The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-09

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1 right and ,oMrs
'-s''-.'1a'''''"'t''''a---s wrong"
Gertrude .Atherton. The .ip CT den t
would rot be
werEh mentioning II 1t were not for the
reflection that the American race
worships Success. For generations it
has .toadied to wealth, $40 'matter how
ill-getten, and every maa who achieves
power, by whatever devious ways, is
secretly ,envied and openly courted.
The majority of Americans are easy
going. indifferent, unidealistic and mot
very clever. They are also intensely
personal and only ask to be let alone.
1t sis possible that the mass, there
fore, unless it has real awakening,
would. provided the Germans, in the
remote event of victory, were adroit
enough to Seave them large amount
Of individual liberty, shrug their shout
ders and say: well, guess they must
be right or they couldn't win out.
Nothing TO do hut come round Tinses
change anyhow
"Ahonainahke Prospect"
This IS an :abominable prospect but
it is to be faced Our world, over here,
in the event OF German domination.
would be divided into two classes
mean converts and proud Irreconcila-
bles-for even In this new and COM
posite coaatry there are enough men
and women with high ideals and in
violate souls to .despise a race with
out a gleam of spirituality, of sports
manship, Of dseency and good man
ners, in whom cunning has taken the
place of intelligence, and that wins
only by driving its millions of cowed
subordinates to mathematical slaugh-
ter One cannot even respect such a
race enough to hate it. 1t is as If one
had been attacked by q, here Of wild
animals from the jungle. Those that
escape being dexeused may at least
withdraw as far as possible, not ne
mould themselves into semblance OF
wild beasts with a lust for human fiesa.
"cock-Sureness Eiuff."
4 have not the faineest notion that
the Germans will win. All the proba-
bihaies are against ii. Moreover. il
one projects his mind forward it is in
conceivable that history can read that
way. The general conditions OF the
world are not what they were in the
Fifth Gentury-that is to say, unless
the idea grew insidiously that it was
the destiny of the Gesmanic race to
win and 4gie the earth in other words,
that It was the destiny Of Earth to Ne
vert to the Fifth Century and begin
over again. 1t is incredible that such
a thought should take possession OF
any educated mans mind, but the
trouble is that oar famous {and ofen-
gve) cock-sureness is only bluff. Is
sace we are not really sure Of our
selves. We prove that by bfi1dly ae-
cepting the European made reputation
and hesitating to create and come out
boldly FOR our own. Those OF Us that
think and have the power to visualize
the future must be on the alert every
moment to counteraet this tendency
of an uncrystallized race TO accept the
success Of might as matter of course
and unconsciously adapt itself to the
INEVITABLE" We must be known as
the IRRECoNCILABLES, and if we
take a definite uncompromising stand
there will be only one result-the men
of real courage who might otherwise
look upon new future philosophical
ly" will not only wake up under the
direct example, but will be ashamed
to be reckoned as mere numbers in
the great mass Of sheep or convicts.
There is no such insidious lowering OF
morale threatened as this, because 1t
is not Of German, Pacifst or Socialist
origin. 1t is born of common human
weakness and national snobbery. The
result will be a vast mass Of inertia,
and only a party Of sleepless 1rrecon-
cilables will combat and diminish 1t.
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