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Show Americans Are Always Saying "All Right!" It Is Their Pet Phrase By GUSTAV FRENSSEN, in "Letters From America." The Americans are always saying cheerfully, carelessly and lightly: ( "All right 1" It is their pet phrase. It is a phrase appropriate to wanW t ers, pioneers, sportsmen, hunters. A-nerians are hunters, and slays they have been lucky at hunting. They have halted Indiansedtntaloes, negroes and Spaniards and Gerrr ans, gold and copper aty"oil wells, and always luck has smiled upon them. And evenings tbev,it by the fire and talk of their spoils. f Cares? Reflections? Itight or wrong? Ilunters 6 not ask questions about such things. Americans are now going thronp an era like that which Rome went throvgh when it reached the Adriati coast, Spain when it dispatched Columbus, England when it laid hand on South Africa and India. They are a people in, the bloom of its' oringtime, favored and blessed by God because of its freshness, brilliancyind efficiency. But remember, all that is right and valuable' ontains something tragic and sad. Individuals and peoples alike, everyting that is worth anything bears the noble mark of guilt, remorse and need on its brow. All the older nations carry this mark and do not seek deny it : Spain, Holland, Sweden, England, France, Germany. Creatn is tragic. The American people do not bear this old, holy sign of oration; in America there is no scar, complaint, remorse, want,, error. Ever;Jiing there k still mathematically clear ; everything comes out just as itWuld. Everhing there is still "all right !" j |
