The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-03-21

Eyes, until they can be moved.
When | see these young negro men
and women coming out Of their schools
and colleges. well dressed. with their
shallow veneer of an imitation culture,
feel like crying over the farce
surely. Mrs Durham. you belieys
they are better fitted for life
"They are not. They are lifted ou.
Of their only possible sphere of their
menial service, and denied any career.
to certain slaughter of soul and body
at last 1t is horrible tragedy.
A Han looked at her. smiled, and re
piled: Il knew yon were u bitter and
brilliant woman. but didn't think YOU
would go to such lengths even with
your pet averSions
Its not an aversion or prejudice,
Sir It's simple fact Of history Edn
cation increases the power Of the I'm
man brain to think aud the heart TO
suffer Suouer or later these educated
negroes feel the clltch Of the iron hand
of the white mans unwritten laws ON
their throats They have their choice
between suicides grave or Il prison
cell And the uunbers who dare the
grave and the prison cell daily in
crease The south is kinder to the ne
gro when he is kept in his place
"Yoll are quarter of a century be
hind the times
"Am so oldf' she laughed
"lhc sentiment. not the woman. You
are the most beautiful woman | ever
saw
Il like my boys TO feel that way
about me
"You don't class me quite with the
rest. do yonf'
She hluslled the slightest bit. "No;
I've always taken y peculiar interest
in you ! have quarreled with every
body who has hated ana spoken evil
Of Won have always believed you
were capable Of high and noble life
Of great achievement
"And your faith IN me has been my
highest incentive to give the lie TO my
enemies and succeed And | will, II
will be master Of this state within tive
years And ! want you TO rememlTl
that ! lay it all at your feet. The
world need not know it-you know it.
He spoke with intense earnestness.
"But don't want You to achieve
,f
feet II sense of nnspeakahe degrade
tiol for lou when | hear your nam,
hisscd Come, Allan. give up negr'
politics and devote yonrsef To an hon
orahle career in law
He shook his head with calm per
sisteurr
no; it's my calling
She looked mt Mcleod momen
with curiously cold expression. 81
want to thank yon for the hook yor
sent me recently
You liked it?" he cried, with Gilt
fcriug eyes
II devoured every word of il with a |
greed vou cannot understand. A great
man wrote it"
"rhen we can understand each Other |
better from today" he interrupted |
smiingly
yes. far better You gave me this |
book hoping that il might influence my |
character hy destroying my ideal Of
lotc. didn't You now frankly?'
"Honestly. | did hope it would eman
cipaie yon from supersttonS."
al has" she declared. bur with a
curious curve of her lip that chilled
him
what are you driving att" he asked
>uspiciouSly.
This book has given me the key |
that unlocked for me, for the first time
HE riddle Of my physical being. III
has shawn me the physical basis Of
love. Just Is ! knew before there was
! phvsiral basis of the soul"
what did you understand it to
teach" he asked
Simply that love is based in its ma
ieral life en the lobe Of the brain
u NtlfN Nf'NfftilS al tue tGSt ~ u tflliu
head near the age Of thirteen. That
his loir of the brain is the sex center
iud love Is impossible until il develops
rlgi his center of new powers at IN,
'is-,' ~ the skull is - physical magnet
That when - uian and woman approach
sach other who are by nature mates
hr~p magnetic celiterS are disturbed
hy action and reaction. aud that this
disturbance develops the second ele
l.ruial passion call love The frs
elemental passion hunger has for II,
md the preservation of the individual
" hiie love finds its fulfilmeni in In
preservation of the species Love find,
H. Satisfaction ia the child. its ;-'do'
.nnlS and it dies. unless kept alive h.
hr sncii conventions of the famii'
which. are Hnf ha~,.d merely on this vii
cut emotion, hut also on unity
aSteS. which prbdnce the spuSr af en-
-adeShip For these r,sasolts Il is II