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Show NOTHING SACRED TO YANKS I Ancient Edifices, With Their Historic I Memories, Have No Power to Over- ' T awe American 8oldlers. Sfel Tou enn't nwe a Yank. You can feast his eye nnd his mind on history nnd castles and things thnt are so old they are sacred. But you can't nwe him, Stephen Doughton writes In Clinmberlnln's. You can, ns has been done, for Instance, tnke him to Warwick War-wick cnstle and show him the mont. (he portcullis, Caesar's tower and wonders won-ders thnt date from 000 A. D. Then when he sees the broad rampart on the cnstle wall he thinks what a fine place It would be to dance, and he does. Recently a hundred Yanks on leave In England mado two-day tour. They played baseball nt the home of the late William Shakespeare, Stratford-pn-Avon; vlstted Lenmlngton Spa. Coventry, Warwick cnstle nnd the ruins of the famous Kenllworth castle. Just to add a sort of finishing American Ameri-can touch to the tour they had peanuts nt Warwick think of It. peanuts at sacred Warwick. But lest the Yanks be falsely accused ac-cused of carrying peanuts to Warwick let It be noted that Harry Gordon Sclfrldge, a former Chlcngonn, now a department store man In London, sent np Mr-pounds ot the delectable goobers. Just to make the boys feel at home while gallivanting about the castle'a moats and ramparts and towers nnd places. |