors
eneA away from New Castle. Then
let her ~ into q steel town Of Penn
sylvsnia, and see things with her own
syes--not ss the publicity men OF steel
would have her view them.
From Pennsylvania she might hop
90 the mid where a spirit very
different from the Enst IL met. Her
next atop might be a switchback TO
IN. city that boasts Of Andrew Jack
cons Hermitage From there she
could penetrate the black belt OF Ala
hama and Mississippi. and might even
enter one Of the Georgia cracker VII
inEcs. where primit,veness prevails
IL would be, advisable then 20 have hei
push into the far west. taking 9
glimpse OF the Panhandle on the way
eho nigh, even view the Grand Can.
Jon. and talk with some OF the ole
men who once went west with the fir'
Of hope IN their eyes.
From there 30 California would b'
an ~n.y stage. She would md
str'p of coastline far more beautiful
thnn the artificial Riviera, wher
every blade OF grass has its own vale'
Nh. could peep into Hollywood. wher
new sex sernation breaks loos
every month or no. .Margot Nigh
b. very. very interested in Hollywood
of course she should not miss tn
pnkotas. where many social expert
nen,s are being tried on large seal,
notably the now discredited Non-Par
tissn League. Oregon would be a goo
plnce In which 20 recupcra,e. an
gather a few notes about the news
far northwest.
All the time that she is travelinl
let her talk with persons who do n,
know that she Ia Margot OF the SCI
psn''v Tongue. or who. n knowing
o'' 'N'' - ''nAlIitnthi ruTTtn. our
persons do exist. you know. The ~
docsn't rise In the British Isles 4
everyone. she could meet Democrat
and Republican bosses. third par
id.alisi-. Scandinavian maids al
Greek r.~tauratcurs. farmers and sms
town business men. and occasional
. capitalist on a large scale.
n Mnrgot would do all this 8
would s~t n r~~tinr view OF the hea
of America. She viii never see
through a lcrxnctte at Fifth Ay
nue "'cn night"