“LAZY NEW YORKERS.”

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1925, Page 3

“LAZY NEW YORKERS.”

an unpopular lecture. Mr Israel Zangwill caused indignation at the National Arts Club-by a violent criticism, of America. Ihe members shouted him down though afterwards the chairman, Mr How lain., apologised to Mr Zangwill and persaudeil him to finish his address. Mr Zaiißwill asserted that America possessed '' sense of shame, and louli. stand injustices. He attacked Christ,~nitv for not ending the war. cadm;! Christianity “organised Lypnc-ris.v. His address followed a speech in the town hall, when he accused Americans of being lazy and inefficient, pnrsnin,r “peppinoss instead of happiness, ami since the war engaging m an orgy of oblivion” as regards Europe s troubles. He asserted that there wore more cranks in America than in any cthei country, and went on:— “There is verv little honour, justice or dignity this country compared with Engl,.ml. The Ku Klux Klan A AV hicli we sliould call a sort ot exag- * gerated Boy Scout movement is grotesque. In England it would he laughed out of existence, but in America there is no sense of humour. “Everything is less efficient in Ame--1K“V (l u New Yorkers are lazy, and inconsequential. In general, America thinks without acting and acts without thinking. , „ “You are also vulgar. A our liiilhondollnr temples are as vulgar as your Sunday papers. Your immigration policy is a cruel muddle. ‘‘Still, you are the best half-educated people in the world,”