Show Slav Village Never Never- Never Heard of Americans Watch Strangers Suspiciously Unfriendly Crowds Follow Tourists Tourist Tiny Farms Are Vall Walled d to Keep Keepin Keepin Keepin in Scant Rainfall Natives Wo Work k Hard for Starvation Starvation Starvation tion Existence I By Dy I JESSIE HENDERSON to The Tho Copyright 1326 1926 Consolidated Press Association SIBE ICO Dalmatian coas coast Sept Pride lB 12 Pride goeth before II a anasty anasty nasty wallop as the copybooks u used ed to say and perhaps still do But any wallop you OU ever had In Inthe Inthe inthe the course of or your career as nn an AmerIcan citizen n is a canary peck to a s Dempsey right swing corn com com compared pared isred with what you get in ki in- in little g grimy grimy eyed starcy-eyed village slouched down on its treeless liar bar barbor har harbor bor edge By fly and large the United States Is rather a 1 a prominent country George o George Is pret pretty ell velL known and D Washington Washington C has has more than once been men men- mentioned honed In us the public the public prints The dollar has hns attracted moro more than lo local lo- lo local cal attention NEVER In HEARD RD OF or EM EI All right never heard ot of cm em It never heard of or Calvin CIlI Coolidge or Mayor Walker or Eli Eli- Dilly Ell Jy ly 1 Sunday or the thc Rev John toach Boach Stratton It never heard Of the east cast side or the west coast It never heard of or the American doughnut the American dough dough- doughboy doughboy doughboy boy or the American drouth It I never heard of the tho I R n 1 T th I W XV W or the tho M K K- K K K K It doesn't know who won the civil war nor whether r there was as all au American revolution If Jr you doubt this colos colossal al lack ot of Interest i and information take a walk through Walk Valk alk fast S however ho for dont don't care for strangers They will follow V you OU in unfriendly groups entirelY ready to speed the parting gues guest and among amons themselves they will J point at you Oll and murmur Eng Eng lish So 50 far as they're concerned Co- Co Col Co Columbus l lumbus never took that boat ride TABLES T TURNED It Is humiliating l so ha nave ve these now Slays now Joined to Italy look Italy ut at you with suspicion because you OU are aro so 50 different You begin to o a a II vague remembrance t that t there are plenty of or American yourself included who v cast the same sarno sort of glance glanco at Slays Slavs Hay Hav- Ing Hav InG looked down on tho the worl world 1 from the top of or say the Wool Wool- Woolworth worth Wool worth building its it's a dizzy change or of perspective to find yourself looked down upon But Dut before the idea gets too much time limo to Percolate the cargo boat which Is carrying you yon hither and lind yon utters its customary strangled shriek and you ou rush rush back to the wharf wharf As re- re ro rc you reflect that after aCter all 1111 th thoU thoU-iS lr IT S doesn't give a hoot what Se- Se Se thinks of or It It nor whether WALLS W CATCH RAIN RtIN You You cant cant can't spend too much time worrying over o this however howe when the stub nose galleon is snuffling down this coast of or Incredible farms Running back from Irons the I shore s r as far as the tho eye could reach were infinitesimal squares or of round ground surrounded by little stone stonewall stonewalls wall walls Hundreds and hundreds ot of miles upon miles of waits wals They aro are probably the smallest farms In the world walled world walled to keep in tho the rain raiA Since most ot of them wore were deserted d s and tho flinty countryside countr was sparsely populated od ed you began to wonder what hall had become of oil nil the the patient hands that had piled up little walls to keep In the tho tiny rain falls tails on the scanty acreage DEPRESSING SCENE And then you discover that the farmers have havo been doln doing this over and over for tor 2000 years ears There is something appalling about these thes I silent deserted patches es of walled wall round ground in their revelation of or the hard cramped existence entailed generation after arter generation farm farm- farmers farmers ers tortured by niggardly nl-gardly rains pushed by foreigners nearer and nearer to the tho sea sell but never ceas ceas- ceas ceasing ceasing ing to make mako little tittle stone stono walls an and stubbornly to wrest a II starvation existence Its It's as sad as depress depress- depressing In ing and as Inspiring a bitof coun coun- country coun- coun country country try to bb be found on the planet |