Evening star., 1924-12-17
BY EDOUARD HERRIOT,
Premier OF France.

Inc United states wants peace. IL
It's people occasionally have wha,
seem To be un1ustified pre5udices
against what. we do, only loyal dis
cussions win end them. They aban-
doned US too soon. Many among them
know It and admit It They left al
the hour OF settlement, an error from
a business point of view. and even
more from q moral standpoint. But
the experts conference has given US
the opportunity to reunite the brok en-
bonds. Let US make the most OF II.
Let US count more upon the justice OF
our cause than upon the talent OF our
advocates. Let sus come together
heart to heart. And !. for my part
am firmly convinced that our commu-
nifty of ideals will once more be ef-
fective. ~
The Transplanted Frenchman.
1t would be a. ridiculous preten-
sion to make believe, after a short
visit to the United States and Canada
that 1 had discovered America again
in the manner of NJ, de Tocaueville or
Christopher Columbus. The traveller
newly landed and as quickly taken in
charge, must protect himself against
two irritating nuisances. The first OF
these is the transplanted Frenchman
who refuses to become acclimated
who passes his time counting his VIC
tories over the prohibition regime and
who explodes In summary formulae e
such as America is the land OF
draughts; nobody can avoid colds
here" or, again, The United States
Is a paradise for women and children
but a hell for the dilettanti."
Went BE Educated by Crank.
do not mind Sightseeing with
such a crank, but 1 will not confide
my education to him. On a certain
morning l found him in bad humor
He had met a painted negress. We
visited the great business cathedral
which dominates the whole promon-
tory OF Manhattan. Obviously, this
basilica recalls only vaguely the
rhythms of the Pantheon. Neverthe-
less, a house $50 meters high, shell
tering $4,000 employees; a building
which each day swallows the popula.
ton OF a city is enough to astonish
anybody for a moment. I was naive
enough to be amazed. Bah" said
my friend. they have invented moth
ing. Imagine the Cathedral of Stras-
burg. the tower included. converted
into furnished Offices, and you have
the Woolworth Building"
The French are not alone in smil-
ing at the constant repetition of the
words, The first, the biggest, the
largest in the world" i was told that
a japanese, on hearing OF a new sub
way express that saved two min
utes, asked, And what are you going
to do with these two minutes?"
Ware the Theoretic Philosopher.
But even more than against the
skeptic determined not to be duped
and not to let himself be banned one
must avoid the theoretic philosopher
whose ideas are organized in squares
Hike an American city and who re-
duees accidental impress sions to fixed
theories.
The unity of the United States i,
only political With its 5000, ,00t
square kllometers. with the contrasts
Of the soil. consisting here of sedi-
mentary plains drained by the Mis-.
slssippi. in the East of the parable
folds OF the Alieghenies. in the West
of the rocky mass dominated by
Mount Whitney, almost as high a,
Mont Blanc; varied in climate as ir
appearance, torrid or glacial at GER
tain hours, charming during the
golden days of Indian Summer. tht
young and generous republic lends
itself badly to the summary defini-
tions which SO many travellers have
tried. Modern science. justly exact
ing, forbids one to confuse in tht
same definition the great wheat-pro-
ducing States, such as Kansas, with
the Southern States below the 27tf
degree of latitude, which concentrate
on the culture of cotton.
An Independent writer, such a!
Waldo Frank In his very origina
book on Our America" protests