Show AMERICAN ASSIMILATION ASTONISHES WORLD There has beon much comment wise and amI foolish on President Taft Tafts Taft's s di disco co er cry of the tho oneness of the United Slates States our uniformity in language lIa e thoughts clothes customs and man mau- tiers ners which shichi has hns attracted the attention Hention of all nil thoughtful who navo had occasion to swing around the tho circle of oi t tu United States Stales J James Bryee called attention to lo this phenomenon Mis hs Wal Ward a keen observer of peoples noticed tho the extraordinary effects of this lation la- la tion durin during one of or her Wc western trip l. l Walter s 's n his illuminating work on Physics q and Politics prepared pre pre- pared the tho world to u understand it by pointing out that the signal factor in making dissimilar c one oue under a central government was 35 a n faculty of unconscious imitation Promote this Ibis faculty and aud various vanous peoples tend to be resolved into a common type with wilh similar rim sim im- im ilar ideis an anti even oven approximate phy physical i. i cal cat looka HItt Bitt Wi other people ha has displayed I hits us j ion on so M jj m I nl a scale as is is rC among the people peo pIe of tho the United States Slates any an actual in in n Out our Eu English l our points of vie view the very ery cut ut of our clothes the he Mry fr shape of the tile head bead tend to Me no cue ene Mrs Irs ard saw jao JO o differences in iu styles eI amon amont among t tie the c 1 at ut tie tLe 1 railway s sta a. a Our ur SOC soci socil l customs our mon mon- ners nors an and C even our or or immoral witness t I divorce orce evil iid uil to be- be cone come Ta Jivin eg i loy c v- v Yells Years diy dir l Taster Baster I m iii church chuich 11 at home becom and moro more alik ahik J the he hc country cr vcr cr crAt At a rime me when in nII and rt t I l 1 l ili i arr n l el s makes lo- lo o this OD in America 1 One Out universal uni factor that especially Promotes unconscious imitation tion days s in the tlC year r. c. b by an vcr over uniformity on Y bre breakfast breakfast break break- k fa fast t table tahle an and arou around tl the evening evening lamp by bJ night is the tIme American Complemented week weekly and monthly by the thc this ama publicity it which leaves cs no part hart of th the tho United States in iii i ignorance of oC what the tc other parts arc are doing works its Bonders And despite the thc r fact ct that nearly publications in iii foreign n languages c f from om Arabic to nu ian o servo t the lC special needs of nearly o of alene airn the thu eat gm-eat t fact Tema remains iDS t that ha l t the he persistent daily antI and weekly and monthly I lion tion ion of American ll ideas in m in a uniform has in largest part patte wrought ht this this miracle that astonishes the tho hol world And in say saying n this S one does docs oeo not II ig ignore g- g nore time the the i influence of t th tho o an But school days are aie SOOM saoi oVI ovel r while the time hip of the tile I newspaper is continuous anti and lh l st nl in season seavon and out nut of season and works its w wonders hour by hour hulI nail and day by 11 I Ilay day durin youth youth maturity and green old oM a age c. Philadelphia ll Public Ledger |