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1 THE HIGHLANDER AND SHELBY NEWS, Al'KIL 14, 1921. THE HIGHLANDER And Shelby News (CONSOLIOATKn FUB. iO. 1920.) Weekly $1.50 Per Year Published everv Thursday at Rhelhv. N. C bv THE HK.III.WIIK.R NEWS OKPOKATION. B. H. IV-IYiest, Fililor anil President. Telephone 411 Entered at the t'ost Office at Shelby, N. C, as second chiss matter. SfT TIIIKMV. AI'Kll. II. 1921. A I'l.KA Uod grain me tl'.e.-e. the strength to do Some needed serviee here The wisdom to be hr;ie and true; The Rift of viHinii lenr. That In eai h task that ronu's to me Some purpose 1 may plainly see. God fach me to believe that 1 Am Htationed at a post. Although the humblest 'neath the sky Where I am needed most. And that, at last, if I do vil My humble services will tell. Uod grant me faith to stand on guard. Cncheered. unspnke, alone, And aeo behind such duty hard llv service to th ethrone. AVhateer my task, be this my creed: 1 am on earth to till a need. - Knr.AR ;ri-;$T. The Melting Pot Fallacy Science has exploded the "melting pot" fallacy. All that the "pot" needed was the light of day, and, subjected to this test, like other ghosts of the past, it faded away. It has been in existence tor only a few centuries, and, in that time, has done the white race more injury than ail the combined wars and pestilences of the world. It never had any foundation, either in logic or fact. Real science, which is a de velopment of very recent times, never gave it a single defender, and yet no piece of error was ever swallowed more unreserv edly by the masses or given wider acceptance throughout the world. The masses of all lands are slow to give up error. Just how long as this fallacy will persist in the minds of the people is a matter of conjecture. We read not long ago of a woman whose ambition it was to take a representative child from each of the English, French, German, Italian, Arabic, Indian, Turk and African races, rear them in a little colony, and by intermarriage of these and their offspring, produce an im proved super-human being, or the "ideal man." The story was reproduced all over America, and is interest ing, not so much because of its silliness and absurdity, as be cause this fatuous hope of the melting pot theorists was so widely believed that by such a promiscuous and haphazard mixture of hetrogeneous ele ments a superior specimen of mankind might be produced. As a matter of fact, science has at its finger tips 10,000 ex amples of just such mixtures, every one of them mediocre or less not one expressing su preme genius, but just plain, insignificant mongrel. Jane Dixon, a noted journal ist, interviewed .M. Paul Holleu, a celebrated French etcher, and her story was published in hun dreds of American papers last Sunday. He, too, was a "melt ing pot" convert, antl his phi losophy, but illustrates the fact that because a man can draw artistic lines with a pen, it is no sign that he has sense in other matters and is competent to express a wise opinion about a country of which he knows little. The crazy melting pot theory is again heralded in big head lines. The crux of Helleu's con tention is that in America the "tremendous amalgamation of ALL NATIONALITIES has a tendency to eliminate faults arid weaknesses and leave only th best of each element." The facts are, that there has been as yet thank God ! no such general mixture of all na tionalities in this country. Ther : is not a first class hotel in California or North Carolina which would admit to its dining room a mongrel, whose blood was a mixture of Indian, Chi nese, Negro, English, French, etc. He would not be a white man at all but a poor mongrel, without the respect of any class or nationality. Almost every day we run across the theory that Amer ica owes its greatness to it's "mixed blood." No darker shad ow ever fell athwart the path way of truth. America owes its greatness to two things: first the supe rior blood of its homogeneous, thoroughbred, white, North-European settlers; and, second to it's great natural resources, which have been and are being developed by its various Saxon or Nordic elements. Just as the language of this country is Anglo- Saxon, so arei the backbone and ruling blood r of this country Anglo-Saxon. True, there has been a tre mendous influx of other blood and nationalities, but they have given to this country almost nothing in the way of science, invention, statesmanship or lit erature, and just in proportion as little sections of this country have been overrun with alien elements, just in that propor tion have those sections retro graded and degenerated in civ ilization. It is a strange thing that men of supposed intelligence, presumed to be acquainted with history, should still defend the niongrelization of the meltin;r pot in America, in the light of what happened to Egypt, Rome. Greece, Spain and other coun tries. The builders of the first civ ilization along the Nile must have come from the North our own ancestral country for many of them had blue eyes. Today there is not a blue eye in Egypt, except it be that of a European. The ancient Greeks had brown hair, blue eyes and fair skin. They, too, came from Northern Europe, long before the curtain of history rose. They were brothers of our far off ancestors. The melting pot theory was applied to them with sad and disastrous effect. The Greek men were killed off in wars and the Mongolid Turks took their women as wives. Infusion of other tropical and semi-tropical races completed the work of mongrelization and made the classical Greek of learning and philosophy as extinct as the dodo. Look at the Greek today about as much related to the an cient Greek as a horse is to a cow! Historians assert that Greece has produced but one great man in five hundred years. Venizelos, her late premier, is of Norse extraction, while her royal family came from Den mark and have not a drop of Greek blood in their veins. The old Roman empire was made up of a small superior ruling class and a vast number of slaves and servile classes. During the dark ages the melt ing pot played havoc with Italy, so that, like Spain, she degener ated, through absorption of in ferior blood and became one of the most backward countries of Europe. South of Rome the mongreli zation was most complete. Re sult Southern Italy has pro duced but one great man in five hundred years Caruso, thi singer, of monkey-house fame. Northern Italy saw far less absorption of alien blood, hav ing a notable infusion of Nordic strains, thus showing that it pays a country to have good North European, white blood in its citizenship. Result OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE- -By CONDO i tvSe J TAKer THIS. 3AC! tUHCM I PV id CENTS SCOTCH SX UATEK2 Somebody Loves You By Rev. John Roach Stratton kind, he pretty much ran this country. But when he began to absorb the more backward races of people, his star began to de cline. The same will be true of America. If the melting pot of girlhood ever I uses into one stream the coarse and fine elements that now inhabit this great land, our star, like that of tv-.t old Roman empire, will have set, never to rise again. rents were East Indian and ALL Turk, you would have real mon- Italian genius comes from iffrelization, and it is against Northern Italy. The Italian mi-tnis lcIlocy tnat modern science oration to this rnnntrv i mnat. is most strongly opposed. ily from Southern Italy, ditch- The same law applies to man diggers and criminals. The su- a,s to tle lower animals the (perior Northern Italian goes to thoroughbred is the winner. !the Argentine Republic where LAs lon as the Anglo-Saxon I he is a ruler New hnglander married his own j Note this description of Co ilumbus, born in Genoa, Italy, j "white-eyed, auburn haired and pink-skinned." (See Enclyc. , Brit., 10th Edit.) Do you see !any Italians today who resem ble Columbus? Spain received an infusion of ; Goths blond giants from I Northern Europe. With charac teristic energy they explored the new world and gave to Spain colonies upon which the sun never set. Where are those colonies today and where are the Goths of Spain? The melt '. ing pot swallowed them up. Tho admixture of Iberian, Moo'-, ; Basque, North African and oth er dark elements swallowed un the Gothic blood. The great scientists are j agreed that you cannot mix 'superior blood and inferior : blood and still produce superior ' blood. j The melting pot is as impos sible as the alchemist's retort, 1 wherein he foolishly dreamed that he could transmute the baser metals into gold. i he scientists are agreed that the laws of heredity are as im mutable as the laws of mathe matics. You cannot, by combin ing two different races, "elimi nate the faults and weaknesses and leave only the best of each the mongrel cow gave Jersey! milk in quantity while the I quality was that of the Hol stein. The students of racial science have compiled a vast amount of statistics. They all go to con found the "melting pot" propo nent. They reveal the startling fact that, although numbering only a little over one-half the American population, the Anglo Saxon element has produced and is producing nine-tenths of the genius of this country, most of the other tenth coming from kindred elements of Northern Europe. If you want elaboration on this subject, read "The Pass ing of the Great Race," by Mad ison Grant, and "The Old World in the New," by Professor Ed-jf simply this sentence: "In all the world ward A. Ross ot the University of Wisconsin. Much so-called mixture is not mixture at all. An Englishman married a German girl. Their son married a girl who was half Danish, half Norman-French. Were the children of the last couple mongrels? Decidedly not. their ancestors, although of dif ferent nationalities, were of the same race Nordic. But if an Englishman mar ried a Japanese and their chil dren married one whose pa- A pistol shot ranpr out in one of the rooms in a hotel of the West a little while ago. It was located at last and found a young man lying across a ta ble with a bullet through his brain and a revolver clutched in his lifeless hand. Yes, though he had youth, with all the promise antl chirrni of the fliture be fore him and the unlimited possibilities and resources that are connected with the June time of life he snuffed his out. The mystery was cleared up, how ever, when they found under the table under his other hand a note scrawled across a sheet of paper, containin there is nobody who loves me. And if that had really been true, we can readily understand why he should have take-i his own life. For lave, at last, is the only great essential. With out that, all things else are meaning less, empty and vain. The supreme revelation of the divine nature is con tained in the simple declaration of the Bible, "God is love." Love is the great transforming and sustaining power of the universe. It is not i discovery of science, but a reve lation from heaven, a nd it has its seat and center in the bosom of (iod. From that holy fountain it flows out to water every (lower of brightness and joy that blooms beside the highway of life. In tunes the shepherd's the warrior's DISCtSS FISCAL AFFAIRS. Washington. April 13. Fiscal affairs and more particularly the emergency tariff, were discussed at a Whi'.e House conference today between Pres ident Harding and Senators PenroVj cf Pennsylvania, chairman, and Wal son, Indiana, and McCuinber, North Dakota, members of the senate finance committee. KOMI COLLISION VICTIMS. Covington, Ky., April 13. Four per sons wi kiiled, four seriously in jured and two others badly hurt tn a ciillisiun nt an automobile and a Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad engine at a grade crossing here early today. RIPPLING RHYMES By Walt Mason KEEPING BCSY. When attending to my spinning, or whatever taHlCM are mine I flon't ap my neighbors sinning I suppose laHKeri peace, Love reed; In war, he mounts steed ; In halls, in gay attire. is seen; In hamlets, dar .i'S on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And man oelow and saints active For love is heaven, and heaven is love." On every side there is love, if only we will find it. Love ;;lovvs In the sun light; it blossoms in the flotvir; it breathes in the summer air; it shines in the rainbow; it glistens in the dewdrop; it murmurs in the flowing stream; it trills in the melody of the mocking bird; yes, and it thunders In the ocean's norm-tossed wave and gleams in the lightning flash :.s it leaps ath wart the dark bosom of the storm. Lovo throbs in the noble impulses of friendship: it blushes upon the cheek It brings delight to man iind maid as th' y wh.i'per their pre cious secret beneath the stars; it shines wit hhevenly beauty in a mother's eyes; 11 prattles through baby lips as rosy fingers prss at ivory breasts; and whether in a mud hole ot a marble palace, love is what makes a home Love touches the poet's tongue with lire; it sounds upon music's vibrant string, and it spreads the artist's can vas with masterpieces, of genius. Love taints the sunset and perfumes the io:;e and spreads beauty and bloom around the world. Love moves the tiniest atom of matter within the mole cule, it holds the earth true to its orbit as it wheels around the sun; it directs the course and destiny of every flaming star and rushing planet, and it reaches up to its highest height in Jesus Christ upon the Cross, for "God is love!" The poor youth who came to such an unfortunate end was mistaken. He vas surrounded witha n infinite uni verse of love, and he could have found fellowship If only he had waited. Doub less, too, he was mistaken in the con clusion which he expressed in his fare- n-oll nnlo finnlpu tipl'P in Ihft Witrlll ! there was a hi man heart that loved him; and, higher than that, there was jan infinite and divine compassion that lever surrounded him. Though he had j j forgotten it for the moment some moth er pr.iyfu mi mill, wine rwt-r-i m-a-i i cherished holy thoughts about him and longed to hear his footfalls again; or come little child lisped his name, and in plaintive sweetness when he trwik nun n v i v AMI MF.Viri) r.ltOWING I B Mexico City Trail between the I'nileti liil-s .in 1 .Mi-Mci during l;i"'l should a:M-nint to f i:ni.n"(i.iiii'i. ;.s ; against $:i:iu,t(.u.'Wf in l!)'t, according j to an estimate given out by W. T. j Saunders, secret.ir of die American t Cliimbi-r of Commeicc. Ke i-'-ceitly j returned from :i tun- -if the I'nitei' i Stjt's. Mr. Siiur.deri s:tys Tdexico ' needs capital p&rticuhii ly to develop; the sugar industry and for irrigation I w ui na. Billiards COMPLETE REORGANIZATION Mexico City. April Kl. Complete re organisation of the Mexican consular svetem has been ordered with llamon 1". IVnem i. tonuer Consul General in New York, In charge of the work. Sell er Denegrl told newspaper men that at least per cent of the consular body will h ercmoved for Inefficiency. r -Wti IWj VISIT SHELBY S 1 '0 iiigh class Recreation Parir Q Bi"ards, Soft Drinks, Cigars 1 they're acting fine. While 1 fumigate my chickens or repair the kitchen Sue, folks may act up like the dick I ens, I don't notice what they do. Oh, t j i r." 7, 1 m mging, angei-tnroated, as l tlnK- ciciucjii,. in nuxeu nerecilty tne l tr in the rain, and my thoughts are all Virtues arp liahlo tn Y,a .Hm! devoted to my labor safe and sane. nt,l i .; ii. i- .ii i i So I do not hear the acandai- that Don't give up the fight; ,mT' icviiif uie lauiIS ana i are flying through- the towm" and llnltar fires of hone and faith, for love. would return; or some strong friend. who had seen the gold below the dross of his sin, still cherished him and hoped for him the highest and bert. And some one loves you discouraged young man or woman, alone in the rnKhlnir multitude of this great city. Heklnkle the paramount in the weaknesses offspring The cattle breeder who ig nored this law, thought ho could unite the Jersey cow. do not meet the vandals who would -"the greatest of these," somewhere is wreck some fair renown. And I miss ' waiting for you. New York Amerl the vicious stories that the gossips can. weave all day, for I hoe my mornlnr glories in the good old fashioned way. lillKV nennle fid not ItftHrflo talAM thai ' stir up human strife; busy people do which gives milk rich in cream ; '"'',ldl wiWne dirty dre of U.,4- 1 1 ; i-i . i life; they are thinking of achievement, but Small in quantity, With the of the toil that makes a hit. and they Holstein, Which gives a large know the'r great bereavement when OUantitV of milk hut nf nrinror , tne darkn,'!'!, les them quit. Idler iJUdlillty OI mint DUl, OI poorer 8pend their time inventing tales that quality, noping uy tniS mixture make old Ha tin grin, they're the to produce a cow which could combine the Holstein quantity of milk with the Jersey quality. rp, i, i ., , iifiK wii'.u me uarKnesn manes i lem , The result was, however, that I qua. i FWK, SAIC SY sleuth-hounds that aie scenting every trail that hints of sin: and the whole some lads are stealing as the golden moments flit, only worrying and fret-I ri, anA oil .A 11-.... ting wh n the darkness makes them .1"" ?"u " us JULIUS A. SUTTLE Stores Eli When You Go Banking THIS bank's attitude toward its customers is the same as that of any other progressive business striving to please its patrons. When you come here, you will receive courteous, intelligent attention; you will find an earnest desire on our part to help you transact your business pleasantly and satisfactorily. We ara constantly studying ways of improvement in our equipment and organization by which our service will be made more convenient and help ful to you. For there is no mystery about banking. It is just a human, everyday business, which benefits largely by courtesy and a friendly spirit. The First National Bank Capital and Surplus, Half Million Dollars. m m . Si Si m iff ly lime is Screen Time SEES The Shelby Hardware Company BUY YOUR Screens now and kill the fly before he gets a good start Headquaters For Screens of all Kinds ii BsihtOTSUni on 11 n m eiDv oar Opposite First Baptist Church. dwa re Co, Shelby N. C.
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