Show THE NEW YORK OF TODAY A city made blade op up of f nationalities fr from almost every pert part of the world 0 people talk about the value of foreign travel in broadening the mind and correcting th that at tone of provincialism which need to be more common tn in thie this country than it is now low what they sa say 7 Is all very true but no one seems to realize that right here in new york a man may travel among ny foreign peoples peo and by so doing rah ay acquire that cosmopolitan outlook aich should distinguish the modern man of t the world there are for instance tift localities in the cart east ride side which are ae C an any modera modem community C can be n brew papers are exposed for sale on the ld filipps with itea bric t is u una abrew ama tto wa bounce the price prices for coffee and cakes or what not in the most approved modern hebrew A hebrew playhouse presents prea enta hebrew dramas hi L the hebrew tongue everywhere around you are he evidences of semitic life and an you behold the stra strange manners and customs of these people in no modified by tion it is bard hard to believe that you yon are in new york at all and not la in some foreign ghetto which maybe you will spend a good deal of time and money some day to visit tho the game same thing Is largely true of many other nationalities and races to be found in new york about which the self cieus now new york provincial is frankly and contemptuously ignorant there are a r indeed frequent general references to these alien people as being in some someway way a menace to our civilization their shortcomings especially the tact fact that they do not at once become anglo saxon S ixon americana americans are often dwelt on by eloquent preachers and speakers speaker dat but while new yorkers are am quick to discern the duty of the alien tg new york they do not always realize the duty of the new now yorker to the alien within his ids gates they take no pains to get into sympathy with him to understand his point of view or to help him to a truer appreciation of his duty and obligation doubtless he is at fault in segregating himself in an alien colony and in perpetuating the traditions and prejudices of his native land but on the other band hand new Y yorker are an also at fault when they help to t 0 continue z this state of affairs by keeping aloof go from the foreigner by refusing to learn anything about him hira and by making no effort to bring him into right relations with our civic life moot most of us fail fall to realize that new york today is to not a snug little community of english and dutch people homogeneous in thought and habit bat but a great polyglot metro metropolis polls in which no element of character and no strain of blood however humble can be safely I 1 ig g nored new yorkers are justly proud of the in interest they take in every corner of the globe where men live and d think and act mt Is it not high time for them to pay some attention to their own city of whose present condition and future destiny many of them are so woefully ignorant new york tribune |