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THE DALLAS EXPRESS DALLAS TEXAS SATURDAY OCTOBER 4 1919.
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SATURDAY OCTOBER 4 1919.
l ABOtt OUtl ASIZATI05S.
Ubor unions and confederations
were one hailed as the Saviour of
the laboring man. These institutions
proceeded to direct tbclr. em-rgy to
hotter the condition not of labor
tmt of a certain class of laborer.
The Negro laborer wan not among
that class. These organizations are
rapidly becoming a menace not
only to the progress of the Negro
race but to that of civilization itself.
This must be the ultimate fate of all
institution that permit discrimina-
tion to sit as a counselor in their
deliberations. Even great democracy
itself can not hope to endure the
destruction of time if discrimination
Is allowed to sit in its councils.
The steel strike in America and
the railroad strike in England will
expose to the world the utter selfish-
ness of these labor organizations.
The game plrlt that prompted lab-
or organizations to discriminate
against the Negro will when fully
j.innivi oiiua ihpm ti d I ncrimlnate
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in their own behalf agajnst the In-
terest of the remainder of the civil-
ized world. The spirit of discrimi-
nations and selflnhnoss which was
not molested in it early stages has
now so grown that It threatens to
dentroy the very existence of or-
ganized society Verily the spirit
which prompts racial discrimination
and permits lynchlngs should be
throttled in. its infancy if Western
civilization hopes to perpetuate its
existence.
-LET IS FA.CE THE FACTS."
IjiBt week we quoted and comment-
ed editorially on an article that ap-
peared some time ago In a St. Louis
turner tolling what the Negro wants.
The article was written by Dr. Km-
mett J. Scott. Secretary -Treasurer
of Howard University .Washington
r n We conul "ered it a temperate
lucid and concise statement of those
things which our people deem neces-
sary to make them contended citi-
zens. We also quoted lust week in
our Mirror of Public Opinion the
following article from the Houtliern
Vr.;kman by Isaac fisher. It is
so full of truth that we reprint It
here to emphnslze it and to give
it wider publicity. He says:
"If the Negro secures the adoption
of bis maximum program of prepress
it will be when and because public
opinion adopts it for him. It a city
In the South or in the North makes
life more cheerful ! .peful for
the Negro It la because tht public
opinion of that place demands it;
1f a State gives better protection to
the Negro than heretofore it will
le when and because public opin-
ion demands It; if mob rule is sup-
erseded by the etgn of law .t will
be Tiber . lid because public opinion
decrees'' if the highest privileges
f manhood in this country tre giv-
en -jo vie Negro it will be when the
public opinion of the nation decides
that it must be so. Legr uiures.
Congress municipal and public ser-
vice irporation are but instruments
of tr - public will moving wheu and
as i.-.Mlc opinion commands. Tbe
case ti the American Negro then
must bt i.Udod be'ore the bar of
public opinion in S' i South In the
North ' th.i East In tbe West It
must I' pleaded first of all by the
life of uie Negro; by his patriotism;
ly Yu economic intelltHial and
itic J cotribut'ona to American life;
" V clrc:iispect conduct; by a patience
trtilch must -at last put injustice
nnd cnMe to shame. And the with
these a1? the hac'. -ground the N gro's
c(.ie must be vended by the writ-
ten and oral word from his own ract
and from those of the white i ce
who may be Inclined to help him
pleaded In season Rnd out of season
before the conscience and the intel-
1 f nee o.' the American people."
t in quite obvious that this writer
has & clea- vision as well as gi?at
wisdom. He -points the way. and In
our ccinlon the only way by which
our complaints aud grievances in this
Country may be finally cured. Dr.
Scott out of hla wide experienc and
close observation ably stated the
ense; here is tho long rugged road
by which the remedy is to be appli&i
jmd the cure accomplished.
Wg fall to pay the necessary at-
1nU"n to how fashions are stand-
ardized. Universal adoption .made
"Krij-llsh" clothes the correct dress
for men. In tbla ae of high prices
we would set down as a hero the
m;in v. ho could fashion a neat look-
ing overall dress suit and a "hroRan"
bo;' on the regular last which would
r.ot rise in price because of their
isimpes ami r?le. We would gnar-
v.hik e tba.'' buome the fa.sh-
iisn i t-ii'I ily.
.i t a man govern himself in big
veil fin in little things and he
1 t.c b;ip y on raw clams and
i. r; but take away from him a
. . !' h'.f ' government nnd feed
f ii r-"l fu for k:iii:s and dress
i in ssB.i-n raiment nnd you
1 i r:.Me o relieve his diseon-
A !"(' I'l the government 1k
. i !;! ion in thi happi-
(' ii!" SiiiiMf'i I t;.iiy. Tie Nt-
;.. !rvi:li to l. a member of
THE MONSTER.
I am a huge monster the chief disturber and mis-
chief maker among the nations of the earth. I hate
TEACE and love TURMOIL. I have been in every war
since the world began and worked on every battlefield I
made them fierce. HATE is my twin brother and JEAL-
OUS Y is my elder sister. We with the aid of GREED
and MIGHT threw the whole world into relentless heart-
less war; we made it the bitterest bloodiest conflict in all
history. I am particularly proud of that job it caused
so much misery nnd suffering; besides it showed my pow-
er and my control over the affairs and destinies of men
when I can get a little assistance. GREED MALICE and
MIGHT are my chief allies I glory in them. I dwell in the
hearts of men every where in palace and hovel in church
and state. Some' men try to avoid me others will not
I have sat at evqry peace table since war began; it is there
that I get in some of my best work and fix things my way
for years to come. I recently sat at Versailles with the
rulers of the earth; I was at every meeting. I influenced
the final covenant drawn up there; I am still at work on
that job in all the capitals of the world in press and on
platform. I am on every side of every question wherein the
relation of race to race is involved save on the sides of
RIGHT and JUSTICE I often taint JUSTICE.
I influence EDUCATION and RELIGION even though
they are my most dangerous and deadly foes. I hate them.
For centuries they have sought to drive me from the face
of the earth but I am firmly entrenched men pay them
little heed and my onward march is but slightly retarded.
I know no race or nation Jew and Gentile Christian and
Pagan all embrace me. I intensely hate the Sermon on
the Mount I do all within my power to keep it out of the
ears and the hearts of men. I hate the Humble Nazarene
who gave it utterance. I was at His trial and fomented
and influenced the mob against Him. I assisted in His
crucifixion. I do not believe in the Fatherhood of God
and the Brotherhood of Man; I blind the eyes of men and
give them hearts of stone that they may be in accord with
me. I defy the Golden Rule little heed give I the Ten
Commandments. I have persecuted the . Jews in Russia
since time immemorial I caused the Turks to massacre
thousands of Armenians defenseless men women and
children. I hold ten million Negroes back in enlightened
U. S. AM I curtail their rights and deny them justice almost
everywhere.
I incite race riots gather mobs and encourage lynch-
ings I give them force and make them cruel and heartless.
I coined the words "sheeney" "dago" "chink" and "nig-
ger." I defy the laws of God and man. I am the instru-
ment of the Devil I was conceived in Hell I AM RACE
PREJUDICE! -
The following item by the Associated Negro Press shows
a thoughtlessness of our people in that section of Georgia which
in its consequences is criminal.
Athens Ga.r Oct. 2. Negroes at a mass meeting
near Lexington Ga. have passed resolutions endorsing
the action of whites in lynching Obe Cox Negro ac-
cused of attacking and murdering the wife of a white
farmer. At the time of the crime the Negro was under
indictment for an attack upon a Negro woman. He is
said to have confessed both crimes. '
There is no reason why lynching in any form of any man
for any offense should be even condoned and to endorse such a
proceedure seems to us the height of the ridiculous. "
We spend countless hours of labor and thought and strive
in action and utterance continually to impress upon the minds
of those in power who are clean of heart and unbiased in actions
the necessity for the abolition of this evil the scourge of Ameri-
ca. And to find some of our own who suffer most from this
evil endorsing it is almost unbelievable.
We do not want lawlessness. We want . above all things
that tht Law should prevail in every case. There never has
been and never will be a time when men by endorsing such
brutality and disregard for law can do other than undermine the
foundations of civilized government.
We realize that this man was a criminal of the basest sort
and we have no excuse to make for any criminal black or
white. Ve do know however that there is a law for such
criminals. We do know that our judges and juries are chosen
and maintained for just such characters as this. Why not
rather allow them to exercise their offices? We blush for men
who are so thoughtless.
In such a time as this the Race n t only needs but must
have men who by their every act and utterance cry out against
lawlesp' ess. Every influer :e must be brought to bear in oruer
that Public Opinion which makes or renders useless every sys-
tem for masses of people shall turn against lawlessness of the
mob and forte men back to the paths of dignity an order.
Tu?re must be no tore such thouv.tless: ess. It is as criminal
as th r action of that lynch i ig party. All Negro men must help.
But if any Negro feels that in his lack of confidence in himself
he cannot help for the love of ten millions who do not think ai
he does let him keep his mouth shut and refuse to hinder.
THE .MORAL PROGRESS OF THE IUCF
It would nv'lre little argument to convince a fa r iiinded person that
the moral development of the Negro race has not kept i ace wit his men-
tal a'.id material progress' i t must also be conceded That UtC' i ffort has
been shown by Negro leaden to stress the absolute necessity of this phase
cf n'.ce development. A careful diagnosis of racial troubles will show that
thc)c race clashes for which the Negro is responsible can be 'i;ced either
directly or indirectly to alleged moral depravity on the part of some ofTend-
Ing member the race. It is an unwritten law that a people must r'se in the
moral scale In direct proportion as their liberty and freedom cf conduct
Increases. When every man Is permitted to pursue the course of behavior
most dosirable to himself so long hs he does not intrude upon the rights
of hla fellow man Y' becomes morally responsible for his behavior. We
do not hesitate to suggest that it is perhaps due to the Negro's moral
status fir inore than to his mental capacity that he is classed as an Infer-
ior In the human family. .'.' '
Furthermore this same moral depravity Is the only tenable argument
that can be produced against the assimilation cf the Negro Into American
2ife. It Is not our purpose to discuss the merits or demerits of this claim
against the Negro. We do hold however "that If it were true It was a;
grievous fault and grievusly has he answered it" . .
This charge has aroused greater enmity against the Necro than centur-
ies of Industrial effort will be able to efface. Let us inaugurate a general
moral house cleaning. We suggest this not because we find fault with
tli vork of the church but because we feel that the able assistance of every
organised Institution among our 'people Is required to accomplish the work
ao much needed to be done. . Immorality and dissipation are making serious j
Inroads upon the h-.-alth cnerj-y and progress of our people. This condition
iiHist.be Improved Immediately or dire results will threaten our very exis-
t0 j
I
M0 VIOLEN'CE.
Again America is shocked and humiliated by the activities of the mob.
This time one of her fair western cities Omaha has her othorwise untar-
nished reputation shroud rt in shame. '
Even if it be conceded that the provocation was great yet the utter dis-
reKard of this mob for constituted fcUthority and public property. Is a
fact that shakes organize society to the very depth of its foundation. '
The rapid increase in tbe number .and violence of mobs fn this country
Is such ns to cause the gravest concern. Those who thik the mob will con-
fine its activities to Negro victims only delude themselves. Mob violence Is
not otily g form of anarchy but Is highly contagious. Eventually it will
: respect neither color nor station in life.
j The very nature of such crimes render the local authorities incompetent
: to deal successfully with them since they are regarded generally as an
outburst of public indignation. Such being; the case the members of these
mobs are comparatively immune from prosecution. Even if mob violence con-
' fined its activities to the punishment of criminals knbwn to be guilty or
even supposed to be guilty it could not be tolerated but it might be understood.
iThls however. Is never the case. Numbers of innocent persons are swept
j into eternity and thousands of dollars worth of valuable property wantonly
destroyed for no cause other than to satiate the desire of the mob for blood
' and destruction. If America be nnable to "rid herself of this scourge and
' protect her citizens against such repeated outrages upon any class of them
the future of this grand Republic can be predicted without the assistance
i of the astrologer. ' '
( THE IMPROVED ATTITIDK OF THE PRESS TOWARD THE
; KEGBO RACE.
The present acute form the race question has assumed presents a
condition that requires great diplomacy on the part of those who assist ma-
terlally in the formation of public opinion.
' To what extent the press is responsible for the present high tension
between the two races is difficult to say. Generally however it is conceded
j that both the white and Negro presses have contributed very largely to this
.condition. It is a fact worthy of remark that the leading newspapers and
magazines have assumed a more friendly attitude toward the Negro race.
They have one and all declared in no uncertain terms against mob-violence.
many have gone so far as to assert that race discdiminatlon and oppression
I is not only undemocratic but contrary to both the letter and spirit of Ameri-
jcan institutions and traditions.
This has for a number of years been the doctrine advanced by the
most learned writers on economic and social conditions in America.
The following is an extract from a treatise on sociology compiled by Pro-
fessor Wolf of Texas University. It is a fine sample of the wholesome
attitude assumed by such writers both North and South. Professor Wolf
says: "It is no small thing that the illiteracy of the Negro males of voting
age has been reduced in tbe Southern States from 88 per cent in 1870 to
37.2 per cent In 1910; and yet it is only when we turn to the more Inti-
mate victories here and there of individual men and women that we get the
full measure of the Negro's promise. Nor would I be disposed to seek
that promise In the rare and exceptional attainments of genius. Neither in
the marked reduction of the illiteracy of the masses nor in the marked dis-
tinction of such artists as Tanner or Dunbar or such leaders as Washing-
ton Grant and .Walker can we seek the sure evidences of peoples's es-
sential progress. All promise and all attainment are worth while but tbe
only adequate measure of social efficiency and the only ultimate test of es-
sential racial progress lies' in the capacity to create the home; and it is
In the successful achievement of tbe idea and the institution of the family
as accepted and honored under the conditions of western civilization that
we are to seek th$ real criterion of Negro progress.
For the very reason that the test is so severe and yet so instinctively
American the weaknesses of the race will seem conspicuous and formid-
able. American society as a whole stands not unscathed in the white light
of its own ideal. The heritage of the Negro his heritage from slavery and
from thg darker age. which preceded slavery has given him but small
equipment for the achievement of this task. And yet the Negro's home
exists. Tbat its existence is in many
gro life often proceeds upon its way
partly non-moral of our accepted
And yet those who would observe broadly and closely will find a patiently
and persistency increasing number of true families and real homes a
number far in excess of the popular estimate homes in which with intel-
ligence probity industry and an admirable simplicity the man and the
woman are creating our fundamental institution. Scores of such homes
In some cases hundreds in numbers of our American communities exist
for those who will try to find them and will try sympathetically to know
them. But one of the tragic elements of our situation lies in the fact
that of this most honorable and most hopeful aspect of Negro life the
white comrnunity north or south knows practically nothing. Of the des
tructive factors in Negro life the white community hears to the uttermost
hears through the press and the police court; of the constructive factors of
Negro progress the school the saner Negro church ' the Negro home
the white community is in Ignorance.
Negro problem it may know more
the Negro; but it can not know the
Continuing the discussion the
issues for which men upon either
But for strong men it is sometimes easier to die than to wait. The need
of the present is not martyrdom with all of its touching and tragic splen-
dor but just a little patience. Human nature everywhere Is essentially
the same. No movement of our human life can long support its own mo-
mentum or conserve its own integrity if it assume an irrational or un-
righteous form. Political inequalities will not endure. With time with rea
son with patience the moral forces
which all the enactments and threatening of the nation can delay but can
not produce an equitable public temper with which imperfect laws are
just and without which Utopia itself would be but an Institutional futility.
God has left no corner of the world without 'certain of the resident forces
of self-correctiou."
WHAT THE
The Following points taken from Isaac Fisher's Christian
Justice and the Negro in the Southern Workman
make a program well worth keeping before us.
1. Provide educational opportunity for Negro children
equal to those given to the most favored race.
2. Enfranchise all Negroes who qualify for the exer
cise of suffrage.
3. Give justice to Negroes in the courts.
4. Protect the Negro from burning at the stake lynch-
ings and other tortures inflcted by mob3.
5. -Open all doors of industrial opportunity to Negro
citizens.
6K Give protection of law . to Colored women.
7. Abolish the iniq-iity and injustice of the "Jim Crow
cars.
8. Extend all welfare movements to whites and Negroes
. alike. -' ' '
9. Let the Government of the United States abandon
every regulation which segregates the Colored em-
ployes of its various departments from oth"r employes
on the ground rf race.
10. Remove every distinction of every kind whatsoever
on grounds cf race to be found in the laws of any of the
several states of the Union.
It has been a -source of much pleas- It would be well worth while for
ure with which we have from time I more of us to realize that to differ
to time noted the clear and concise ' with our fellows on a political ' is-
manner in which the greivances of sue or a business question does not
the race had been set forth by our i
been glven o suggestm ciear and
definite means of bringing about a
Permanent aajustment or tnose grei
vances. The case has been well
diagnosed; now the treatment neces-
sary for a cure. i
"Variety is the spice of life." Vary
your program a little this week and
j go to church Sunday morning. Your
pastor will be glad to see you and
your self-respect will be Increased.
11 19 not ood Policy to continually
neglect the institution which has
been responsible for the honesty and
uprightness which you expect to find
in your follow man.
Exercise Is good for all things
which are expected to grow. Money
is no exception to the rule. A re-
serve bank ar.inint is necessary. But
all of your dollars which the ordi-
nary emergency will not call for
ought to be at work. Invest them
in a sound enterprise and beside
having it t grow you will be given
other one oher re'ason for helping
gome entbiilse to success.
cases but a naive pretense that Ne
with a disregard partly Immoral
marital conditions is evident enough.
Until it does know this aspect of our
or less accurately many things about
Negro."
author says: "The situation presents
side have often been willing to die
of the south can accomplish something
NEGRO WANTS.
make him or us a person to be dis-
ion should never be allowed to
spoil a friendship.
We understand that United States
Is again to be visited by Influenza.
It is worth while for all of us to re-
member that regular eating ven-
tilated sleeping rooms and as far
as possible the prevention of colds
will save many dollars In under-
takers bllU
It does not show much common
sense when a man with wood or
coal stoves in his home waits till
tbe first cold snap to start to lay
in his winter's supply. Cold wither
is as suro to come in Texas as rivers
are to run.
In a world where "money is pow-
er" it is a poor sort of man who
does not try to store some "power"
for the emergency which is sure to
come.
A self respecting needy man will
appreciate a good Ji-h more than a
dollar. -.'".."
THE MIRROR OF
PUBLIC OPINION
MOB LAW COMUJG HOME TO
BOOST.
The tentacles of the hydra-headed
monster of mob law have shown
themselves in the last week in two
new and vitally dangerous directions.
Every American black as well as
white who loves the fair name of
bis country must stand shocked
and ashamed at tbe news that comes
from Japan as well as Georgia. Dis-
patches from the Orient declare that
the Japanese papers are lashing the
Japanese into an anti-American fury
on the score of the inhuman treat-
ment accord black Americans by their
white fellow citizens. They are mak-
ing the most of the "Washington and
Chicago race riots telling the people
of Japan. "That theBe bloody street
battles of hundreds of thousands' of
whites against the blacks picture
plainly the status of the American
people and the ferocity of their prej-
udice against .Colored peoples." Sure-
ly no more ominous shadow has fall-
en athwart America's pathway than
this ugly menace of the hostility of
the yellow races. Should this anti-
American propaganda take deep root
and gain momentum among the hun-
dreds of millions of the yellow races
in the Orient the dire possibilities
of Its consequences In a world race
war would be too drearuui to con-
template. Yet this Is the next world
tragedy which this agitation made
nosaible bv the increasing mob law
nf America nortends. It is the log!
cal' conclusion of the campaigns of
the professional race haters against
the black and yellow peoples car-
ried on in Congress and throughout
the nation but especially in the South
and1 far West. This floodgate of im-
pending trouble the present Admin-
istration at Washington has opened
by giving ear tacit approval and
political preferment to the dema-
gogues and half baked Socialists of
the nation. It has released the forces
of discontent and discord which are
sowing the wind but unless brought
up short by the next Administration
may reap the whirlwind. When they
provoke the proud children of the
Land of the Rising Sun they put on
this nation's hand problems which
may rock it for generations for so -
lution. In allowing mob law to go
on unchecked by the strong right
arm of the nation in failing to de-
clare that the preachers and prac-
ticers of race persecution are trai-
tors and enemies to the Republlo
Congress is allowing the small boy
to enter the powder magazine with
matches.
But serious as is this foreign
phase of American race prejudice
and mob law their direct effect upon
the nation from within is now begin-
ning to be seen. We have long said
that it was but a step from tbe lyn-
ching of a black man to the lynch-
ing of a white man and general
anarchy. Among the - manifold In-
stances of mob law nojQ has more
clearly pointed this out than the
whipping of two white women In
Georgia last week. The New York
Evening Mall sums up the situation
when In Its Friday Issue it said:
"WMppimir Women
The extent to which the bacillus
of mob rule will spread once it has
found secure lodgement in the spirit-
ual system of a community is Indi-
cated by the whipping of women In
Macon Ga. Mobs in Georgia as in
other Southern States have so long
been In the habit of maltreating if
not killing human being by the most
revolting torture that the color line
has become faint in such lawless en-
terprises. This time it is not Col-
ored persons who are the victims of
mob violence but white persons and
white women.
These women were whipped be-
cause textile workers on strike re-
sented their continuance at their
Jobs.
'The subjection of women to per-
sonal violence is a demonstration of
barbarism that rouses the indigna-
tion of evei-y red-blooded man. But
the whipping of women even white
women ceases to shock individuals
who have grown accustomed to the
whipping torturing and burning of
men.'
Tliese are the chickens of mob law
against tho blacK man coming home
to the American people to roost The
lessening cr the bonds of clvi.lza-
tion in the Boston police strike in
the Macon textile strike whipping
in the Washington and Chicago ra e
riots has come down as the dirtct
descendent of Southern mob law
and race disfranchisement which
made possible the present Adminis-
tration. Congress must stop' mob law
now if It would preserve the Repub-
lic. The New York News.
WHOLE WORLD IS 1HTJT1N0CS.
Is the Human Race Going on the
Rocks!
One-half of the world is ablsze the
thai h-af tmnlrlm-tp tr TIia Wnt
other half smoldering. The half cap-
able of saving the property already
on fire is Just now overoccupled
cnecKtng the spread of the confla-
gration to its own home buildings.
A "sauve qui peut" spirit is at
present the dominant incentive to
most human action.
For humanity is only just emer
ging somewhat fearfully somewhat
recklessly from the shadow of a
great crime. The dawn of peace is
obscured in the cloud rock that fol-
lows the wake of the jrar tempest
For the time being the tendency
of social forces is toward discord
and disintegration. Almost every
newspaper dispatch " foreign and
domestic affords evidence of this
uanserous irena. .cngiana. France
Germany Redivivus. the three balance
wheels of Europe are running cut
dangerous trend. England France
of true.
Our people at home ' are fretting
under new laws and new obligations;
restless and irritated I hey are turn-
ing away from the widom of the
ages. Ther e psychological causes are
manifest in violent disturbances. The
whole world is mutinous.
Los Angeles has just been etirred
to horror and indignation by a cow-
ardly and cruel outrage. Everyone
abominates the crime itself. Yet
is but an extreme result of the gen-
eral revolt against the restraint of
obligation to others. You can not
weaken the law of obligation in small
things and expect to enforce It In
great ones.
Chicago is counting Its dead and
Injured and figuring the damage bill
after a week of riot that apparently
started from nothing and ended in
nothing. Yet it had a lesson for
school children and statesmen. It
demonstrated plainly the demorali-
zing example of the rage for pen-
saUon among the "higher-ups" on
those who are ignorant and prone to
lawlessness.
The selfish Individual drives his
hlghpower motof at break-neck
speed along the public highway. The
radical labor-unionist calls a strike
to bring himself Into spectacular
prominence. The sordid profiteer
bleeds the consumer for the sheer
ecstacy of displaying his utter con
tempt for public opinion 'ine use-
less fat commissioner in California
sits tight in his easy chair and laughs
at the effort of the overburdened
taxpayer to dislodge him. The anar-
chist lies low in his cellar and would
unseat . the mighty with a bomb.
The same perilous spirit in a vary-
ing degree animates all these de-
fiers of society. Nothing Is more de-
structive to the State than the "publio
be-damned" spirit All those who de-
light in shocking their neighbors
who glory in their improprieties play
Into the hands of the lawless. The
wild girl who Immodestly exposes
what she considers her natural
j charms on a public water front the
j wild man who secretly cherishes a
hatred for his supposed wrongs
against all happy people are both
figures on the same crazy patch-
work. From bareness to bomb-throwing
there are many degrees of lati-
tude but the gulf stream flows from '
the equator to the Arctic.
In such sporadic outbreaks as the
Winnipeg revolt the Chicago riots
the promiscuous bomb-throwing at
leading citizens in the United States
the Saturnalia of tbe dregs of the
I human race in un-policed Liverpool
(the general strike situation that
I threatens to paralyze England we
the economic peril that springs
1 frm this -general world spirit of
unrest dissatisfaction and dislike
tor H former restraints. As the
st living goes up the price of
l"e Se down. The same spirit
i Permeates not only popular tastes
bl't popular decencies and mor-
als.
Los Angeles stands higher among
the cities of the world. Our citi-
zenship has been built up of the
best materials. Yet i our own
city the other day twenty-eight di-
vorce suits were filed as against
twenty-five marriage licenses issued.
Such figures hardly need comment;
they speak for themselves. But when
the lust for divorce has exceeded the
love of marriage even in so highly
respected a community as Los An-
gelesand when such a breakdown
of man's holiest institution can be
passed over without a ripple of com-
mentmust we not admit that the
"public-be-damned" spirit of these
near-piece days is Jeopardizing some-
thing even more vital than the liber-
ty of the American people the sanc-
tity of the Anierican home!
About this let us make no mis-
take. We can perpetuate tho Jazz
rage for disobedience to all recog-
nized standards that has arrived as
a protest against the restrictions of
war at the risk of the whole future
of tte human race supposing it pos-
sible for a short period of anger to
become chronic. The most explosive
Plan however that ever lived has
not given way to a fit of active rage
tor more than ten minutes at a
stretch The same law applies to Na-
tional displays of temper.
Jazz Is not music. It is the rebel-
lion against the orderly laws of har-
mony. The shlmmie is not a dance
It is the attempt of vulgar minds to
sensualize an innocent pleasure Di-
vorce is not natural nor pleasant for
normal minds to contemplate. Under
ir! !!mCe 90 W cent of People
are still normal.
But the horrors of the vilest war
hi tel0n 8urferlns humanity
" Aried'ae worId' l to the
limit of endurance. The reaction has
been violent Human nature is pac-
ing through a spasm of prot st
ELT rJ?" !ind efavagenc-8 a'd
immodesty and Jazz music and shlm-
mie dances are a seething wash of
Bt the spasm win noTturn
ra woi'" D8- The who human
IMoT mt to it8 -
t Is humanity going in the rocks
It seems to be-the margin of safely
at times appears to be cut down to
a recklessly-fine lineT The sWp
passmg thrown stormy seas steer!
"hi r'eX T CWV tfto
the reefs. And malcontents in the
pa7eThmhfr PerilB 111 8s?oric
past The human race will never
would. There 1 11
gaping our ends. NeUneTthelaws
of men or the Uwo r "f mwB
mlt the fury of "the moment to p
beyond the limit ?.M8
' trcton 8411 chaos
1 Iyu
Lot Angeles Times.
J?? .r! maklnS 8om shocking
misUkes these days. The KnoxvWe
case wherein the mob missed the
ai ' "i after and released sev-
eral convicted murderers and drank
up a Jot of confiscated booze was
rotten. The Pueblo mob ttat
the wrong pair of Mexicans Saturday
night and hung them did about all
on . V0 JUt lts PUcular se"
rlma int the Cl"8 that
every standpoint wrn T .
Persions o MexYcan band.1
Bolshevik! wltS T "JJSJ "
as long as America is disgraced hr
shoufd by- A 8001 Americans
can Z CVe!7 blt of ence they
can to bring about a more sober and
tolerant attitude to this land.
Dallas Dispatch.
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