Evening star., 1922-01-22

OF "HOME, SWEET HOME.o
Thomas Reade, Sir Hudson loves
lieutenant at st. Helena, undertook
the exhumation.
An American ship of war arrived al
Goletta, with handsome double cas-
ket of unusual size and weight, for
the removal of the body. This was
successfully accomplished, but with
two strange accidents. The great
slab broke in two as it was lifted
crushing the leg of one native laborer
and killing another outright. Then
when the ponderous casket was being
hcisted to the ship, a rope gave way
in consequence of which Mr.. Reade
received a violent blow in the chest,
from which he ultimately died.
The casket remained in the Angli-
can Church of Tunis the night before
it's embarkment Home, Sweet
Homer was played on the organ as
it moved out. When it was finally
inferred at Washington the vast con-
course joined in singing the same
sacred song that had been played on
the organ in the little church OF
Tunis.
Strange, those accidents" re-
marked a tourist.
Kind of symbolic" observed an
other, "as if these foreign lands were
against his departure, on account of
what he stands for"
Just how? Explain"
"As if they were hostile to the idea
of Home, Sweet Home for Ameri-
cans in Europe"
from this idle conversation Git is
said) grew up the proposition of
the home, sweet home centers in Eu-
rope. Ostensiply (and as fact) they
would be memorials to John Howard
Payne, author of the song. the typical
American betrayed by love of Europe.
An association of patriotic Americans
is to bear the expense, aided by tour
list contributions.
Others ask if the State Department
at Washington is entirely stranger
to the idea. The State Department
is known to be the enemy OF ex-
patriates, hostile to the scattering of
tourist money abroad and completely
partisan of Home, Sweet Home" for
American citizens abroad.
Our passports are granted Tor Two
years only, including extensions. Up
to very recently, the application con-
tanned a sworn declaration of in
tention" to return home within that
time While at present liberal to
American business men 1egitimately
abroad, all it's tenderness will GER
tainly go to the memorials-to jog
the loiterer's memory that "Home.
Sweet Home exists, to touch his
emotions in contemplation of the sad
fate of John Howard Payne.
In any case, at a meeting of Ameri-
cans in the Paris Offices Of Alexander
Kahn, representative Of ono Of our
great singing machine companies. the
idea of the memorials was adopted
and there seemed no doubt of its
financial support, as If already ac-
Quired or promised.
The idea includes premises. first in
Paris and London, then in other capi-
tails, to be centers of the American
remembrance Of home. They are not
to degenerate into Information bu-
reaus. The only Information given
out will be how to get back to Gods
country the most promptly. together
with the registration of tourists
names for cable transfer and nominal
rate greetings to homo folks, the
stirring Of homo interest by we'll
stocked reading rooms of American
newspapers and appeals to tho better
emotions by patriotic lectures. termi-
mating in "Home. Sweet Home!" sung
by the sweetest and most famous
voices procurable.
Even the State Department. lto-rs-