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

play critics Melting Pot in which he
pictures the United States great crucble into which all
and conditions of and have been thrown
eventually he perfectly blended and spenddy balanced
The idea that of poet philosopher pictur
ing it Mr. zangwl is engaging and interesting, convinc
Poets proverbay write impressivey things they
know not oindeed the children of poets imagination in
varably inevitably poet which Mr. Zangwi
is perfect in form and substance poet
If one could not say that of Mr. Zangw one would reject
with and Indignation least only
his ideas expressed and implied in The Melting Pot but
more especially in recent striking interview based that
play which carried in the Hearst papers generally
Particularly in the Southland alphabetically if other
in the other seconsw the following statements from
Mr. Zangw cued from the body of his interview be con
sidered with doubt and fear, and Impotence.
No doubt there is an instructive anpathy which tends
to keep the white free from black blood though this
antpathy having been by large minority in all
the periods and all the many countries of their
puy It is equally certain that there are at work forces of
attraction well of repuson and that upon the
negro the Melting Pot of America will not fail to
musician .s like 0oerdge Taylor no despcabe
to knowlmen like Henry o. Tanner whom the writer
been privileged to knOw-%en like Henry Tanner the
tenaities of the without white admxture; and
of this stamp capable attracting cultured white
wives the fusng process beginning 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. Zang for he well
perhapsbut he will not be assmlaed into amalgamaed
with it racially
Those certain forces of attraction leading toward
blending of the blacks and whites that MIR Zangw thinks he
The mulato NOT symptom racial amalgamation he
is symptom of racial destruction ANNIHILATIoN Along
But it neither the desire the purpose the whites
Of the United States of the South peases DESTROY
the negro race such part of may be located therein
The South at least willing make ample negro
to furnish him the means of supporting himself in happ
and contenment in making himself useful desirable
BUT NOT TO HIS REMorEsT VISION OR HOPE DOES
THE SOUTH HOLD THE IMPOSSIBLE GOAL OF SOCIAL
OR RACIAL EQUALITY
The capable of many things purely negro-and
better Mr. Zangwi admits this when he cites
the achievements Henry o. Laurence Dun
6ar,the latter poet even as Hr Zangwl isto this
Both of these splendid specimens of the negro his
their veins
Why then be entirely sensible matter and en-
courage perssten ALL negroes to emulate unswervngy the
racial characteristics of these rather than having
ulbooded worhness suggest to them the breath
Mr. Zangw does the sinister and the FATALLY MISTAKEN
idea of ntermarriage with the white race?
In recent editorial in The Georgian John Temple Graves
took occasion rasser his clear understanding of the South
and the Nation sattitude nowadays toward the negro
(Mr Zangw may consider this curious) the editorial
praised from of the country EQUALLY AS
ENTHUSIASTICALLY BY BLACKS AS BY WHITES!
Separating surely the negro for all the
whites Mr.. Graves says
The idea which long currency in the South was
that the negro had qualifications living competing
with the dominant and superior racethat he complicated
all Of their problems of industry society the
wise thing to do to help him to another country
where after hundred years this people
he might work out his destiny by their
operation, but with absolute independence and his own
right
- That idea has entirely passed away Every thinking
man believes that long Republic endures
white and the black will dwell together South
1t was therefore both logical and humane that ad
vanced and better developed race of pol
icy and prudence help the and develop him
best lines and cooperate with him every worthy measure
He must build up the negro the hghst conceptions
of his duty TO HIMSELF AND TO THEM and establish
the understanding that since they must live with him.
white must help him be worthe citizenship and
There plainly stated that he who read the
sum total OF the white man burden in this nation
II seeks to lift the his best and stationo
make OF him. entirely within himself important
part of society but suggests mind no thought of
amalgamationt philosophy of kindness consideration
and carries no hint Of that refinement OF CRUELTY THAT
SUsPENDS, EVER so DIMLY, ON THE HORIZON OF THE
NEGRO HOPES THE RAINBOW OF SOCIAL OR RACIAL
EQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY
And so like John Temple Graves on the one hand
ana Booker Washington the other be followed
seeking 10 adjust the problem rgheouy and not Is
rae zang"h For the latter honestly mistaken
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