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Show pLTHY BRITON IS BELPWiOyS immy" White Elects Himself as Godfather of Americans. 'ENDING HUGE SUMS jing Utmost to Make It Pleasant for U. S. Overseas Over-seas Fighters. ft By EAKLE C. REEVES, liversal Service Staff Correspondent. LONDON. Oct. 26. "America and igland belong together; the Anglo-uon Anglo-uon race is one. We are going to in and continue our place as a great r" This is the explanation of one loDe nglistunan 's reason for spending hun-eds hun-eds of thousands of dollars in .mak-g .mak-g England a second home for hun-.eds hun-.eds of thousands of American sol-ers. sol-ers. The man is .James 'White, who ight be occupying a desk in lower ew York or in La Salle street, by the ois of him. He is a self-made man, ho came from the north country and jwed his way to millions and power f the alert mind, conciseness and aickness of decisions and assurance of ignner which are evident- in- his eye'ry OTement. '"It has taken America a long time 'see that England and America are ae in interests, in language, in beefs, be-efs, in everything ' he said. "There i to difference. We are all the same eople. "Apart, we could be wiped out." To-ether To-ether we shall win. And we must lay together. ''There is nothing about what T ave tried to do for the American sol-iers sol-iers that is different from what has een done before for our own men. 'he English, the Canadian, the Aus-ralian Aus-ralian we have done what we could or each in his turn. Joys Far From Home. "There is all the more need for carafe car-afe for the Americans. They are far om blfte, there are few of your peo-orsrc, peo-orsrc, aod they are in a foreign Btry. "No, I'm not going to tell you how ich I have Bpent," he aid, as he tved about the great carved desk Hag out over the Strand. The iskvod tho outlook the turreted -lie ofhe law courts were so typi-pj typi-pj English; the man so much like 10 "Yanks'' he has adopted. The thing which White r. fused to i?e iB the very thing America would ke to know. It is said he has spent )0 shillings personally on the enter-linment enter-linment of Sammies where the minis-7 minis-7 of information has spent a single lilliog. The importance of welding 0 two nations together in the war irough tho individual personal touch-' 18 only of late been recognized, and Hicial channels which deal with the oblem have no funds for the pur-se. pur-se. Tbe story is told in London that a 0rtaih campaign of entertainment to -t $100,000 was troubling its official Jonsors. Too department in question 1 1 lid not havo the nionov. White looked Wer the plans with the remark that 1 money question could be considered I (ttled. loved by Officers. pletjHe will not consider the question y H. pounds and shillings, however, and in story of lump sum entertainment f remain unconfirmed so far as tho -nnciplo of it is concerned. ,, r Admiral Sims and General Biddle e kindly alluded to me as 'their .11. Jimmy White.' Thcv see the im-..: im-..: irtance of this thing, and the neces-f neces-f mutual understanding. They .Gently outlined the effect, of this thing , 0 are doing in this wav: The bovs Mte home and tell their mothers of ... 10 wonderful times thcv are having bv ,; "son of our hospitality. The mothers low all the neighborhood their sons.' . liters and never stop preaching tho , .iwlness of England to their soldier )ys. ' The importance of this is well known .:. Jtlio Americans who have been some ., -me ( in Englaud. The. first Americau Piters who passed through Kngland, or ships, traveling entertainers making the round of American rest camps, bue tours of Loudon and receptions at ports of debarkation have already been told in America. A single instance will reveal to American fathers and mothers how generously American boys in England are being' cared for and entertained in what otherwise would be a dreary wait for tho day when they go .over there. Britons Are Generous. PPed Here for a few weeks, thought jSland a cold ami disagreeable place. tty went on to France without bav--il -i'! iadc to feel that-the interests OU11 llie-up of the two countries aro much xmo as their war aims. a At a certain English town todav 1i Ere,are lnoro American troops billeted hav ever before been collected at 6 camp in England. Wfc have sent entire week's entertainment down to There will be something doing py day. ' h Well Entertained. J0". second sea lord, Mr. Koose-r Koose-r .(distinctly not an American touch nvsince 1,0 mcant assistant sccretarr we navy "arrived in town at 6 ' i iln tbe oveoing. At 7:30 he was 1 IrT Vla,,e theater attending one of tov Say niht shows- We nave batl these shows and manv have Rm? be turned away each night, bv a se meu comp over ,1Gre to fight. toS ? 1 want tea9 an1 aocial fun-homebody fun-homebody wanted me to take 1 t L V, ansgc some sort of services I fomethin- at St. Paul's. It's sheer Imess and I wouldn't have any- L.K to do with it. We've been en-fining en-fining soldiers ever since earlv in W ?Lr' an(1 we know by this time they will not have. " law" ,Y how Popular the boxing ' bee',fhe Nati:ia Sporting club ' i vntire hotei a vprv 11 u ne' lu Ie taken over to be used as L' Petty officers ' .-hi!.. White iJr'us perhaps the newest of Sheetsthough it is difficult to Al lwch Is thp IatPst "1't'ort, so rapidlv MEW developed. The Eoyal Court Hff Sloanp square, costing a trifling Ifc " a year rental, will be opened i !f3 an American club. 3trie.-i of the tenuis champion- The bovs on a recent river trip voted ' ' many thanks for a splendid time ' to White and his committee, and scrawled their names over two menu cards. The register might be that of a political convention. No state seems to be absent from the list. Some of them follow: bee D. Young, Indiana; India-na; Howard J. Bloy, New Jersey; W. ft. Clayton, .North Carolina; A. R. Mat-singer, Mat-singer, Pennsylvania; Douglas Guthiel, Wisconsin; George E. Clarke, Brooklyn; Milton Bcnuett, New York; Anton V. Aim, Los Angeles; William N. Catpn, Kansas;- .1. A. Bode, Oklahoma City; L. W. Grosskamp, Milwaukee; J. A. Rose, Concord, Mass.; Kucrene H. Can-nur, Can-nur, Boston; K. C. Martin. Waukon, lav: Sergeant Joseph B. Sarnowski, Buffalo; Gordon Craig, Serautou, Pa.; Norman .1. Nelson, Washington, D. C; Stanley S. Houtz, Fallon, N'ev. ; Chester Ches-ter W. 'Pratt, Minneapolis; Albert G. Smith, Brockton; H. H. Huffman, To-peka, To-peka, Kan. ; David Fogwell, Kenosha, Wis.; Frank E. Henshaw, Alexandria, Jnd.; Richard J. Mills, Oakland, Cal.; B. A. Freeman, Pasadena, Cal.; W. Yates, Paterson, N. J.; K. G. Ovenby, Paducah. Kv.; J. 1 K O'Brien, Pittsburg, Pa.; L. B. Caryl. Scranton, Pa.; William R. Shriuer, Houston, Tex.; E. 0. Moore, Orlando, Pla.; Daniel E. Feehan, New-Orleans New-Orleans ; Lei and D. Mc Connie; Utica, N. Y.; Oscar S. Stutler, Williams town, W. Va. ; Lawrence Krauss, Plainfieldj Conn.; George B. Rockwood, Bennington, Benning-ton, Vt.": W. G. Sanderson, Chicago and so the list runs. It is typical of the extent of the reception to Yanks here. The statesmen of England and the statesmen of America realize and assure as-sure each other of the need for closer union and mutual understanding. ' ! Jimmy" WHte is telling the mothers moth-ers and fathers of America this story in a direct personal w; v through their boys. |
