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Show 1 i ,& ii I THE CITIZEN iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiMiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiii: s ONG THE NEW BOOKS lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllOlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlS NEW beat he isterton. doe: us than in Gibbon or even in JERUSALEM. By G. K. Published by Doran York. thav iim. BjVoiie cartoonist pictures Chesterton movinS among the astoiind- !o anj8 SdViitives of Palestine seeking the uarte beerln Beersheba. That he should visit he beat nts. ling, etbfi Godfrey De Buillon, Tancred and e liigheRichard Coeur de Lion, is vastly amaz-- r polictiBto those who have been told that is the apostle of beer and flourish Chiiterton that to appreciate failed have to the of the strongest champions in crusader of England a veritable ne kn tj Christian faith. It would be difficult to think of any English literati better ere thfOpierx . fitted to interpret the past and present of Palestine. Because Chesterton is a 18 noble humorist many of his readers er to? have not gauged his earnestness at its is use( true intensity. tion s It Ufthe old Jerusalem that Chesterton visited, for the presence of European soldiers and railroads is so incidental in wibkt he says that the reader forgets ices k presence. His New Jerusalem service la the new Jerusalem sung by Christian b the) millions before the great war was nust Ik thought of. He sees it through the me-these soldiers, engineers, poii- f diumof ticians and what not who have come to rs ani the the) a ancient city. Through 3se 8nvbook runs an theer eloquent won! t of thread protest against mod- y cou!: emizing Jerusalem through syndicates ate tai and bonds. In a way he is a Zionist, on condition that the Jew most but only should come back not as a ruler, but as ;m dm; a working inhabitant. He would have cf nuch suzerainty; The European can do jus- s and tice. to the Jew, but it must be the He does not 3afes European who does it. the suzerainty to be that of Eng- as the land, but he says England must take it me int mgg Christendom, or, at least, the obable entente, takes it. What he wants is to le pro; have the principle of the Homan em- r at least of the Holy Roman good&.Pi empire, to come back in dealing with cle ap? the east. France and England would 5 P represent that principle enough to Delphi t . 3 I - Villehar-douin- . He begins with the statement that at Christmas he set forth for the east and began to walk backward through history to the place from which Christmas came, as a man walks backward to the place from which he came when he has lost his way; and adds, with his usual air of uttering a startling premise as if it were a truism, That the world has lost, its way few will now deny. Again, as usual, the moment he has stated his startling premise it seems A moment before it was not even a truism. He had been toia ne would be disappointed with Jerusalem; but he loved it. In a chapter on The Philosophy of he maintains that a man should ont go forth in a critical mood, determined to find out what is different from home and therefore bad, but should not go forth in a critical mood, A man can would think of London. not eat the pyramids; he cannot buy or sell the Holy City; there can be no practical aspect either of his coming or going. If he has not come for a poetic mood he has come for nothing; if he has come for such a mood, he is elf-eviden- Sight-Seein- t. g, not a fool to' obey that mood. The way to be really a fool is to try to be practical about unpractical things. Mr. Chesterton visited the Holy Sepulchre. That may be said to have been the object of his journey. He is not at all afraid of a charge of idolatry, and he remarks incidentally that it is the average Englishman who is the idolator, for it is he who only reverences the place, and does not reverence the reverence for the place. In other wards it is he who values the visible things rather than the invisible, for no sane man can doubt that invisible things are vivid to the priests and pilgrims of these shrines: Either I was particularly fortunate or others are particularly fastidious. The guide who showed me the Sepulchre was not particularly noisy or profane or palpably mercenary; he was rather more than less sympathetic than the same sort of man who might have shown me Westlie minster Abbey or Stratford-on-Avoisfy him. a old owlish' was a man, small, solemn, The se The New Jerusalem purports to be Roman Catholic in religion; but so far g ago, only the notes of a tourist, and in form from deserving the charge of not knowing it is; but such a notebook and such a the Bible, he deserved rather a gentle reagainst his assumption that tourist! Like a picture painted on a monstrance else knew it. If there was anyrock by a storm and the natural nobody thing to smile at, in associations so world has many such there stands sacred, it was the elaborate simplicity y0t the first facts of the out, when he paints the Moslem, not with which heastold If he were evangelizing gospel story, had mere dress whose and the human a savage. Anyhow, he did not talk like being 3ll. Car . manners are carefully described by a cheapjack at a stall; but rather like a 110 f teacher In an infant school. lie made It ' other tourists, but that human being, very clear that Jesus Christ was crucified in case any one should suppose he was said and also all that he ever meant or beheaded; and often stopped In his narrapi i stood for, the vision of Mohammed and tive to repeat that the hero of these events the valor of Saladin, the central dif- - was Jesus Christ, lest we should fancy it was Nebuchadnezzar or the Duke of Wel' ference between Mohammedanism and lington. I do not in the least mind being LONG Christianity, the influence of the desert amused at this; but I have no reason whatever for doubting that he may have upon the formation of religions. The I gave him . been a better man than I. kin same is true of everything he touches what I should have given a similar guide 1 I cat the crusader becomes more alive for In my own country; I parted from him as sat-propr- it n. J 13 politely as from one of my own countrymen. Usually we criticize the east, says Mr. Chesterton, and often we do it unjustly and because the east is doing in one way what we ourselves do in another. Take, for example, the perpetual demand for backsheesh, so disturbing to the temper of the tourist. But do not we also demand backsheesh? It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money. A man would be annoyed if he found himself in a mob of millionaires, all holding out their silk hats for a penny; or all Ghre me shouting with one voice, Yet advertisement does really money. assault the eye very much as such a shout would assault the ear. Budges Boots Are the Best, simply means Give me money; Use Seraphic Soap simply means Give me money. It is a complete mistake to suppose that common people make our towns commonplace, with unsightly things like advertisements. Most of those whose wares are thus placarded everywhere are the very wealthy men coronets and country seats, men who are probably very particular about the atristic adornment of their own homes. They disfigure their towns in order to decorate their houses. To see such men crowding and clamoring for more wealth would really be a more unworthy sight than a scramble of poor guides; yet this is what would be conveyed by all the glare of gaudy advertisement to anybody who saw and understood it for the first time. Mr. Chesterton is much interested in European rule in the East, as well he may be. The European does a great deal for the Oriental, but very often it is the things that the Oriental does not want done. There is always the difference in ideals. When there was an almost unprecedented snowstorm in Palestine the British soldiers cleared it away. No one else would do it. But sometimes the white man does things but that the equally Moslems do not wish to have done. The Moslem remains always a problem and a perplexity to the white man: well-intentione- d, For instance, the tradition of Turkish rule is simply a joke. All the stories about it are jokes, and often very good jokes. My own favorite incident Is that which is still commemorated in the English cathedral by an enormous hole in the floor. The Turks dug up the pavement looking for concealed English artillery; because they had been told that the bishop hod given his blessing to two canons. The bishop had indeed recently appointed two canons to the service of the church, but he had not secreted tnem under the floor of the chancel. There was another agreeable incident when the Turkish authorities,, by an Impulsive movement of religious toleration, sent for a Greek priest to bury Greek soldiers, and told him to take his choice in a heap of corpses of all reeds c and colors. But at once the most curious and the most common touch of comedy is the perpetual social 'introduction to solid and smiling citizens who have been nearly hanged by the Turks. The fortunate gentleman seems still to be regarding his with a broad grin.' If you were introduced to a polite Frenchman who had come straight from the guillotine, or to an affable American who had only just vacated .the electrical chair, you would feel a faint curiosity about the whole story. If a friend Introduced somebody, saying, My friend Robinson; his sentence lias just been commuted to penal servitude," or "My Uncle William, just come from Dartmoor prison, your mind and perlmps your lips would faintly form the But evidently, unsyllables What for? der Turkish rule, being hanged was like being knocked down by a cab; it might happen to anybody. es-ca- ep discursive. He does not always keep to the point. Good writers seldom do. For example, he begins to talk about Zionism and that reminds him of Dr. Eder, whom he already knew: Mr. Chesterton is Dr. Eder, the president of the Zionist commission, is a man for whom I conceived a respect long ago when he protested, as a professional physician, against the subjection of the poor to medical Interference to th$ destruction of all moral independence. lie criticised with great effect of legislators to kidnap anybody elses child whom they chose to suspect of a feeble -- mindedness they were themd to define. It was selves to defended, very characteristically, by a combination of precedent and progress; and we were told that it only extended the principle of the lunacy laws. That is to say, it only extended the. principle of the lunacy laws to people whom no sane man would call lunatics. It is as if they were to alter the terms of a quarantine law d from lepers to persons; and then say blandly that the principle was the same. feeble-minde- light-haire- Mr. Chesterton witnessed a Moslem meeting, and he seems to think it much more amusing, perhaps even more intelligent, than our own vapolitical riety : I saw from the balcony of the hotel the crowd of rioters come rolling down the street. In front of them went two fantastic figures turning like teetotums in an endless dance and twirling two crooked and naked scimitars, as the Irish were supposed to twirl shillelaghs. I thought it a delightful way of opening a political meeting; and I wished we could do it at home at the general election. I wish that Instead of the wearisome business of Mr. Bonar Law biking the chair, and Mr. Lloyd eGorge addressing the- meeting, Mr. Law and Mr. Lloyd George would only hop and caper in front of a procession, spinning round and round till they were dizzy, and waving and crossing a pair of umbrellas in a thousand invisible patterns. But this political announcement or advertisement, though more Intelligent than could readily believe, our own, had, as 1 was told that it was another side to it. to often a prelude ordinary festivals, such - VlIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIBlllllBllBIIIIIIIIIIIIII:llll,lllillllllllllaolliliilhSI,aillllSIISMIIIII1llll'lllll Thomas Insurance & Investment Company Insurance Of All Kinds 4 if tb t . i Telephone Wasatch 3164 Boyd Park Bldg., Salt Lake City 'iitiiiiBiiiiiiiiiiiBiiiiiiiiiiiiitBiiiiiiiiiiiiiiBiiiiiaiiBiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiBiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiuii2 |