Show ITALIAN BELIEVE AMERICA ONLY ONLY I COUNTRY r Saves Money in U. U s. s v i s J Returns Return's Home to Start Start c. c u uT L Store More I IBy By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMS United Press Correspondent Correspondent 7 f NAPLES NAILES April 14 War Var War and 42 e. 11 shells no doubt have hav 0 1 a a- away way influencing civilization but peace peace hi i lad had a A. certain amount of success b. 11 thaY ir line ino herself H ii s f That's the thc case Lugi t the I big bib strong young oung fellow w who o t runs uns the gents hents furnishing house In the thc main street of oC this elt city the ho Corso Umberto Ho He used to drive I steers In iii the Roman campagna at al 20 O edits cents a a. day and feed teed himself And LUll Lugi himself admits with pride in jul his voice oice that tho the great uplift is duo to America that all ho he knows In In this world word was learned in Montgomery Ala AJa Ja where In Market larket street near near- the depot he was engaged In the fruit and soda- soda water business Delayed In Naples lon longer er than I J n needed eded a soft sort collar Walking g down tho city's principal thoroughfare a n brilliantly lighted shop looming Ilk Ilk a hou house c afire caught my my attention Stepping In front of the establishment ono one ono Just hart had to and look ook stop so at attractive at- at were the window displays one displays one saw that everything a man needed In r the way of or clothing save the outer gar sar garments ments could he had Inside There were American shoes American hats American underwear American garters arters American socks ties and col- col lars On neat well gotten otten up display cards were phrases catch-phrases prices and and trade The holo thing looked American In Its brightness originality the up up to ar al a. Idea I went In Speak English I asked as ns a n clen- clen n- n shaven well dressed American America American mi tailored young man came forward brisk briskly Yes sir he said gald In a lik busIness way Is la there anything we wo can do for Cor forA you ou A Broadway haberdashery prO prO- could not have done It 11 better A soft collar please I Well that started It It The Tho salesman proved to be Lugi himself He ta k talked taked so Intelligently about America arid and nd American AmE institutions I asked him Where here did you OU learn your our English You have no accent at all all In Montgomery selling setting fruit truit h he be said Before that In New Orleans and 1 No New York America Is a great land the greatest g in the world What hat makes you OU think so But BUl for America I should be driving steers now he answered I 1 vcr very probably not know how to read of bf b write I 1 should not know mow the multiplication multiplication cation table nor what It means to b a n man nor the meaning of oC the w word rd liberty libert Isn't that enough to make mako me r love lo America Z 1 I was born Just outside of or Naples Nape said Id Lugi My Iy folks elks worked In Imi a spaghetti factory but died when I was was' vas I still a vcr very small kid An uncle of Naples worked a vineyard and I to tovo live vo with him He died when I was 14 and amid a n neighbor let lot me work for tor him him- for tor my keep At sixteen I got gol a Job job at 15 cents a ba bay but bUl had to to pay pay cents a day for tor m my board Tide This was was' an Improvement however and I was J. pretty proud When n I was seventeen a great greal e happened Tho The son of oC m my patron t turned from America I r hid had heard hear O Othis of ot this wonderful land ber before re for every two or three months the boss received a letter from tram New York But until the son came back I had only the vaguest 1 notion of or what t America is I could not read nor write I IVas was Vas tor very ignorant But the farmers farmer's son on was a rev revels x la- la lo iou to me He appeared before m el l las as the most wonderful creature ey eri r created ted with his American clothes his shoes and amid neckties Ues and colored socks and stick pins and pocket rL smelling f cf a cologne And the b told I To TJ him what I earned In a d flay day y 1 was rah rah-l fairly enough for a tip to tho the man n who shaved him I heard him sa th that t ver very thing And what 1 earned h ln ir month he earned N In itt a a. day dar I him talk b by the hour hanging on cYsT every every word and when he left It was like the end of or tho the world had come It was just as ns I if tho the sun had gone out of oC the tho hen heavens ensI ens I had be been n fired with ah n that I saYe though and from rom day on er e every cent I could lay m my may hands on Vs complained to the thc boss that according to what his son said I ought to J til more P pay The old man said his 8 son soi f was wan a n liar that nobody earned so r He Ife In gave e me mo 20 O cents a 3 da day though 3 and nd I continued to drive his steers and save Q copp coppers rs for or my passage to Ame lea 5 Finally Finall the dav da came 1 I went f fage age to New Ke- fW York I got ot a Job the In a it wholesale fruit house run rumi b by SH Italian New Ne' fork york was o with people like myself and nd some worM vora or J Joff off So 1 I went to New Orleans there were sero ere to many foreigners so 80 went vent to Montgomery l I got tol along fine Cine Folks treated n mV all nil right I had time to study and I got Rot Into a n night school It was around 2 time that I learned learner how America a iy Corel foreigners coming to her ncr shor i and assimilates them how every m mIs n Is given a a. L show how he Is just as ns as 8 an any other othel how an any man cnn can be I big man If he has It In lii him him all all sorts sorts- 1 of American ideas D 1 1 I |