| Show BRITON FAVORS u UI UIS s DRY LAW Sir Geddes Dispels Illusions About All Americans LONDON March l 7 op 7 W Auckland Geddes whom the tho Brims entertained In honor of his from Wash Wash- WashIngton Washington Washington ington kept his word which lie he 0 on departing from New NewYork NewYork ew York that he 1 would continue continuo as s unofficial ambassador of ot the AmeriCAn people on this side aide ot of the Atlantic bv by a remarkable speech which for candor and frankness has rarely rare been bren sur- sur surpassed surpassed sur surpassed passed at a meeting ot of the Anglo Anglo- Anglo American American society Tho The former British had barely started his reply to toasts by Lord ugh John Robert Clynes and former Premier Pre Pre- Premier Pre Premier mier Baldwin before he roused the distinguished gathering of ot King Georges George's subjects by saying saving rAYOn rAvon PRom nITI Oi I dont don't think the people of England recognize amid tho the mass massof massof massof of storie stories of violation of the pro pro- pro prohibition la laws lass s of ot the United States Mates how strong the feeling of tho the best minds of ot the best people of ot Amer Amer- AmerIca America ica tea Is on the subject of ot prohIbition prohibition prohibition tion Given Gl the American problem problem problem lem given tho the American climate I 1 think that If It I were an Amer Amor- American American ican I would be a a prohibitionist Fortunately I 1 am not glee given gl the American climate he lee added The former ambassador resumed lie In Ini Ins i s serious vein tein eln ho however honeter e eer er saving sating 88 Ing that seldom had there been a more I humiliating position for tor any Brit Brit Brit- British British i ish ambassador than to week after week neck eek to see the secretary of state for the purpose of ot request request- requestIng requesting requesting ing the release ot of this that or orthe orthe orthe the other disreputable British or alleged British schooner engaged in handling stuff stutt which anybody lY should h have hate e been ashamed of o P ICE I SIr Auckland continued for tor nearly an hour In his effort to dispel many of Britain's popular illusion of ot the people on the theother theother theother other tide able Ide ot of o the Atlantic He upheld the funding of or the tsar ar debt and a great work that yield future fruit and added that the British did not fully realize how hov far tar United States State came camp to meet the British negotiators considering tho the situa situa- situation situation tion that ell existed elsted sled Sir Auckland told toM his audience and a hundred thousand others scattered throughout the British Isles for for the speeches were that broadcast broadcast that although America may have hate something to learn from Great Britain Britain certainly had many things to learn from America not only In purely Industrial development J onn Clynes lord I y seal In toasting the former I ambassador In tho the e eec eec- eve evening e ning had mentioned but In art artand an and architecture as all well neil as ns In social sel vice an pat par par particularly particularly horticulture and In pro pro- protecting pro protecting t the tho home markets markelS thigh Sir Auckland said Americans throughout all the states he ho t I told him was the secret of their prosperity LABORS LABons Rn Ho lie asked Mr Ir Clynes to listen slowly lowly while he described the con con- conditions con conditions under which American stage ago earners worked and n heed ed According to his account the Brit British ish working people might well en- en envy envy en envy vy American wage page age earners for their housing facilities and tor for the the comforts and luxuries they en en- en enjoyed en jO joyed ed Undoubtedly the they we were e better housed fed and clothed than their kindred here He lie urge the labor government whoso whose special care after thinking of the good of the entire nation nallon nas directed to the wage nags aKe earner to consider whether anything coul could bo be learned from the protectionist methods of the United States The audience cheered and the formet formel prime minister Baldwin DAld In seemed pleased The American ambassador Frank B Kellogg In a short ex- ex extemporaneous ex extemporaneous speech said Great Britain has been represented represented at Washington by a 0 Ion long line Une of ot distinguished statesmen but no man has held hold a higher standard of statesmanship than Sir Auckland Geddes |
