INTERNATIONAL ROMANCE

If the government of the United States is going to keep foot-free of embarrassing international entanglements, it must look to its motion pictures. Although natives may continue calmly to chew their gum while the man from the Eastern college goes west and beats up fifteen "bad men," foreign countries are growing weary of being misrepresented. Already preliminary protests have arrived.

Mr.H. Glynn-Ward, in the Literary Digest's International book Review, has put Canada's ease. Canada is, not a land of eternal snows inhabited solely by vicious French Canadians, officers of the Royal Northwest Mounted always in summer costume, and decrepit log cabins, Transportation, He asserts, is provided for a large number of automobiles and a network of very fair railroads. Eskinio dog teams, while still employed in the outlying, districts, are no longer the only means of communication between Toronto and Montreal. And it does not snow all year round.

Senor Enrico Blanco, of the University of Wisconsin, takes, up the cudgels in behalf of Spain. Not all inhabitants of the country of Cervantes and Charles the Fifth are desperate villains with knives under their cloaks, and "Carramba!" in their teeth. Furthermore, there are Spaniards who are not swarthy, and a great many who are not pirates.

Altogether, Mr. Glynn-Ward and Senor Blanco make out a strong case against the commonplace stereotypes of modern romances. If some patriot American critic would only file a protest against the poor-but-honest serving girl and the white-haired general of industry who invariably appears in the middle of the morning in full dress, the indictment would be complete.