Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 285, 11 November 1915 — Page 14
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THE K1UHMONU PALLAJJ1UJS1 AND SUW-TWIiUfiw, imuouai,UV. 11, 1915
ItlFF 800 W BOSOMS OF ACIEKICM PEOPLE FOR HUME SEfJTirJEfJT ,. , . BY EDGAR ILIPIV I mater. Here individuals of all races are
The natural law ot absorption has m'ted ,nj few race of men, whose
been the primal cause of the rise of
great nation's. The most distinguished and powerful people have been of mixed races and commingling blood. The "melting pot," Into which all the races of the earth have poured their virility, has been the builder of the greatest powers. From this seething caldron has arisen one spirit. A great race arises with one common sentiment and we call it nationality. -This spirit, call it what we -may, performed marvels in the building of ancient, monarchies, in the spread of the Roman empire, in the rise of the i English people from a state of semii barbarism. It is slowly and surely ! building a vast nation now in the name of the American. Contrasts Produce Power. It has become an axiom among historians like Rawlinson that a unm of various races, between whom there is a marked and violent contrast, produces the most distinguished new race, destined to most vitally affect the progress of the world. . The Roman, Norman and Danish Invaders of the British Isles never succeeded in stamping out the individuality of the ancient Briton. The conquerors were absorbed. They fell into the melting pot. They came under the pell and -were transformed by marriage and social environment. The subjected became the real conquerors (through the natural law of selection nd were masters in time. The controlling Ingredients In the melting pot n thn atnrriv Rrtton anlrit. It. nut iron
'into the Norman, smelter into the Roman and harmony Into the Dane. The spirit of the ages selected from the mass of mixed peoples and produced ffrom the fusion in the furnace what jwe call the English people. 1 Like all marvelous works of genius ithis spirit of progress transformed from the crude to the refined. The in"deflnable and unconquerable spirit, so marked in the single bain of Shakeslipeare. which absorbed, selected and (transformed, which took common clay .(and turned it into gold this spirit does seize races, shakes them well together, and from crude and chaotic (conditions builds up great world powers and solid nations. 1 No race or tribe, keeping within itBel!, keeping itself racially pure, marrying within its own race, practicing Strict endogamy or inter-breedlng, has ver risen to power or national distinction. Rome flourished by mixture while Israel, a "chosen peop.e," became the (foot-ball and gibe of all nations. , Interbreeding Fails. I In plant life and animal life Darwin discovered that close lnter-breed-dng degenerated, that animals finally became incapable of breeding at all, that plants lost constitutional vigor Regenerated into litle lap-dogs, and degenerated into little lap-dos, and lowls fell to long, spindling legs and mall bodies. Exogamy, or going outside of family, race or social spheres for husbands or iwives, produces strong people. The vice of wealth and royalty has been its exclusion and it reaps its reward in sexual barrenness and degenerate offspring. A mixture of the weakness and narrowness of wealth with the vigor and common sense of the working world keeps nations alive and Testores the necessary health and virility required for national longevity. This law
must be obeyed in order to give a people a permanent place of distinction in the world of immutable natural laws. wealth and capital are necessary to high states of civilization, but no nation can keep itself fresh and vigorous if there is not a constant mixed racial tendency and commingling gotne on. Wealth must change hands. There
labors and posterity will one day cause
great changes in the world. The Americans were once scattered all over Europe, here they are Incorporated into one of the finest systems of population which has ever appeared, and which will hereafter become distinct as a great nation." s Prophecy Fulfilled. And so, here we are. fulfilling the prophecy. English, German, French, Swede, Irish, Greek and Italian forget their preudlces and antipathies under American skies. They mingle and marry, and very soon we see their children full-fledged Americans. The amigrant soon Imbibes a new spirit and the old customs and prejudices melt away. In less than three generations the foreign stamp has disappeared. Even the Jew, who has for centuries tried to keep his blood unadulterated, Is influenced by the American spirit and becomes an ardent American patriot. His contact with the people of the old countries has not influenced him, but the breadth of the American spirit has told upon him, and the old orthodox geieration, strict in religious and social observances, stands aghast at the enthusiasm with which the new generation adopts the free manners of this country, ignoring the exclusive barriers which his race has set New Class Arises. But In these latter days of the Republic there comes a shadow over the radiant vision of our future greatness. Perhaps the cloud may disappear or end in mist and vapor. There
has arisen a class in our cities, and fringing our urban coasts, which pretends to despise our working, shirtsleeved America. They , say America is so insipid, her history is so dull, her manners so boorish, and her literature so crude and inartistic. They would rather be apes with a pass,on for Europe than real men and women with a divine passion for American liberty and a righteous love for the broad humanity upon which the foundations of this nation were laid. There is a little slim book of only forty-four pages called "Fortune of the Republic." It Is a lecture delivered In Old South Church, Boston, in 1S78, by the sanest and cleaest thinker our country has yet produced, Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was four years before this great Sage of Concord died. This book should be a school text-book. But it isn't, and many graduates of our high-schools know as little of him as
they, do of our rich American literature. Albert Bushnell Hart, of Harvard, said our school bookn should be written with special reference to English writers. No! American literature first, last and always! It is shameful to demand that our Franklin, Hawthorne, Holmes, Longfellow, Bryant, Emerson, Harte, Motley, Bancroft, Mark Twain, and, a brilliant constellation of other American writers, should take a lower place in order that England may be glorified. Is it not of far more importance that our youths should imbibe the true spirit of America than that they should be taught to try to catch the spirit of ages dead and gone forever? Combination is Strong. Is it not true as Emerson says, that there never was before in history such a combination as ours, and that the rules to meet our problems are not set down in history ? Is it not true that right now men of original perception and original action, men who can act in the interest of civilization and humanity instead of solely for the enlargement of private fortunes is it not true that such men are needed? men who live in the present and can take
the idler and the producer must strug
gle forever for existence and place, 1
must be a mixture of rich and poor afraitJ- ag Jefferson Patrick J, an alliance of wealth and health and Jonn Qulncy Adams Andrew , e"-
and Lincoln were not afraid to espouse the cause of common, every day human rights? The class under condemnation is the coterie of men and women who make their clubs merry over the flatness of American life. They say we have none of those darling illusions and romances of London and Paris. They have no perception of our destiny. They would sacrifice the dearest ideals of humanity and strangle the hopes of the world for a financial deal that would Dile un
power and Influence. Perhaps this was Goldsmiths thought when he wrote these lines In his "Deserted Village:" "III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey. Where wenlth accumulates and men decay." Americans Are Distinct.
The American people have become a
distinct rac. We are no longer German. Enclis'i. Irish. Scotch. Greek.
Amrric m. The roots of every Amcr-i ' T. ' "J " "J "1 .
lean strike dernly ino nearly every " Z.hm pZZT
As lens go -s 17S2 a
Frenchman
living in New York recorded in his "Letters of an American Farmer" his observations upon what we now call the "nieltins pot." He said: "Americans are a mixture of Eng
lish. Scrtc' Irish. French. Dutch. Ger-; man and Swede. They are either Euro-; pean or descendants of an European. ' Hence this tstranse mixture of blood which yon will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family i whose grandfather was an Englishman '
whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose presrnt four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American who. leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives hew ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds, lie becomes an American by being rereived in the broad lap of our alma
sent the soldiers out to butcher the Teutonic women in order to get their coppecolored hair to wear at the receptions of the lecherous Emperors and senators those pompous Roman
senators who waxed rich upon the sliver mines of Gaul and the tin mines of Britain. And wars were waged that they might monopolize the fruits of the earth Just as they are still waged for the benefit of the financial octopus of this day. Flag Loses Appeal. - ; Our flag is not affecting as it once was. . The flag fluttering in the smoke of the American Revolution, the stars and stripes drenched in blood at Shtloh and Gettysburg, was a different flag from the one that now represents only the fraud and cunning and selfishness of some Baltimore, Chicago or Philadelphia caucus or convention. How often have we seen one or the other of the two great political parties drivelling and liuskstering away every principle of humanity and the dearest hopes of mankind and doing It from party fear or advantage "energetic when mischief could be done, imbecile as corpses when evil was to be prevented." - The successful political party of the future will have to show the common people that it stands for the large things of life instead of being the champion of financial, industrial and partisan crooks. New-Force Threatens. Caucus, combination, confabulation and conspiracy are now busy choosing the next president of the United States There are no vital or patriotic principles discussed. It is only a conspiracy to choose the available man and seize the reins of government and throw all its vast power into the clutches of some wretched political camarilla. ' So far there are no appeals to the great humane sentiment slumbering in the bosom of the American people a deep sentiment that we have sinned and are sinning in butchering our fellow-men in order to keep gun and shell factories busy and enrich the houses of Rothchild and Morgan by loaning money to prolong the hideous traffic. Will the issue of the next campaign be international? May not the contest rise clear above issues of tariff and prohibition and woman suffrage? Up to now no man has been suggested by the conspirators of either party who is fit to represent the profound spirit and genius that is now stirring the American people. We have seen great parties, the one preaching pure democracy, the other mouthing prosperity, property and education, go down to defeat, and then when each party comes back to life and power we see the swe old brazen faces come to the front and pose as patriots when they are only automatons with a greed for mammon and a heathen hunger- for power.
jSociety
An all-day meecing of the aid society of the Reld Memorial Presbyterian church, was held Wednesday at the church. Plans were completed for a Christmas bazaar to be held Dec. 3.
marriage of Mr. Roy Kelling.to Miss Iona Helmig. a former resident of this city on Nov. 8 at Dayton. They will reside in Cedarville, Ohio. : Mrs. Chris Bailey was hostess for a meeting of the Pleasure Seekers Wednesday afternoon. - " As a courtesy to Kiss Marguerite Hlghley. who will be married this month. Mrs. Everett Hawekottee gave a shower this afternoon at her home on South Fifteenth street. , Mrs.'. A. C. Marsh - has returned to her home - in Danville after visiting Mrs. George Chrisman. Cards announcing the marriage of Miss Veva Murphy and Mrs. George Doherty of Cincinnati have been received. The bride often visited Mrs. George Chrisman. The wedding of Miss Marguerite Highley, daughter ' of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hlghley, and Mr. Howard Wetitling will be solemnized Tuesday evening, November 30, at the home of the bride's parents on Kinsey street Richmond Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution will give a bakery sale Saturday at 816 Main street. A parcel post party was given last evening at the First Christian church, by members of the East End Aid society. The packages were sold at the postoffice window. The following musical program was presented: Piano solo. Miss Inez Leighton ; vocal solo, Miss Hazel Kinley; reading. Miss Amy Fitzpatrick; vocal solo, Mrs. Edward Sharpe. A pop corn and candy booth was also a feature. Mrs. W. C. Allep entertained the members of the Loyal Sisterhood class
of the First Christian church Monday
evening at , her home - on North C street. Flowers and ferns ornamented the rooms. A business meeting was
held after which Mrs. M. F. Warfel
the new president presided. 'A social
hour followed and refreshments were
served. Those present were Mesdames
C. A. Vossler. W. Burr, Annette Mac-
Dill. 0 N. Hleger. C. G. Weist, T. G.
Curry. Edward Timberlake, J. F. Sheffer. O. J. Nlcodemlus, J. M. Hlshburg,
W. . S. Bennett; W. S. . Keelor. F. W.
Leighton. George Harkins, Elizabeth
Wright, Marietta Thomas. M. F. War
fel. Florence- Leighton. W. M. Skinner,
Emma Ranks, Ada Goddard. Laura Rogers. William Triplet. Jennie Hen-
shaw. Guy Farlow, who was a guest
of the class.
' An Italian scientist has figured that a square mile of the surface of the earth In six hours of sunshine receives heat equipalent to the combustion of more than 2,600 tons ot coal.
An ice breaking steamer built in Sweden for the Russian government, has cut Its way through ice fields thirty -feet thick when using only half Its power.
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From linoleum yoitll see Gold Dust causes the dirt to flee. The Cold Lhut Turin
One reason for the great popularity of Gold Dust is its activity. It dissolves quickly in hot or cold water, and purifies in addition to cleaning.
Millions cf housewives are using Gold Dust regularly for cleaning everything from lino
leum to the choicest silver and woodwork. It does not scratch or mar.
SZZFAl R R A MK company! MAKERS
The Central Aid society of the First
Christian church, has elected the fol-!
lowing officers: President, Mrs. Five-cent and Marietta Thomas; vice president, Mrs. I larger package for Harlan Mann; secretary, Mrs. Fred j alc everywhere
Mann; treasurer, Mrs. Ella Curry. At penny eupper will be given Nov. 20. j
The banquet which was to have been j
neld Monday evening, November 15, at
the home of Mrs. George Chrisman by j
ine regressive L.uerary circle win ue held at the home of Mrs. Riekard, 41 South Eighteenth street.
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Dining Roooih FnrnitaFe At Oat ol the-nigh Rent District Prices
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Solid oak round-top dining tables, in fumed oak. golden or Jacobean. Newest styles priced at only $7.50 and up extra special. $40 buffets, excellent quality, massively built, special at only $32. Other buffets priced at $14.85 and up. China closets, all new patterns at $14.85 and up. Dining chairs, solid oak, set of six. priced at only $5.40. Ask us to show you our beautiful line of fine rugs. We have them in all sizes at prices to suit you. Linoleum, newest patterns, at our usually low prices.
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SI 00 down' and $i- a week places one of these McDougal Cabinets in your home.
Electric Irons, all guaranteed. Special yJ now at only
Weiss Furniture Store 505-507 MAIN STREET
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A poverty social will be given Saturday evening by Eden Rebekah lodge at the Odd Fellows hall. AH members are asked to attend and wear their oldest clothes. Each person is also requested to bring a pie.
Mrs. Kate Wilt of Eldorado, is a guest at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Carl McClure.
Mrs. T. J. Kelly of Louisville, Ky., returned home after a few days visit with relatives in this city. Her mother Mrs. H. L. Collins accompanied her home. Announcement has been made of the
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! A Simple Way to i Remove Dandruff : : There is one sure way that has never toiled to remove dandruff at once, and pat is to dissolve it, then you destroy (t entirely. To do this, just get about lour ounces of plain, common liquid trvon from any drug store ( this is all fou will need), apply it at night when jetiring; use enough to moisten the calp and rub it in gently with the! In ger tips. I By morning, most if not all, of yourj landruff will be gone, and three or, pur more application will completely; iissolve and entirely destroy every sin- i
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because plaster lets out the costly heat and lets
wind and damp. It increases settling, and its
nature causes it to crack and eventually fall.
Cornell-Wood-Board makes warm, bright, cheery rooms. It is less than one-quarter the weight of plaster and far better insulator, making the home cooler in summer and cutting winter fuel bills from XOfe to 60. It is guaranteed not to warp, buckle, crack, chip or fall. Easily applied on new walls or over old.
Hav you roehrd your ample and booklet yet? Cottage Grove Mfg. Co., 3912 Langley Ave. Cornell-Wood-Board is also carried by the following dealers!
THE MILLER-KEMPER CO., 707-717 North West Second St Richmond, Ind. "If It's in the building line, we sell It." BOSTON LUMBER CO. The P. Kunt & Wright Co. Boston. Indiana. . New Paris, Ohio. HENRY W. KEAGY, J. B. Chenoweth Lumber Co. Hagerstown. Indiana. . Lvnn, Indiana. B. L. WOODWARD & SON, BOREN LUMBER CO. Dublin, Indiana. Fountain City. Indiana.
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Saturday will be the banner day in our cloak department
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Mr. John Hasemeier is in the center of the cloak market. His extraordinary purchases will be in our cases and on our racks early Saturday Morning. If at all interested be here Saturday, HUE SUIT SALE
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This event is two weeks earlier than usual. Every Suit Reduced In Price.
Mil to Hw Gromps
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17 Suits worth' up to $12.50, choice 33 Suits worth up to $20.00, choice . . . 58 Suits worth up to $28.00, choice . . . 6 Suits worth up to $37.50, choice . . 3 Suits worth up to $50.00,
choice . . . 117 Suits.