The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-10


 appropriation for Paris hats. high
 heeIed shoes, silk stockings and uther abSoloot necessities for frend wife
 and the gurls. So the aforsed Weller Peril quietly collects the mazuma and buys liburty bonds six-eyllendur cars and uther assets, while the American farmur gathurs to himself an increased waste measure and mortgage on the old homsted. Then aftur the American farmur has becum
 srately discouraged oYver the sit uasion and the cabbage wurm and the prune bug and the grape moth and the tax collectur have all had theere inning and taken theere toll, the wiley Jap happens along with q pro- posision to leese his farm for short turn of ninety nine yeers and per quisites for neerly two-sevvenths of it's market valew leeving him nuth- ing to do but to collect his rent and dodge his crediturs and play check CUTS at the village store, and he does so becawse it seems to be about the only answer Now while this is partly what is the mattur with Cal iifornia and the Japs it is not the biggest trubble-not by a jug full. The big row is ovVer sumthingN else which las not been ageitated in the press-the grate underlying reesun-- a reesun as old as the world and ten times hardur to get rid of than offs applicant frum Texas is the rase issue The average Callifor- mia citizun will sit calmly and vit- uously down and delivvur a lecture to the suthern peepul about theere boneheded and unreesunning preju- disc against our citizuns of African desent and will argur till the cows cum home that theere is no reel and sound reesun why the two rases should not mingul togethur sosially and evvery uther way as harmon niusly as pink tee with only one lady presint. They beleeve it and they proove it to theere entire sattisfac- ton and enny thing you may submit on the subject they regard as pure and undiluted piffle. But you just take the libburty of mensioning to them cassuelly that the Jayponeese enjoy a sivvilizasion menny thousends of yeers oIdur than ours and that they air a cultivated and enlightened peepul: a little off in complexion it Is trew but altogahur q proud and houghty rase with a pedigree like imported pointur pup, and that you can see no possibull objectsion to the children of both rases attinding our insttusons of leernng togethur, swapping iasck-knives and chewing gum in perfect freedun and all that and immediately sed average Calli- fornia citizun will throw fit and freeze up like persunnel frend rum who you air trying to borry mummy and inform you that you air seventeen dHfurent kinds of a jack-ass, and that what you don't know about the Japs would fill a ltbrery. That's exactly what the mat tur is with Callifornia-sosial equal lity-the Japs think they air as good or bettur than the Americons-the Americans think they ant They think so in sevverel diffurrent lan- guages-they put a lot of expression in thinking that way--they air going to continue rite along that line all summer, next summer and ten hun dred yeers rum now, and if enny- thing brings about runkus with Jaypan-that will be it.
 A lot of peepul in this country With polytical heft believe, or at ieest pretend to beleeve that we can mix all kinds of rases ovver heer in- discriminatory like you mix pure pork and hoos meat in hash and call 1t Hamburger stake and that we can go rite along~in full accord and live in brutherly love and fellership AoieNVcI dltuT. buL It won [ work. It newer has worked-Urope. has been scrapplng ovver that problirn for sevverel hundred yeers-they ave certainly wasted lot of am munision experriminting with that Verry proposition. Why the English, the Frinch, the Italliens, the Amer icons and sum half dozzen uthers got togethur becawse it took the hole outfit to lick Gurmany--they cheered each uther-they fell upon each uther's neck and wept teers of joy and frendship lasting and eturnel- and swore in large and butifully cor rect langwage how they loved eac. uther--and just as soon as they put the furnishing tuches to the Kysur-. each one began to suspect the uther Teller of trying 10 hog all the silvur ware and all the glory and the bonus and everything else. Rite now each one of them Is carrying eonsealed weapons-just as a mattrr l Of precawsion-see. Whats the an | swer--rase diffurenses-rase prejud- 1 tse-rasiel distrust. That's the an ! swer out In Callifornia-to menny | laps air getting into that part of the | country and the peopule won't stand | for 1t. We will have to stop them | right wheere they air-or we will l sooner or 1atur flte ovver it--as sure | as powdur will burn Hobsun and | Jim Ham air rite. Hoping you ar the same. Yours trooly, l
 RTIJ. WINES