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Show THE The. Average , American Chivalrous, Energetic, Idealistic, Lacking in Culture,' She Says; Governor Allen Explains Liberalism -- A By MARQOT ASQUITH, Minister ef Great th Wire . , ' Britain. have dwelt In previous articles rather soma bn disparagingly aspects of things American. The erase oomroercdsHstn which billboard the with hideous disfigure beauties bestowed by a bounteous nature, and tiie horrors of railroad travel in the United State and Canada are defect obvious to the visitor. One does not need time, ability to observe and analyse, nor courage to see them and point them out. Befcre me aow, however, is a subject that for proper treatment requires more 1 ' journalist and friend ef my daughter, Elisabeth Bibesco. 1 sat between him and Norman Hapgood and had an exoal-leconversation such as two greet Observers and Sifted writera ean ptak. They both spoke in high praise of "I Have Only my daughter's book. Myself to Blame, Their comments were typical, too. of what sees in jt book the intellect vai American of the .sort. . Regarding this book, Clarence Day, Jr., reviewing It tu "The Newitopunflc," quoted froim U: "la a way I don't safe ever want to kisa m again, derstand what I mass that I feel so merged, ee eternally In you anna that I can hardly believa in the process of being taken into them again and again T "Oh my dear, do you notice how one never can use superlative when they They really would mean something? seem to slink away ashamed of their loose lives. "After all, w can't make Jove to one another. Wa both do It too well. This la not an incident, a game, an art; ours la not a love affair, it is life." nt SALT-- , LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 18. 1922. bar to look an him merely a oa who worship her with the praotioal sort of worship that provides - bar with gveiy material comfort. He forces her to find her intellectual pleasures elsewhere than to bis life u that his company. Sometime it appear winhe would uee her ae a sort of shew hi of to tha In symbol which dow bang success. I . tb god of the Success, Indeed, Tnke, and the word, among an intellectual portion of Americana is synonymous with tha proven capacity for making money. Money Is Mark of Success. Thus, one is told, as, a measure of his success, how much such a writer made last yoar, how much a playwright's royalties from the cinematograph added to his Usbllit.es for Income tax and how much this, or that artist spent in buildpass. ing the ornate country house you Tbua the standard ie money in lltera-urIn the drama and in the graphic e. i and yet reached by train An Ideal Vacation Land need a change, a real change, my physician me after I had worked hard for a year, and so I prescribe a different country Southern California, said he. But you want mi to go t his summer , not neit win- YOU By an Easterner youll find one of the finest sumRight, he said mer climates in the world there. Then he quoted U. S. Weather Bureaus figures record to prove thlt I was far wrong from a yourself. Im sending you to a place that provides almost as great a change of scene as does Europe; and no vacation brings full value unless it brings a complete change, the doctor added. TJtoy do not merely endure noise ; they adore It. . . . They feverishly leap from task to task, issuing orders or carrying them out as though the safety of the world depended on them. time, more power of observation and to n introductorv apology, discuss without more courage than I have. Heim made the apology, let mo pltnil In freaking of "The Average American" a complete 1tk of male and a dealt e to be frank without . , flattery. It has been my good fortune, snce m girlhood to have met many gifted Americans. If it had been my fate never to have met any olhera than those and the Americana and Canadians who made my recent travels Interoatlng, I should have put (town toe whole race of the new world not only as chivalrous, energetic and Idealistic, but as a race having the divine fire the thirst for truth and beauty that is truly Inspiring. There ia In the American a naive desire to have the rood points of his He is liaelv to call nt- appreciated. tentlon to some particular phn-- e of progress in which he le interested, and ask expectantly that you comment on it for a la admitting faults he apologizes them, said In th same breath promises prophesies or announces steps to amend them. The naivete is muen more agreeable than the gross nat.onal egotism of which Dickens end other earlier visitors to America so bitterly complained. There are no harsher irltioe of American modes and manners now than American themsalvea They are keenly sensitive of their cultural defects in the presence of the visitor, but though It must be admitted that the average American Is not "cultured and does not care, many Americans In public life are. In answer to a le'ter of thanks from Elizabeth Mr. Day wrote' "It made me so sad to read some of tie reviews of jour book I knew, of course, how few people appreciated fine writing, but now I know how few people have ever been In love I ment,on these Incidents to show that there Is among Americans a real appreciation for finer things, whether It be the betterment of the people's lives, ouch ns is Governor Allens ideal, or of better things in literature, as exemplified In the attitude of Messrs. Brisbane and Day. Americans Lack Leisure. Naturally this is but one eld of the picture end, unfortunately, it is the side that makes a great display In propor tion to its importance There are countless men in America devoted to "art n for art's soke" (to use the phrase), oountlees men who edit new, papers at paltry recompense that they may be true to &rtsln principles, unnumbered Americans who devote themselves to public service, not only with no reasonable chance of success aa told In terms of dollars, but with every possibility that they will be unrecognized by the hurrying American public entirely. It Is the American public, without doubt, that has established the pecuniary standard for success. 1 read in the papers one day a short item which I saved as a typical example of what 1 mean ; First have what people want. "Then let them know It. "Thorough advertising is the secret of success "The old way was to let the people find It out gradually and slowly, In time for your grandson to get rich. The modern way is to have it TODAY, and make everybody know it TOMORROW, or, If possible, this AFTERNOON. I have met in my time many distinguished Americans whose lives give the de to the foregoing crabbed comment. Where it never my fate to have met and studied at first hand, even If rapI should idly, the "average American have been Induced to do so by my earlier acquaintances. Low Rates Beginning May 15 time-wor- That is true. Southern California is like Europe in scores of ways. Just as interesting and enchanting. And yet its reached by train, and at a fraction of the cost. Special, No More War Tax. low-rat- e, round-tri- p fares are now in effect of f 9t v rf W i, WUJ T'S 'j-n y 9 s All New 44-ye- ar in thinking California uncomfortably warm in the summer, See these figures In the'" panel. Read them for r t Me-Ado- ter, 4' ' BuS near yon. J, too, said at first, Oh, I cant go. I did go; and have never since stopped thanking my good star for so deciding me. I go everv summer now. Several hundred thousand people do the same as I do. There is no longer any season there. So manr are charmed, like Mr. o, that they finally decide to stay and live there. "Well simply get more satisfaction out of life, iays If you have never been to Southern California youll see a brand new land, a land of famous motor roads to wondrous places, old Spanish missions, mountains, sea shores, canyons, deserts, marvelously fertile valleys, stupendous panoramic views and a thousand other interests ana attractions. You may visit all peaks, valleys, shores, by motor, train or trolley. All this is at its best in .summer and with your favorite summer sports, whatever they may be, thrown in for good measure. I cannot, nor do I believe that you will be able to conceive a finer summer playground with an equally de lightful summer climate. Ask any railroad ticket agent fo? further informat tion, or mail coupon below. Like Europe, and so close One trip in a thousand. Go now while you may. . 4 Vo rX A a T,Jf 1 It is perhaps presumptuous In me to this great trip may be much lower than The cost comment on the average American man" from the brief weeks I spent in America. you think. Fmd out from any railroad ticket agent I should not attempt to pasa Judgment V upon them except that the speclmena (if I may call them so, in all aeriouaneas) ap-1t " ed roughly to be made in the same therand when tbs three ia September Aetna Temperature pattern. It is characteristic of the avmometer touches r exceed. 60 deftees. erage American that to him leisure ia forma tor th past 44 year (U. &. Weather The Mr ie Mostly dry, so hither temper stores wasted time. He must forever be feverBureau record.) is as follows: June, 66 ar comlertebi her that would be nncomlort. Club of Southern California j uly, able 70 August, 71 September, 69. ishly at work: talking over the days la tb Keel where humidity emphasises heat. i hoc. 7u61, Chamber of Commerce Bldg., business at luncheon; planning pleasThe tuns records show that s great city la era fee 909 day of turn Soothers CiUlorms ' Los Angelea, California. ures to attain some point in his s. tb center of this section has on tb average ee is the eeuoa reinlcm shine, glimmer you eo thet hi enjoyment at what he one dry in Jane, two diyi ia Jnly, three in fun. can for weather oa only perfect your plea Ffcate tend me full information about tb terms a "show" ia modified by the im, summer vacation possibilities ia' Southern pression hi entertainment and his "proposition mode on his guest, a prospective California, customer. j Even his golf, which alone threatens All-Ye- ar Me to rival his work in interest, is often I tit. taken up with a view to the Associations it brings. AJdrtil ' I """' of Chamber . vH Commerce Sec. 7051, Los Angeles, California. Bldg. The American should realize that Governor Allen Stays All Day. 'a leisure is not laslneas. And, as a corol. Among the Interesting personages I m lary, he should learn that business, even (Copyright, 1322, ly the Bell Syndion tills tour was Henry J Allen, gov cate, Inc.) if itself a pleasure to him, is not inspirin TO re CONCERT but Great ThornIn were of the state of Kansas. He Is a man of ing. Nor 1s the mere accumulation so (Copyrighted men her the shot who to chair a police three of with Britalq by headquarter busy accomplice Hastings tying pap not only Intelligent but Intel ton Butterworth, Ltd ) farewellin Enright to his trip abroad or shoulder, gagged him", tied hie hand and authority, rare money, pictures, books or anything els Spttlal to Tb Tribune. wire, she thought It was a lovely combination. It needs no inspiring lectual a robbed him. while the timid lady looked game. So did the three men, but papa in itself. It makes egoists out 17.- -At tab-- 1 June GARLAND, the stake u.l MARRIAGE witch to predict a great future for him. of ue. r Jorin or ffomethinff on. And then women complain because whom the game coat 310,000 In cash and' ANNOUNCED. ernacle next W ednesday the thieves were utimolewted. other, that ! evening He was a fellow guast at luncheon at the men are no longer chivalrous. uncut stones thought something Special to The Tribune. Concert .orchestra, under the diCarter a a a home of Mrs. Shields in Kansas City, and Americans 'Adore Noise. a a a 'Bara eat quietly t little However, 17. again. June MOAB, Victor J. of H. of rection Murphy Klrkham. assisted Joseph arrived ioMf before the luncheon hour. TiMtneat woman In the world asked There have Imen soma early summer through, all the fun end didnt spoil the Moa-Ethel Edwards of Marlon T. Summers, a famous tenor A. The Knowing little of culture, he assumes, -Salem, and Miss He remained at Mrs (Shields' lovely hbuse W. Hasting to wm.k along the street styles In robberies, bj the way.' she r New N C., were married by Bishop game at all bv toddling forth In the or really possesses, a scorn for It. leavMisses Lucille and (he York; In Cherry street from 11 30 till with she would have done In th movie- was because some her afraid of toddled Kara When Auster D W. certainly Hammond The yesterday young an Miss to its his wife. If she atBurnhope, violinists, and appoint- ing pursuit evening, in spite of liavtng mak their home here. Mr Irma Henna reader, will give a con- rowdies, und then led him atiraiisrht to Into her father's Jewelry store and found to call a policeman. C A ment at 4, bv which I Inferred he could do tain eminence in what he terms a high- couple will brow pursuit he is Inordinately proud of Murphy, with his brothers, has charge of cert. The performance will begin at 8 30 f what he liked. on their ranch of town. operations ino'clock. rr sopth an he her, established affects a although Kansas has recently patronizing fdustrial court, in which matters that tolerance. He constantly declines, therefore, to might lead to strike are to be settled. Governor Alim is deeply Interested In the cultivate his own Intellect or to take pleasure In others'. He gets his mental subject, and wrote me os follows concernstimulus from the struggle of the busif ing it: world and mistakes the Intelligence "Slate of Kansas, Office of the Governor, ness f he develops there for Intellect. Topeka. Americans are not truly a nervous race , JESSIE i "My Dear Mrs. Asquith; I am taking HENPEESON. By f! the llbertv of aending you a copy of my although hurried and hectic. They do Special Correspondent of The Salt Lake Tribune, book on th Industrial question. 1 hope not merely endure noise; they adore it. elevated you will forgtv me (or intruding It upon Screaming trains, .clanging trams, jangling telephone bells in the vou. I have o many delightful recollecmidst instructive of and bedlam thet never ceases in By JESSIE HENDERSON. tion of the keen things vou said at Mrs. Shields' house, that. I a working day, and changes only in kev, (Copyright, 1922. Lake Tribune. ) J!1,? T0,wdon.lh P'er ztubd petrified. Th Salt by now find myself full of regret that tha not in volume, at night, they feverishly Ellis Island officials said, "bhush!" Mra NEW YORK. June 16. Tout got-t-o conversation continually drifted Into gen leap from task to task. Issuing order wouldn't shush for em. And would an or carrying them out as though th safety hand It to Mrs. Anita Mottl ef Milan, J01, ersl discussion which robbed us all ofown You? For to add njury to Insult th Ui of of more world depended on them. , your opportunity to hear the and seven Mottl trunks, laden to the hinges ponderous legal This noise, smoke and oonfuaion la of- Italy. Against conclusions the glittering Mottl wardrobe, had generous comment upon Kansas ten pointed to aa something to he proud physical machinery of Ellis Island, against with "your and the west has made ue all happy, of. The American business man regard the federal Immigration laws and the not arrivedIt from Lllls Island. Wasnt enough to depot t a rich and and. av a citizen. I want to express my it as a symbol of hta industry and pros- massed authority of th United States, Die visitor without losing her perity. To him th hustle and bustle it opposed a pair of lachrj mal glaqds in good unsuspecting hearty appreciation of your compliment ne-even brand trunks? Wasnt It? Mra are a ana licked the law to tbi growing section of the country. to represents a Mottl goal, not merely the working condition, leoped from the question Into s "X do not wonder that you drew from mesne to an end. bewildered and embarrassed standstill a burst of am prottv I conclusion that the hysterics as ever held was another one of those little things ar likely to he as It Thelg amusement my remarks I was stupid not to realis SERVICE trenuoui ae their work or to be th op- which Elds Island la getting Itself mixed an lmmlgVatlon official apellhound. The illiberal male minions of tha lav argued. Mrs that your definition of the word 'liberal ia posite. To earn Americans barbaric jass up tn every week or so. Mrs. Mottl, Mottl had but one answer NITR0US-OXIGAS tears It characterize it and that diamonds different from and rustling with whiqh rings recreation; other find rest from biasing with be cares that beset tb day to painting silk, said good-bto a wealthy husband was sufficient. out bar just now. 8:30 a. m. to 8 p. m. Four minutes before Is honorsailed word an th th In Milan and came to New kork to visit In other a liberal their fences, ship Examination and I hop I have not been too aevera tn her cousin, who Is president of a bank. lady was taken off, still gobbing, and sent able word. Over her It has come, through to comfortable Estimates Free quarters to watt till the misuse, to1 denote a peculiar class whose this criticism. Hospitable, toetful and tol- - While Mra Mottl was somewhere Sundays, 10 to 2 toYhtt-Jruai rived.. It you happen tj Th. anar antigovernment. eiwCharbourg and New Vorkr the quota jn. chist, th socialist, the communist and to pot the American on a pedestal where of Italian immigrants (or the month was o a man, you'll heave a eigh Iffor the Imthe bolshevtsti are all put down In on many Europeans, however polished and filled, wh.ch meant that no more Italians migration authorities. But you're a woman, you'll hereby vote thr--e cheer were fo be admitted. clatw, and the word liberal Is thundered gallant, would do weQ to study bltii. Much to her fury and amazement, Mrs. and a medal to the lady from Milan. at them by orators and editors. It isn't HI fault are aa well known, probably, to himself Mottl was accordingly to anyone else. fair to the word. taken off th If you have time. I'd be awfully glad But one which he does not seem to steamship and eent to Ellis Island. Here Although Conan Doyle says there are If you would look over The Tarty of th or try to eliminate, la on the lady's resentment was not lessened Cocktails in heaven another circumstance appreciate, to a because relates information which it Third Part, I wrote of in a previous article; It la by the prodistinguishes heaven from the U. that. Instead of being gram of industrial peace and Justice which hla refusal to allow his "women folks" permitted to visit her cousin, she wa to 8. A. the inhabitants appear to have a has Indorsed in a to ahareiin his business And business be deported on the next ship unless she goon deal of time on their hands, (x the president recently dead sevmesaaga to congress, and which New In the lexicon of th average American consented to describe herself as a domestic course, Della Robbia ha York t now trying to write into her state meant llfa servant, Jo. which case she would be per- eral centuries, so that even th sipping of celestial so cocktails has had a chance to mitted to enter the country with, to legislation. "Doubtless. If the law la held to be con- He Keeps His 'Wife Oat of peak, bells on, A servant? Mra Motti'a pall. Anyway, Miss Manon Bpore, whose are on exhibit at a stitutional by the supreme court of the biased like her jewels as eh In- "automatic eyes paints To this fact I am Inclined to attribute,, formed the world that Anita Mottl had gallery here, sav s that Della Robbia is one United Htates, several state in th forthIn the learned professions, including medicine, tand pat theoriea ean . Neither radical view nor coming legislative seaslons will adopt the as I said befora much of the disaster never yet pared a potato or washed a cup, uf the famous old masters now controlling of Impartial adjudication of labor which befell the married lives of Ameri- and, heaven willing, never would. De- her output. In fact, until Della Robbia take the place cf npe experience and common senna. - principle when! Amh cana un occur while those American the oT a hr anddifficult ia Mis t wife a As genou th taooT toolrhold scribe astral, herself her. servant? No, she per quarrel Industries ofquarrel Spore says, 'Dentists who demanded that every suspected tooth be essential food, fuel, clothing partly to blam because she dees not Or words to that effect. could not paint at all and now look! Insiet on sharing her husband's life and extracted, and those who crowned teeth that should problems era decided bj consultation of men of exand transportation. It la a most peculiar type of pointing It may bo Imagined thet the lady was have beea extracted, are beginning to realize that matter of fact, actually not bubbling o.,r with good spirits when which Mlaa Bpore docs. Apples and Bow"I am sincerely glad you came to the does notv and judgment. perience I am to to share It, the larger at last the immigration authorities put ses have so many layers of thick middle west, and grateful Mr. qualify herself tooth ia a rule unto itself and it fate should be Shields for the delightful privilege of meetaboard stand The return an her part of the blam for th the hour that half of determined by dentist of unquestioned skill, judgment ship. they actually put amount of domestic Infelicity alarming in th Bella sounded. A Inch from the canvas, and look as if they ing you. Your sincerely, sailing approached, and honesty. That is the exact idea back of this dental office. Yon United Btates ia due fundamentally to rope was cast off. "HENRI J. ALLEN." oould be picked. Governor Allen is tvplcal of ths leaders th husband. as And then earn a shriek. It to us with the assurproblems your bring may deatpl America-practicof progressive thought In I have charged him with a desire to you hgv rueased, from the aristocratic who knew Meanwhile, Some buiglar Eamsey Dentistry offers the solution to th problem ance of careful diagnosis, intelligent consideration and energetic, capable of patting his keep hie wife out of hla business, out throat of Mra Mottl, and the fact that where they were safe, stole 11900 In money of-. how to secure dependable ndvice and hi'h-clasIdeals Into effect. of hla life. He treats her with a respect eh tied other shriek just as good was and jewels from a house on block away honest advice. absolutely In New York, among other well known end admiration that make her th aavy almost Immediately demonstrated, workmanship at a price within reach. Th from police headquarters. The burglar met. Arthur Brisbane, the famous of women of tho old world. 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