The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-17
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Morales.
Morales. THE German nationalists, who recently unmasked, are now openly advocating

NOr01cS.
 THE German nationalists, who recently unmasked, are now openly advocating Il
 restoration of the monarchy. In thelr election program it is set as an iron rule that no man shall be a candidate for the party who is not of pure Teutonic blood. Though the nationalist gentlemen perhaps overlook the fact, their royal masters and the maJorlt! of the junkers being Prussians, are not even Teutonic, though they may lay claim to that supreme and rather delectable distinction of being Nordic That is to say if the roving, murdering, beer-swilling bands of Finnish ana Morse boat-rowers of the tribe of Rurlk, who founded a sort of rule ill Russia and also Prussia in the 9th century are the original Nordics No lexicon or dictionary will ex- plain the word Nordic, neither in Scandlna- vian, English, Dutch, German, Italian or any other language. No ethnolOgical division or mankind ever included that racial distinction. No scientific treatise ever mentioned that particular race, painstaking writer dls- covered. But from recent references to Nor dies, one must come to the conclusion that the Nordic is indeed the original superman' the demi-god of antiquity come back to the 2Oth century, He is the salt of the earth All the great movements in history have been headed by Morales, we are told. No sucn movements as the renaissance or art ana culture or the founding of schools or the carrying of the torch of learning, Dut suGh movements as the-tlestruction of Rome Dy the Goths and the Vandals; the massacring footing march of Attilla, the ''scourge Of God across the European continent; the depreda- tions of the Visigoths in Spain. Ihose are the Nordic monuments Tn history. oome people would indeed lay claim to these seml- civilized barbarians as their ancestors or
 erhaps spiritual ancestors, for no human being alive today can claim that his physical ancestors were ever in the conquerlng leelons of these skin-clad warriors. There are piue eyed, blond Italians and Rumanlans, tnere are even Russians with Latin faces, Germans with the heads of Gauls and Scotsmen wlth the features of Hebrews in this world. It impossible to discover where Nordlc leaves off and Sudic begins. But the Germans are ists hate the socalled Mediterranean culture Yet their own Rhineland, peopled by pre- dominantly Latin population, though speak ing German, has for centuries been ine cen ter of true German culture, sometnhg Us tinct from the barbaric coldness of Prus- sian Berlin.
 A periodical published in East Prussia, The Koenigsberg Spiegel," makes an, nouncement of the discovery of 17-year-oid perfect specimen of manhood, who can Hll enormous weights, tackle four or i've up grown men at one time and who can li0or 100 the strongest with one DloW oI HIS AiSI. younr Hercules goes under the name of Otto ranzler Otto did not have great deal to say to his journalistic interviewer It IS written that he just grinned." But he did tell the reporter that he is going to tour UT the world and lick every prize tighter Ill sight, after he gets little training. Otto does not lack for optimism, it seems. He is somewhat like the Irish soldier in the Canadian forces of whom the story is told that he was informed by his corporal that he was due for listening post in No Mans Land. Before details were marched off the colonel of the regiment remarked that he did not expect any attacks during the night, and that there was little likelihood of an enemy raid. but that he offered five-dollar bill for any German prisoner brought in during the night. Two lrishmen set out with thelr periscope and listening instruments. They spent the night in d shell hole. At dawn, while one was drowsing, the other espled the Germans getting ready for an attack He awoke his comrade, Mike" he said, they're oming!" How many O them" came the answer. 'Ok," said the other, looking through his periscope, about million"
 That's good buddy" replied the drowsy one, 'our fortune is made"