The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-11

Abroad.
THE trustees Of Princeton univer-
l. sity should dismiss John Grier
Hibben, president of hat institution,
for his silly speech in London the
other night, in which he said that
his own country had been unfair
with Europe in the settlement of the
war debt; also, that the American
revolution was not a defiance of
Great Britain, but war to establish
the right of British citizens; also.
that the chaplains of the revolution
airy army prayed for the health Of
King George III.
This was the greatest spontaneous
combustion of American asininity
that ever occurred at a British BAN
quet board, which is saying a. great
deal, and one well may imagine the
volcanic sensations of that sturdy
American, Ambassador Dawes, who
was present.
We believe that Ambassador Dawes
overlooked a great opportunity when
he failed to scalp this Princeton cad,
but he probably thought of the old
proverb, 1T is waste of lather to
shave an ass
It was the most amazing indie
cency for this American educator,
upon whom no official responsibility
rests, to lunge into a delicate inter-
national situation just as Mr.. Dawes
and Premier Macdonald apparently
have made substantial progress to-
ward the removal of existing diSa-
greements and the establishment of
an understanding which involves not
only disarmament but step in the
direction Of world peace.
INFORMAL people everywhere
~ look with loathing and dis
gust upon all snobs who leave their
own land to abuse it, who visit for
eign capitals and asperse their fell
loW-citizenS to gain the fleeing APP
proyal Of the stranger and the high
commanders of our army of tories
are those American educators to
whom a vacation means a trip to
Europe and to whom the region
west of the Alleghenies is a mOrass
of prejudice and provincialism.
Time and again our foreign rep
resentatiYeS have complained of
American tourists who have gone
up and down foreign lands, saying
in each country what that particular
country wanted to hear, even though
they gave courage to the enemies
Of their country and aggravated its
foreign complications.
1t is a shoddy, but speedy way TO
gain a notoriety, denied such tour
lists at home
If such tourist be in France, he
bitterly lamentS the eXacting at
titude Of Uncle Sam, who has can
celled the principle Of the French
debt; if the tourist be in Italy he
wishes N1ussolini might come to our
rescue and make us a nation worth
while; if the garrulous visitor be So
journing in the land of the rising
sum- he Weeps because the United
States enacted a Japanese exclusion
ct; and ere long this same tourist
will be festooning himself round
stein in Berlin and deploring the
fact that America did not enter the
World war on the side of the kaiser.
THIS nuisance has reached such
l. proportions that the state de-
partment should insert a gag in
the travelling papers which it issues
to loose-lipped Americans wandering
overseas.
It should paddock foolish jaws and
decline to issue papers to those who
have given ofense in other years.
The statement of Htbben is as
false as it is snobbish, and he is not
a fit man to preside over a great
American university; he should stay
in England and endeavor to secure
a chair at oxford or Cambridge, in
the land Of his affection.
We wish he would stay in Eng
land; we wish we might trade him
for some good, honest, sensible day
laborer in England, Scotland, Ire
land or Wales.
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