Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-04-06

Foreign postage added.
AS this page is written before the
votes are counted, it will be safer
not to say much about the city cleo
ton results.
March has done nobly this year,
and we apologize tor all the mean
things blamed on him Cor her or IT'D
in past years.
In WEIGH, West Va, Mark Dillon
dropped dead two hours after saying
in testimony, 81 hope God will drop
me dead if l made that statement"
Flis health had apparently been good.
The superstitiOus will marvel over
this and shake their heads. Others
will say it was just a coincidence.
In number of cities the American
Legion has developed strong counter
pressure against the pro-German prop
uganda in evidence at the recent "hor-
or on Rhine" meetings. Pro-German-
ism was subdued but not eliminated
during the war Now it's proponents
are taking heart hence the noisy dem
do great work along this line.
900
Clara Smith Hamon isn't going to
let herself drop out of sight if she
can help it. She has joined church,
and announces that she will appear
i'll a screen version of her life and diff
f1culties. Absurd, disgusting, silly,
improper, suggestive-yet if one house
should show this 'nauseating" thing
and a competitor show a really meri-
torious production, can you guess
which house would take the most
money? You have guessed it.
900
When Kiyoski Hosokawa, New York
silk importer, returned to his fiat he
found his white bride of month
Crumpled up in a chair with her sight
less blue eyes staring into space.
smell of gas pervaded the room. She
learned too late that Americans do
not favor mixed" marriages. Regard
less of the conditions imposed upon
this country in its function as melt
ing pot it will remain necessary to
preserve racial integrity. This funda-
mental is not due to any superiority
real or assumed of the white race. 1t is
due to the fact that mixing races
doesn't work we'll Crossing brings
out the bad qualities of both bloods
-OOO-
In New Mexico the religious sect
known as THE Penitentes," have
again reenacted their drama of blood
and afith centered around the passion
OF Christ. The sect half Indian,
half Spanish crudely but with great
force observe the Lenten period with
self-torture and fiagellatiOn. AT the
end they carry out the drama of
Christ's betrayal and crucifXiOn. A
long line winds over the hills to the
place chosen as Calvary The march
ers beat themselves with knouts
studded with spikes and the trail is
covered with blood. At the head of
the line a figure staggers under a
cross.
A conflict RACES in New Mexico as
to whether or not the authorities
should forbid the ceremony. Certain
civilized people in the state claim that
the practices are inhuman, barbarous
and not in keeping with Christianity
Another party, equally strong, see no
reason for being sensitive about the
matter In commenting upon the
controversy F. j. Haskins says: 1.-THE
the Indians, and their ways have as
little to do with the commercial and
social life of the state as have the
ways of the Indians. Furthermore,
they are no more primitive than the
people who can be round in mountain
sections of many southern states, in
the pine barrens of New Jersey, and
for that matter in the slums of New
York and Chicago. And they are
vastly more picturesque and sign1fl-
cant. They are a true survival OF the
Age of Faith. In them is the medic
val soul, alive and unchanged, with
its unshakable faith in redemption
and immortality, its high scorn of
blood and death The penitentes rep
resent a step in the progress OF man.
They are brutal and bloody, if you
will. but they have dignity, high
courage and faith-things that the
race is everywhere losing now. They
deserve to be studied sympathetically
rather than ignored
Dob
In a discussion over world peace
Walter B. Pitkin, author of the book,
"Must We Fight Japan" has drawn
the conclusion that at the present the
white race stands first in civilization,
progress, wealth, energy, education,
war strength, ability and humanity
The United States today leads the
nations of the world, white, yellow,
or dark. Speaking of tomorrows. fifty
years hence, Pitkins asks; Which
nation will be supreme?" which
race?" He then follows with this
premise:
"War or no war, supremacy be-
longs to the race that produces
the larger number of babies that
grow up"
Regardless of our ability, education,
civilization, wealth or integrity, the
white race and America will newt
ably fall if we as race do not carry
cut Natures law and carefully rear
the new generations to maturity. This
- lo;d down &c q mandate of God