The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-04-14
KATHERINE GARVIN
 BEFORE COMMITTEE

The national executive committee of the American Legion at It's meet Ing January 10 and II at national headquarters in Indianapolis. and in which every state and foreign depart ment Of the Legion was represented. | heard Miss Katherine 9arvin of Lon don England, tell her impressions Of America which she will carry back with her next summer.
 Mss Garyin is woman student in the Legion's exchange of scholarships through the Fidae. the international society of veterans organizations of which the Legion is the member so- elety from the United States. Mss Garvin is the daughter of J. L. Gar yln, editor of the Observer of London. He Is one of the foremost of British journalists. Mss Garvin Is now 8 stu dent in the graduate school of the University Of Michigan, and was brought to Indianapolis especially to | appear before the national executive committee.
 The fellowship that was awarded to her was made possible through the CO., l operation of the EngIish-Speaking 1 Union of the United States and the similar Union of Great Britain. The Fidac arranged the exchange of sehol- arships and Miss Frances 5. Riggs of | Detroit financed 1t.
 Miss Garvin spoke on the "Educa- tional Peace Program of Fidae," and told many of her experiences in her study of American people in the few months she had been studying at the university at Ann Arbor.
 T have been asked some very anus ing questions since 1 have been in the states Miss Garyin told the commit tee. q have been told that the Eng fish are egotistic, because they do not care what people think of them. agree. except I think the cause of the egotism is because they are too sen | sitixe about what people think of them, and protect themselves with glacial exterior which too often gives the impression of hostility"
 The Leg ms purpose In sponsoring and aiding in the exchange of scholar ships is to promote understanding and world peace. In this regard, Miss Garyin said:
 Tt may be thought that one student each year can do little to alter the cur rent of public opinion, but it depends upon the person. Much good can be 1 done by even one person of average | sanity. open-mindedness frlendliness and toleration. For we all have friends and relations to whom we write And when we go home, they wait in shoals to hear what we have done, what we think of America, how the American who stays at home com pares with the tourists, and so on If we give a fair and favorable report, more people will wart to follow in the same spirit of friendship and under standing.
 T do not think that any one born In America can parallel the thrill of ex- plofation that any European must have when he first lands in New York. Over here, Europe can never com pletely be an unknown quantity. You have eathedrals and houses and churches built upon the European pattern.
 T derive an unqualified delight from occurrences which must appear to you as perfectly natural. was amazed, could hardly believe my eyes, when l saw a policeman take a telephone out of telephone post. When 1 told my English friends about it they re- fused to believe me, and l had to make myself the laughing stock of a girls dormitory before l could get corroboration for my statement
 You cannot realize how typical of America the movies are unless you are not an American, especially the comedies. I never seriously expected to see an automobile as dilapidated as some of those in the comedies But since coming to America, I have en- joyed q good many. I thought the speed of elevators, as portrayed in 'movies,' was exaggerated but I find it justified by the express elevators in the New York business buildings.a