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Show AS OTHERS SEE US If only America could see themselves as other nationals see them they would no doubt be better satisfied with their lot. Perhaps no truer picture could be drawn of the many joys to be found in the g-ood old U. S. A. than that sketched by a German woman writer visiting; in this country recently. Her widely published articles bring- out some interesting-points interesting-points which might be good food for thought for most of us. As might be expected, this German lady formed a great liking lik-ing for America while on her first and subsequent visits. There were so many things she liked about this country. But she was probably most impressed by plain American honesty. She was greatly-surprised to 'find that here she could order from the butcher by telephone and be given good meat and honest weight even though she were not present to watch him fill the order. She also took pains to mention in her article that in this country she frequently had money returned re-turned to her when she had over-paid. She discovered and marveled at the American custom, which prevails principally princi-pally in rural districts, of never locking a house even though the entire family might be away. And she observed that in America people usually take human decency and trustworthiness trust-worthiness for granted. This last observation is one worthy of special consideration, since in America we usually trust a person until we have reason not to trust him instead in-stead of distrusting him until we have reason to trust him. o |