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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1925 Stansell Finds Europeans Misunderstand Americans Eprtor's Note: Dr. Gilbert Stansell, pastor of the Wilmette Parish Methodist church, tells in the following letter of the attitude of Europeans towards the United States. He found in all the coun- tries he visited the belief that Americans were uniformly rich, enterprising, and extremely active. Many of those he met accused us of caring more for the dollar than for our suffering fellow rien in Eu- rope. Dr. Stansell expresses the view that people in England, France, and cise- where abroad do not know the true spirit of the American home, especially as it exists in the Mississippi valley. He met individuals, regarded as well informed on the States, who had been no nearer the Golden Gate than Niagara Falls. He closes his letter with the declaration that Europe and America must, for the sake of world peace, come into a much more intimate co-operation. "It is good, oh so good, to see today the shores of North America, though not until tomorrow evening shall I cross the border in to dear old U. S. A. In all the countries it has been my great pleasure to visit--Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, England, Ireland, and Scot- land--I found the people discussing the United States of America. Many questions have been directed at me. Everywhere the people seem to think that in our country everyone is either well-to-do or rich, that everyone works under great pressure, and that our country is very ambitious. Now and then in all the countries one meets people whose diplomacy is so nearly threadbare that it becomes perfectly evident that they think our chief in- terest is the dollar. Yet others (men whom I met in the tea gardens of the International club in Paris are a sample) are mystified and asked sadly, as if disillusioned, "Can it be that the United States Government has turned its back upon us and its face towards the dollar?" Not harshly but in deep sorrow these things are said. "No, France--to be specific--is not bitter but deeply wounded in her feelings toward us," said a distinguished Amer- ican, who lives in Paris, as we sat to- gether in earnest conversation. The American traveler is dumb when confronted with many harsh facts pointed out to him, though pointed out ever so kindly. Can it be that the American press does not know all the facts centering in the international conference in which our representa- tives directly or indirectly participate ? conspiracy of silence is unthink- able. Or, must the charge stand, name- ly, that the modern man refuses to think, to rightly relate the facts of which he reads so as to see their significance ? Europeans Ignorant of America . At all events--you see I have been in London--the international tasks of our country, today and tomorrow, will tax our brain and faith as these great resources of ours have never been taxed before. To speak of our govern- ment as a "dollar government" is un- fair .and of course as unjust as it is untrue, but I am afraid it will stand until we improve the methods by which we express our Americanism. Unfortunately, Europe has not seen or felt, except in part in the awful years of war, the beauty and power of that idealism and true altruism ly- QUALITY A'YJTOMOBILE PAINTING and a guaranteed job WINNETKA AUTO PAINTING CO. E. LYLE, Prop. 562 Lincoln Avenue Rear Wersted Motor Co. Phone Winnetka 165 ing at the heart of the American home. She does not know the Mississippi valley and its strategic place in the life of our country. Some very bright, even well educated, people with whom I conversed in different parts of Europe, revealed the fact that they were unable to visualize the bigness of our country. To many of them Seattle is as near New York city as Liverpool .to London. The few who do travel 'in. America seldom get further than Niagara Falls. In Ireland I met a splendid business man who was something of a local hero be- cause he knew America. During our visit it came out that he had not got- ten nearer the Golden Gate than Pitts- burgh. Further, it should be remarked, it seems to me, that we have not been fortunate in all the Americans who have "done" Europe since the war. The school teachers, preachers, and newspaper and short story writters one meets 'here and there in Kurope taking testithony for their constituents thrill you: with pride and give you larger hope. . have no doubt the busy businéss men now plying the waters from New York to points afar are also vital factors in inter- national co-operation. Americans Act Wealthy But one is in almost all places finding Americans who evidently want to be thought of as wealthy. It is usually the same group that drink liquor and get themselves quoted in the Paris edi- tion of the New York Herald and Chicago Tribune to the effect that prohibition is a failure in the United States and that beer and wine will come back. Of course there is a good side to this, for it gives the rest of us who travel the opportunity to put people right on the temperance found- ation of the people of the United States and its direct relation to their prosperity. Speaking of Europe as a whole-- and I am optimistic enough to do this-- I do not think she understands us. I do not believe she will understand us until we as individual citizens and the government at Washington find better ways with which to express the heart of America. I believe she wants to admire us and love us. And I believe, too, that mutual understanding and detailed co-operation between Kurope and America are both vital and impera- tive for the peace of the world. Miss Dorothy Wood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George S. Wood of 979 Vine street, returned recently from Bluff lake, Wis., where she enjoyed a stay as a guest of Miss Dorothy DePau. a It is an electrical age and to live up to your opportuni- ties you must take full ad- vantage of electrical assist- ance. --Myr. Electro-serve. LECTRICITY is help- ing folks to move about and live in comfort in every nook and corner of the world. 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