Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-28
Zangwill's MELTING Pot" Can
Have No Reference to
the South
The South

makeup however and he rings utterly true only when talking
writing things with which he is thoroughly familiar
Zangwl has written playas to whether it is great
play critics dividedcaed The Melting Pot in which he
pictures the United States great crucble into which all
and conditions of and have been thrown and
eventually he perfectly blended and spenddy balanced
evolved therefrom
idea that of poet philosopher hence in picur
it, Mr. zangw engaging and interesting not convnc
ing.
Poets proverbaly impressivey of things they
know not oindeed the children of poets imagination in
variaby and inevitably if he be true poet which Mr. Zangw
is perfect in form and substance to the poets mind
with and Indignation at least some of hemnot only
as expressed and implied in The Melting Pot but more es
peciay in recent striking interview based upon that play
which carried in the Hearst papers generally.
Particularly in the Southland alphabetically if not other
wise in the other seonsw the following statements from
Mr. Zangw culled from the body of his interview be
sidered with doubt and fear, and some impatience
No doubt there instructive antipahy which tends
to keep the white free from black blood though this
antipathy having been by large minority in all
the many periods and all the many countries of their
tguty it equally certain that there at work forces of
attraction as well as of repuon and that even upon the
negro the Melting Pot of America will not fail to act,
"A musician like Coeridge Taylor is despicable
product of the Melting Pot while the of genius
to xnow-men like Henry O. Tanner the writer
been privileged to know-men like Henry o. Tanner the
painter Paul Laurence Dunbar the poeshow the po
tentaes of the race even without white admixure and
this stamp capable of attracting cultured white
wives the fung process beginning at the top with types
like these should be far less unwecome than that which
starts with the dregs of both races"
Eventually the negro may disappear from this nation
there getting mad with Mr. Zangw for he we'll
with it racially
Those certain forces of attraction" leading toward
blending of the blacks and whites that Mr. Zangw thinks he
observes simply not there!
The mulatto NOT symptom of racial amalgamaon, he
is a symptom of racial destruction ANNIHILATI0N! Along
his way dwells obiteration.
neither the desire purpose the whites
of the United States of the South pease DESTROY
the such part OF be located therein
The South least willing make ample for the negro
Ito furnish him the sure means OF supporting himself in happi
ness and conentmnt in making himself useful and desirable
as a nelghbor and friend
THE SOUTH HOLD THE IMPOSSIBLE GOAL OF SOCIAL
OR RACIAL EQUALITY!
The negro capable many things purely as negro-and
better as negro Mr. Zangwl admits too this when he cites
the achievements of Henry Tanner and Paul Laurence Dun
bar-the latter poet even as Mr. zangwi iso this
eectualy ubooded without drop of white blood in
their veins
Why not then be entirely sensible about this matter and en-
racial characteristics of these rather than having cited their
full booded wornes suggest to them in the same breath as
Mr. Zangw does the sinister and the FATALLY MISTAKEN
idea of inermarriage with the white race?
In editorial in The Georgian John Temple Graves
took occasion reassert his clear understanding of the South
and the sattude nowadays toward the negro and
(Mr zangwn may consider this curious) the editorial
praised from end of the country TO the other EQUALLY AS
ENTHUSIASTICALLY BY BLACKS AS BY WHITES!
Separating surely the negro for all time from the
The idea which long held currency the South was
that the had qualifications for living and competing
with the dominant and superior racehat he complicated
all of their problems of industry and society and that the
thing do to help him to enter another country,
he might work out his destiny by their counsel and
operation but with absolute independence and his
right
That idea has entirely passed away. Every thinking
man believes that long Republic enures the
white and the black will dwell together the South
1t therefore both logical and humane that the
vanced and better developed must a of pol
icy and prudence help the and develop him along the
best lines and cooperate with him every worthy measure
He must build up the negro to the hghst conceptions
OF his duty TO HIMSELF AND TO THEM, and establish
the understanding that they live him the
white must help him to be wohier of citizenship
association.
There plainly stated that he who may read the
sum total Of the white man burden in this nation.
seeks to lift the negro his best and baves station-to
make OF him entirely within himself important even neces
sa part OF society but suggests to his mind thought
amagamationt philosophy of kindness and consideration
and carries no hint Of that refinement OF CRUELTY THAT
SUsPEEDs EVER so DIMLY ON THE HORIZON OF THE
NEGRO HOPES THE RAINBOW OF SOCIAL OR RACIAL
EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY
And So it Is men like John Temple Graves the hand