The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-22
Race Hatred Does Not
Increase - There is
Less of It-LOve Is
Healing Virtue-In-
telligence Also Chief
of Virtues - Club
May Pick It's Mem
bers, but q College Is
Not a Club.

AVOG a NkuOs
President Lowell of Harvard says
that "there is q. rapidly growing anti
Semitic feeling in the country"
Rather the feeling has been steadily
decreasing Thus win anti-socia1
feeling of all kinds. Through the
principal street of city there may
pass, on a given day, wagons carry
ing hundred cords of wood. This
may be more wood than the street
has seen on one day The forest may
be less extensive than it was.
Klu Klux Khan may be active.
There may be other active organiza-
tons promoting hatred. The rela-
ton in numbers is surely smaller than
it would have been upon the side of
hatred in the day of the Know Moth.
ing There are two measures of
movement, the numbers engaged in
1t, and the ability of their leadership.
PRESIDENT MelkleJOhn OF Amherst
says, quoting from the American:
There is only one real vice, hatred;
and only one virtue, love. Where
hate comes in, life fails. Where love
comes in, life is sane
The larger number, the sanest and
the ablest. accept the doctrine Of
love. There is less hate. more love
in the United States. There is another
virtue, the virtue of intelligence. This
is a chief of virtues, because by this
virtue the advantages of other vir-
sues are perceived. Most sin and
failure may be regarded as a mere
inability in the individual to perceive
what is best for him
Recall the victory Of Woman Suf-
frage. After every election in which
women were beaten. there was a loud
sound of the v1ctors. But the vote
for women always grew larger. The
women were winning. They were
sure to win.
Ancient hatreds rear their heads. |
They make loud noises. But the
number who hate grows smaller. |
Love wins Intelligence win win.
Things thought to- be race hatred, |
often are not Much misconception
grows out of social matters. A man
fG na1 he ha 40 ha~ he
rights another man. trades in the |
community pays taxes, but isn't ad-
naitted to some club. society, or fra
ternity, or isn't invited to souae home |
or companionshap.
In social life those chum together |
who prefer to do SO. Into a given
club some men OF any other race will |
be admitted more freely than some |
men Of tho race dominant in that |
club.
The Individual at best has time for |
never know Intimately all of those |
whom he would like to know A |
mans marriage often determines his |
social friends. The wife makes the
social life.
Barriers against intermarriage OPP
crate socially. Groups who marry
together are more apt to find their |
social life together. This circum-
stance should never be overlooked, in
Weighing prejudice.
Fair play in the world; justice in
business; equality before the laws:
Kindness in daily intercourse. these
are the elements of democracy. The
individual may have his own friends.
belong to his own clubs. find his con-
ISOLATION among chosen spirits and
not be guilty of race prejudice.
A college is not a social club. The
doors of a college must be open to
all on equal terms.
Miss Harriet Luella McCollum. who
gave Bridgeport lessons in psycho1o
gy, says marriage should be made diff
hcult and divorce easy The lead
ers of the great Federation of wora
ems clubs agree with her. about MAX
ing marriage more difficult They
would have Federal law, forbiddinx
persons under twenty-one to marry
without consent of parents. They
would have bans cried two weeks in
advance. Making divorce easy. is
another question Religion saws not.
The state. since Millions time. has
been making divorce easier There
is one obstacle IN the way of mar
rage, unemployment, which removes
the economic foundation of the home.
Divorce used to be easy for the
man. The woman could be put awav