Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-26
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS
EOR many years rich American
went to Europe to see th'
sights and gain inspiration from th'
civilization Of the old world. Nov
we notice that . good many Euro
peans are coming to the Unitet
States full of curiosity - to wha'
manner Of mortals we be. and they
usually tell US in q newspaper in
terview what they think Of US ant
our ways, and then go home ane
write 4 book about us for the infor'
nation Of their friends. Lady AS
quith, wife Of former British pre-
mier. came and saw and spoke hei
little piece and now we have Lady
Astor, who was an American girl
before she became a British peer
ess and q lady politician. She has
not told us yet just what she thinks
Of us, or whether her experience In
the British parliament has caused
her to change her mind about her
old home people, but she has just
arrived and has time to do it yet.
Then we have with US Sir Conan
Doyle, the writer Of clever detect
i've stories, who has entertained US
often with the marvellous deduc-
tions Of Sherlock Holmes. Strange
to say, he comes to Us on serious
mission. Following up strange and
apparently trivial clues after the
best manner Of his favorite charac-
ter, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Conan
Doyle has unraveled the greatest OF
all mysteries, he tells us. He has
communicated with the spirit world
and talked with dead. It is true
that he has not learned anything
very important from the spirits he
has talked with. That we note is a
characteristic Of spirits who COM
municate stheira thoughts In the
spirit world through mediums in
this world. They have nothing to
say worth while, and their COM
munications are generally about
trivial things. Their messages are
hardy worth the effort Of the me
dunn to ring them up in the spirit
world. But Sir Conan Doyle takes
his spiritualism very seriously and
wants 10 to do 80 too. All we can
say about his proofs Is that sher-
lock Holmes would never have
gained the reputation he did in the
Conan Doyle books If he had not
established his solution Of crime
mysteries by clearer proof and evil
dence than his creator brings us to
establish his theories about COM
with the dead In anoth-
er world. ...........
Then there was H. G. Wells, who
came to us with social and political
as Conan Doyle brought
US spiritual revelations. Mr.. Wells
wants us to become socialists as his
brother literary man from the
British Isles wants US to become
spiritualists. The American people
have given both men ample proof
that they like what they have to
say in their novels, because they
have bought them in vast quanti-
ties, but we think they take more
interest in them as novelists than
as reformers or preachers. They
like their fiction better than their
sermons.
BY the way, H. G. Wells is now
in Japan, and being interviewed in
a most delightful way by the Japa-
nese reporters. II seems that the
Japanese reporter puts fully as
much importance on his own
thoughts and reactions as he does
on those Of the distinguished visit
or. We wonder what an American
city editor would do to a reporter
who turned In an interview with
H. G. Wells like this one which ap-
pears in the Japan Advertiser from
the pen of one Yusuke Osurumi:
with a thrilling heart I went up
in the lift to the apartment of H. G.
Wells. I found the great writer
had just come in. Good morning,
come in,' he hailed me. He looked
At least 10 years younger than his
age, with keen blue eyes and light
hair. His well-marked eyebrows
and unstrained looks gave me al
pleasant first impression.
"'I thank you for giving me part
of your time just before leaving
For Russia I began. Thouph If |