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races that were gradually --
establishing
,
themselves here would rapidly merge •
with one another and that over a per-
iod of a few generations America,
would produce a composite type, a mix-
, ture, if you will, of these various peo-
of the Amer-
ples—❑ new product out
ican crucibleI ventured to say that
thinking persons realize now that this I
\ melting pot theory is a fallacy—that'
the racial will to live in as immutable a'
law of nature ax the individual will to
I live. In time over linger or shorter
periods, races do disappear or become
absorbed with other races. But in-
dividuals die, Mo. The instinct, how - ,
ever, is for life both in the individual o
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WALDON & DWORNICK
and the race. And it is the strongest
of all instincts.
Perhaps the great war is primarily
I responsible for forcing this realiza-
tion upon us. We recall how quickly
the different national and racial
colony, Kiryath Ana groups aligned themselves in sym-
m houses •nd barns in the Keren Hayesod
pathy with one or the other site in
dery far
a ckground.
with the now retile terraced hillsides in the b
the struggle; how, before the United
vim,
States was drawn into the fray Amer-
ican citizens of foreign birth actually
took part with one side or another ini
many different directions; how, pro.!
nuneiamentos had to be sternly and
frequently issued from Washington
warning these citizens to observe
strict neutrality; how, frantic efforts
were made by one group or another
to influence the, government to take
By MORRIS
RIS . WALDMAN
sides in the struggle. You will re- I
call that this unexpected alignment of
Address Delivered at the Michigan State Conference of Social Workers at
national and racial groups threw the ,
Oct. 8 1926
bo
no
older Anglo-Saxon elements into a
there is anything that stands out ern Pennsylvania; Germans in central veritable panic of fear that the coun-
try was "going to the dogs." This
If
age
strongly as an urban aspect of social New Jersey (who have lived there for
ating the
tremendous apprehension produced a
work, as distinguished fro rural as- generations and among whom the
fear reaction in the form of agitationt
n
s c hara
- end movements of one kind or an-
petits, it is the heterogonoou
our nacula r but one
other for 100 per cent. Americanism.
large cities, as well as in may of the guages of the court); Swedes in
esot;
a Japanese in California; Nevertheless, once the United State ,
smaller towns of the United States, all Minn
entered the war all these groups
the nations of the earth are virtually and so ton. We find, on the othe
joined together patriotically to de-
represented. Different racial groups hand, even in the smallest erationNew
towns in
of fend our common interests, even
ons a conglno
of the secti example: in omrthern
though nt an emotional sacrifice that
coming from th e n et rmost prts the races;
for
e
hetogetherain
as Angle- can never be measured. It will he
find suc h
the ghdw, are thr o wn
closest contact and practically live On England we
racesScand inav- recalled that during this struggle the,
SAXOTIS, German s, Irish,
_
_
Jews, different racial and national groups
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Po rt u gese,
ton of one another.
Ital ians,
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Wrecked Cars a Specialty. Day and Night Service.
In the rural districts the situation ians,
Canadians an d other s, living still expressed themselves as groups,
is different. Even though many races French
and
made
their
contributions
to
the
are represented in American agricul- in small cities between 10,009 and
common cause not only as individual ,
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turn) life we find, generally speaking. 10000
The difference between this homo- but as groups in the regimentation of
— 11homogene ity of population over large geneity on the one hand and hetero- our national resources, in the en 1st-
I Ado-
arm
ea for examp le• we
geneity on the other, is so striking meat of men and industries, in the
axons, many of them descendants of and its effect upon social work so sale of Liberty bonds and War Sith.
J. DUSCHINSKY, Sec.
the Pilgrim fathers, in northern New patent that it is unnecessary to dilate' lag stamps. Woodrow Wilson, fully
MARTIN HOFFMAN, Pres.
England; the so-called Dutch in east- upon the factual elements in this situ- recognized this racial "will to live' .
JULIUS KANOC, Vice-Pres.
,
ation. It is obvious that the urban
re „ natural, inevitable impulse of
much as
human thee. Indeed, he crYso
problems of social work are
more complex than those in the noun- I the
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ilize this belief in one of the fun• •
he,
tr
districts.
Whereas
the
difficulties
t
damental
find guiding principles
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confronting the social worker in the underlying our war policies—the
Mrs. N. 13. Christie
Estab. 1904
Icountry are largely physical, due over
to 1 1principle of national self-determina-
peopl e
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settlement of
incorporating this principle in
the spa
[lion—incorporating
extended areas, the difficulties in the •the s
ea ikt.r(,oiai ti:.,Tif.,liIt.
y (ipf,cac
DETROIT
,
Manufacturers of
tii,is theory of
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cal character—the problems inherent was this o
in attempting to adjust these groups termination which was responsible
for the drastic .and bewildering'
to Americans more and to a tolerant,
th,itts. lon: outro(p.aerarnie,ni iaoluLt l'hitaht
thheantgh(eosuriyn v.
I
if not sympathetic and co-operative at- c
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toward
one
another.
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wisdom does not disprove the fact'.;
Detroit, Mich.
uested
to
Some time ago. I was
ref that
it was recognized as it valid
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speak before the Social Workers club theory of human thlationships.
of Detroit on the "Neighborhood as a
If we are to solve the human wed
ervice.”
Unit of Social
S I a d k nitted
that the neighborhood is a logical fare problems in our cities we must
unit,
that
settlements,
community
e'en-
recognize
the validity and propriety
Millwrights, Machinists.
ily, in
ie.
tern, family welfare agencies, hos- of this group il
t ies
Happte
ca, A re
flak, clinics, and other social service genius of
tn as flecd ° '
,, and institutions.
form of government
agencies
operate
logically
anyCl'
Conveyors, Elevators, I'ower
safeguards us against the situation
fictively on district or neighborhood
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which obtains on the European c
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lines, but I maintained that a racial
tinent under which racial groups
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or religious group presented a still
align themselves politically. We here,
more logical, because a more stable
thus far at least, have seen but few
and cohesive, unit—that the bonds
indications of a tendency on the part
which
hold
together
a
people
of
com-
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of the groups toward political co-
mon racial origin or common religious
hesion. American Italians do not
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faith are stronger than those which
hold together people of one neighbor- vote as Italians nor do Jewish Amer-
hood. Neighborhoods change rapidly, icans vote as Jews—they vote as
people move frequently, and those who American citizens. It is significant
move assay quickly lose all interest in that during the last 50 years political
the old neighborhood. if they be elections in the city of New York _
Irish, they will still, however, retain invariably disclosed that the votes in
their love for their native land and the lower East Side, inhabited near-
their associations with their Irish ly, exclusively during that periosl. loy
lews, were proportonately lit ided ,
friends. no matter where they may
among the different political parties. •
live: likewise, if they be Poles or
There
never has been a Jewish vote in I
Italians. If they be Catholics, they
this country. In my judgment. the most
will still adhere to the church. If
dangerous
effect of the Ku Klux Klan
lows their hearts will still bleed for
has been to stimulate its
the sufferings of their people in east- movement
I antagonistic groups to unite for self-
ern Europe or in Turkey.
When we were children, we were I defense in political action. This was
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taught to believe in the ultimate a perfectly natural reaction but an
brotherhood of men and to hope for unfortunate and dangerous one. The
its realization. At least in this coun- political activities of the Klan pro-
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duced political cohesion on the part
try We were taught to believe in and of the other groups and threatened, ;
hope for such a brotherhood. We took
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it for granted that in the course of a for a little while, to develop political
Detroit, Mich.
reasonably short time the multifarious alignments on racial and religious
It
will
be
recalled
that
during
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EUGENE A. O'CONNOR, C. P. A.
I the recent municipal elections in the
city of Detroit, attempts were made.
surreptitiously and successfully, to
organize the Catholics, Jews and
Negroes to defeat the Klan candi-
date. A development of this kind of
thing is contrary to the spirit of
America and if successful, would
seriously jeopardize the peace and
prosperity of the country.
But, if racial and religious coo•
hesion strictly refrains from enteritis
t he political arena, only benefit will
❑ eerily and nut harm. John Dewey
said, some years ago: "The theory
of the melting pot always gave me
rather a pang. To maintain that all'.
the constituent elements, geograph-
ical, racial and cultural, in the United
States should be put in the same pot
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'and turned into a uniform and un-
. changing product is distasteful, The
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same feeling that leads us to recog-
nize each other's individuality, to.
. respect individuality between person I
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cultural traits which differentiate our o•-t
• national life." The late Charles W. E",
Eliot frequently expressed the same
• thought as did many other thinking si
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' Americans of Anglo-Saxon origin.
, Mark you, variety is not merely the E
, 1 spice of life but the very fundamental
substance of life. There are no two ;
things in the world exactly alike,
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whether it be in the celestial, animal
or vegetable kingdoms. When I was
a boy in New York—anti to a very °E
great extent, this is true today—the 4;
houses built with brown stone fronts, .
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, over acres and acres of streets, were
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all very much the same and 1 imagine E
done by first
that the furniture of these houses was i•
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a l s o very much alike. How uninter-
class workmen
etamine
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who are
with the variety prevailing in 1. .
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trained for
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