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Show I BROADENING THE AMERICAN, American boys entering into the war are gaining an education and are being broadened. That is tho view taken by the editor of the Butte Miner, after reading letters from western young men who have landed in England and France, and the editor" makes these well considered observations: "Our boys express absorbing interest inter-est In the old historical townsand re-. re-. nowned buildings that they have been privileged to visit, both in Great Britain Brit-ain and France. "Some of their- descriptions of these famous places are, most enjoyable, even to those for whom these letters were not written. t "These accounts of some of the ancient an-cient towns in England and walled citieB of France clearly Indicate "what , a'revelation this old world has been to ) most of the boys from a youthful coun-r coun-r try like Montana. "Winston Churchill, the American author, in an article in the current number of Scribner's, although he has been a frequent visitor abroad, speaks ' of the thrill which the American in I , these days of war feels upon landing I upon the soil of Great Britain, particu-larly particu-larly when he encounters upon every Bide earnest and clean-cut young J American soldiers and sallora. f Travel long has been held to be one L of the best methods of educating the I Individual and of broadening his mind and giving him a grasp of conditions , 1 through personal contact, which it is ) Impossible for one to obtain to such ' an Intimate extent through mere read-) read-) 1 lnr k"V "These hundreds of thousands of $ , young Americans, when they return to this country, winhave replaced their t ' restricted and provincial views of life with a far better and broader knowl-edge knowl-edge of the world at large and its people. The educational advantages which this war will Impart to them '- will be very marked, and undoubtedly Surprising to their friends who have Hj , remained at home. Fighting side by side with the French and British, these H , , young Americans wiU have a clearer 1 understanding of tho characteristics Hj V$ and qualities of these people than the H average person could possibly obtain Hl f V by years o residence abroad in time ' of Deace' Comrades In arms, who face HLW death together every day for weeks H . n1 monlls' Eet toow each other as -----H I ; l,bey really are- and penetrate beneath H 1 the veneer which the ordinary individ- lVi In hIs everyday ttfe protects him- HttV ' self with against the "soul-searching Y scrutiny of his fellow-man. It is al- ready evident that the American soldiers sol-diers returning from this war win come back with a wonderfully broadened broad-ened vision and understanding that never would have been theirs had they Uved and died In their own restricted community, or even within the confines con-fines of the United States, and in this respect this experience will have been well worth while. It Is interesting to note that nearly every one of these young men, in writing to their relatives rela-tives and friends, somewhere in their letters remark that they would not have missed this experience for anything, any-thing, and although they 'expected to-find to-find much of interest, the realization has been greater -than tbetr-ntinosk expectations ex-pectations ' t -on |
