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HE prophet presents _the truth.ho~!~
a ostle disseminates it, tlle sc
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analyzes 1 , the people accept and :i.pfi 11 n·t and the statesman na Y e
tablets of stone
the law
the land. Betwee prophet and statesman
mtless ages pass.
. • .,. a man
Somewhere back in the begmnm.,
,aw God as
one aoove all
ind' over all.
!\.nother
man
iiscovered the
corollary truth,
that man is
me. Unfortunitely, the man
who saw this
;ruth for the
irst time was
;wallowed by a
;vhale, and
rept there by
L douoting gen~ ration.. We
iave ·all doubt~d tlle lesser
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miracles of the
aJl4 accepted without hesitation the
aJncles. The real miracle isn't the
tll of the fish that swallowed Jonah,
Mc heart of the man. In that dim
lew, cradled in race consciousness,
Ill. frotn mankind, believing in Je'hol.la P11vate deity, and himself as the
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t he should have a heart big
: ~ his message across th_e sea
the llliracJe. The initial miracle
Testament isn't that a star hung
lletn. but that, two thousand years
Jllen of dif'l'erent races should
t l' and camp together under
~ try to find the cradle of a
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Whether Jesus turned
'lrlne Illay... be doubted or believed
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The INTER-NATIONAL MIND and the INTER-RACIAL HEART*
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EDWARD
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STEINER
says: " 'The Terrible Meek' are entenng
into their inheritance, and it cannot be so
far away when out of tlhe mouths of babes
and sucklings strength shall be ordained,
and not out of the mouths of pistols and
blunderbusses."
While the inter-nati-onal mind is being
created, and we are beg'!.nning to learn how
to live togetller on one globe amicably, there
is a phase of the problem that has not
passed the stage of the prophet. The question now is: "How can different races and
nations live together amicably in one country?" The ethnic wedge lhas been driven
deep into the consciousness of men, and the
people who are ethnically separated seem to
be wider apart than ever before. The white
man must realize that at the present time
all .t lle race problems are of his own creation. The only way to solve them is for
each race to remain in the environment in
which its own race :problems have developed. Then every wihite man would have
to • eave the United ·States, for this environl
ment was created for the red man. (Laughter.)
I have studied American history rather
carefully, and fr,o m the sources. I have not
yet discovered a single document which says
that any Indian sent an engraved invitation
to Columbus to come over here. We created
for the Indian race characteristics which
he never possessed, and gave him new characteristics because of tlhe environment we
made for him. I like to impress upon my
American friends that not so long ago their
ancestors were savages.
If the Romans
had come among the British as we did
a:mong the Indians, with the three R'srum, rifles, and real-estate agents, .then the
only good Britons would have been dead
Britons. (Applause.)
We went to the black man's country and
forcibly brought him here-the only immigrant who did not come of lhis own accord.
H e r a ised our cotton. sugar. indigo, and
did savages recognize each other by their
tattoo marks. I doubt if a fellowship which
is dependent on symbols and signs means
much more than the old tribal relationship.
In every department of living and thinking
and acting we have made progress. We have
modified pretty nearly everything except
this old attitude of hate toward the unlike.
Is there any way of modifying it? Ot
course, some of my friends will tell me it
is an economic problem. Now, there are some
things that cannot ·be solved by economic
means. This is a matter whiclh every man
must work out .for hfmself. It is a desperately individualistic problem.
I will tell you how I have worked it out
for myself. I have a class in what I call
social psychology. In a certain place in m y
course I tell the students to empty their
minds of everything, and then write down
what they see when I say a certain word ;
and then I give them the words: Chinese,
Japanese, Jew, Negro, etc, and invariably I
find that the -man sees something smaller
and more despicable than himself. Everybody
has to have something tower than himselt
to look down -upon, and 'SO - hey always see
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a race at its worst, and all of its members
alike. What we must remember if we want
to create an inter-racial heart is to destroy
our labels. I was born in a departmentstore of races : I cou.Jd cry in seven different languages when I was a baby. (Laughter.) If there is one great conviction which
has come to me, which I ,hold with a desperate dogmatism, it is tlhat underneath that
which climate and hunger and thirst and
tyranny have produced among all people the
world over, you will find the essentially
alike everywhere-the human. (Applause. )
The other thing which we have to do bes ides destroying our labels is to think it
we are not after all debtors to one another.
We are all interrelated, and ·o we one to
another practically everything we 'have.
The only thing we can do to be absolutely
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without ·hesitation the
The real miracle isn't the
llae fish that swallowed Jonah,
..,i of the man. In ~hat .dim
cradled in race consciousness,
mankind, believing in J eho:e deity, and himself as the
he should have a heart big
his message across the sea
mtracle. The in-itial miracle
ament isn't that a star hung
but that, two thousand years
of different races should
and · camp together under
try to :find the cradle of a
; Whether Jesus turned
may , e doubted or believed
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profit a- d to no one's hurt.
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Jesus of Nazareth should talk
at the well, and reveal his inwoman of Samaria-that is
which Jesus did at the
-ministry. That Paul was
the viper on his arm is of
But that Paul should go to
ends of his eartlh. to carry the
tbat is of miraculous moment.
11a.ve not been ·able to realize
"New ·b arriers have risen
.And yet something has
of the confusion of nathere has arisen the inter. People are beginning to
of .other nations as well as
We are honoring t'he memman who had a mind of that
Lincoln. (Applause.)
In
ca has produced a man who
iation.al mind-John Hay.
• ~ true that at the present
ding dreadnaughts, and
am war between. nati"ons and
as Charles Rann Ker{nedy
and answers
au .the race prOUlelll:S cl.rt, VJ. J.U::, VWJ.J. \,J.catiOn. The only way to solve them is for
each race to remain in the environment in
which its own race :problems have developed. Then every wlhite man would have
to •
leave the United -States, for this environment was created for the red man. (Laughter.)
I have studied American history rather
carefully, and from the sources. I have not
yet discovered a single document which says
that any Indian sent an engraved invitation
to Columbus to come over here. We created
for the . Indian race characteristics which
he never possessed, and gave him new characteristics because of tlhe environment we
made for him. I like to impress upon my
American friends that not so long ago their
ancestors were savages. If the Romans
had come among the British as we did
among the Indians, with the three R'srum, rifles, and real-estate agents, then the
only good Britons would have been dead
Britons. (Applause.)
We went to the black man's country and
forcibly brought him here-the only immigrant who did not ·come of lhis own acC'ord.
He raised our cotton, sugar, indigo, and
the Civil War. For what we have done we
must pay, for no nation escapes the wages
of sin. (Applause.) There is nothing so
precious in God's sight as human endeavor,
and its wages wi,ll have to be paid; if not
now, then through the ages, with desperately
big interest.
Then, when we could not consume all our
own cotton, our passion for ethnic color sent
us to the yellow man's country, and persuaded him-with the aid of a few gun-boats-to
open his gates to us and trade with us.
Again, when we needed our coal mined, the
men of muscle of southern and eastern
Europe were invited to come. Thus are we
reS"])-Onsible for the race problem.
Nor does it help the solution that these
races have come very near to us. The
nearer they come, the less we like them.
Tlhe farther off a nation is, the more romantic it seems. Now, is there any remedy,
or is the .b ond which •lilinds us to be woven
of prejudice and hate? Are we not to advance one step beyond the cave man, who,
when he saw another cave man, said: "Will
he kill me. or can I kill him?" Now we
say: "Will he do me, or can I do him?"
(Laughter.)
College men recognize each other as
friends ·b y their fraternity buttons, but so
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minds -0f everything, and then write down
what they see when I say a certain word;
and then I give them the words: Chinese,
Japanese, Jew, Negro, etc, and invariably I
find that the .man sees something smaller
and more despicable than himself. Everybody
has to have something l·o wer than himsel!
to look down upon, and so they always see
a race at its worst, and all of its members
ali"ke. What we must remember if we want
to create an inter-racial heart is to destroy
our labels. I was born in a departmentstore of races: I cou-ld cry in seven different languages when I was a baby-. (Laughter.) If there is one great conviction which
ha-s come to me, which I ,hold with a desperate -dogm·a tism, it is tlhat undern~th that
which climate and hunger and thirst and
tyranny have produced among all people the
world over, you will find the essentially
alike everywhere-the human. (Applause.)
The other thing which we have to do besides destroying our labels is to think if
we are not after all debtors to · one another.
We are all interrelated, and owe one to
another practically everything we !have.
The only thing we can do to · e absolutely
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fair to ourselves and others is to acknowledge that indebtedne!!.
We always say the people who come to
us are the scum of the earth. We forget that
scum is never at the ·b ottom, but always at
the top. (Laughter.) We also forget that
these people come from the very seat and
cradle of civilization and culture; that if
they do not bring it in tJheir own minds and
hearts, it is not because they have not been
hungry for it, but because conditions have
kept it from them. We must judge them as
the farmers judge milk, by the cream. We
do not want to be ju-dged, -Ourselves, in
p-olitics by certain senators ·o r governors or
mayors, -but, as we ·h ave a right to be
judged, by the great men who have risen
above the mountain tops of their ·o wn country, and - ave come to belong to the world.
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And so we must adjust ourselves if we
possi·b ly can, in relation to these people who
come t-0 us, to those who· rise above their
mountain tops, that we may be benefited by
what they have given and are -still giving us.
The other thing we need is to look at one
another with a tremendous lot of sympathy.
Whether we have ascended from the monkE;Y
· or descended from Adam, we all need it.
We have learned in Iowa that we can't
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THE QUESTIONS
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Q: Why do the immigrants, particularly
those from Russia and Italy, crowd into the
cities, instead of, as in South America, being sent to the farms?
A: Why • on't I come East and "take up
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a factory"? That would be easier than for
the i=igrant to go West and "take up a
farm." T,he land is in the hands of speculators all over the country.
Q: How can you expect the development
of the inter-racial heart when the economic
strife sets races against each ,o ther?
A: While the economic struggle does
help to intensify race prob-Iems, the race
strife is most intense where the economic
struggle does not exist.
Q:
(Mr. Sackmary) Isn't woman suffrage, where all women meet in friendly intercourse, a splendid entering wedge for
brotherly love among races?
A: I should say that all movements
which are tending toward democracy are
such wedges.
Q: (Mr. Greene) Have · you any scheme
for distributing these brothers who come to
us?
A: I have lots of schemes, but no takers.
(Laughter.)
Q: Hasn't the economic situation a good
deal to do with it after all?
A: Yes, but it doesn't matter what nation takes a job from ,a nother: the thing
has nothing to do with the real race problem..
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Q: What right have you to say our forefathers were savages when. the foundation.
of our civilization. comes from them?
A: The only right I have is that I have
studied the history of primitive man.
Q: What is the fundamental motive behind the present immigration. bill?
A: There is a co=on feeling in the
United States, expressed by the labor
unions and by the people who think the
immigrant undesirable, that the country is
overcrowded. These are the people who are
trying to ·h ave this bill passed.
Q: Are you <>pposed to the literacy test,
and if so, why?
A: If by it the:v mea n to~
trif't im-
Q:
(Mr. Lon.don)
Should we not put
our s:i<mpathy into operation. by sen.ding 1t
to Mr. Gutters on, who is ill?
A: (Mr.• Coleman) If the meeting so
wills, Miss Crawford will convey our sympathy to him. ( The matter was then put
to vote and carried.)
Q:
(Miss Rogolsky) How can we kill
race prejudice when. a college professor approves of the massacres of the Jews in
Russia?
A: I should like to see that professor
and tell him what I think of him.
Q: (Mrs. Blanchard) Is it possible to
legislate again.st the steamship companies
which induce the peasants to come here by
misrepresenting conditions?
A: That can be done only on. the other
side. In. Italy and Hungary there are strict
laws again.st it.
Q: Speaking of the other side, I have
,b een taught that there is a country on. the
other side of death. Do you think the people over there call us i=igran.ts, and hate
us?
A: I am not a spiritualist.
Q: We ha• our greatest immigrati"on ind
to this country the years of our greatest
panics. Is there any connection?
A: The fact isn't true.
Q: Would it advance the development of
the inter-racial heart freely to admit Chinese
and Hindus?
A: We don't admit anyone freely. The
difficulty with the Orient is that so many
would come that we could not assimilate
them, and they w<>uld most li-kely assimilate . us.
Q: -Have you read Professor Ross's articles in The Century, and what do you think
of the last one especially?
A: Professor Ross went out to find a
definite thing, awd so of course he found it.
Q: Don't Japanese immigrants degrade
labor ,o n the Pacific coast?
A: N<> one can. degrade labor.
They
have not lowered the wage, if that is what
you mean. They are not liked because they
do stand up for their rights.
Q: W1rat rlo v on think nf th<> ,1,,.,,,.,,-;,.. ~ n
party. He sh<>uld also refuse to take
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in any group which trades upon its
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ality. (Applause.)
Q : (Mr. Fraser). What do you think
the present industrial situation. of the
groes in the ·South?
By GEOR(
A: That is the most pathetic thing
have to deal with in. th'e race ,pro;
But in the ·South the younger peopleAt Gloucester,
begin.n.ing t<> think with the in.ter-na{I,
mind.
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. - )10-0n I found a
'torum meetings
Q: How is it possible to have an i
racial heart when. there are so many ~- weeks old. The
ktween the Uni
fiicting religions?
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A: There are no conflicting religi, churches.
There are, perchance, . conflicting defini
The Sunday a
or theologies, but at heart they are
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The religion. we all - elieve in America Jll&Ilagement of :
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brotherly relationship between mankind.
:Memorial H
Q: Why don't you recognize that
! a gener:
the attend
labels you spoke of are marks of hE
racial pri-de?
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hall wi
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A: The labels we put upon. other,
e speake
pie wouldn't pass the Pure Food Law. ,
ext seas,
have g<>t to put on. the right label and
up to it. You can't be a superior man,
ay nigh1
hate ,a ny other man.
here an
Q: Wouldn't the international la
ay, in tl
Esperanto, help develop the inter,
church
heart?
! still a
A: Of cour~e. But until we all leal'll,
peranto, we have one glorious langii ,,.-u»Ing definite
• ere. Let's all sp'e ak good English fir:iL_
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ld name ;
Q: They say that '·he who is hi.mgry
are em'
angry." Is that one 'Of the causes of.
meetu
prejudice?
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A: I d-on.'t believe economics has
ago, l
thing to do fundamentally with race.
twas -i
judice. But there is a greater hatred ,
take ai
tw<> races come in.to economic conflict.
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Q: Aren't different conceptions ol
Interei
deity, separating men into sects, a
to the inter-racial heart?
W. Snu
A : There are no diffetent conceptiall
kers I
the deity in the civilized world. Th~
DleetinJ
few men. now who couldn't say the 1'
wford
Prayer. · If people want to keep heaval.
t I cl
themselves, let them; but I don't
&udie
be there.
Q:
(Mr. Bodfish) Wouldn't it
to restrict immigration until we have
distribution. since foreigners se~ .
notJ
themselves. and th1.:s cause racial preJ
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A: Perhaps that is so.
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Q: Hasn't the economic situation a good
deal to do with it after all?
A: Yes, but it doesn't matter what nation takes a job from another: the thing
• has n-0thing to do with the real race problem.
Q: w , at right have you to say our foreh
fathers were savages when the foundation
of our civilization comes from them?
A: The only right I have is that I have
studied the history of primitive man.
Q: What is the fundamental motive behind the present immigration bill?
A: TJlere is a common feeling in the
United ·S tates, expressed by the labor
unions and by the people who think the
immigrant undesirable, that the country is
overcrowded. These are the people who are
trying to 'have this bill passed.
Q: Are you opposed to the literacy test,
and if so, why?
A: If by it they mean to restrict im• igration in numbers, and that is essential
m
to the well-being of those already here, then
it should - e applied. But it is not a fair
b
!test.
Q: If - e seek for the truth shall we
w
find it?
.A: I have always found truth when I
was really truthfully seeking truth.
Q: Do you consider the hatred ·e xhibited
by man a natural instinct, or can it be
wiped out by evolution?
A: I don't ·b elieve it is natural, because
children of different races live together
most happily. I have tested this in my own
classes, and found that most race prejudice
comes from something heard or read.
Q: Are not our broadening religious
sympathy, our public schools, and institutions like· the Boy Scouts, a help in t'he direction of the inter-racial heart?
A: Yes, of course. On any high plane
we ·b ecome supra-racial. That is true here
in this hall.
Q:° What is the policy of the National
Associati:on of Manufacturers toward immigration.?
A: They have not taken me into their
confidence.
Q: If all races,sh-0uld he one, what do
you think of mixed marriages between Jew
and Gentile?
A: Love is supra-racial.
But such marriages to be happy must be on some higher
spiritual basis than a narrow racial creed.
to this country the years of our greatest
panics. Is there any connection?
A: The fact isn't true.
Q: Would it advance the development of
the inter-racial heart freely to admit Chinese
and Hindus?
A: We don't admit anyone freely. The
difficulty with the Orient is that so many
would come that we could not assimilate
them, and they would most likely assimilate us.
Q: Have you read Professor Ross's articles in The Century, and what do you think
of the last one ·especially?
A: Professor Ross went out to find a
definite thing, and so of course he found it.
Q: Don't Japanese immigrants degrade
l:a bor on the Pacific coast?
.A: No one can degrade labor.
They
have not lowered the wage, if that is what
you mean. They are not liked because they
do stand up for their rigJlts.
Q: What do you think of the .American
Federation of Labor, which is against immigration, and is made up of i mmigrants?
.A: Let us · e charitable. They honestly
b
think they must defend themselves.
Q: Is it because of racial prejudice that
residential neighborhoods in our cities
change, or is there a good, valid cause?
A: Of course race, or, rather, class preJudice is a :.alid reason, and has economic
consequences.
Q:
(Mr. Meltzer) How can you say that
the Boy Scout movement ,b rings about the
inter-racial heart when it fosters war? ·
(Applause.)
A: My boy is a Scout, and he hasn't
wanted to kill anybody yet. .All he has
learned is good.
Q: What is your religion?
A: I am a Christian. I have a broad
religion which in·c ludes mankind. ·
Q: What do you think the Almighty's
definition -0f a foreigner is? (Laughter.)
A: I haven't seen the dictionary which
is published up there.
Q: Wouldn't the following of the principles of Jesus be a complete solution of
the race problem?
A: I haven't the slig-htest doubt of it.
Q: What political party S'h ould a naturalized immigrant ·b elong to?
A: He is then.an American citizen, and
he must use his own judgment. He ought
to ·b e above everything else an American
and vote for the man rather than for the
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angry." Is that one ·of the causes
prejudice?
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A: I don't believe economics
thing to do fundamentally with Ii-.
judice. But the~e is a greater hat~
two races come mto economic co~·
Q: Aren't • ifferent conceptions
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deity, separating men into sects
to the inter-racial heart?
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A: There are no • ifferent conce
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the deity in the civilized world.
few men n:ow who couldn't say the
Prayer. If people want to keep hea•
themselves, let them; but I don't
be there.
Q:
(Mr. Bodfish) Wouldn't it lit
to restrict immigration until we halt
distribution. since foreigners 1
themselves. and thus cause racial p
A: Perhaps that is so.
Q: How can we make our ch
a practical way contribute more to
ter-racial sympathy?
A: If the churches would be mo,
to their own teaching and take its
quences, we would all get together
quick. (Applause.)
Q: Don't we 'b.-ave to think
first in order to have an intermind? Therefore, had we not
foreigners speak their own lang~
A: We must ·b e loyal to our on
munity first, it is true. The children
immigrant should inh~it their
tradition and if possilJJ.e their
But ultimately we must have one 1•
Q: Are you a Hungarian?
A: Naturally, yes; officially, na
family belongs in Vienna, but I 1111
in Hungary.
Q: What is the most effective
agency of creating the inter-racial
A: There is no agency, but on!r
dividual, who carries with him this
Tolst ov once said to me, "Stop s
so much blood for the world: sw,
of it for yourself first. T,h e Ki
God will not come for the world
comes into your own heart." Nothi
stand against us if we were bro
heart. (Applause.)
Q: How can we have sympathY,
ward another, when profit is the ecl
things?
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communithe example of the
In every instance the
trom church people.
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more and we will see
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so much impressed
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"I regard it as a mis:'t i>e a. member of the
and fire questions at
. rest o! the season."
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as Jacob is familiarly
as famous as the great
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rushed aside as hinof the progress of the
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audience, last Sunday
e grand mosaic? .All
were discussing were
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He should also refuse to take
group which trades upon its na·
(Applause.)
(Mr. Fraser) What do you think
·esent industrial situation of the
in the ·S'outh?
That is the most pathetic thing
to deal with in the race ·prob!,
n the ·South the younger people
1ing to think with the inter-natl,
IMPRESSIONS
AS IT LOOKS TO· ME
By GEORGE W. COLEMAN, Director of the Ford Hall Meetings
The whole musical program was immensely
At Gloucester, Mass., last Sunday aftera
1t00n I found a lively interest in the new pleasing and her understanding and - ppreciation of what we are working toward was
forum meetings which were then just two
most aptly expressed. Madame Morey has
How is it possible to have an ·:
.-eeks old. The place of meeting alternates
heart when there are so many
11rtwe~ the Unitarian and the Universalist oratorical as well as musical abilities of an
·excepti'Onru character. Not one man in
g religions?
churclL s.
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There are no conflicting religi
a thousand nor one woman in twenty thouThe Sunday afternoon forum at Melrose, sand could have stood up before that audi1 are, perchance, conflicting defiru•'
)lass., so successfully operated under the
ence and expressed themselves as forcibly.
eologies, but at heart they are
management of Rev. Harold Marshall of the
religion we 1all believe in America
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Universalist Church, has moved into the
Our Town Meeting Moderator and Mrs.
on God-consciousness and a vi!
ww ~emorial Hall and put itself under the
T. M. Moderator are together, a god-send
erly relationship between mankind.
are of a general citizens' committee. A.1- to our Ford Hall work. They supply the
Why don't you recognize that
rtady the attendance has greatly increased.
, you spoke of are marks of h,
missing link ;that was so much needed at
'llr. Marshall will be in a better position just this stage of our development. Mr.
1 pride?
l!lan ever to ceroperate with us in bringing
The labels we put upon other·
and Mrs. W. H. ·F oster, to call them by
erlrable speakers to Boston from a dis- their real namea, are in a position to help
\TOUldn't pass the Pure Food Law.
ZIDce next season.
got to put on the right label and
our Ford Hall folks in many personal -ways
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that would be utterly impossible for me.
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Tuesday night I went out to Natick, Only last week t heir kindly offices were inWouldn't the international lan
where another - orum movement is voked to help s traighten out a little marital
f
ranto, help develop ·the inter·
er way, in this instance also stimulated difficulty which might have been left to
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the church people.
And yesterday I
develop into a very unfortunate situation.
Of course. But unti l we all learn
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o! still another ·co=unity that is
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nnJng definite activity along this line.
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trustworthy counsellor.
They say t hat '" he who is hun,,~
J ~ name a dozen or fifteen communi7." Is that one ·of the causes of .
Hallare e~ulating the example of the WHAT M ADAME MOREY THINKS OF
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FORD HALL.
: I d·o n't believe economics has
,e has come from church people.
It is worth while perpetuating some of
g to do fundamentally with race_
ago, when our meetings were the kind things that Mme. Beale Morey,
.ce. But there is a greater hatr~d .,.
to \;_as ve?J'. difficult to get church who led the splendid singing at last week's
races come into economic conflict.
Add k_e any mterest in work • f this meeting, said to us in her introduction of
o
Aren't different conceptions of
Ye~rs more and we will see the last number.
.y, separat ing men into sects, a
terestmg results.
"I have known these Ford Hall meetings
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.: There -are no different conceptiOII
· Wk Small of Chicago, one of our
Morey, in part, "but so far ·a s I know there
deity in the civilized wor ld. Ther9
ers was so much impressed
is neith·e r in this country nor in any other
· men now who couldn't say the
meetings that he said in a letter a meeting like this ·one. You are willing to
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" I regard it as a mis- conserve the old where it is good, but you
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there.
Usau tence and fire questions at
l: (Mr. Bodfish) Wouldn't it be
all th e rest of the season."
ONE OF THE FAMOUS BOOTH FAMILY
restrict immigration until we have
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cri bution . since foreigners se.
Lo nd0 n, as Jacob is familiarly
There have been two famous Booth famresei'.•es. an d thu s cause ra cial preJ 111 - -- • • - , n~tth -as famous as the great
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I..: Perhaps that is so.
at name but if he does worker s. A member of t he latter clan is
~ : How can we make our cbu~
l>tal comes to him as well as he
to come to us next Sunday t o speak on
) ractical way contribute more to .~i
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·'The Case For t he Prisoners," a subject
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FORD
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The fame of Ford Hall has long since
come to Chicago, and I took my•first and
only Sunday evening in Boston since its es·tablishment to join the company which I
found already crowding the hall and stand·
ing when I reached there-in itself an impressive evidence of the place and need
which the Forum is meeting in our modern
American life. The speaker ·of the evening
happened to be one of our own Chicago
leaders of scholarly thought and public
opinion, whose fearless facing of the fundamental problems and principles of our
present social order- has made him a public
spokesman and prophet as well as a college
,·professor.
Three things about the evening impressed
me deeply. The first was the eager and
close attention given the speaker even when
he was digging into some of the most abstruse and complex problems of our social
and industrial organization.
Everybody
seemed to follow, because everybody was interested, and even more, because everybody
was concerned. I wondered if any college
audience would have done as well. More
impressive yet was the question period ; the
queries for the most part sharply pointed,
every one of them caught up with extraordina ry accuracy by the chairman, and briefly answered by the speaker-and a-11 with a
mutual courtesy, unfailing good humor and
sense of fairness on both sides, which was
truly admirable. It was this that sent me
away with my strongest impression, that in
such fair and frank debate and exchange
of experience and point of view lies the
hope ·of ·o ur American democracy. Only by
getting all our hands and heads and hearts
together can we find our way together out
of present social order, with all its injustices and exploitations, into a new and bet•
ter one.
Continued success and wide imitation to
the Ford Hall Forum, for we greatly need
it and many others like it in the great task
before us as a nation-the perfecting of • ur
o
democracy all along the line and in all the
departments of human life!
CHARLES W. GILKEY
Hyde Park Baptist Church, Chicago,
Ill.
OTHER MEETINGS
School of Social Science : Lorimer Hall,
Monday, February ~6: at 7 :3 0 P . M., "Legal
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In every instance the
eome from church people.
when our meetings were
TerY difficult to get church
anY interest in work of this
years more and we will see
sting results.
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or Chicago, one of our
so much impressed
t he said in a letter
"I regard it as a misiin't be a member of the
ence and fire questions at
the rest of the seas·on."
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,t be as famous as the great
tha.t name but if he does
comes to him as well as he
t; :My Captain" for us last
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has some reputation as a
And he is aiming for the
es a lot of credit for the
ts making.
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A-.erican of Philadelphia, Rabbi
. . this significant thing to say:
tD me it is that either church and
wlll, as it were, command the
religious forces of America or
,rllf be brushed aside as binIla the way of the progress of the
nre.. In a word, church and synacmmot tamely follow.
They must
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mlhe bow the topic, the speaker,
and· the audience, last Sunday
tuted one grand mosaic?
All
ees we were discussing were
ba'\ourselves, and the good-will
· that prevailed were the
of that inter-national mind and .
lleart that Dr. Steiner so elo~ ~ to us.
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Hall last Sunday evening
explaining the significance
._"Ring Out, Wild Bells."
WHAT
MADAME MOREY THINKS
FORD HALL.
OF
It is worth while perpetuating some of
the ·kind things that Mme. Beale Morey,
who led the splendid singing at last week's
meeting, said to us in her introduction of
the last number.
"I have known these Ford Hall meetings
for only the past three months," said :Mme.
Morey, in part, "but so far as I know there
is neith·e r in this country nor in any other
a meeting like this one. You are willing to
conserve the old where it is good, but you
have your faces towar- the risin-g sun."
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ONE OF THE FAMOUS BOOTH FAMILY
TO SPEAK HERE.
There have been two famous Booth families in our time, the actors and the social
workers. A member of the latter clan is
to come to us next Sunday to speak on
" The Case For the Prisoners," a subject
in which he has had a life-training through
the remarkable work for men-who-are-downand-out done by his mother, Maud Ballington Booth. Come and hear his wonderful
experience in dealing with those behind
prison bars.
Ford Hall Folks
Edited by Thomas Dreier.
UBLISHED weekly by the Ford
Hall Associates, whose work
is to create, assemble, and
distribute ideas that will help
men and institutions grow more
helpful in serving society, and which
will promote "peace on earth, good
will toward men." It is the official
publication of the Ford Hall Meetings, which are held, under the direction of George W. Coleman, every
Sunday evening during the months of
October to May, in Ford Hall, Ashburton Place, Boston, Massachusetts. ·
All business communications s·h ould
be sent to Miss Mary C. Crawford,
Treasurer Ford Building, Boston,
and all communi::ations intended for
the editor to The Thomas Dreier Service, University Press, Cambrid• e.
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sense of fairness on both sides, which was
· truly admirable. It was this that sent me
away with my strongest impression, that in
such fair and frank debate and exchange
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of experience and point of view lies the
hope of our .American democracy. Only by
getting all our hands and heads and hearts
together can we find our way together out
of present social order, with all its injustices and exploitations, into a new and better one.
Continued success and wide imitation to
the Ford Hall Forum, for we greatly need
it and many others like it in the great task
before us as a nation-the perfecting of ·o ur
democracy all along the line and in all - he
t
departments of human life!
CHARLES W. GILKEY,
Hyde Park Baptist Church, Chicago, Ill.
OTHER MEETINGS
School of Social Science: Lorimer Hall,
Monday, February 16, at 7:30 P. M., "Legal
and Social Justice," by Mr. Meyer London,
New York. 10 cents.
·S unday Commons: Huntington Chambers
Hall, Sunday, February 15, at 3: 30 P. M.,
Dr. Charles Fleischer, leader.
Public Library: Sunday, February 15, at
3: 30 P. -M., "Great Emigration Ports," by
Dr. George W. Tupper; Thursday, February
19, at 8 P. -M., "The March of the Turks,
I., The Advance, Khiva to Vienna," by
Frank H. Chase.
Lowell Institute: Huntington Hall, Monday, February 16, and Thurs-day, February
19, at 8 P. M., "The Spirit of the Common
Law," • y Roscoe Pound; Tuesday, Februb
ary 17, and Friday, February 10, at 8 P.
M., "The Evolution of the Art of Music,"
by Walter Raymond Spalding.
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"Our grand business undoubtedly is not
to see what lies dimly at a distance, but
to do what lies clearly at hand."-Carlyle.
ADVERTISING
A space of this size-one inch high and
two and one-half inches wide-can be had
for advertising purposes for one dollar per
issue. For information regarding advertising apply to Jacob London, Room 707, Ford
Building, Boston, Mass.
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As a representative of the general public,
I appeal to your columns- to remedy, if possible, an evil so outrageous that it has now
become a·b solutely unbearable. I refer to
the increased price of admission inflicted
upon a helpless public at several of the
prominent moving - icture houses on holip
days, when the program at best is identically
the same as the usual one, if not inferior.
You can readily see the injustice of it all.
But when a new theater in the vicinity of
Scollay Square, with a seating capacity far
greater than any other in Boston, daily
playing to standing room only,-thus making for themselves a fortune monthly,-resorts to the same tactics, it is indeed high
time that this legalized form of robbery
were attended to immediately. When will
the public wake up to the fact that in
municipally owned play-houses, the highest
form of refined vaudeville and photo-plays
could - e presented at a profit on an admisb
sion of but five or ten cents?
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45 Joy St., Boston.
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Can the Ford Hall idea go further into
the field by becoming a real economic aid
to some of its adherents . who are standing
still, unable to start •
because of economic
pressure? Wage-earners-heads o-f families
-who are regular attendants at these meetings, may be in accord with the true democracy there taught. But, though they .b e
filled spiritually, they are empty economically. Is the key to the problem of continuing good work well begun to be found
in this suggestion? Two thousand dollars
pays the expense of 26 meetings. Ten
thousand dollars would put 25 ,grown families in suburban homes and give them a
start in a new life that would prove a re- ,.
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pleasure I
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Ford Hall.
was too great to be compressed into
brief note.
Ve. · sincerely yours,
M. KATHERINE BENNETT.
Englewood, N. J.
OUR FRIEND, MR. EWING.
It was almost impossible to get C. E. Ewing of China to express ,h imself about our
meetings w.hen we asked him last Sunday
night what he thought of Professor Steiner
and his audience. "I am not an impartial
witness," he said, "I am ·prejudiced in your
favor. I have heard so much about you,
that I knew before l came in that your
meetings were fine. But tonight's experience has proved that , he reality is far ahead
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of anything I could imagine."
Mr. Ewing is a brother of our W:. C. Ewing, of the Town Meeting Committee on
Municipal Affairs, and just ap.poin-ted on the
new City Planning Board of Boston. The
brother from China is home on a furloughhe is a missionary there. Incidentally he
is typical of the kin• - f -men who are carryd o
ing the strong virile message Christianity is
sendin-g to the Orient, a message of ·b rother•
hood in service and service for brotherhood.
That clean cut, upstanding sort of men
are i~rpreting the W es,t + , the East. They
are responsible more thr any other force
for ,t he present marvel m 0hina, a spectacle
such as the world h~., never seen - efore.
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LAST WEF
NN MEETING.
T,hose of us ..-,
.i.rplus incomes" are
getting ready for t
.ew income tax which
is likely to be ,Jevi
on us in the near future. As the tax -is ,mly from five cents to
a quarter weekly, even citizens who are
bloated ·b ondholders will make no attemp.t
to evade the law!
There is plenty of variety in our meetings.
At this session we discussed playgrounds,
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Look at the black man, - or instance;
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the clanking of the · chains for three
dred years, and how can you hate that
half brute - he.ugh ,h e ·be, when you r,
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ber what he has passed through, and
led him through the fires and through
deep waters? When you see the Jew, as
have - ainted him on the stage, sh
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along, with his old derby hat, aIM hlsdle on his shoulder, pathetic in the e
how can you ·h ate him, when you ·rem,
that_ that bundle represents two tho1
years of agony he carries upon his sho
-agony ·which you have caused and .
nothing can help or heal but sym
I never see a Russian moujik laugl
on the streets of Moscow without ·
in him my little brother, who has s
as no other Slav has suffered. No
can help him today bµt the sympat:IIT
Russia for the thing it has crushed
undone.
And we are to make out of our co:
eration of races and nations one
Zangwill's "Melting Pot" seems to Il18ll1
us a chafing-dish with an alcohol !amp
der it. It is nothing ·of t'he kind..,-lt
big, burning cauldron, into which ~
aH been thrown together. Here is ii.
picture of it in Ford Hall-the Ne'#:
lander, the Jew, the Slav, the Gern:iall,
Scandinavian, all thrown together~
how can we live together unless we
born within us, by a. ·new .birth, if ~•
this inter-racial heart?
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the human ,h eart is capable. But m_
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derful than all, is to· be capable of s
in Ford Hall, if you please, or on.:
crowded thoroughfare, and saying,
all human together." May ·God grant- ,
a human, inter-racial heart may be IJGIS,
us tonight. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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A: I can't quite catch that,
don't think that profit must mean
Q: What do you think of Z
writing . "The Melting Pot" aud theJl
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time that this legalized form of robbery
were attended to immediately. When will
th~ public wake up to , he fact that in'
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municipally owned play-houses, the highest
;form of refined vaudeville and photo-plays
cou-ld • e presented at a profit on an admisb
si'on o~ ,b ut five or ten .c ents?
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SAMUEL SACKMARY.
.45 Joy St., Boston.
A
HOMESTEADING SUGGESTION.
Editor Ford Hall Folks:
Can the Ford Hall idea go further into
the field by , ecoming a real economic aid
b
to some of its adherents who are standing
still, unable to start • ecause of ecoil'omic
b
pressure? Wage-earners-heads of families
-who are regular attendants at these meetings, may be in accord with the true democracy there taught. But, ,t hough they be
filled spiritually, they are empty economi•
cally. Is the key to the problem of continuing good work well begun to be found
in this suggestion? Two thousand dollars
pays the expense of 26 meetings. Ten
thousand dollars would put 25 ,grown families in suburban homes and -give them a
start in a new life that would prove a relief to the "heads" and blessings to the children. What's the answer to this suggestion?
Is it entirely out of the province o.f the
Baptist ·Social Union to go ahead with a
substantial . missionary work on the ·h ome
town's economic field by pulling real thoroughbreds out of plebian environments,
thereby making for true Americanism?
ALFRED J. WILLIAMS.
WHAT ONE OF THE PROMINENT WOMEN
OF THE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH THINKS OF FORD
HALL.
My Dea, Mr. ColeII!an :The long-expected visit to Ford Hall had
in it an inspirational quality far in excess
of my expectations. There is an "atmosphere" that one feels-the claim of that
cosmopolitan group on Ford Hall, their demand to it to meet' their mental and spirit·ual cravings, and above all their acute
-pride in and appropriation of Ford Hall,. as
a place and as an idea.
Perhaps no otle thing came to· me per'Sonally with more appeal than the youth
·of the audience-so many young men and ·
women. serious of purpose, demanding of
1ife something worth wJiile, something :b ig
-and so many of them evidently eager to
serve when aroused.
As the "Ford Hall Idea" s- reads to other
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cities there cannot but be ,t he subtle in:fluence ·of its trend of thought . as •-well as
the copying of its physical forms; may this
tremendous opportunity and responsibility
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'.Dhose of us ·'"
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getting ready for t
.ew income tax which
is likely to be Jevi
on us in the near future. As the tax is unly from five cents to
a quarter weekly, even citizens who are
bloated 'bondholders will make no attempt
to evade the law!
There is plenty of variety in our meetings.
At this session we discussed playgrounds,
moving picture shows, liquor licenses, unemployment, and other subjects.
Whatever
your special interests, you will find opportunity for discussing and urgin• it if you
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become a citizen of the Town Meeting. Remember that every member of the Ford Hall
audience is eligible to citizenship by • oming
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and registering any Thursday evening.
Our young members are excellent 'Citizens,
and some o.f the boys who seem no older
than high school students are as apt in de•
bate as their elders. They have proved the
right to 'Citizenship irrespective of age,
which was discussed at our first session.
We are learning every week how fortunate
we are in having George B. Gallup as a citizen.
Mr. Gallup is an authority on city
planning (many will remember him as a
speaker on the Ford Hall platform earlier in
the season), arid he ·h as the weight of real
knowledge behind everything he says.
Because last session :fell on Lincoln's
Birthday, part ·of our time was given to a
consideration of the °life and character of
the great emanci,p ator. Mr. London repeated for us his recitation of Whitman's «-· ·p-.
tain, My Captain."
THE INTER-NATIONAL MIND.
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even raise cattle decently without sympathy.
We have- a sign in our stables: "Be kind
tc, the cow, for it increases her milk supply." Different races brought together into
contact as we are here wiH never give of
their best one to another-they will engen-
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meetings were fine. But tonight's experience has proved that the reality is far ahead
of anything I could imagine."
Mr. Ewing is a brother of our W. C. Ewing, of the Town Meeting Committee on
Municipal Affairs, and just appointed on the
new City Planning Board of Boston. The
brother from China is ·h ome on a furloughhe is a missionary there. Incidentally he
is typical of the kind of men who are carrying the strong virile message Christianity is
sending to the Orient, a message of ·b rotherhood in service and service for brotherhood.
That clean cut, upstandiPg sort of men
are i~rpreting the West t , the East. They
are respon&tile more th:
any otJher_ force
for the - !esent marvel m 0hina, a spectacle
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such as the world b~., never seen before.
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eration of races and nations ~~
Zangwill's "Melting Pot" seems toe
us a chafing-dish with an alcohol
der it. It is nothing of fue kin!Ll"
big, burning cauldron, into Which- ~
aH been thrown together. Here Is
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picture of it in Ford Hall-the ~•
lander, the Jew, the Slav, the
Scandinavian, all thrown toge
how can we live together unless
born within us, by a new .b irth, If
th-is inter-racial heart?
I know many ·o f t'he emotions ·or
the human ,h eart is capable. But !De
derful than all, is to be capable or 1
in Ford Hall, if you please, or Oil.
crowded thoroughfare, and saying,
all human together." May God g
a human, inter-racial heart may be
us tonight.
THE QUESTION° .
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A: I can't quite catch that,
don't think that profit must mean
Q: What do you think of
writing "The Melting Pot" and thea
ing for Zionism?
A: The two things are entirely
ent.
"The Melting Pot" is the
States: there is none in Russia. Be
to give those poor people a place I(
own.
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Q: (Mr. Cosgrove) From the
of the inter-national mind, how w,
handle the Mexican - roblem?
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A: Exactly as the man who has ,
ter-national mind is handling it
President Wilson. (Applause.)
Feb. 22-Charles Brandon Bootll.
Case for the Prisoner."
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March 1-Leslie Willis Sprague
cago, "Tolstoy The Man."
March 8-Mary Church Terrell.
Sam and the Sons of Ham."
March 15-Rev. Harry Ward, "'1111
lenge o! Socialism to Christianity." ,I.
March 22-Rev. Frank O. Hall
York, "The Moral Law."
March 29-John Cowper PowY 5 ,l
land, "The Economic Aspects of
Suffrage."
April 5-Symposium,
A. J . Philpott of the
George Perry Morris
Science Monitor.
April 12-Dr. Thomas C. Ha!l
York, "Religion and Social RevoJu
April 19-Prof. Walter Raus
"Is the Woman Movement Going
Society?':
Pearl Street. Boston, Mass.
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analyzes 1 , the people accept and :i.pfi 11 n·t and the statesman na Y e
tablets of stone
the law
the land. Betwee prophet and statesman
mtless ages pass.
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Somewhere back in the begmnm.,
,aw God as
one aoove all
ind' over all.
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man
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corollary truth,
that man is
me. Unfortunitely, the man
who saw this
;ruth for the
irst time was
;wallowed by a
;vhale, and
rept there by
L douoting gen~ ration.. We
iave ·all doubt~d tlle lesser
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miracles of the
aJl4 accepted without hesitation the
aJncles. The real miracle isn't the
tll of the fish that swallowed Jonah,
Mc heart of the man. In that dim
lew, cradled in race consciousness,
Ill. frotn mankind, believing in Je'hol.la P11vate deity, and himself as the
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t he should have a heart big
: ~ his message across th_e sea
the llliracJe. The initial miracle
Testament isn't that a star hung
lletn. but that, two thousand years
Jllen of dif'l'erent races should
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~ try to find the cradle of a
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says: " 'The Terrible Meek' are entenng
into their inheritance, and it cannot be so
far away when out of tlhe mouths of babes
and sucklings strength shall be ordained,
and not out of the mouths of pistols and
blunderbusses."
While the inter-nati-onal mind is being
created, and we are beg'!.nning to learn how
to live togetller on one globe amicably, there
is a phase of the problem that has not
passed the stage of the prophet. The question now is: "How can different races and
nations live together amicably in one country?" The ethnic wedge lhas been driven
deep into the consciousness of men, and the
people who are ethnically separated seem to
be wider apart than ever before. The white
man must realize that at the present time
all .t lle race problems are of his own creation. The only way to solve them is for
each race to remain in the environment in
which its own race :problems have developed. Then every wihite man would have
to • eave the United ·States, for this environl
ment was created for the red man. (Laughter.)
I have studied American history rather
carefully, and fr,o m the sources. I have not
yet discovered a single document which says
that any Indian sent an engraved invitation
to Columbus to come over here. We created
for the Indian race characteristics which
he never possessed, and gave him new characteristics because of tlhe environment we
made for him. I like to impress upon my
American friends that not so long ago their
ancestors were savages.
If the Romans
had come among the British as we did
a:mong the Indians, with the three R'srum, rifles, and real-estate agents, .then the
only good Britons would have been dead
Britons. (Applause.)
We went to the black man's country and
forcibly brought him here-the only immigrant who did not come of lhis own accord.
H e r a ised our cotton. sugar. indigo, and
did savages recognize each other by their
tattoo marks. I doubt if a fellowship which
is dependent on symbols and signs means
much more than the old tribal relationship.
In every department of living and thinking
and acting we have made progress. We have
modified pretty nearly everything except
this old attitude of hate toward the unlike.
Is there any way of modifying it? Ot
course, some of my friends will tell me it
is an economic problem. Now, there are some
things that cannot ·be solved by economic
means. This is a matter whiclh every man
must work out .for hfmself. It is a desperately individualistic problem.
I will tell you how I have worked it out
for myself. I have a class in what I call
social psychology. In a certain place in m y
course I tell the students to empty their
minds of everything, and then write down
what they see when I say a certain word ;
and then I give them the words: Chinese,
Japanese, Jew, Negro, etc, and invariably I
find that the -man sees something smaller
and more despicable than himself. Everybody
has to have something tower than himselt
to look down -upon, and 'SO - hey always see
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a race at its worst, and all of its members
alike. What we must remember if we want
to create an inter-racial heart is to destroy
our labels. I was born in a departmentstore of races : I cou.Jd cry in seven different languages when I was a baby. (Laughter.) If there is one great conviction which
has come to me, which I ,hold with a desperate dogmatism, it is tlhat underneath that
which climate and hunger and thirst and
tyranny have produced among all people the
world over, you will find the essentially
alike everywhere-the human. (Applause. )
The other thing which we have to do bes ides destroying our labels is to think it
we are not after all debtors to one another.
We are all interrelated, and ·o we one to
another practically everything we 'have.
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The real miracle isn't the
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..,i of the man. In ~hat .dim
cradled in race consciousness,
mankind, believing in J eho:e deity, and himself as the
he should have a heart big
his message across the sea
mtracle. The in-itial miracle
ament isn't that a star hung
but that, two thousand years
of different races should
and · camp together under
try to :find the cradle of a
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may , e doubted or believed
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Jesus of Nazareth should talk
at the well, and reveal his inwoman of Samaria-that is
which Jesus did at the
-ministry. That Paul was
the viper on his arm is of
But that Paul should go to
ends of his eartlh. to carry the
tbat is of miraculous moment.
11a.ve not been ·able to realize
"New ·b arriers have risen
.And yet something has
of the confusion of nathere has arisen the inter. People are beginning to
of .other nations as well as
We are honoring t'he memman who had a mind of that
Lincoln. (Applause.)
In
ca has produced a man who
iation.al mind-John Hay.
• ~ true that at the present
ding dreadnaughts, and
am war between. nati"ons and
as Charles Rann Ker{nedy
and answers
au .the race prOUlelll:S cl.rt, VJ. J.U::, VWJ.J. \,J.catiOn. The only way to solve them is for
each race to remain in the environment in
which its own race :problems have developed. Then every wlhite man would have
to •
leave the United -States, for this environment was created for the red man. (Laughter.)
I have studied American history rather
carefully, and from the sources. I have not
yet discovered a single document which says
that any Indian sent an engraved invitation
to Columbus to come over here. We created
for the . Indian race characteristics which
he never possessed, and gave him new characteristics because of tlhe environment we
made for him. I like to impress upon my
American friends that not so long ago their
ancestors were savages. If the Romans
had come among the British as we did
among the Indians, with the three R'srum, rifles, and real-estate agents, then the
only good Britons would have been dead
Britons. (Applause.)
We went to the black man's country and
forcibly brought him here-the only immigrant who did not ·come of lhis own acC'ord.
He raised our cotton, sugar, indigo, and
the Civil War. For what we have done we
must pay, for no nation escapes the wages
of sin. (Applause.) There is nothing so
precious in God's sight as human endeavor,
and its wages wi,ll have to be paid; if not
now, then through the ages, with desperately
big interest.
Then, when we could not consume all our
own cotton, our passion for ethnic color sent
us to the yellow man's country, and persuaded him-with the aid of a few gun-boats-to
open his gates to us and trade with us.
Again, when we needed our coal mined, the
men of muscle of southern and eastern
Europe were invited to come. Thus are we
reS"])-Onsible for the race problem.
Nor does it help the solution that these
races have come very near to us. The
nearer they come, the less we like them.
Tlhe farther off a nation is, the more romantic it seems. Now, is there any remedy,
or is the .b ond which •lilinds us to be woven
of prejudice and hate? Are we not to advance one step beyond the cave man, who,
when he saw another cave man, said: "Will
he kill me. or can I kill him?" Now we
say: "Will he do me, or can I do him?"
(Laughter.)
College men recognize each other as
friends ·b y their fraternity buttons, but so
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minds -0f everything, and then write down
what they see when I say a certain word;
and then I give them the words: Chinese,
Japanese, Jew, Negro, etc, and invariably I
find that the .man sees something smaller
and more despicable than himself. Everybody
has to have something l·o wer than himsel!
to look down upon, and so they always see
a race at its worst, and all of its members
ali"ke. What we must remember if we want
to create an inter-racial heart is to destroy
our labels. I was born in a departmentstore of races: I cou-ld cry in seven different languages when I was a baby-. (Laughter.) If there is one great conviction which
ha-s come to me, which I ,hold with a desperate -dogm·a tism, it is tlhat undern~th that
which climate and hunger and thirst and
tyranny have produced among all people the
world over, you will find the essentially
alike everywhere-the human. (Applause.)
The other thing which we have to do besides destroying our labels is to think if
we are not after all debtors to · one another.
We are all interrelated, and owe one to
another practically everything we !have.
The only thing we can do to · e absolutely
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fair to ourselves and others is to acknowledge that indebtedne!!.
We always say the people who come to
us are the scum of the earth. We forget that
scum is never at the ·b ottom, but always at
the top. (Laughter.) We also forget that
these people come from the very seat and
cradle of civilization and culture; that if
they do not bring it in tJheir own minds and
hearts, it is not because they have not been
hungry for it, but because conditions have
kept it from them. We must judge them as
the farmers judge milk, by the cream. We
do not want to be ju-dged, -Ourselves, in
p-olitics by certain senators ·o r governors or
mayors, -but, as we ·h ave a right to be
judged, by the great men who have risen
above the mountain tops of their ·o wn country, and - ave come to belong to the world.
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And so we must adjust ourselves if we
possi·b ly can, in relation to these people who
come t-0 us, to those who· rise above their
mountain tops, that we may be benefited by
what they have given and are -still giving us.
The other thing we need is to look at one
another with a tremendous lot of sympathy.
Whether we have ascended from the monkE;Y
· or descended from Adam, we all need it.
We have learned in Iowa that we can't
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Q: Why do the immigrants, particularly
those from Russia and Italy, crowd into the
cities, instead of, as in South America, being sent to the farms?
A: Why • on't I come East and "take up
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a factory"? That would be easier than for
the i=igrant to go West and "take up a
farm." T,he land is in the hands of speculators all over the country.
Q: How can you expect the development
of the inter-racial heart when the economic
strife sets races against each ,o ther?
A: While the economic struggle does
help to intensify race prob-Iems, the race
strife is most intense where the economic
struggle does not exist.
Q:
(Mr. Sackmary) Isn't woman suffrage, where all women meet in friendly intercourse, a splendid entering wedge for
brotherly love among races?
A: I should say that all movements
which are tending toward democracy are
such wedges.
Q: (Mr. Greene) Have · you any scheme
for distributing these brothers who come to
us?
A: I have lots of schemes, but no takers.
(Laughter.)
Q: Hasn't the economic situation a good
deal to do with it after all?
A: Yes, but it doesn't matter what nation takes a job from ,a nother: the thing
has nothing to do with the real race problem..
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Q: What right have you to say our forefathers were savages when. the foundation.
of our civilization. comes from them?
A: The only right I have is that I have
studied the history of primitive man.
Q: What is the fundamental motive behind the present immigration. bill?
A: There is a co=on feeling in the
United States, expressed by the labor
unions and by the people who think the
immigrant undesirable, that the country is
overcrowded. These are the people who are
trying to ·h ave this bill passed.
Q: Are you <>pposed to the literacy test,
and if so, why?
A: If by it the:v mea n to~
trif't im-
Q:
(Mr. Lon.don)
Should we not put
our s:i<mpathy into operation. by sen.ding 1t
to Mr. Gutters on, who is ill?
A: (Mr.• Coleman) If the meeting so
wills, Miss Crawford will convey our sympathy to him. ( The matter was then put
to vote and carried.)
Q:
(Miss Rogolsky) How can we kill
race prejudice when. a college professor approves of the massacres of the Jews in
Russia?
A: I should like to see that professor
and tell him what I think of him.
Q: (Mrs. Blanchard) Is it possible to
legislate again.st the steamship companies
which induce the peasants to come here by
misrepresenting conditions?
A: That can be done only on. the other
side. In. Italy and Hungary there are strict
laws again.st it.
Q: Speaking of the other side, I have
,b een taught that there is a country on. the
other side of death. Do you think the people over there call us i=igran.ts, and hate
us?
A: I am not a spiritualist.
Q: We ha• our greatest immigrati"on ind
to this country the years of our greatest
panics. Is there any connection?
A: The fact isn't true.
Q: Would it advance the development of
the inter-racial heart freely to admit Chinese
and Hindus?
A: We don't admit anyone freely. The
difficulty with the Orient is that so many
would come that we could not assimilate
them, and they w<>uld most li-kely assimilate . us.
Q: -Have you read Professor Ross's articles in The Century, and what do you think
of the last one especially?
A: Professor Ross went out to find a
definite thing, awd so of course he found it.
Q: Don't Japanese immigrants degrade
labor ,o n the Pacific coast?
A: N<> one can. degrade labor.
They
have not lowered the wage, if that is what
you mean. They are not liked because they
do stand up for their rights.
Q: W1rat rlo v on think nf th<> ,1,,.,,,.,,-;,.. ~ n
party. He sh<>uld also refuse to take
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in any group which trades upon its
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Q : (Mr. Fraser). What do you think
the present industrial situation. of the
groes in the ·South?
By GEOR(
A: That is the most pathetic thing
have to deal with in. th'e race ,pro;
But in the ·South the younger peopleAt Gloucester,
begin.n.ing t<> think with the in.ter-na{I,
mind.
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'torum meetings
Q: How is it possible to have an i
racial heart when. there are so many ~- weeks old. The
ktween the Uni
fiicting religions?
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A: There are no conflicting religi, churches.
There are, perchance, . conflicting defini
The Sunday a
or theologies, but at heart they are
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brotherly relationship between mankind.
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Q: Why don't you recognize that
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labels you spoke of are marks of hE
racial pri-de?
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A: The labels we put upon. other,
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pie wouldn't pass the Pure Food Law. ,
ext seas,
have g<>t to put on. the right label and
up to it. You can't be a superior man,
ay nigh1
hate ,a ny other man.
here an
Q: Wouldn't the international la
ay, in tl
Esperanto, help develop the inter,
church
heart?
! still a
A: Of cour~e. But until we all leal'll,
peranto, we have one glorious langii ,,.-u»Ing definite
• ere. Let's all sp'e ak good English fir:iL_
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ld name ;
Q: They say that '·he who is hi.mgry
are em'
angry." Is that one 'Of the causes of.
meetu
prejudice?
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A: I d-on.'t believe economics has
ago, l
thing to do fundamentally with race.
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judice. But there is a greater hatred ,
take ai
tw<> races come in.to economic conflict.
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Q: Aren't different conceptions ol
Interei
deity, separating men into sects, a
to the inter-racial heart?
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A : There are no diffetent conceptiall
kers I
the deity in the civilized world. Th~
DleetinJ
few men. now who couldn't say the 1'
wford
Prayer. · If people want to keep heaval.
t I cl
themselves, let them; but I don't
&udie
be there.
Q:
(Mr. Bodfish) Wouldn't it
to restrict immigration until we have
distribution. since foreigners se~ .
notJ
themselves. and th1.:s cause racial preJ
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A: Perhaps that is so.
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Q: Hasn't the economic situation a good
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A: Yes, but it doesn't matter what nation takes a job from another: the thing
• has n-0thing to do with the real race problem.
Q: w , at right have you to say our foreh
fathers were savages when the foundation
of our civilization comes from them?
A: The only right I have is that I have
studied the history of primitive man.
Q: What is the fundamental motive behind the present immigration bill?
A: TJlere is a common feeling in the
United ·S tates, expressed by the labor
unions and by the people who think the
immigrant undesirable, that the country is
overcrowded. These are the people who are
trying to 'have this bill passed.
Q: Are you opposed to the literacy test,
and if so, why?
A: If by it they mean to restrict im• igration in numbers, and that is essential
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to the well-being of those already here, then
it should - e applied. But it is not a fair
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Q: If - e seek for the truth shall we
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find it?
.A: I have always found truth when I
was really truthfully seeking truth.
Q: Do you consider the hatred ·e xhibited
by man a natural instinct, or can it be
wiped out by evolution?
A: I don't ·b elieve it is natural, because
children of different races live together
most happily. I have tested this in my own
classes, and found that most race prejudice
comes from something heard or read.
Q: Are not our broadening religious
sympathy, our public schools, and institutions like· the Boy Scouts, a help in t'he direction of the inter-racial heart?
A: Yes, of course. On any high plane
we ·b ecome supra-racial. That is true here
in this hall.
Q:° What is the policy of the National
Associati:on of Manufacturers toward immigration.?
A: They have not taken me into their
confidence.
Q: If all races,sh-0uld he one, what do
you think of mixed marriages between Jew
and Gentile?
A: Love is supra-racial.
But such marriages to be happy must be on some higher
spiritual basis than a narrow racial creed.
to this country the years of our greatest
panics. Is there any connection?
A: The fact isn't true.
Q: Would it advance the development of
the inter-racial heart freely to admit Chinese
and Hindus?
A: We don't admit anyone freely. The
difficulty with the Orient is that so many
would come that we could not assimilate
them, and they would most likely assimilate us.
Q: Have you read Professor Ross's articles in The Century, and what do you think
of the last one ·especially?
A: Professor Ross went out to find a
definite thing, and so of course he found it.
Q: Don't Japanese immigrants degrade
l:a bor on the Pacific coast?
.A: No one can degrade labor.
They
have not lowered the wage, if that is what
you mean. They are not liked because they
do stand up for their rigJlts.
Q: What do you think of the .American
Federation of Labor, which is against immigration, and is made up of i mmigrants?
.A: Let us · e charitable. They honestly
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think they must defend themselves.
Q: Is it because of racial prejudice that
residential neighborhoods in our cities
change, or is there a good, valid cause?
A: Of course race, or, rather, class preJudice is a :.alid reason, and has economic
consequences.
Q:
(Mr. Meltzer) How can you say that
the Boy Scout movement ,b rings about the
inter-racial heart when it fosters war? ·
(Applause.)
A: My boy is a Scout, and he hasn't
wanted to kill anybody yet. .All he has
learned is good.
Q: What is your religion?
A: I am a Christian. I have a broad
religion which in·c ludes mankind. ·
Q: What do you think the Almighty's
definition -0f a foreigner is? (Laughter.)
A: I haven't seen the dictionary which
is published up there.
Q: Wouldn't the following of the principles of Jesus be a complete solution of
the race problem?
A: I haven't the slig-htest doubt of it.
Q: What political party S'h ould a naturalized immigrant ·b elong to?
A: He is then.an American citizen, and
he must use his own judgment. He ought
to ·b e above everything else an American
and vote for the man rather than for the
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thing to do fundamentally with Ii-.
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two races come mto economic co~·
Q: Aren't • ifferent conceptions
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deity, separating men into sects
to the inter-racial heart?
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the deity in the civilized world.
few men n:ow who couldn't say the
Prayer. If people want to keep hea•
themselves, let them; but I don't
be there.
Q:
(Mr. Bodfish) Wouldn't it lit
to restrict immigration until we halt
distribution. since foreigners 1
themselves. and thus cause racial p
A: Perhaps that is so.
Q: How can we make our ch
a practical way contribute more to
ter-racial sympathy?
A: If the churches would be mo,
to their own teaching and take its
quences, we would all get together
quick. (Applause.)
Q: Don't we 'b.-ave to think
first in order to have an intermind? Therefore, had we not
foreigners speak their own lang~
A: We must ·b e loyal to our on
munity first, it is true. The children
immigrant should inh~it their
tradition and if possilJJ.e their
But ultimately we must have one 1•
Q: Are you a Hungarian?
A: Naturally, yes; officially, na
family belongs in Vienna, but I 1111
in Hungary.
Q: What is the most effective
agency of creating the inter-racial
A: There is no agency, but on!r
dividual, who carries with him this
Tolst ov once said to me, "Stop s
so much blood for the world: sw,
of it for yourself first. T,h e Ki
God will not come for the world
comes into your own heart." Nothi
stand against us if we were bro
heart. (Applause.)
Q: How can we have sympathY,
ward another, when profit is the ecl
things?
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so much impressed
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He should also refuse to take
group which trades upon its na·
(Applause.)
(Mr. Fraser) What do you think
·esent industrial situation of the
in the ·S'outh?
That is the most pathetic thing
to deal with in the race ·prob!,
n the ·South the younger people
1ing to think with the inter-natl,
IMPRESSIONS
AS IT LOOKS TO· ME
By GEORGE W. COLEMAN, Director of the Ford Hall Meetings
The whole musical program was immensely
At Gloucester, Mass., last Sunday aftera
1t00n I found a lively interest in the new pleasing and her understanding and - ppreciation of what we are working toward was
forum meetings which were then just two
most aptly expressed. Madame Morey has
How is it possible to have an ·:
.-eeks old. The place of meeting alternates
heart when there are so many
11rtwe~ the Unitarian and the Universalist oratorical as well as musical abilities of an
·excepti'Onru character. Not one man in
g religions?
churclL s.
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There are no conflicting religi
a thousand nor one woman in twenty thouThe Sunday afternoon forum at Melrose, sand could have stood up before that audi1 are, perchance, conflicting defiru•'
)lass., so successfully operated under the
ence and expressed themselves as forcibly.
eologies, but at heart they are
management of Rev. Harold Marshall of the
religion we 1all believe in America
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Universalist Church, has moved into the
Our Town Meeting Moderator and Mrs.
on God-consciousness and a vi!
ww ~emorial Hall and put itself under the
T. M. Moderator are together, a god-send
erly relationship between mankind.
are of a general citizens' committee. A.1- to our Ford Hall work. They supply the
Why don't you recognize that
rtady the attendance has greatly increased.
, you spoke of are marks of h,
missing link ;that was so much needed at
'llr. Marshall will be in a better position just this stage of our development. Mr.
1 pride?
l!lan ever to ceroperate with us in bringing
The labels we put upon other·
and Mrs. W. H. ·F oster, to call them by
erlrable speakers to Boston from a dis- their real namea, are in a position to help
\TOUldn't pass the Pure Food Law.
ZIDce next season.
got to put on the right label and
our Ford Hall folks in many personal -ways
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that would be utterly impossible for me.
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Tuesday night I went out to Natick, Only last week t heir kindly offices were inWouldn't the international lan
where another - orum movement is voked to help s traighten out a little marital
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the church people.
And yesterday I
develop into a very unfortunate situation.
Of course. But unti l we all learn
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They say t hat '" he who is hun,,~
J ~ name a dozen or fifteen communi7." Is that one ·of the causes of .
Hallare e~ulating the example of the WHAT M ADAME MOREY THINKS OF
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FORD HALL.
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,e has come from church people.
It is worth while perpetuating some of
g to do fundamentally with race_
ago, when our meetings were the kind things that Mme. Beale Morey,
.ce. But there is a greater hatr~d .,.
to \;_as ve?J'. difficult to get church who led the splendid singing at last week's
races come into economic conflict.
Add k_e any mterest in work • f this meeting, said to us in her introduction of
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Aren't different conceptions of
Ye~rs more and we will see the last number.
.y, separat ing men into sects, a
terestmg results.
"I have known these Ford Hall meetings
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.: There -are no different conceptiOII
· Wk Small of Chicago, one of our
Morey, in part, "but so far ·a s I know there
deity in the civilized wor ld. Ther9
ers was so much impressed
is neith·e r in this country nor in any other
· men now who couldn't say the
meetings that he said in a letter a meeting like this ·one. You are willing to
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" I regard it as a mis- conserve the old where it is good, but you
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there.
Usau tence and fire questions at
l: (Mr. Bodfish) Wouldn't it be
all th e rest of the season."
ONE OF THE FAMOUS BOOTH FAMILY
restrict immigration until we have
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cri bution . since foreigners se.
Lo nd0 n, as Jacob is familiarly
There have been two famous Booth famresei'.•es. an d thu s cause ra cial preJ 111 - -- • • - , n~tth -as famous as the great
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at name but if he does worker s. A member of t he latter clan is
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l>tal comes to him as well as he
to come to us next Sunday t o speak on
) ractical way contribute more to .~i
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·'The Case For t he Prisoners," a subject
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FORD
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The fame of Ford Hall has long since
come to Chicago, and I took my•first and
only Sunday evening in Boston since its es·tablishment to join the company which I
found already crowding the hall and stand·
ing when I reached there-in itself an impressive evidence of the place and need
which the Forum is meeting in our modern
American life. The speaker ·of the evening
happened to be one of our own Chicago
leaders of scholarly thought and public
opinion, whose fearless facing of the fundamental problems and principles of our
present social order- has made him a public
spokesman and prophet as well as a college
,·professor.
Three things about the evening impressed
me deeply. The first was the eager and
close attention given the speaker even when
he was digging into some of the most abstruse and complex problems of our social
and industrial organization.
Everybody
seemed to follow, because everybody was interested, and even more, because everybody
was concerned. I wondered if any college
audience would have done as well. More
impressive yet was the question period ; the
queries for the most part sharply pointed,
every one of them caught up with extraordina ry accuracy by the chairman, and briefly answered by the speaker-and a-11 with a
mutual courtesy, unfailing good humor and
sense of fairness on both sides, which was
truly admirable. It was this that sent me
away with my strongest impression, that in
such fair and frank debate and exchange
of experience and point of view lies the
hope ·of ·o ur American democracy. Only by
getting all our hands and heads and hearts
together can we find our way together out
of present social order, with all its injustices and exploitations, into a new and bet•
ter one.
Continued success and wide imitation to
the Ford Hall Forum, for we greatly need
it and many others like it in the great task
before us as a nation-the perfecting of • ur
o
democracy all along the line and in all the
departments of human life!
CHARLES W. GILKEY
Hyde Park Baptist Church, Chicago,
Ill.
OTHER MEETINGS
School of Social Science : Lorimer Hall,
Monday, February ~6: at 7 :3 0 P . M., "Legal
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In every instance the
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when our meetings were
TerY difficult to get church
anY interest in work of this
years more and we will see
sting results.
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so much impressed
t he said in a letter
"I regard it as a misiin't be a member of the
ence and fire questions at
the rest of the seas·on."
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,t be as famous as the great
tha.t name but if he does
comes to him as well as he
t; :My Captain" for us last
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has some reputation as a
And he is aiming for the
es a lot of credit for the
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A-.erican of Philadelphia, Rabbi
. . this significant thing to say:
tD me it is that either church and
wlll, as it were, command the
religious forces of America or
,rllf be brushed aside as binIla the way of the progress of the
nre.. In a word, church and synacmmot tamely follow.
They must
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and· the audience, last Sunday
tuted one grand mosaic?
All
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ba'\ourselves, and the good-will
· that prevailed were the
of that inter-national mind and .
lleart that Dr. Steiner so elo~ ~ to us.
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Hall last Sunday evening
explaining the significance
._"Ring Out, Wild Bells."
WHAT
MADAME MOREY THINKS
FORD HALL.
OF
It is worth while perpetuating some of
the ·kind things that Mme. Beale Morey,
who led the splendid singing at last week's
meeting, said to us in her introduction of
the last number.
"I have known these Ford Hall meetings
for only the past three months," said :Mme.
Morey, in part, "but so far as I know there
is neith·e r in this country nor in any other
a meeting like this one. You are willing to
conserve the old where it is good, but you
have your faces towar- the risin-g sun."
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ONE OF THE FAMOUS BOOTH FAMILY
TO SPEAK HERE.
There have been two famous Booth families in our time, the actors and the social
workers. A member of the latter clan is
to come to us next Sunday to speak on
" The Case For the Prisoners," a subject
in which he has had a life-training through
the remarkable work for men-who-are-downand-out done by his mother, Maud Ballington Booth. Come and hear his wonderful
experience in dealing with those behind
prison bars.
Ford Hall Folks
Edited by Thomas Dreier.
UBLISHED weekly by the Ford
Hall Associates, whose work
is to create, assemble, and
distribute ideas that will help
men and institutions grow more
helpful in serving society, and which
will promote "peace on earth, good
will toward men." It is the official
publication of the Ford Hall Meetings, which are held, under the direction of George W. Coleman, every
Sunday evening during the months of
October to May, in Ford Hall, Ashburton Place, Boston, Massachusetts. ·
All business communications s·h ould
be sent to Miss Mary C. Crawford,
Treasurer Ford Building, Boston,
and all communi::ations intended for
the editor to The Thomas Dreier Service, University Press, Cambrid• e.
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sense of fairness on both sides, which was
· truly admirable. It was this that sent me
away with my strongest impression, that in
such fair and frank debate and exchange
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of experience and point of view lies the
hope of our .American democracy. Only by
getting all our hands and heads and hearts
together can we find our way together out
of present social order, with all its injustices and exploitations, into a new and better one.
Continued success and wide imitation to
the Ford Hall Forum, for we greatly need
it and many others like it in the great task
before us as a nation-the perfecting of ·o ur
democracy all along the line and in all - he
t
departments of human life!
CHARLES W. GILKEY,
Hyde Park Baptist Church, Chicago, Ill.
OTHER MEETINGS
School of Social Science: Lorimer Hall,
Monday, February 16, at 7:30 P. M., "Legal
and Social Justice," by Mr. Meyer London,
New York. 10 cents.
·S unday Commons: Huntington Chambers
Hall, Sunday, February 15, at 3: 30 P. M.,
Dr. Charles Fleischer, leader.
Public Library: Sunday, February 15, at
3: 30 P. -M., "Great Emigration Ports," by
Dr. George W. Tupper; Thursday, February
19, at 8 P. -M., "The March of the Turks,
I., The Advance, Khiva to Vienna," by
Frank H. Chase.
Lowell Institute: Huntington Hall, Monday, February 16, and Thurs-day, February
19, at 8 P. M., "The Spirit of the Common
Law," • y Roscoe Pound; Tuesday, Februb
ary 17, and Friday, February 10, at 8 P.
M., "The Evolution of the Art of Music,"
by Walter Raymond Spalding.
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"Our grand business undoubtedly is not
to see what lies dimly at a distance, but
to do what lies clearly at hand."-Carlyle.
ADVERTISING
A space of this size-one inch high and
two and one-half inches wide-can be had
for advertising purposes for one dollar per
issue. For information regarding advertising apply to Jacob London, Room 707, Ford
Building, Boston, Mass.
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As a representative of the general public,
I appeal to your columns- to remedy, if possible, an evil so outrageous that it has now
become a·b solutely unbearable. I refer to
the increased price of admission inflicted
upon a helpless public at several of the
prominent moving - icture houses on holip
days, when the program at best is identically
the same as the usual one, if not inferior.
You can readily see the injustice of it all.
But when a new theater in the vicinity of
Scollay Square, with a seating capacity far
greater than any other in Boston, daily
playing to standing room only,-thus making for themselves a fortune monthly,-resorts to the same tactics, it is indeed high
time that this legalized form of robbery
were attended to immediately. When will
the public wake up to the fact that in
municipally owned play-houses, the highest
form of refined vaudeville and photo-plays
could - e presented at a profit on an admisb
sion of but five or ten cents?
SAMUEL SACKMARY.
45 Joy St., Boston.
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Can the Ford Hall idea go further into
the field by becoming a real economic aid
to some of its adherents . who are standing
still, unable to start •
because of economic
pressure? Wage-earners-heads o-f families
-who are regular attendants at these meetings, may be in accord with the true democracy there taught. But, though they .b e
filled spiritually, they are empty economically. Is the key to the problem of continuing good work well begun to be found
in this suggestion? Two thousand dollars
pays the expense of 26 meetings. Ten
thousand dollars would put 25 ,grown families in suburban homes and give them a
start in a new life that would prove a re- ,.
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pleasure I
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Ford Hall.
was too great to be compressed into
brief note.
Ve. · sincerely yours,
M. KATHERINE BENNETT.
Englewood, N. J.
OUR FRIEND, MR. EWING.
It was almost impossible to get C. E. Ewing of China to express ,h imself about our
meetings w.hen we asked him last Sunday
night what he thought of Professor Steiner
and his audience. "I am not an impartial
witness," he said, "I am ·prejudiced in your
favor. I have heard so much about you,
that I knew before l came in that your
meetings were fine. But tonight's experience has proved that , he reality is far ahead
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of anything I could imagine."
Mr. Ewing is a brother of our W:. C. Ewing, of the Town Meeting Committee on
Municipal Affairs, and just ap.poin-ted on the
new City Planning Board of Boston. The
brother from China is home on a furloughhe is a missionary there. Incidentally he
is typical of the kin• - f -men who are carryd o
ing the strong virile message Christianity is
sendin-g to the Orient, a message of ·b rother•
hood in service and service for brotherhood.
That clean cut, upstanding sort of men
are i~rpreting the W es,t + , the East. They
are responsible more thr any other force
for ,t he present marvel m 0hina, a spectacle
such as the world h~., never seen - efore.
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LAST WEF
NN MEETING.
T,hose of us ..-,
.i.rplus incomes" are
getting ready for t
.ew income tax which
is likely to be ,Jevi
on us in the near future. As the tax -is ,mly from five cents to
a quarter weekly, even citizens who are
bloated ·b ondholders will make no attemp.t
to evade the law!
There is plenty of variety in our meetings.
At this session we discussed playgrounds,
moving picture shows, liquor licenses, unem~ . ·· ·· - - -"-
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the sympathetic approach. (App.lause.)
Look at the black man, - or instance;
f
the clanking of the · chains for three
dred years, and how can you hate that
half brute - he.ugh ,h e ·be, when you r,
t
ber what he has passed through, and
led him through the fires and through
deep waters? When you see the Jew, as
have - ainted him on the stage, sh
p
!
along, with his old derby hat, aIM hlsdle on his shoulder, pathetic in the e
how can you ·h ate him, when you ·rem,
that_ that bundle represents two tho1
years of agony he carries upon his sho
-agony ·which you have caused and .
nothing can help or heal but sym
I never see a Russian moujik laugl
on the streets of Moscow without ·
in him my little brother, who has s
as no other Slav has suffered. No
can help him today bµt the sympat:IIT
Russia for the thing it has crushed
undone.
And we are to make out of our co:
eration of races and nations one
Zangwill's "Melting Pot" seems to Il18ll1
us a chafing-dish with an alcohol !amp
der it. It is nothing ·of t'he kind..,-lt
big, burning cauldron, into which ~
aH been thrown together. Here is ii.
picture of it in Ford Hall-the Ne'#:
lander, the Jew, the Slav, the Gern:iall,
Scandinavian, all thrown together~
how can we live together unless we
born within us, by a. ·new .birth, if ~•
this inter-racial heart?
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I know many of t'he emotions o
r:_
the human ,h eart is capable. But m_
o
derful than all, is to· be capable of s
in Ford Hall, if you please, or on.:
crowded thoroughfare, and saying,
all human together." May ·God grant- ,
a human, inter-racial heart may be IJGIS,
us tonight. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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THE
QUESTIONS.
(Continued from Page 1.)
A: I can't quite catch that,
don't think that profit must mean
Q: What do you think of Z
writing . "The Melting Pot" aud theJl
ing for Zionism?
A: The two things are entire!r
ent.
"The Melting Pot" is the
States: there is none in Russia. g~
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ing tor themselves a fortune monthly,-resorts to the same tactics, it is indeed high
time that this legalized form of robbery
were attended to immediately. When will
th~ public wake up to , he fact that in'
t
municipally owned play-houses, the highest
;form of refined vaudeville and photo-plays
cou-ld • e presented at a profit on an admisb
si'on o~ ,b ut five or ten .c ents?
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SAMUEL SACKMARY.
.45 Joy St., Boston.
A
HOMESTEADING SUGGESTION.
Editor Ford Hall Folks:
Can the Ford Hall idea go further into
the field by , ecoming a real economic aid
b
to some of its adherents who are standing
still, unable to start • ecause of ecoil'omic
b
pressure? Wage-earners-heads of families
-who are regular attendants at these meetings, may be in accord with the true democracy there taught. But, ,t hough they be
filled spiritually, they are empty economi•
cally. Is the key to the problem of continuing good work well begun to be found
in this suggestion? Two thousand dollars
pays the expense of 26 meetings. Ten
thousand dollars would put 25 ,grown families in suburban homes and -give them a
start in a new life that would prove a relief to the "heads" and blessings to the children. What's the answer to this suggestion?
Is it entirely out of the province o.f the
Baptist ·Social Union to go ahead with a
substantial . missionary work on the ·h ome
town's economic field by pulling real thoroughbreds out of plebian environments,
thereby making for true Americanism?
ALFRED J. WILLIAMS.
WHAT ONE OF THE PROMINENT WOMEN
OF THE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH THINKS OF FORD
HALL.
My Dea, Mr. ColeII!an :The long-expected visit to Ford Hall had
in it an inspirational quality far in excess
of my expectations. There is an "atmosphere" that one feels-the claim of that
cosmopolitan group on Ford Hall, their demand to it to meet' their mental and spirit·ual cravings, and above all their acute
-pride in and appropriation of Ford Hall,. as
a place and as an idea.
Perhaps no otle thing came to· me per'Sonally with more appeal than the youth
·of the audience-so many young men and ·
women. serious of purpose, demanding of
1ife something worth wJiile, something :b ig
-and so many of them evidently eager to
serve when aroused.
As the "Ford Hall Idea" s- reads to other
p
cities there cannot but be ,t he subtle in:fluence ·of its trend of thought . as •-well as
the copying of its physical forms; may this
tremendous opportunity and responsibility
tnat
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LAST WEF
NN MEETING.
'.Dhose of us ·'"
-· .i.rplus in- omes" are
c
getting ready for t
.ew income tax which
is likely to be Jevi
on us in the near future. As the tax is unly from five cents to
a quarter weekly, even citizens who are
bloated 'bondholders will make no attempt
to evade the law!
There is plenty of variety in our meetings.
At this session we discussed playgrounds,
moving picture shows, liquor licenses, unemployment, and other subjects.
Whatever
your special interests, you will find opportunity for discussing and urgin• it if you
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become a citizen of the Town Meeting. Remember that every member of the Ford Hall
audience is eligible to citizenship by • oming
c
and registering any Thursday evening.
Our young members are excellent 'Citizens,
and some o.f the boys who seem no older
than high school students are as apt in de•
bate as their elders. They have proved the
right to 'Citizenship irrespective of age,
which was discussed at our first session.
We are learning every week how fortunate
we are in having George B. Gallup as a citizen.
Mr. Gallup is an authority on city
planning (many will remember him as a
speaker on the Ford Hall platform earlier in
the season), arid he ·h as the weight of real
knowledge behind everything he says.
Because last session :fell on Lincoln's
Birthday, part ·of our time was given to a
consideration of the °life and character of
the great emanci,p ator. Mr. London repeated for us his recitation of Whitman's «-· ·p-.
tain, My Captain."
THE INTER-NATIONAL MIND.
(Continued from Page 1.)
even raise cattle decently without sympathy.
We have- a sign in our stables: "Be kind
tc, the cow, for it increases her milk supply." Different races brought together into
contact as we are here wiH never give of
their best one to another-they will engen-
E. L. Grimes Company, Printers.~
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meetings were fine. But tonight's experience has proved that the reality is far ahead
of anything I could imagine."
Mr. Ewing is a brother of our W. C. Ewing, of the Town Meeting Committee on
Municipal Affairs, and just appointed on the
new City Planning Board of Boston. The
brother from China is ·h ome on a furloughhe is a missionary there. Incidentally he
is typical of the kind of men who are carrying the strong virile message Christianity is
sending to the Orient, a message of ·b rotherhood in service and service for brotherhood.
That clean cut, upstandiPg sort of men
are i~rpreting the West t , the East. They
are respon&tile more th:
any otJher_ force
for the - !esent marvel m 0hina, a spectacle
p
such as the world b~., never seen before.
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eration of races and nations ~~
Zangwill's "Melting Pot" seems toe
us a chafing-dish with an alcohol
der it. It is nothing of fue kin!Ll"
big, burning cauldron, into Which- ~
aH been thrown together. Here Is
1
picture of it in Ford Hall-the ~•
lander, the Jew, the Slav, the
Scandinavian, all thrown toge
how can we live together unless
born within us, by a new .b irth, If
th-is inter-racial heart?
I know many ·o f t'he emotions ·or
the human ,h eart is capable. But !De
derful than all, is to be capable or 1
in Ford Hall, if you please, or Oil.
crowded thoroughfare, and saying,
all human together." May God g
a human, inter-racial heart may be
us tonight.
THE QUESTION° .
S
(Continued from Page 1.)
A: I can't quite catch that,
don't think that profit must mean
Q: What do you think of
writing "The Melting Pot" and thea
ing for Zionism?
A: The two things are entirely
ent.
"The Melting Pot" is the
States: there is none in Russia. Be
to give those poor people a place I(
own.
·
Q: (Mr. Cosgrove) From the
of the inter-national mind, how w,
handle the Mexican - roblem?
p
A: Exactly as the man who has ,
ter-national mind is handling it
President Wilson. (Applause.)
Feb. 22-Charles Brandon Bootll.
Case for the Prisoner."
·
March 1-Leslie Willis Sprague
cago, "Tolstoy The Man."
March 8-Mary Church Terrell.
Sam and the Sons of Ham."
March 15-Rev. Harry Ward, "'1111
lenge o! Socialism to Christianity." ,I.
March 22-Rev. Frank O. Hall
York, "The Moral Law."
March 29-John Cowper PowY 5 ,l
land, "The Economic Aspects of
Suffrage."
April 5-Symposium,
A. J . Philpott of the
George Perry Morris
Science Monitor.
April 12-Dr. Thomas C. Ha!l
York, "Religion and Social RevoJu
April 19-Prof. Walter Raus
"Is the Woman Movement Going
Society?':
Pearl Street. Boston, Mass.