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Show AMERICA FIRST. "Flossie" Sullivan in the World declares that Europe has nothing we cannot beat twice over every and any time, and says: - "Every time Igot through seeing a new town in Europe1 1 sang this song: "Take me back to old New Tork, Where the sunlight's warn and fair; Take me back to old New Tork, Where the girls the best clothes wear And you're rood as any monarch If theyknow you're on the square." He says, "Riverside Drive has got the Champs Elysees beat to a pulp, and half the theaters in London Lon-don couldn't get a soul in them if they were on the Bowery in New York ; they are all dark and all need disinfectants." And, then, speaking of Paris being a wicked city, where one is liable to lose his pocket-book pocket-book and reputation if he sticks his face out of doors after dark, he declares, that be knows of a couple of blocks in the Tenderloin that are so much more wicked than anything. in Paris that there is no use talking about it. " ' . He was most struck by the great crowds in England Eng-land and their quiet ways when assembled. He declares de-clares "i makes you mad to see a couple, hundred . thousand people at a cricket match and not a soul letting a' yell out of them, whereas a bunch one-tenth one-tenth that she at a ball game in New York would jrell so you could hear them for blocks." ! . He says Paris is "not so wicked as it is careless tod dirty about its morals."- He "does not care for the Tower of Pisa and all that junk in the big junk joints in what they call the art centers," but thinks half of the beauties have not been told about wonderful won-derful Ireland. He thinks if we had Ireland on the . coast of America, we could make it the most adver-- adver-- tised place in the world, and we'd have the benefit of the husky boys who are still left there. He thinks from seeing King Edward at a distance dis-tance that he "looks as though he would make a bully good district leader." He declares the only place he found where they did not speak good English Eng-lish was in London. ' TT thinks 'the funniest thinars he saw. were the so-called American bars, where they make an awful bluff at fixing up a cocktail that tastes about as much like the real thing as coal oil taste like guave . "jelly." ' He thinks English women's complexions make an awful hit but insists that "there is not a place across the water where they can put up a parade of real stunning women like you can see on Broadway any of these sunny afternoons." His conclusion is he would not trade his share of New York for any part of the other side, except Ireland. Maybe his name has something to do with that, but he ought ; to enter into correspondence with Fisher Harris and try to "See America First" before he goes back to Europe the second time. We take it he took too much Irish-American origin or-igin with him to the Old World to be in a contemplative contempla-tive mood, to study the fine art exhibitions and to note the magnificent architecture, or to stop to think when standing on any particular spot what has hap-- hap-- pened right there in the past, or when standing on some boulevard in Paris to think that right there Napoleon sat on his white horse while legion after legion of the Grand Army swept by, exultant, on their way to their deaths in Russia. We do not believe be-lieve it would impress him to go down in the crypt, : where the ashes of that same Napoleon rest in their magnificent tomb. We think he would be more interested to come .West, to hear the clamor of quartz mills, to be dropped 1500 feet into some mine and see the titons down there, stripped to the waist, forging away on a big stope of ore. Before he goes to Europe again, he should take a trip to the West and for about twenty years wear out his vitality, or should go to Goldfield and join the I. W. W.'s, -with the expecta- tion of a possible row every fifteen minutes. He is too healthy to enjoy Europe and he is needed in the West, where no limitation would be put upon his energy and no clamps on his hopes. |