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Show BPi tKeleased by Western Newspaper Union.) A FEW THOUGHTS ANENT BRITAIN AND FRANCE i IN 1918, WHILE World War I was on, I went to Europe. I sailed from New York on a British transport, with all the feeling of affection for France of an American schoolboy. I had learned reverence for Franc from school histories, and from the same source, I had learned to twist the tail of the British lion at every opportunity. In France I met and talked with people of every social strata, from the president, cabinet members, officers of-ficers of the army and the cab drivers. driv-ers. While there I lost all my affection af-fection for France and the French people. No single Frenchman had a kind word for any soldier of any army of the allies other than the French. They did not recognize any other force as being engaged In the jwar. While we, in America, were eating dark bread and doing with-I with-I out meat a portion of the time, you ' ; could get the best of white bread ; and the best of meats In any quan-, quan-, tity at any French restaurant at any and all times. I They looked upon the soldiers of j other nations, fighting in France, as j a source of profit for themselves. ( The American soldier paid more for what he bought than any other soldier, sol-dier, because he had more money. J The French were selfish, taking all they could get and giving as little i as possible. Just the reverse was true In England, Eng-land, and I returned to America ; after the close of the war with the ! greatest possible admiration for the English government and the English people, and a radical dislike for France and the French people. There may be good Frenchmen and Lafayette was one of such. If we owed anything to France because of Lafayette we paid it The French people and the French government today are snowing tneir true colors. We can well afford to forget our affection af-fection for France. We should re-! re-! vise our school histories. I I A GOOD OLD-FASHIONED ! REVIVAL NOW NEEDED "WHAT AMERICA again badly needs is responsibility to a Christian I God." That statement was made to me a year ago by Daniel Schuyler, a ; prominent Chicago attorney. "A good, old-fashioned revival, ! with all America on its knees at the mourners bench, would come nearer to putting this nation back on an i even keel than any political dogma," 1 he continued. "It would squelch the growing class consciousness. It I would stop the mad craze for wealth j and position. It would cause each of us to think of his fellow man in i terms of Christian charity. It would restore our belief in the cardinal virtues. Yes, we need more than anything else a good, old-fashioned revival." I know Daniel Schuyler very well. He is not what I would call a religious re-ligious man, and I am not sure that he is a member of any church. He is a student of government and or-, or-, dered society, and was thinking of that "good, old-fashioned revival" from the standpoint of its effect on our relation to government. He saw in religion, in a feeling of respon-sibility respon-sibility to a Christian God, a vital part in our philosophy of government. govern-ment. I I was reminded of that statement by Daniel Schuyler a few days ago when W. O. Hart, editor of the Orange (Calif.) Daily News, said to me: "The American people should j again get back to that sublime faith m a Supreme Being which was the guiding beacon of our forefathers We need to feel a responsibility to I a Creator in order that we may have a feeling of responsibility to our ' ovemment and to our fellow men. Such a condition would save the civilization we know. We need to make sacrifices, but to do that, we . need an aroused spirituality." ! f,Bol(1?. men' one Chicago and toe other ln California, were seeing jthe subject from a governmental viewpoint. Both see in a "good, old- j fashioned revival" a means of sav- I ins American civilization as we ! have known it. 1 If you will analyze the statements of these two individuals, you wiU iSv7represent an ideal phiIos- Phy of government. 'beTcLPEACE RUI0RS y U j be U.rman propaganda, but Hitler Z ; l? to . Mg0uiS terms 5 hC, Can dictate ! . ,mj- . "e W0"'d undoubtedly be for Jn? W Cl0nies own in I lor good measure. I ... WIDE TAX RANGE FIVE STATES New York New Jersey. Rhode Island pi J California-have 3'ld and local PCr Capita state 1 91 fa 1 York hXn'af t0 states-Kentuckv w 10 four lucky nd 47-8l Ken- ctar!eWlde too in per |