New-York tribune., 1922-11-23
Tells the Chamber of Com
nserce American Busi.
ness Mem DO Not Realize
Their Influence Abroad
Greater Future Is Here
links Vital Necessities of
His Country With Aid lie
Is Seeking i'm the u. S.

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ssv to express my thanks, not only
4 tAis body of the Chamber of Com
ueree of New York bat should say
a The whole of the American people.
Men hsye been too much criticized,
and maybe everpraised. TOO. think
thS.is my ease. Very often they as
er5ss to me too much i'll and some
simes too much good. I don't be-
heye that ! have created a great
Sssl Of ill-certainly not to lnger
A great deal of good? | would not
dare say. But the most did was to
bring into action what had learned
IN this country.
You have very great influence in
Europe, and very often / say. and |
will repeat, that you don't know your
enormous power over there, the enor-
NOUS power that you have upon
European minds. If you knew it you
would exert more of it in the right
direction, and you would help Eu-
rope and help yourself at the same
time.
Because, don't you see-of course
don't undertake to say what men
are made for, but / know they must
get along together. 1t is not the
man alone--it is the heart of man.
People have spread them selves over
the earth to work. In the old days
when q man could defend his own
family by himself | suppose he had
a great chance; he ought to be con-
graduated. Now the world has
changed. America has accomplished
so much that | cannot help asking
myself what wonders you are going
to show me when | come back fifty
seven years hence. 1t surely won't
be more wonderful
Finds Araerica Wrapped in
Work, but Not Provincial
But something has gone into you
which thought of at the beginning
4 and which | did not always UNDER
stand You seemed to me at the
tme-I should not say more inde-
pendent-but trying to show inde-
pendenee. Now, you keep very quiet
among yourselves and go to work.
You are nation of workers, but at
Il the bottom. when one is granted the
Il iayor of speaking with you, it is
very clear that you are interested in
al the questions of the world. There
il Rotking anywhere on this planet
u tast does not interest you and does
a Mtmake you wish TO puF a kind of
AaTican finger in the pie And /
ldsla that you talked of every mat
4 ershich might be alien to YOU
fep sensibly and with the kind wish
Il loprcnote the welfare of mankind
n sa' that is where you differ from
& tae great British nation, They are
4 Almighty powerful people, they have
8 dze splendid work. they have fine
Hsn. Among the great works they
have done-~a little III pite of them
selyes-is the United States OF
lmerica But after all, they have
i done it, and it is not common work
| love them, like to talk to them;
tat the action with them is not al
rays so pleasant as with the Ameri-
cans. | tried both during the war
and during peace. / love them.
admire them anywhere. Wherever
go | will say that the British sol
der is a fine, beautiful, magnificent
soidier-stern, willing, capable of all
sorts Of endurance in all ways. /
saw them only in the Flanders
fields up to the girdle, looking every
one like tub of mud, there and
never to be moved.
There were days when I came to
this admirable man., General Plum
mer, and asked him what he was go
ing to do, expecting that he was go
ing 10 answer: Il am going to re-
tire" Smiling with his good face. he
said: q will go forward by and by.,
Dependable stock. But don't be too
eager. Teach them to respect YOU as
tney want to respect you, because
tney deserve It. With America the
part IS so difficult, 1t is in way
something of the heart going to the
heart, | don't know what it is.
round American Soldier
ABraye as a Man Can Be"
don't think they are any braver
than any other soldiers, but they are
as brave as a man can be-and that
Is to say something. But there is a
plainness, frankness, a JOY to live
and give ones life if it is necessary
that makes them very hard and puts
on their faces smile which brings
d hope and certainty of ultimate vic
i tory. That is what you have brought
20 US. We had been waiting for you
J long time, my friends. There we're
i some terrible days. Think of it! We
4 had to bear the whole brunt of the
q shock of the front for two years, al
j most alone. England was not ready;
# you were not, either. And one year
a after you declared war, then your
a soldiers began to come to the front.
q Magnihcently did they behave, and
4 50 good and so childlike. so ready to
A give their lives for anything that
8 vas good and high and noble. Only
4 % see them before the fighting came,
q our soldiers were pleased and want
4 ID to go everywhere with them.
Ehe other day at City Hall / tried
@ describe some spectacle | had
seen at the front of those people GO
ing into the front taking the chill
4 essn and walking and trying to ex-
4 pain to them-I don't know if they
with gesture, since they could
4 speak, what America was, what
4 @word meant, what America want
B ana what she was going to do, and
d father and the mother listened,
i understanding very well, of
a arse. but knowing that what they
q safd was good and right and that
Il efyoody was going to be saved
q l1a these men. That is what you
s'oaght to US. That | will never
D oFset, But, let me tell you, if it
& as good for us it was mighty good
q ~ you, too, because, after all, of
q .sse ! am not going to condemn
a am not going to say that
Z nan IN business ought to try not
succeed. Of course not. Human
tLlfy Is the law of mankind. But
sas. e IS curse in success-military
otsss economic success, and every