Show I 1 T TO un AMER AMERICA ICA I 1 T A v U rma abam I 1 i 1 t X j by H W 1 1 J A correspondent of the tbt manchester guardian Guardi in at the arms conference T from the nation aal ani the adlien tom london I 1 1 l I 1 x v T THE international conference on limitation of arin armament ament brought to to washington many eminent journalists from europe one of the mot most mo st entin eminent ent of whom was henry glenry AV Neil of england ile he has been one of the lest known of the british war find and tr trai arnel nel cling correspondents and Is tile author of numerous books mr came as the corrosion corr correspondent ospon lent of the manchester guardian a newspaper which holds a unique place in english journalism its ln influence fluence in politics lias has given it a circulation almost general in great britain and its accomplished writers find and scholarly editors make each issue a piece of literature upon taking ills his departure from america sir mr wrote the following farewell an excellent exemplification of his keen powers of observation and his fits broad broadmindedness mIndedness in mist anti and driving snow the towers of new york fade from froin view the great ship slides town down tile river already the dark broad seas gloom before her goodby good by most beautiful of modern modem cities goodby good by to gli miner ing spires and lighted bastions dreamlike as the castles and cathedrals cathedral of it romantic vision islon goodby good by hy to thin films of white steam that issue from central furnaces and flit in dissolving wreaths around those precipitous heights I 1 goodby good by to heaven beaven piled offices so clean so warm where lovely stenographers with silk stockings end powdered faces sit leisurely at work or converse in charming ease goodby new york I 1 am going home I 1 urn am going to an ancient city of mean and moldering streets of ignoble ble coverts converts for mankind extended monotonously over many miles of grimy smoke clinging closer than a blanket of smudgy typists who know little of silk bilk or powder and less of leisure end and charming ease case G goodby good by new york I 1 am going home goodby good by to beautiful apartments and homes goodby good by to windows looking tar far over the city as from a mountain peak I 1 goodby good by hy to central heating and radiator fit s symbols of if the hearts they warm goodby good gond by to ill frequent and well appointed bathrooms glory of tile the plumbers artl art goodby good by to suburban gardens running into each other without hedge or fence to separate friend from friend or enemy from enemy goodby good by to shady verandas where rocking chairs stand ranged in rows ready for rending the voluminous sunday papers and the lie saturday evening post good hy by america I 1 am going home I 1 am going to a n land where pery every ilmi IlIf fles i house la Is his prison a lind of open fires and chilly rooms and frozen water pipes of washing stands and slop palls end one loath bath per household nt ct the roost most a land of fences find and hed hedges e and where people sit aloof an anil see no reason to make themselves seasick i by rocking upon shore goodby good by americal america 1 I 1 ani am golrig going home 41 41 goodby good by to the copious menis meals tile the early grapefruit the cereals cerci ils the eggs broken lit in a glass class good by to dusters ousters ou large end and small to celer and olives beside the soup to api pit food to sublimated viands to billit ank k to tile the salad course to tile the individual ial pie or the thick wedge of apple pie to the invariable slab of tee ice crean to tile the coffee also blind with ere nin to the home brewed alcohol I 1 tin 1111 going to the land of joints and routs and solid pudding the lie land of and eggs and violent lei lea tile lie I ind where oysters are good for alone end and where cream Is 18 seen the land where mustard grows and whisky flows flow good by america I 1 am going home good by to the long iong strep tin of motors limousines or flivvers cooj by to the signal lights upon fifth gold arid green the sudden halt when the green light shil shines leg as though nt at the magic word an enchanted princess had fallen asleep the hurried rush for the leisurely lunch fit at noon the deliberate appearance of hustle and hustle bustle in business the jews innumerable ns as the red keil sell sand goodby good by ly to outside staircases fur for escape from fire goodby to scrappy suburbs littered with mith rubbish of old tin palls empty cans and boots 4 goodby good by to standardized villages and s small mail towns alike in litter in ropes of electric wires long iong the streets in clanking trolleys in chapels stores railway su stations alons M main tin streets and isolated wooden houses ali lung at random dom over the country goodby good by to miles of advertisement imploring me in ten foot letters to eat cat co codfish no hones bores or smoke some biays ci el garets they satisfy or sleep with will innocence in the faultless nightgown goodby good by to the long ion trains where oil one smokes in a il lavatory citory and sleeps at night upon a shelf screened with mith heavy green curtains and heated with stilling air while over your bead or under your buck back the baby bells ells and the mother tosses moaning until nt at last you reach your stopple stopp stopping ln g off if place and a benil negro sweeps m eelis ou on down doun with a little broom its as in it a supreme rite of lill boil goodby goo d bv to the house that is labeled one lone Il hundred undred years old for the amazement of inor mortality goodby good by to thin woods and fields with casual pales old hoops and lengths of wire f I 1 ani am going to the land of a po finger finder where the horse and the bicycle still drag out a lingering life a land arid of persistent and silent toll at a ian land of old villages and towns as little like each other as one women woman Is like tile next it a land where trains are fiort i and one seldom sleeps in them thein for lit in any direction within a ilay clay they will reach a sea a land of 0 at a and trees of if houses honored lio nored three ent urles ago of cathedrals that have boon beell growing for a ahll thousand years end and of village clai rhes built while people bell believed eved in god good ba 1 america 1 I ilin 1111 going home good bood hy by to the llie land of a new language g age in III growth of split infinitives a and nd bred words the land where a dinner jacket iq i a tux tuxedo eclo it a spittoon it a cuspidor where here your opinion is called our rea reaction tIon and where vamp instead of meaning nn all improvised in pro to a sons song means a dangerous fe female ale goodby godby good god by to the land where grotesque exaggeration Is called humor fin people gape lit in bewilderment at irony as a bullock gapes at a dog straying in his field 41 goodby good by to t the land where strangers say glad to meet sou sir and really seem glad where children whine their little desires and never grow much older where men keep their trousers up with belts that run through loops and women have to bathe in I 1 nm am going to a land anti of ancient speech where we still say record and concord for reaud and concur concud con cud where fin and extraordinarily must mua be taken fit at one rush as hedge ditch and rall in the hunting field where we me to do not commute or check or page but take a season and register and send a boy round where we never say we are glad to meet a stranger and seldom are here humor Is understatement and irony Is our habitual resource in danger or distress where children are told they are meant to be seen and not beat heard d where it Is bad form formato to express emotion and suspenders are 1 a I strictly feminine article of attire goodby good by america I 1 am going home goodby good by to the multitudinous papers indefinite of opinion crammed with insignificant news and asking you to continue a first page article on pa page ge 1 13 3 colunio 51 5 goodby good by to the weary t 3 platitude accepted us its wisdoms latest revelation goodby good by to the docile audiences that lap lal rhetoric for sustenance goodby good by to politicians contending for alms more practical than principles goodby good by to republicans and democrats dasting distinguishable uh hable only by mutual hatred atred li goodby good by to the land igind where liberals tire are thought dangerous and radicals show red where mr gompers is tailed called it 11 socialist and mr asquith would seel hebein adoun advanced ced A land too large fur for concentrated indignation a land where wealth beyond the dreams of 1 profiteers dwells dresses gorges and luxuriates luxuriated emulated and allIed I 1 am aln going to a land of politics violently divergent a land where villere even coalitions cannot coalesce where meetings breal break up in turbulent disorder and no platitude avails to southe soothe tile the savage breast a land fierce tor for personal freedom and indignant with rage tor for justice a land cheret Is taxed out of sight or for ery shame strives to disguise its lux ury a land where an ancient order Is passing away and leaders whom you call extreme are hailed balled by lord chan chani i cellars as tile the very fortifications of security goodby good by america I 1 am go 1 in ing home ho me goodby good by to prose chopped up to look like verse goodby good by to the appetite which gulps lectures as 18 opiates and printed matter as literature I 1 goodby good by to the wizards find witches wit clies who ask to psychoanalyze psycho analyze my illy complexes inhibitions and silly dreams I 1 goodby good by to the exuberant religious or fantastic beliefs by which mankind still stall desperately pera tely to penetrate beyond the flani ing bulwarks bulwa of the world goodby good by americans I 1 nm clin golno coln to a land very iauch like fours oura I 1 inn ain going to 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