Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-08-03
decentralization Has Shown
Great Progress In Recent Years

tBy Andrea Hofcr-Proudfoot, Presi-
dent League Of international Amity)
This has been a great country Of
race wandering.
Not in tribes and hordes have the
peoples pushed from deserts to fer
tile fields, as in prehistoric times, but
through railways and steamships
have they emptied themselves from
one nation into another at the call Of
industrial opportunity.
The intermiXture Of races in the
last few decades has been so rapidly
progressing that we are fast coming
into a new attitude toward each
other as nations.
Look at the United States alone,
which was once purely English
Puritan race. There are more Ger
mans In Chicago today than there
are in Vienna. There are more ltal-
ans I'm New York than in Triest
There are more Polish people in
Pittshurg than in Lemberg. There
are more Norwegians in Minnea-
polls and st. Paul than in Bergen.
And yet these are distinctly Ameri-
can cities. This fact is true of other
countries. There are more Spanish
i'm South America than under the
crown of Spain. London is a city Of
all nations. Canada imports bodily
an entire Russian community
Dhukobors. And SO the cases might
be multiplied
Nearly every country has had the
same experience In the agglomera-
ton of peoples. with this situation
comes for us all new responsibility
for each other, a new inter-racial
doctrine and a new phase of politics.
Alliances with the foreigner as la
horcr within the borders are quite as
necessary today as alliances with
foreign nations themselves, for the
sake of peace. To make the inwand-
rring portion of the inhabitants po-
tential and helpful they must be ad-
justed to and understood. lest they
honeycomb the native body with dis
sonanCes.
out of all this has grown a distinct
movement toward internatonalism,
aud today the internationalist is in
our midst circulating his doctrine.
Everywhere the word~is creeping in
To the discussions Of social and poll
ucal bodies; newspapers casually
picked up announce such gatherings
selves "Internationaw are running
into the hundreds, where few de
cades ago. we had hardly anything
internationalizcd except the post.
lnter-racial geography has become a
recognized science, and medicine Is
taking the intermixtures Of peoples
as "a basis for new Investigations and
deductions. National transference is
argued as an offset TO race decadcnCe
and even race suicide.
The International mind is certainly
growing, and bound to dictate fu-
ture policies the world over. Such an
empire as the British, which has the
most diverse peoples to asslmilate
and the most scattered complexities
to handle. must reach out into the
international mind for sufficient
wisdom.
what has been brought together
through the accidents Of quick com
munion and the Zeitgcist, entaugling
race with race. will demand. ana
forthwith out of itself produce, an
iuter-consciousness also. 1t will also
produce leaders composite enough to
deal win the needs
We must. both as individuals and
as nations. enter into the recognition
~ this international mind and seek
t. realize y hat it means ana what II
can to DO assist us in the broader
life which each single state and each
individual must draw out of the
composite.
Race prejudice is the haue of
every Matchmaking enerEy. The na-
tion, In order to exist. must attempt
to centralize ana unity. Race pre-