The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-08-08

YOU must not talk about, one on the
| one side and one on the other. / he
one is, Who won the war" and the
other is, Who started the war; You
must be sensible of Europes great
losses. There is hardly family in Eu-
rope which has not lost at least one
| man. Again, you will be confronted
with a money situation which you can
not begin to understand. The great
masses of Europe are sunk to state
| OF abject poverty. You must there
fore be careful to avoid anything
| which may seem to them to be care
less handling of money or extrava-
gance, for things OF that kind must
needs cut them deeply and throw up
barrier which will prevent your en-
tering fully into their confidence, and
will tend to impede, if not prevent, the
purpose of your mission.
FINALLY remember at all times that
YOU are Americans and that you, Just
as any other American, are represent
ling your country. You will be closely
observed. and what you do or say will
tend to mould public opinion among
those who come in contact with you
for or against America and Americans.
Let the shuttle of friendship weave
the warp and wool of international
sympathy and understanding which
will bridge this awful gull the war
left between people Of the world"
President Harding and Secretaries
Hughes and Hoover have expressed
themselves as being deeply interested
in the work OF this mission. The pres
idents OF many colleges in the states
I fha
have given the mission their endorse
! ment and expressed their wishes Tor
its success. The students of Europe
are attaching a great deal OF sign1il-
canoe to this movement and are pro-
viding for conferences between the
| A m eric an students and nota-
bles in all OF the countries to be
! visited They are providing for the
entertainment of the American group
as far as possible and IN a manner
necessarily commensurate with their
present economic condition. In many
instances it has been necessary that
the ~ representatives at present IN
Europe hold them down in making
their plans, because of the desire to
entertain the group in a manner which
they really could not afford.
On July the Fourth the group at
tended the reception at the American
embassy, where with many other 10y
al Americans they gathered to shake
hands with Ambassador Harvey and
| Chief Justice Taft, drink English tea,
American lemonade and eat French
pastries. In spite of the fact that Eng
| land is ''wet" Col. Harvey very prop
erly represented America by serving
nothing remotely akin to whisky.
The first glimpse the writer had OF
an Atlanta man after leaving New
York was that OF Mr. Boiling Jones,
of Atlanta, when entraining in Lon
don for Holland One sees many
Americans in Europe just now. 1t
seems that every citizen of the Unit
ed States is on the way to Oberamer-
gau to see the Passion play
The crossing from Harwich to the
| Hook Of Holland was very pleasant
one. and then the fun began. The
group was met at the Hook by Con
Hoffman, an American, who is the
| executive secretary OF the European
student relief, and committee OF
Dutch students, among them Mr.. Wis
ser Hoft, president of the Netherlands
| Student Union. These gentlemen went
with us to Rotterdam, where we were
Joined by other students for sight
seeing trip on a regular American
"rubberneck" bus, finally stopping at
the Sailing Club de Mas, where we
were taken aboard municipal launch
as the guests of the city of Rotterdam
for a cruise about the harbOr. During
all this time a representative OF the
Fox film corporation was shooting the
interesting thingl which were happen
ing to us Afterwards we were shown
the film and given a duplicate OF it to
bring back to America.
There followed one fine meal after
another, one art gallery after another,
such royal entertainment until we
learned the full significance Of the eX-
preston, Beat the Dutch" Every
where we went the cars were decorat-
ed with American flags, and this was
true even on the trains. Two of the
most pleasant affairs we attended
were the tea at the home OF his eX-
cellency, ]. T. Cremer, ex-minister of
the Netherlands at Washington, and
the lunch given by the Dutch-Amer-
lean Chamber of Commerce in Ans
terdam.
We CHANGED to be in Holland on
the day OF the great national election
For the first time in the history Of
the Netherlands the women were vot-
ing in national election. No one
knew just what they were going to
| do All of the forty-siX parties in Hol
! land were making a strong bid for
their vote. But all of the ladies' we
asked about the matter, from those Of
the nobility who entertained us at Mrs.
Krohler's picture gallery to the cham
Der maids in the hotels at which we
stopped, said they we're going to vote
as their husbands did And according
to the returns that is just what they
did The Catcholic party secured the
greatest number of representatives in
parliament, while the labor party came
| second.
The visit to Holland has been chief
ly one of sightseeing. We have spent
three days in a country where we
| should have liked to have remained
for three months, but our serious bus
mess lies further on, where we hope
to study conditions in the war ridden
| IF E1rODa Tho friapdc b;