Show RUDYARD KIPLING SLURS AMERICA Rudyard Kipling kindly dealt deall with by Americans joins In the hymn ot or hate being sung In Eur Eur- Europe Europe ope In his latest book he has hasa hasa a poem IThe Vineyard which is accepted by the re as asa asa asa a direct slap slap at America The f first and last verses are At th the eleventh hour he came But his wages were the same As ours who all day long had trod The wine press ot or the wrath ot or God Since his back had bad felt no load Virtue still In is him abode So he swiftly made his own Those lost spoils we had not won We went home delivered thence him no recompense Till he portioned praise or blame To our works before he came Till he showed us for lor our good Dear Deal to mirth and blind scorn How we might have best beat with with- withstood withstood stood Burdens that tbt he had not borne it t Is made plain th that t the pee peo- pie peo-pie pIe of ot England Including Kip KIp- KIpling Kip Kip- Kipling ling flog have been smarting under the boast which some Americans have Given given utterance to that America won the war But Kipling should should not be too touchy on that point All AU Am Am- American American American writers well Informed on the different stages of of the war have have freely conceded that Great suffering and sacrifice of the war was not Americas America's They also have written In praise of dt f the courage and endurance ot of o British and French The Americans Americana never for tor a mow mo mo- moment moment ment meat have assumed to rob the allies who fought three long y ears before America entered the war of any of ot the glory which was theirs The statement lt though has been made that It America did not give Its great contribution contribution contribution tion In men and equipment the allies might have hae beel- beel been defeated But why does Kipling place the Americans In th the attitude of d de- de demanding de demanding manding wages or seeking spoils America received none of ot the spoils In the form form form of ot territory taken from Germany and asked for none The collecting of o the debts Is more than doing what the British banks did In 1890 and 1891 2 1891 when they required American debtors to pay up The liquidating process almost bank bank- bankrupted bankrupted bankrupted this country but America Ameri Ameri- America ca with stout heart paid to the utmost and never even thought of repudiation |