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Show AMERICA!! (Copy tar Tlild I pji rliiirn t Mutpll-'i by the Arncrli urt lzUm New Hervir. ) KATHERINE GARVIN BEFORE COMMITTEE Vhc national executive comriill lee of the American Legion at lis meeting meet-ing January 10 and 11 at national lii'udrjuurhM'H In Jinlhn apnlls. and in which every slate uinl foreign depart-incut depart-incut of the Legion was represented, heard .Miss Kallicrine Carvln of Loudon, Lou-don, Kngliuid, t(:ll her Impressions 'of America which she will carry back willi her next. Hummer. Miss (Jarvin Is a woman student in the Legion's exchunge of scholarships through the L'ld.'tc, the International noddy of veterans' organizations of which the Legion Is the member society so-ciety from the United Stales. Miss Carvln Is the daughter of J. L. Garvin, Gar-vin, editor of Hie Observer of London. He Is one of the foremost of Uritish Journalists. Miss Oarvin Is now a student stu-dent in the graduate school of the I'niverslty of Michigan, and was , brought to Iudlanapolis especially to appear before the national executive committee. The fellowship that was awarded to her was made possible through the cooperation co-operation of the English-Speaking "Union of (he United States and the similar Union of Great Krltain. The Fidac arranged the exchange of scholarships schol-arships and Aliss Frances E. Kiggs of Detroit linanced it. Miss Garviu spoke on the "Educational "Educa-tional Peace Program of Fidac," and (old many of her experiences in her study of American people in the1 few months she had been studying at the university at Ann Arbor. "I have beeu asked some very amusing amus-ing questions since I have been iu the states," Miss Garvin told the committee. commit-tee. "1 have been told that the English Eng-lish are egotistic, because they do not caro what people think of them. I agree, except. I think the cause of the egolism Is because they are too sensitive sen-sitive about what people think of them, and protect themselves with a glacial exterior which too often gives the impressftm of hostility." The Legion's purpose in sponsoring and aiding In the exchange of scholarships scholar-ships Is to promote understanding and world pence. In this regard, 1 Miss Garvin said: "It may be thought that one student each year can do little to alter the current cur-rent of public opinion, but it depends upon the person. Much good can be done by even one person of average sanity, open-mindedness, friendliness and toleration. For we all have friends and relations to whom we write. And when we go home, they wait in shoals to hear what we have clone, what we think of America, how (he American who stays at home compares com-pares with the tourists, and so on. If we give a fair and favorable report, more people will want to follow in the same spirit of friendship and understanding. under-standing. "I do not think that any one born in America can parallel the thrill of exploration ex-ploration that any European must have when he first lauds in New York. Over here, Europe can never completely com-pletely he an unknown quantity. You have cathedrals and houses and churches built upon the European pattern. "I derive an unqualified delight from occurrences which must appear to you as perfectly natural. I was amazed,, could hardly believe my eyes, when 1 saw a policeman take a telephone out of a telephone post. When I told my English friends about it they refused re-fused to believe me, and I had to make myself the laughing stock of a girls' dormitory before I could get corroboration for my statement. "You cannot realize how typical of America the 'movies' are unless you are net an American, especially the comedies. I never seriously expected lo see an automobile as dilapidated as some of those in the comedies. But since coming to America, I have enjoyed en-joyed a good many. I thought the speed of elevators, as portrayed in 'movies,' was exaggerated, but I (ind it justified by the express elevators iu the New York business buildings." |