New-York tribune., 1922-02-26

am at such pains to quote this from Mr..
Ervine, for the very reason that he has been
and is upon such friendly terms with US For
this quotation shows, if it shows anything,
that unconsciously all Englishmen fall
into the same habit when anything American
is under consideration. Of course, fortune is
always more easily acquired than good man
ners. That has always been true. 1t is not
peculiar to America. The truth is that the
patronizing habit among Englishmen when
ferring to anything American is something
that has grown upon them; they ape
other in this respect. They are not even
aware of doing it. But it is high time now
that they learned better. Speaking generally,
both Englishmen and Americans, as human
beings have about the faults Both
vulgar upon occasions. Both brag. The main
difference between them is that the American
is likely to be too self-conscious and the Eng
shman too patronzing.
ELINOR GLYN likes fairly well. She de
clared in an interview that she regarded
American men as superior beings and seemed
to think that the only trouble with American
women was that they were hungry for love-"
John Asycough the British novelist, likes
us. He says:
81 should saw that the women of America
are ordinarily more cultivated than the men,
because they appear TO read more 1t seemed
to me that the American man in general reads
little after leaving school and college,
Mr. E. " Lucas, who is somewhat neutral,
says this:
"In essentials America is American, but
when it comes to inessentials, to trimmings,
her dependence on old England was noticeable
again and again as | walked about New York"
Perhaps on the whole the fairest estimate of
America by an Englishman is made by W. P
Wilson, American correspondent Of "The Lon
don Daily News" Mr.. Wilson has been in
peculiarly advantageous position to learn
about us. He says:
II find at the end of it all that I know moth
ing about the United States except that know
nothing"
If this view we're more generally adopted by
those who come over here, would it not make
for more uniformly better feeling? From
the vast amount Of material have on hand
have been able to draw only a little, few
characteristic bits. | must conclude with
few more favorable, such as:
Colonel Wentworth Higginson once said
that American an Englishman with
additional drop of clectrcity'- flames T.
Muirhead.
"The intellectual life of America is very
acrtly waking up.'-Arthur Waugh.
81 said just that they work harder in
America than do That is the first thny
that mpresses the visitor. English
mon may tell me that it is only the fussiness
of the American worker that makes you think
he is doing moro in the same time than the
Engshman. That s not true."-The Rev.
Reginald J. Campbell.
Conversely. another clergyman, the Rev. w.
f. Cobb, wrote Of us:
at would be hazardous to claim that Amer
lea has made any serious or lasting contrbu-
ton to religious thought"
That indeed is quite remarkable, coming
from an English clergyman. But perhaps he
does not admit the presence Of dissenter, or
has never heard Of William Bradford. 1t was
William Bradford, WHO. by the way, after los
ing his little community that landed at Plym-
outh 300 years ago to the extent Of one-haK
Che number said to tha remaining ffty-ona