Evening star., 1923-12-09
THOMAS n. MARSHALL
Former Vice President OF the Unite
Sfatea

VIZ hS~sOcht VI inc OuItc0
States.
In my boyhood In Indiana our
knowledge of Europe was somewhat
vague and shadowy IL not inaccurate,
and there was a quite prevalent idea
that the real way to round out a
scholastic education was to travel
abroad. study a few months at OK
ford and drink some beer at HeideI-
berg. Men who could afford 1T sent
and cultural purposes. l well remem-
Der the son of our local magnate, a
man of predatory wealth in the sum
of perhaps $4,000. He foreshadowed
to the rest of US boys what the future
of the son of the richest man in our
town was to be. He intended to win
honors at Harvard and then complete
his studies abroad. He even then was
anticipating the pleasure Of hearing
the American minister to Great Brit
ain preach. He did not finish at Har-
ward and his scriptural training came
from the chaplain of the state PEN
itentiary.
Whatever Of harshness may be said
of Europe. IL is to be said to her
everlasting credit that she satisfies.
spending six months at oxford or
Heidelburg, to refrain from talking
about his experiences. The grand
tour enlarged the view and made of
lifted him above his fellows and
though he might not look down upon
them when he returned. he never
failed to disseminate culture.
As the years went by young men
whose fathers were not rich began to
Poor artists went for the sake of
their art and young scientists for SCI
ence's sake. A man did not dare to
call himself a scientist unless he had
come into intimate contact with the
German mind. An artist could not
paint a picture until he had copied
the masterpieces in Paris and Flor
ence. One could not scale the Rockies
until he had scaled the Alps. Ameri-
can education was not complete with
out a postgraduate course in Europe.
AS time went on Americans kept
going to Europe in annually greater
numbers. Wives and daughters of
our manufacturers who could not pro-
cure the right kind of apparel in
America Joined the throng How
cheap things were, my dear, and how
easy to fool the custom officers" they
explained. Pleasure-seekers, too,
found the Fairgrounds OF Europe
much to their liking. Europe could
satisfy as America could not.
The great war halted but did not
end the hegira- Europe continued to
entice and satisfy. Most OF the Amer
lean Congress went over this summer.
wondered why President Coolidge
did not convene an extraordinary ses-
sion of the Congress TO sit some
where in Europe about September /.
The members could have assembled
forthwith at any one of several places
where assembIages have been sitting
almost continuously since the war to
straighten the world with the scratch
of pen.
1t might have been well Cor the
Congress to discuss Europe Cn the
ground. Maybe her problems would
have seemed more real. Perhaps
America would not have seemed so
isolated. Maybe alliances would not
just possible that the thought of
America going 1t alone woIld not
have been SO compelling.
The remarks at the dock Of sena-
tors and representatives who spent
the summer In Europe reminded me
of an incident In my law practice. We
had a drunken Irishman in our coun-
ty who was a devout churchmAn. He
went home drunk and whipped his
wife once too often. She procured a