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books of the Marriage License Bureau 

 in City Hall in Philadelphia. All 

 licenses in the available books were 

 used. They include practically all 

 licenses issued in Philadelphia for the 

 three years from June, 1913 to June, 

 1916. The numbers run from 299,758 

 to 322,586 and from 332,601 to 340,900 

 and from 341,401 to 355,367. 



"The grouping of occupations of 

 the United States Census was used in 

 a preliminary study of a thousand 

 casesr. Of these thousand cases 541 

 women worked and of these 275, more 

 than half, married men in the same 

 occupation. Of the thousand men 

 more than 25% married into their own 

 occupation. 



"If a girl enters a profession, there 

 is one probability in four that she will 

 marry a professional man and small 

 likelihood that she will marry into 

 manufacturing. Ability to predict the 

 occupation of the man whom a woman 

 will marry may well be regarded as be- 



longing in the realm of clairvoyance. 

 Yet, while it will always be impossible 

 to prophesy for an individual woman, 

 for a group of women such prediction 

 is not only easy but extremely accurate. 



"A supplementary investigation was 

 made of statistics of Bryn Mawr 

 alumnae. It was found that about 90% 

 of the married alumnae had married 

 college graduates. More than 60% of 

 them married men in professions. 



"Where men and women are em- 

 ployed together in like positions, each 

 profession or specialized occupation is 

 the natural breeding place for people of 

 the type of ability required. This 

 situation must be recognized both by 

 those who believe in heredity and by 

 those who favor environment. Sex 

 propinquity in modern industry seems 

 destined to affect the matings and 

 through the matings, the type of the 

 coming generations." 



League for Constructive Immigration Legislation 



The fundamental principles of the 

 proposed League for Constructive Im- 

 migration Legislation will doubtless be 

 of interest to all patriotic Americans, 

 and especially to believers in the im- 

 portance of heredity and consequently 

 in the inborn nature of important racial 

 differences. The following suggestions 

 have been received from Mr. Gulick : 



The United States should so regulate, 

 and where necessary, restrict immigra- 

 tion as to provide that only so many 

 immigrants of each race or people may 

 be admitted as can be wholesomely 

 Americanized. 



The number of those individuals of 

 each race or people already in the 

 United States zuJio have become Ameri- 

 canized affords the best basis of the 

 measure for the further immigration of 

 that people. 



American standards of living should 

 be protected from the dangerous 

 economic competition of immigrants 

 whether from Europe or from Asia. 



Such provisions for the care of aliens 

 residing among us should be made as 

 will promote their rapid and genuine 

 Americanization and thus maintain in- 

 tact our democratic institutions and na- 

 tional unity. 



The Federal Government should be 

 empowered by Congress to protect the 

 lives and property of aliens. 



All legislation dealing with immi- 

 gration and with resident aliens should 

 be based on justice and good will as 

 well as on economic and political con- 

 siderations. 



Under suitable provisions and rigid 

 limitations as to numbers and qualifi- 

 cations, naturalization should be given 

 to all who qualify, regardless of race. 



Correspondence on the part of those 

 who approve these principles is cordially 

 invited. 



Sidney L. Gulick, Secretary, 

 105 East 22d Street, New York City. 



