The Washington times., 1921-03-06
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10 A n apron made Of the skin Of an
animal
> A. simple, primitive and bru-
tai perhaps, a any ssvsgss on earth excepting the
tiny black dwarfs that hide IN tho tropical forest
these Namaquas rsprsssnt well the beginning Of
human Me. In thsir language there Il no word TO
express gratitude. They have no idea Of any God
except their vague belief that there exists Being
able to kin them. This Being thsy think can b
pleased and made less fsrocious BY ssO1dnoes'
Il would take many pages Of this nswspsPer 70
give, in words, as good IN idea Of savage thought
as Mr. McCay gives in this powerful cartoon, based
ON an old wood-cut made from the drawing Of IN
African traveller.
"Thirst shall parch thy tonga and thy body
shall waste through lack Of slesp and sustsnanos
ere thou canst describe in words that which paint
ing instantly sets forth before the sys"
That was written BY Leonardo d. Vinci, the
greatest artist that ever lived except Michael An
gelo, one Of the greatest In power and vision Of
all the men that have lived on the earth
You read the character Of men in their fears,
their hatreds and superstitons. You know much
about the Namaquas savages when told that In all
their language there is no word to express grati-
tude or thanks They live under the herce tropical
sun against which their race at fearful odds, has
fought through tho centuries. They suffer for lack
Of water, and when rain comes the fearful torren-
tial storm Of the tropics thar fields are flooded
and sometimes cattle that had been bellowing for
xyofar suyeut ayvnv In thu torrent.
The ssvages Of Africa had first Of all to fight
and conquer tho burning sun, hence the black akin
that keeps of the deadly "actinic rays that
would quickly destroy any white race in their
climate, and the thick, wooly hair saturated with
grease, protecting the skull from the heat and the
deadly s.1se. Of those same rays.
As We think of different kinds of human beings,
let Us Judge them by the conditions under which
they I'VE whether they be Eskmos near the North
Pole or men like these Namaquas at the. Equator.
Sslf-satished ignorance il Mortified at tho Es-
kmo eating enormous quantities Of rank fat whale
blubber Any race transferred to tho Arctic Circle
would do that or die Ignorance despises the black
skin and woolly hair Of the African Any white
race transferred to the African tropics would de-
velop such skin and hair, or it would die.
UNDERSTAND what you arc discussing, as
far as possible before discussing it. An eagle cannot
understand q turtle, OF turtle an eagle. And the
COW, mildly grazing, cannot understand either.
Every human being that despises another no matter
wnat that other may be, simply represents the ami,
NAL expression of prejudice based on ignorance.
without the thunderstorm and the lightning and
the rain that comes with thsm, the Namaquas and
their cattle would die Of thirst But they hate and
fsnr the lightning, some foolish little boys hate
tho teacher that brings useful information. weoom-
ing the rain these savagss dip their ARROWS in poison
and in spite of their terror 60 out in hundreds to
shoot at the clouds from which the lightning flashes
Some Of them, occasionally are struck dead by
the lightning that they seek foolishiy to injure.
II thsy had stayed IN their hutA content to let
turs have her way taking the good with tho bad,
the lightning with the rain, they would have been
safer.
When the storm is over, these poor black people
imagine that their Arrows have driven It away and
that they have managed to got the welcome rain
and at the same time be rid Of the dangerous thun-
dsrbolt.
Human beings Of our kind, the so-called "civil-
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