Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-07

IxxrASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. with In
w dia harassing the British government
w by means C it's non-co-operatlon
movement, with Egypt in turmoil, with the
negroes forming a world association under
Marcus Garvey with the Jewish Zionist
movement we'll under way, and With the Chl-
nese patiently but stubbornly asserting tnelr
right to be let alone, inviting all the otner
r~tions of the earth go out the open door
and close it after them, this seems truly to
be an epoch OIL self-assertion on the part or
oppressed peoples.
The dominant nations absorbed in their
own debts and wars, seem hardly aware OF
the widespread and spontaneous character OF
this movement toward self-assertlOn on the
par. of the peoples who have worn yokes lot
cen uries. Servitude, exploitation, personal
and national prejudice, contempt, these peo-
pes have all known some or all OF these
expressions. Barring the Hebrews, who are
case unique, they have all been known as
inferior or subjected races
Now all of them, but especially the Indians
and Chinese, are showing signs of "a grow
ing inchoate strength. They lack organiza-
ton, unified purpose, and they probably Will
| lack these things for generations yet Bit
it is in these things that they are growing.
And the strength the. have is an immense
racial vitality and persistence. While the
dominant nations of the earth are becoming
vast polyglot gobs in which the best strains
tend to decrease while the poorer increase,
racial identity and homogeneity. They are
conquered, owned and exploited by AMEN
races; they are carved into spheres of 1ntu-
| enCe and protectorates; they are SUBJECTED
yet by tending steadily to the businesses of
Using babies and crops they have remained
distinctive peoples with distinctive ideals.
Racial Identity
| An Englishman or an American these days
| LAY be a Mediterranean or Nord1C. he
Cow SIxy ON q
may be an immigrant of few years ago.
| The streets of all Of the principal cities or
the greaL western nations re streets OF
Babel In them swarm vast motley crowds
| of men who have nothing in common except
| their hunger for land and money. Melting
pots where the ingredients do not fuse are
these great cities, so that an American or
an Englishnan may be anything. But when
| you say a Chinese or an East indian, you
| know exactly what you mean. The WORD
summons picture of distinctive KIND OF
man. TIL sse peoples are united in aspiration
! and purpose becau~e they are Uniform IN
blood and tradition.
| That is one great advantage they have
over the nations which now dominate the
earth. When you say Great Britain you
| mean government, and governments have
| always been transient and troubled things.
But when you say China or India you mean
a people, sol and homogeneous, and that Is
| thing as real and permanent as {. continent
an ocean
The reasons why these peoples persist, re-
| tain their racial identity and multiply, while
| the Occidental nations lose their identity and
die out at the top, seem to be chiefly two.
l the first place, they do not go in for war
and in the second place they have no talent
| for industry.
War, as has been pointed out great many
time in the last few years, really threatens
| the destruction of western civilization. The
Napoleonic wars weakened France enormously
and are said to have reduced the average
height of Frenchmen several inches. The
| Franco-Prussian war was a further blow.
| France has not, in any line of, human en-
| deavor, reached the greatness she had befors
| those wars. !
| The Civil war in it's effect on our own
south is one of the most striking examples
| Of the result: of prolonged conflict. But all
| of these wars were minor affairs compared
F.! to the one just passed. We know that 1t
| killed ten million good young men, that it
| crippled the principal European nations In
ever. department of human endeavor, am
tic by destroying the young blood which is
| full effects are yet to be seen. Furthermore,
these nations are now steadily moving toward
another wal, and one which will inevitably
be far more destructive than the last. What
will be their strength and status after, the
next world war?
| Peoples Who Won't Fight
| Meantime, the ''inierior peoples steadily
refuse to impair their racial vitality by kill
ing each other The Chinese, for example,
simply will not fight. They are supposed to