Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
"Who's Who in America"


and by the favor of Providence and his lusty
progeny Demetros the Greek waiter at the chophouse
will in process of time open bottle of good Cyprlan
in celebration of his daughters fertility.
The Youngsters are already sitting cheek by JoWi
with yours-daily rubbing away further bits OF the
insulating prejudice with which their elders have
aborted mutual comprehension.
Slowly the bootblack stand will grow into of
chairs with hat blocking machine and cigar case on
the side and shall eventually read Pasquaes name
in the tax lists and behold him olling in his limousine
or whizzng past in sky roadster.
Another glance in the prophetic crystal foretels
that Swenson will at the incompetence OF later
anitors and bewail the scarcity of efficient cusodlans
for his string of apartments and tenements
And Denletrios early sensing the profits IN anlned
glucose will learn the of business greatness when
his waster sons should be reducing his responsibilities
instead of his bank balance
They II be top-side men on the when lots of
u.s. for whom they temporarily wipe boots and set
chairs, are humping the ground.
Thus our national vitality constantly freshens with
alien infusion.
We cannot hold to type, as older nations MAINTAIN
their characteristics.
Ten million direct descendants of the late lamented
Mr. Chin have regularly mated and bred to spawn OF
the equally fecund Mr.. Chow. Chnaman is always
Chinaman-a primary yellow man.
And there's the answer to his battling complacency
he does not blend, therefore he neither bends nor
mends his ways Sire and scion, they minted with
identical dies-an unaloyed coinage since HAS fore
bears crawled through the Indian passes.
But we laboratories of racial chemistry, the great
est anthropologca experimental stations in the path Of
history decade on decade. play with myriad mixtures
of temperament-quicken the peasant with the dreamer
warm the torpid northman with tropc imagination
brighten the drab Saxon with streaks of Latin brill
fancy.
Blend succeeds blend and. in geometrical progress
sion avishly provide substance for still further strains
Preiudices and bgotries are eliminated in the crossing
The toxins of intolerance dssoved-the synthetic
blood revitalizes communities weak with inbreedipg
Back and forth - from vein to vein the changing
lymph passes The weedv sap Of the Old World slowly
alters its posons and passions reduced in the diution
to a tonic for fresh inspirations.
Here and there little foulness works in. But it
does not persst-onlv still peoples grow stagnant and
become vile and while the random unfit from stagnan
land occasionally introduce defng impulse in the
national stream it dies in the current Scum vanishes
from swift waters.
We create a language an art a thought all our own
Each generation is altered fabric. Already the
sparse threads of south Europe increase in the pattern
First the Teuton and the Cet modify the Anglo Saxon
design now displays strong Slavic Scandinavian and
Aegean impulses which accentuate with the years to
show in turn still dim, but stronger, Semitic
influence.
AS the metal with which these lines are printed
must be thrown back into the pot and retensed with
anmonv before it is again fit to furnish good type so
in each generation escape atrophy by the induction
of strengthening alien element to vtalize mettle
The types cast WELL and each prints clean,
sharp hour
The melting pot preserves force and original
hy.
Each epoch produces its version of "Whos
Who in America
And therein lies the promise of the Republic
The Declaration of Independence abolished "an-
cestors.''
The Chinese figure differently-and look mhot a
heluua mess they're made of it,
They built great wall to keep out all foreigners
and Progress has since been hammering for adj
mittance