Civic Pride in America.

Progress, Volume XV, Issue 7, 1 March 1920, Page 739

Civic Pride in America.

"In the United States I found everywhere a strong feeling of civic pride, great faith in the future possibilities of the country, and tremendous activity to justify the one and to develop the other," said the city engineer, Mr. W. E. Bush, of 'Auckland to a local newspaper reporter. "In this-connection it must be remembered that the war for America lasted only long enough to stimulate the energy and will of the people, without in any .sense impairing their vitality or reducing their resources, while Great Britain and every other part of the Empire, in conjunction with her European Allies, had to sustain the strain of a severe and prolonged struggle that made tremendous demands on all their resources. In Great Britain's case ,this has (revolutionised, almost every phase of her social, political, and economic, life, a fact which has to be borne in .mind when one weighs the varying attitudes of the peoples of the countries visited if .a right judgment is to be arrived ■at."-,;':/- ' ■ - • ;■ i . ',