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liJiAlifti c> iSUNDAV AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 4, iy!3. 5 E The Jap and the Negro; Why the South Should Understand the Racial Problem of the West By JAMES B. NEVIN I F California has the right to look for respectful sympathy and tolerant patience in any direc tion nowadays, since the question of fixing definitely the status of a foreign and obnoxious race upon her soil so acutely has presented itself, yurely It Is in the direction of the South. The South, of all the sections, should understand and gravely ap preciate the problem that California has to solve, and the tremendous necessity of solving It in the light of reason and common sense, and while yet it is relatively young. In many ways the Japanese are as objectionable to the people of the Pacific Coast, It seems, as were the negroes in reconstruction days to the people of the Gulf Coast. The white population of Cali fornia no more will tolerate a Japa nese on terms either of social, polit ical or business equality than a Georgian will tolerate a negro. The customs and manners of the Orientals are very distasteful to the red-blooded Americans of Califor nia. The way they live, the things they do, the habits they indulge themselves in, the peculiar and un usual traits of character they ex hibit—these things may be all right in far-away Japan, where the neighboring folk are of a kind. In Californki, however, they are out of place and obnoxious, in the extreme. “Old Dr. Dixieland.” Whatever the ancient misunder standings between the sections may have been, however, and despite the mistakes that may have been made, the disposition of the nation to-day is to turn the negro problem over to Old Dr Dixieland, who has proved hjmself to be something of a spe cialist in the home treatment of the colored brother, and who knows Sambo like a book besides. Grover Cleveland once remarked, ' Those standing next the burden are best fitted to lift it!” And that is true, whether the burden be located in Georgia or California. Perhaps California didn’t sympa thize with Georgia in that full de gree of friendly feeling she well might have felt back in those bitter reconstruction days down South, but it was because California didn’t know, and didn’t understand. And the South will not hold that against California to-day—for the South does know and does understarid the vexing and fretting ramifications of a race problem, and the deep con cern a people may feel In the matter of its proper development and solu tion. Two wrongs never did make a right, and the fact that California may have assumed a wrong point of view 40 or 50 years ago will not justify Georgia and the South in as suming a wrong point of view in 1913. California knows more about the Japanese residing in the Far West than Georgia knows about them. v And that just as Georgia knew more about the negroes in the six ties than Michigan, or Wisconsin, or California knew. It will be no more possible to ram a repugnant Japanese citizenship down the throat of California to day than it was possible to ram an obnoxious negro citizenship down the throats of Southerners in re construction times! There is the pith of the problem! State’s Honor Is Involved. It is begging the question pitifuily to hold that the Japanese constitute a “world power,” and that, there fore, some extraordinary point of “national honor” is involved in a pro-Japanese settlement of this question, and that neither of these two things entered into the question of the negro in the South. The real point of national honor involved is the honor of California— a. sister State in the American Un ion—and the plea that this nation should swallow a nasty dose merely because some “world power” pre scribes it is cowardly and unworthy. Why should these Japanese wish to come to this country, where they are not tvanted, and whither they never have been invited? The negro—poor, ignorant, help less thing—was brought here, against his inclination and desire, an involuntary factor in a mere money-making scheme. He was a subject of no “world power”—he had no choice between remaining at home, where lived his kindred and his kind, and going abroad, where he was neither wanted nor invited. The negro's case involved much of the pathetic—the case of the Japa nese in California involves nothing of the sort. Talk of “dishonoring Japan!” To my humble way of thinking that is as nothing compared with talk of dishonoring California—one of the sovereign States of the Union, whose white star shines altogether as brightly and as beautifully^in Old Glory’s galaxy as the white star of any other State, and a thou sand times more radiantly than the sun, or the moon, or whatever It is, of Japan. I know very little of my own knowledge about California and the Japanese. And that is why I in cline so heartily to let California come Into court and testify as to the truth of the matter. Califor nia does know*. California has the Japanes© “In her midst” literally— and has had for a long and weary day. If California, speaking through its best and bravest citizenship, saj r s she can get along with these peo ple only thus and so, far be it from me to dispute it! I have heard too much misguided and misinformed preaching from the North in respect of what the South should do with the negro. The South has the negro altogeth er and very much “in its midst.” To Dixieland the negro was, and still is, a condition, not a theory— just as the Japanese Is to Califor nia to-day. Groundwork Is the Same. There may be differences in de tail—the groundwork of the situa tion is identically the same. Cali fornia raises oranges—Georgia raises cotton. Georgia is capable of advising California as to how cotton must be cultivated if its full fruit is to be obtained. California is capable of advising Georgia as to how oranges must be cultivated if the full fruit of them Is to be obtained. California knows what it will and w’hat it will not stand for in the Japanese. Georgia knows what it will and what it will not stand for in the negro. And each know’s be cause it has learned by experience and actual contact w r ith the thing about w’hich its knowledge centers. It agitates me not one-half so much to think that Japan may not be pleased with this nation’s acts in matters carrying the happiness and welfare of a sister State as it does to think that the sister State may not be pleased.. Far be it from this nation to work injustice ug)on any one—be he Jap anese, negro, Eskimo, or w’hat not. But justice to the Japanese does not necessarily dwell within letting him have his own way about things, while a resident of one of the States of the Union. Justice to no man dwells necessarily within that. We fix laws and regulations for ourselves in this country, and we insist that w e ourselves shall obey our laws. But this country is a w’hite man's country, and the white men therein are going to permit things to themselves that they are rot going to permit to black men, nor brown men, nor yellow' men. The things that the white man, his sons and his daughters may en joy in the United States are for the white man to say—and there is no injustice in that he draws the line of color where he pleases, because he is sure to draw’ it where it be longs. And when he draw’s it, it stays put. Let Japan Do Likewise. Let Japan proscribe the alien ownership of land in the Flowery Kingdom if it w ishes to. The United States W’ill utter no complaint. If our sort of people are distaste ful to the Japanese as neighbors and associates, let Japan say so. It would be the manly thing to say. And even if, when Japan had said it, we still, through force of power, overran Japan and thrust ourselves upon her people, whether or not, it w’ould be an indecent and a dis honorable thing to do! Japan and the United States each has the right to set its own house hold in order, and after its own in clinations and desires; but neither has the right to set the other’s household in order, if it be against that other’s will and ideals of right. The South In this national crisis should stretch forth Its friendly and sympathizing hand not to Japan, nor yet to the Tories of the North and East—who would concern themselves with Japanese “rights” and “honor” rather than the rights and honor of California, but to the red-blooded Americans of the West, who are upholding a racial princi ple as dear to the heart of a Cau casian as the unblemished integ rity of his very household itself. The Church and Recreation By Dr. A. R. HOLDERBY. f-'astor of the Moore Memorial Church. R ELIGIOUS instruction is not the only commodity in which the church should deal, as far as children are concerned. They should provide recreation and attraction for the children as well. The-e is too much dullness and deadness in the present system of religious training for children. Our churches, as a rule, are not attractive th the children and young people, hence the devil is getting them. Oth er places are more attractive than the church. If the church is n<ft to save the children it had better go out of busi ness. The church of Jesus Christ has much to do with the child labor laws and everything else that makes for tfie welfare of children. The devil apftis many a child because the church fails- to provide for the moral and physical nature of the child. » There are many delinquent children in Atlanta. Later many of them will fill our Jails and penitentiaries, because the church is not caring for tlffem.' Winning the souls of children is a bMslness in which there is much com petition from influences in the other ^Eirevtion. To offset this competition there must be some attraction other r * v «n a recital and emphasis of the *-j&nificant things that, to a chiW’s *^7nind, may seem at times dry and ^without appeal. The church is responsible for every child that goes to jail. It is the sol emn duty of the church to see to it that the children are not forced to work in the sweat shops and facto ries or anywhere else at a tender age. Men and women are lost to-day be cause in their youth they w’ere al lowed to drift. The church h< W no at^-aetion for them, and it was no part of their lives. The church must aw'ake to its mission. ^ The church must look to the chil dren for its own perpetuation and development, and it necessarily must falter and fail without the new blood and new’ life of a new’ generation. There are few’ things in which the church of to-day is more remiss than in its proper care of the child. The child is much sinned against to-day in many ways. When a baby is born into the world it is question able whether the event should be a matter of congratulation or not. The odds are against the child. Parents are guilty of neglecting their children in not gaining their moral nature and in not fitting them for the best and noblest service in life. Every church building should be open every day in the year and some thing should be going on that will attract the children and tie them to the church. As it is the church is only a Sunday affair and not identi fied with the every-day life of the children. What will become of the church if we lose the young people? The church will then be doomed. Private Cars Deadly Spotted Fever i And How to Fight If Cerebrospinal meningitis, one of the must deadly diseases known to science, is the subject of an article published this week by the Georgia State Board of Health. In this ar ticle, the health authorities analyze the disease, its cause, its effect, its treatment and prermtion. The article follows: Oerebro-spinaJ meningitis, spotted fever, or as It 1a more conrmonly called, simply meningitis, Is one of the most terrible and fatal of all dis eases, the mortality running up as high as 100 per cent 1n some local epidemics. Although the cause of the disease has been known for a number of years, the exact method by which the germ that produces it spreads from man to maii was until quite re cently entirely unrecognized and even now It can not be said that the whole matter has been demonstrated with scientific exactness; notwith standing this—in view of the fact that the disease has recently existed to a considerable extent in Atlanta, and has appeared In a number of the smaller tow r ns of Georgia—the State Board of Health deems it it's duty to furnish to the people such Informa tion concerning the malady as may be thought to be of value In connec tion with it. CHaraoter of the Disease. Cerebro-sptnal meningitis Is a dis ease which is produced by a minute vegetable organism known as the micrococcus lntracellularis. It Is very fortunately a germ of low vitality, as It develops only at about blood-heat, and when expelled from its normal dwelling-place In the human body it dies very quickly. These germs get within the skull and spinal canal, and produce vio lent inflammation of the coverings cf the brain and cord; these membranes are called "meninges,” hence the name “cerebro-spinal meningitis.” Within a short time after their en trance pus is produced, and the con dition becomes practically one of ab scess around the brain and spinal cord. Course of the Disease. It 19 not within the province of this paper to go into details concern ing the symptoms of this disease, space only permitting a brief state- A DR^AM OF MEN AND WOMEN By Ella Wheeler Wilcox THE TIDES. O H, vain is the stern protesting Of winds, w’hen the tide runs high; And vainly the deep-sea waters Ca’i out as the waves speed by: For, deaf to the claim of the ocean. To the threat of the loud wind dumb, Past reef and bar, to shores afar, They rush when the hour is come. Vainly the tempest thunders. Of unsexed waves that roam Where nature made their home, For the voice of the great Moon- Mothcr Has spoken and said, “Be free,” And the tide musT go to the strong full flow, In the time of the perigee. So vain is the cry of the masters, And vain the plea of the hearth, As the ranks of the strange New Woman Go sweeping across the earth. They have come from Hall and hovel They have pushed through door and gate; On the world’s highway they are crowded to-day, For the hour is the hour of fate. Many are hurt in the crowding, The light of the home burns dim; And man’is'aghast at the changes, Though all can be traced to him. They sat too iong at the hearthstone, And sat too oft alone; And the silence spoke, and their souls awoke. And now they must claim their own. Let no man hope to hinder. Let no man bid them pause; They are moved by a hidden purpose, They follow resistless laws. And out of the wreck and chaos Of the order that used to be, A strong new race yhall take its place In a world we are yet to 3ee. Oh, ever has man been leader. Yet failed as woman’s guide, It is better that she step forward And take her place at his side. For only from greater woman May come the greater man, Through life’s long quest they should walk abreast— As was meant by the primal plan. Ofttimes I dream of the world as it might be. And always I dream of mem lead ers. rulers, masters, creators. And always I dream of women, compan ions, sympathizers, mates, mothers, friends, keepers of the home and guardians of the race. In this Dream World I 5’ee no wom en in the shops, in the factories, in the offices, or anywhere outside the home, save where charity might lead, to the bedside of the sufferer or to the school, teaching the children pf the world the precious truths of right thinking and right mental develop ment. I see men (these Dream Men) ap preciating the work of woman in the home, in the school room, in the realms of beauty, helplines and charity. I see women (these Dream Women) realizing the immense domains which belong ro them by nature, and devel oping all their magnificent resources. I see them making ideal homes; homes all beautiful to the eye, and mind, and heart; centers of love and social life and wholesome hospitality. And I see them occupied and happy in this w’ork and rejoicing in their ability to accomplish great results with relatively’small expenditures of money. Because ihey have loved their work, and loved its large scope and its wide influence. Into these homes I s^e the men come (the Dream Men), and always with smiling faces, and words of ap preciation on their lips, and they look about the home with delight and note every little change that has been made in their absence; and they sit at the tasteful, well-provided board and praise its beauty and abundance and Its appetizing vianda And they press kisses on the hands w’hich have toiled for them; and they voice their gratitude for all the keeper of the home has done for them; and they talk w’ith her of the great world outside; and make her companion of their thoughts and comrade of their lives in every truth. I see these men (these Dream Men^ sharing their worldly gains with these women, and making no query how the woman’s share is spent, knowing it will be for the benefit and beauty of the home and the keeper of the home. I see these men and women (these Dream Men and Women) always sharing each other’s pleasures, and, at the same time, planning Individual distractions, so that neither shall feel so dependent upon the other that self- development is arrested or self-re liance lost And I see the world (the Dream World) growing better and the *raco growing more and more in the Image of its Creator. Because motherhood (in this Dream World) defies a wom an; and every man (every Dream Man) bows low r before an expectant mother; and she i« surrounded by all that is beautiful, all that is good, all that is tender and sweet and best in life, before and after the wonderful hour when her immaculate child comes to birth. And always I see little children .welcomed, loved and reared in tenderness and affection. J see the mothers (these Dream Mothers) awed and thrilled with the wonderful privilege of motherhood: and I see them devoting dally hour.-> of thought and study and prayers to the perfection of their vast .and glori ous domain; the domain of character building; of creating noble sons and daughters, and. greater than sons and daughters, noble men and women, no ble citizens of the world. And I see these children (the FUTILITY OF SELF = By Constance May current of love which circles about the world. Hermetically sealed with in the vacuum of his own conceit, he boasts of his immunity from “su perstition” and “sentiment.” He show s no more sense than, and works at as great a disadvantage as, an old mer chant might who refused to believe in telegraphy, and in bigoted ignor ance insisted upon carrying on his I SUPPOSE you think a great deal of and about yourseif. Why? Do you realize what a big world this is, and how' many, many millions of human beings there are on ihe earth. Suppose yYm were lifted up on an eagle’s wings higher than the tops of the highest mountains, and, looking i £ncI n ***VvitbniuTi*’ down, could see the multitudes of . ousmess w unout u. your fellowmen gathered together like the sands of the sea—then, supposing you were auddenly dropped down among them, w’ould an understand ing of your exceeding smallness come upon you? Then, when you found yourself one of those innumerable grains of sand on an infinite shore? So long as you go on remaining de tached, grain, self-contained, self-im portant, self-satisfied, you must go on being small. Thinking about yourself will not help you to grow: and a man must grow' to live—grow in sympathy, understanding, and faith. Have faith in something above and beyond your self—without this you are blind. Find understanding of nature and the se crets she reveals to the seeker; with out an increasing knowledge of these you are crippled as a man without hands. Be in sympathy with the efforts and aspirations of mankind, especially those near to you; without this you have no pulse of life—you are dead at the core. The selfish are small and of no account; you must grow in brain and heart and soul to become great; and in growing gradually dis card the clinging letters of self until you stand forth strong In new-found freedom. The selfish are miserable, for they are always fretting about the slights and hindrances they meet with on their narrow’ pathway through life. They are always thinking of the ef fect they create, forgetful that an undue share of the limelight does not make a good actor—only shows up his faults and deficiencies. The selfish man is a failure, for lie cut? himself off from the wireless If you are selfish the electrical farces of love stop short against you, failing to pierce the barrier which di vides you from your fellows. You absorb the vitality of those who come in contact with you, giv ing nothing in return, and thus for a time it seems you are strong. But when you fall—as fail you must—oh, the noise of it!—the dis grace—the disaster! ,No one really cares, but you create so much ruin! And there is no one to help you— none, unless you call upon the forces of love you despised. Have you seen “The Pretenders?” There is a beautiful scene at the end when those women who hav? been no more than beautiful back ground to the rough man’s world of barbaric strife made so strangely real by the genius of Ibsen—when sister, daughter and wife take the wanderer pome to their hearts and point out to him the path he shall tread. He has scorned them and condemned them to bitter loneliness, but they hold out loving arms w’hich are stronger than the wanderer’s tw*o-handled sword and breastplate of steel. The selfish man may seem for a time to sweep all before him, but his triumph is barren. 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And I see the world (the Dream World) growing better and better, and the race advancing to higher stand ards, and all its problems solved through the home. Then I waken from my dream and I see women (the real women) going forth to be wage earners; even into the hour of their unwilling maternity going forth to labor in factories and mills and shops; and with them walk little children, also going forth to la bor; little children who come into the world undesired, and who carry pre maturely old faces upon their unde veloped bodies. Everywhere I see women seeking and striving for all things save the home, because they have been left alone In the home too long and too often, and because they have received no praise for the mak ing and keeping of the home and be cause money has been given grudlng- ly them them. All over the woirld (the real world) I see confusion and disorder; because w'omen are rushing into places de signed for men, and because men are unable to cope with this invasion; the Invasion they have caused by sel fishness. For In this world (this real world) men have made a God ot money, and women have been dragged behind Mammon’s chariot as part of the spoil; and home and children have been offered up on the altar as sacri flees ami as I look about in all these things, I know I have but dreamed a dream of what might have been. Yet always It seems to me a dream of what Is to be. For such was God’s supreme design, and God’s design may be delayed, but It cannot be thwarted. And I know that all this disorder has been caused by the failure of man to understand and appreciate woman, and the failure of woman to understand the fullness of her pow’er and the width of her domain. And through this confusion and dis order both will come to mutual un derstanding of their mistakes, and In centuries to he the Dream World will be established. ment of the principal manlfestaXUwul that occur in, those afflicted with thdft malady. In aJmrwst all cases thsi, disease la preceded by a slight csM tarrhal condition of the nose anAj throat, the symptoms being those ofi] an ordinary cold. The symptom^ that point to the covering of the brain being attacked' come on wit hid great suddenness: there Is usually **• chill followed by Intense headaebe^j vomiting, restlesffLess, with great* dred of noises and bright light; ixi many cases reddish spots appear be-* neath the skin, these being usually* quite tender on pressure. In some, cases the muacles of the neck be-* come very stiff, and contract so that] the head is drawn backward. Tbel temperature is somewhat irregular,j but Is always above normal in the! beginning, and sometimes goes very* high; the pulse is as a rule normaL! ot but little aocelerated. After tbel patient remains in the condition June 1 described for from a few hours to! several days, he generally becomes* unconscious* and In a comparatively! short time dies. In some cases the* symptoms after starting off very vionj lently quickly subside, and the pa tient makes a comparatively rapid, recovery. In other instances the dis ease begins more mildly, the patient having more or less of the usual symptoms, but not so severely as is ordinarily the case; in such cases the patient may die, after lingering weeks or months, or may make a pro tracted recovery, writh frequently partial paralytic conditions that per manently • remain. Prevention. There is reason to belierve that thla germ first attacks the mucous mem- , branes of the nose, and in many merely causes the symptoms of an ordinary cold, and goes no further. However, In those with weak resist ing powers to the disease the germs spread from the nose into the skull by the blood or by other means, and there set up an inflammation with the resulting symptoms described above. So it is seen that it is important dur ing epidemics that persons with colds should be very careful not to allow' other people to become infected from them. As cold and wet are undoubt edly predisposing causes to colds, it is well for every one to shun such exposure during periods when menin gitis is prevalent. Debilitating in fluences, such as alcoholic excess and lack of sleep, should also be avoided Those exposed to the disease should be given three injections of the so- called meningo-bacterins; these bac- terins are believed to create an arti ficial immunity against meningitis in very much the same way that vac cination protects a person against smallpox. In addition to this treat ment those exposed should use sev eral times a day an antiseptic mouth and nasal spray. It is needless to say that those suf fering from menvngitis should be rig-j. idly quarantined • and every precau tion taken to prevent the spread of this dreadful disease. T reatment. Unfortunately we possess no sure cure for meningitis. It is believed, however, that the present method of treatment has very materially lessen ed the death rate. This treatment consists in the injection into the spina| canal of a serum which finds its way up the canal and into the skull, and attacks directly the cause of the dis- ea*se. Under this form of treatment it is claimed that the death rate has been lowered from 70 per cent to about 40 per cent. For the serum treatment to be of any value, how ever, it is highly important that it should be given early. In addition to this treatment it is often also neces sary to keep the patient quiet with anodynes and to control other symp toms with remedial measures as they may be indicated. The State Board of Health, upon request, w’ill gladly furnish the anti- meningitis serum and the meningo- bacterins free of charge. WALKING TO ANO FPOM THE TELEPHONE IS WASTEFUL A TELEPHONE ON EVERY DESK SAVES WASTEFUL WALKING “Walking is Waste Says an Eminent Efficiency Expert m “AN ORGANIZATION that is economically managed is equipped to handle all its business without waste of tinted useless moves and confusion.” Such an organization must have ADEQUATE TELEPHONE FACILITIES to help cut the cor ners, to eliminate wasteful walking between desks and departments and to create order. 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