Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 286, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1929 — Page 11

APRIL 19, 1929

CHESTERTON IS LOUD IN PRAISE OF MID-WEST Villages of Central Area Are Labeled ‘The Real America.’ BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Writer LONDON April 13.—“ America Is, n for good and evil, a very backward country.” It was Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Fn able poet, good novelist, fine bi' grapher and one of the best es-

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sajistj; now writing, who made that remark. One went to see “G. K. C.” prepared to do battle with him about his above statement. America, backward? America, with its astounding level of comfort and prosperity for the great mass of its citizeas. with its tremendous material and scientific progress, with its schools, universities, hospitals, endowed institutes of research? But “G. K. C.,” with his great mass of tousled Iron gray hair, his comfortable old clothes, his disarming smile, his gray e; es twinkling behind his glasses, cried “Kamerad" right at the start. “To say that America is backward,” he said, “is really a compliment to your country, in the present state of so-called civilized society. “I was over in America in 1321 on a long lecturing tour and when I speak of the real America I do not mean your feverish sophisti-

rated big cities, but the quiet villages and hamlets of your unsophisticated and nitre or less innocent middle west. The middle west is a region where the modem poison lias not penetrated—it is so large, so remote, so self-contained. England is a smaller country and the poison has penetrated nearly everywhere. “The middle west has the old normal virtues—stout religious beliefs, respect for the family circle and neighborliness, reverence of the children for the parents, helpfulness of brothers 'o sisters. I should say this America was the least of the Gadarene Swine. “The middle west American, particular!’/ of Anglo-Saxon stock, has these ideas of our 1820 Englishman. He says: ‘Work and lie thrifty and work will do you justice.’ “The middle westerner still believes in that most natural and most noble of human hopes and ideals —democracy, or the equality of men.

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He inherits these things from the American and French leaders and thinkers of the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson and Condorcet among others. “They held that the republic was virtue. They had no use for luxury- Dandified courtiers of kings had luxury, but free men lived a plain life.” REVIVAL GOERS STINGY Average Donation at Meetings Only 11 Cents, Bu United Press BOSTON, April 19.—What the average person contributes when the hat is passed has been revealed here. During a three-week revival conducted by Evangelist Gipsy Smith, the following coins were donated: half dollars, 5,660; quarters# 36,010; dimes, 47,800; nickels, 68,820; pennies, 30,500. The average contribution was 11 cents.

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