Bingham Bulletin | 1921-01-28 | Page 4 | Everything Boosted-and Hair of the Britisher Frequently on End

Everything Boosted-and Hair of the Britisher Frequently on End. By SIR JOHN FOSTER FRASER, English Writer. Everybody who. does anything in America is advertised as the most wonderful doer of that particular thing in the world. In time it is believed. be-lieved. So there is a craving for what is called "publicity." You may mourn that your house has been burned down, but there is sure to be some one who will console you with the remark, "But think of the publicity yon will get out of if Everything has to he boosted and the hair of the Britisher is frequently fre-quently hoisted on end. I remember promising to address a meeting in New York. One of the N'Yawk papers announced I was in the United States "as the personal; representative of King George !" I got the telephone- busy, and in language that is unprintable demanded of the secretary what he meant by saying a thing iile that. His explanation was he had, to say something about who I was. "Well, don't say that," I insisted. "Ca we say you will deliver a special message from Lloyd' George? We must announce something to draw a big audience." "Certainly not." "Well, weITrw he continued, "we will just say you have a message' from the Britisfc to the American people !"