Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-07

her entire factory system, etc., ana
sends us four million men. 100000 or
5 percent, leave their bones to whiten
our soil. America is saved! Would she
be grateful or unapprec1at1ve and
cranky? Would she regard war
loan as a sacred debt of honor to be
paid as soon as possible? Deep 81
lence reignS.
Judge BY Horrible Examples
I gather that all the thousands of
Americans are returning with the
same feeling of soreness and disillu-
sion over the attitude of some OF the
swell-headed, domineering British,
who assume that everyone in the
world has to run at their beck and
call. Yet suspect that the English
man is a man of honor and intends to
pay and is sore because it hurts. But
he will pay. The laughing, light-heart-
ed Frenchman does not give offense.
Maybe he will pay or maybe he won't.
In any event the war debt is not wor-
rying him so he can smile where the
honest, disagreeable and ungrateful
Britisher is sour. That's my view OF 1t.
But let it not be gathered that all the
British are of the offensive type. Most
of them are wonderfully polite, charm
ing and considerable. Unfortunately we
are prone to judge nation by its nor
rible examples. Europeans judge us
by the rich, crude and blatant type OF
Americans who rush around in anoth-
er mans land making all sorts OF in
vidious and vulgar comparisons and
trying to bluff people into paying
them homage. Most of us would be
glad to participate in general drown
ing of these birds. They make it hard
and expensive for all of US. And we
judge England by the intolerant ass
who insults the guest on his shores
and shows an absolute ignorance of
gratitude or courtesy. Yet the real
English gentleman or gentlewoman is
quite up to the finest of the world.
Well educated, we'll informed, sympa-
thetic and able to get the other per-
sons point of view. And above all do
not butt in where they are not wanted.
And so the world judges France by
the sensuous artistic sense of the peo-
pie as a whole.
But all this has nothing to do with
ships log. This is my own private
log and quite separate and distinct
from the captains. In fact he doesn't
know I am keeping it. So 1 will run
my own log and if I want to miss
day or couple of days of no moment,
that's quite all right.
One of the officers told me yester-
day (these officers are legion and
each and every one is resplendant in
blue and gold trimming, the dining
room steward being regular drum
major) that the Albania was making
about 10 knots but would be doing her
1917 after the grass got swept off her
bottom. 1t seems she has been in
dock at South Hampton for several
months and was sent to sea without
being cleaned. Well hope he is right.
Ye w. k representative of His Ex-
cellency, the High Commissioner of
So Africa, gently led me to the state
room the other evening and did the
honors in true Scotch fashion. And to
not be outdone in courtesy and to hold
up Americas end, l responded last
night with bottle of prime 12-year-
old. Special Cunard stock, the best, at
$3.50 a quart. 1t can't be taken home.
No chance to get by the customs.
Don't get shocked at this. Every Am
erican 1 have seen over here drinks
little. All but few take it quite
moderately. And well-aged, whole
some wine, beer or liquor does not
make people drunk, crazy or noisy.
The rot-gut moon of the States does
that. But they will all take touch
even the school ma'ams.
Movie Celebrity Abroad
There is prominent movie actor on
board, a little dwarf with a shock of
black hair and piercing dark eyes. |
have seen him several times in ser1-
ais and mystery pictures. Knew him
at once, He is a nice, bright little
chap, returning to Hollywood from
| taking of Vicente IbaneZ "Mare Nos
| trum," in the south of France. Rex
Ingram is the producer and the little
guy works for Rex. He is a Syrian by
birth and his American name is James
George.
Phenomena of Nature
Tuesday and the fifth day out-Sun-
shine, feecy clouds, snappy air and
rolling sea. We had wonderful
atmospheric effect last night. Ran all
| day through cloudy weather. About
| S D. m. we struck a bank of fog and
the whistle blew at about one minute
intervals for three hours. About 8
1 o CLOCK We pdSSO0 LuO AOS OoAA1A 1870
into the golden moonlight. The sky
was clear, the moon in the third quar-
ter shone bright and the stars were
flaming in a bed of blue. This lasted
for an hour or so when came an in
terlude of mist, the fog passing IN
wreathes before the moon. To the
north of the boat was evident the eff
feet referred to. 1t consisted of an
aura or arc of light in the fog, being
either caused by the moonlight or the
ships illumination, it being difficult
to say which. There was no color
simply ghostly circle of white en-
bedded in the fog background. This
morning one of the sailors told me he
had been years at sea and had never
seen the phenomena before. And an
old steward, late of the Indian Ocean,
said the same thing. So we have real
| ly seen something.
You keep discovering new people on
board ship, new faces showing daily.