Show I Condemns Hotel I Men Who Install Heat Chesterton Says Vay Way to English-American English Friend Friend- F Friendship Friendship ship Is to Play Up Dislikes and Peculiarities s I Dont Don't Cater to Differences II Ily JIS II III Thil 1111 NE NEW XE 11 Corre of The d rd T ONDON Fe Feb 19 The 10 The quickest L t way to promote frIendship bo- bo be 1 England and tho the Untied States Is li to emphasize the points ot of difference between the tho two countries rather than to insist they are arc C es alike this alike this Is the tho view ot of the writer le ie tui-er tui humorist and pro profound round thinker Gilbert K Chesterton lb Ilo ex- ex explain cx plain d his view today In tn the lit lit- lit tie office oft tho Strand wh rc he gets out the tho mt G G s Ns Weekly an office which h he ho with t his halo hale presence and hearty chuckles I 1 differ from the II If G a Wells ells flood Philosophy said Mid Ches- Ches Ches tel tolt Tolling a II bl big bis cigar ceo between er finger and thumb Wells elis la is still proclaiming his theory that all na- na nations na nations pouring pouring- together in one great Intermingling will vill become friends Many people seem to think that It If you mix several hey hey- beverages bev beverages ages ct-ages each good In Itself lf you'll got get a beverage better and more inspiring than thon any anyone one of oC o Its parts But this lant isn't always the tho case c AS All a II first step towar toward 1 promotIng Ine lag Ing friendship between the Unit Unit- United United ed eo States and England EnGlan 1 Id I'd liko like to see sec each cach country emphasize Its own native peculiarities I believe In eccentricity You cant can't establish lish ish real rent friendship between Eng Eng- England Eng Eng- England England land and tho the United States by tring to find resemblances You may may establish It by recognizing dIfferences As a matter or of o tact fact the two countries are founded on very err different theories of gov- gov government government gov government and the two nations are aro areo arcHO HO o different that If It only people would recognize the fact tact they would learn much from from each other For lor ono thing Americans do 10 donot donot not Worship money rooney while Eng Eng- look bolt upon money in III a II SU su- su su reverence BO so much so RO that they wont won't tall talk about it ICo Not ot long since Ince It was waa considered prop prop- proper proper er in tn England to admit that you OU knew tho the amount ot of your our Income I I Chesterton intimated that the tho world would be better elter oft off If It peo pee people pie pic stopped traveling over It 11 so much settled down in their own and learned d to take a pride in their own Institutions hOtT C TO 10 J T England isn't going to love or understand America any petter etter because some ot of Ili bright lights tights have hate been transplant transplant- transplant d d to he said It Is 1 true the tho Americanization or of Lon Lon- London Lon Lon- London London don has hos begun and ant It Is largely the fault tault of ot English shop hop and hotel keepers who cater to Amer Amer- AmerIcan American ican taste instead of ot Insisting on onI I English customs custom's I condemn tile the English hotel keeper who Installs central heating Tho The Chesterton office was pleasantly chilly chUly and the Chesterton hands like liko Ice Ice- ice as as as UI I pity the American plutoCrat who tries to Install rid rid- rid riding tog ing to hounds Many English people hurter lurler acutely In over heated American rooms But there is excuse tor fot your central heating because you OU have a murderous climate The rain and tog fog of ot a London winter night drew nearer to hear his next nest words It J you OU see sec me smashIng windows window in an Amen Ameri Americanized London hotel dont don't report i me as anti-American anti int not My 1 window smashing willbo willbe will bo be Lio merely a patriotic demonstration lon lion tion |