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Show DIFFERENCE IN IVETHODS. Americans Get Right to Work on n Project, Germans rall for Bismarck. The conversation In the smoking room of tho Bleeping ca' had drifted around to tho characteristics of tho races, relates tho Saturday Evening Post. "I llko your people," said a German, who had been listening. "I havo been In this country for 30 years, acting as an Immigration agrnt for my people and assisting them to settle here when they come to this country. "I'ow, take a party of Americans when n new territory Is opened or some public laud thrwn.open re settlement. set-tlement. They rldo or drlvo In, get their land, select a plafo for the village, vil-lage, stake out the streets and then somebody gets up on a stump calls a meeting and nominates John Jones for mayor. In ten minutes they haye a municipality nnd everything is going go-ing along all right. "If a party of Germans was In tno same place, what would they do? When It came time to organize tholr village they would stand around for three hours nd then somebody would ask' 'Where Is Bismarck?' " |