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2. The standards of mental ability and 

 personality should be measured by a series 

 of modern psychological tests. 



3. The reputation of the immigrant in 

 relation to his home community should be 

 considered. 



4. The family history of the immigrant 

 should be made an important factor in judg- 

 ing of his future personal worth, and of the 

 hereditary qualities which he would probably 

 pass on to his children. 



5. The American people should establish 

 a system of "immigration attaches" and "im- 

 migration passports" in our consular service. 

 Data on personal and family history and on 

 reputation should be required by and should 

 be furnished to the "immigration attache" 

 who would vise the "immigration pass- 

 port." only in case the immigration standards 

 of the American nation were met in every 

 way. The additional requirements which I 

 have just listed would go a long way to- 

 ward establishing the standards which the 

 American people desired to see adhered to. 



6. The immigrant should be registered, 

 and a registry should be maintained of all 

 foreign-born in the United States. The im- 

 migration admission paper should be the 



first registration card, which should be re- 

 tained by the alien, and annually examined 

 by the United States, until the immigrant 

 becomes a citizen of the United States, or 

 until he dies or is deported. 



7. The deportation system, which is the 

 object of a survey now being completed, is 

 the last line of defense in our national bat- 

 tle against undesirable alien qualities. If an 

 alien remains, legally or illegally, in the 

 United States for five years or longer, we 

 can not deport him ; but we must keep him 

 and his progeny indefinitely for better or 

 worse. We should admit and welcome su- 

 perior qualities of body and mind in aliens, 

 but, at the same time, we should exclude the 

 undesirables, and if by chance some unde- 

 sirables get in, despite our efforts at exclu- 

 sion, we must deport them. 



It should be possible to control immigra- 

 tion in such a manner that every immigrant 

 would constitute a natural asset : first, a 

 present economic asset ; second, a future 

 social asset ; third, an asset to the natural 

 hereditary qualities of the race in case the 

 immigrant becomes the parent of sound and 

 intelligent offspring. 



Paul Popenoe. 



Books Received 



Proceedings of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, Volume 1, 

 Eugenics, Genetics and the Eauiily; Volume 2, Eugenics in Race and State. 

 Williams and Wilkins. Baltimore, 1923. 



Studies in Mental Deviations, by S. D. Porteus. Publication Number 2-i 

 of the Training" School, Vineland, N. J. 



Heredity in Poultry, by Reginald Crundall Punnett. The Macmillan 

 Company, New York and London. 1923. 



Of IVJiaf Use Are Common People?, by Heinrich Buchholz. Warwick 

 and York, Baltimore. 1923. 



The Index to Volume XIII 



The index to Volume XIII is not yet ready, but is now in preparation and 

 will be mailed to members shortly. The regrettable delay in its publication has 

 been occasioned by the unexpected closing of the last volume, a greatly increased 

 amount of work having been entailed by the changes made at that time. 



