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The Journal of Heredity 



lines advertised America as a land flow- 

 ing with milk and honey, and the Euro- 

 pean governments took the opportunity 

 to unload upon careless, wealthy and 

 hospitable America the sweepings of 

 their jails and asylums." The result 

 was that immigration of Nordics nearly 

 ceased and the incoming stream was 

 composed mainly of Alpines and Medi- 

 terraneans, and in many cases of the 

 poorer representatives of these two 

 races. 



EUGENICS NEEDED 



"As to what the future mixture 

 will be it is evident that in large sections 

 of the country the native American will 

 entirely disappear. He will not inter- 

 marry with inferior races, and he cannot 

 compete in the sweat shop and in the 

 street trench with newcomers. Large 

 cities from the days of Rome, Alexan- 

 dria and Byzantium have always been 

 gathering points of diverse races, but 

 New York is becoming a cloaca gentuim 



which will produce many amazing 

 racial hybrids and some ethnic horrors 

 that will be beyond the powers of future 

 ethnologists to unravel." The only 

 hope for the preservation of the Great 

 Race, Mr. Grant thinks, is through 

 general realization of the biological 

 I3rinci])lcs involved, and a thorough 

 campaign of eugenics. He believes that 

 democracy is not favorable to the 

 preservation of superior strains. 



Whether or not the reader wholly 

 accepts Mr. Grant's estimate of the 

 values of the respective races, or shares 

 his pessimism about the future of the 

 Great Race to which the founders of 

 the North American colonies belonged, 

 a study of this book is certain to result 

 in a much clearer view of international 

 problems, and a new conception of 

 history which is likely to be more 

 valuable than the conventional one 

 which classifies people by nationality 

 or language, instead of by race. 



Colony Care for the Feebleminded 



There are now in the United States 

 several hundred thousand feebleminded 

 persons who should be given custodial 

 care (1) for their own protection, be- 

 cause they are unable to compete on 

 even terms with people of normal 

 intelligence, and (2) for Society's pro- 

 tection, in order that they may not 

 reproduce their kind. The problem 

 of finding ways in which they can be 

 cared for without too great expense 

 has been successfully met in a number 

 of places by the establishment of 

 colonies where they are economically 



housed, sexually segregated, made 

 happy, and made to contribvite largely 

 to their own sup]3ort. The colony 

 ])lan seems to be the best yet devised 

 for their care, and the Committee on 

 Provision for the Feebleminded (702 

 Empire Building, Philadelphia) has 

 issued an eighteen-page bulletin de- 

 scribing its operation in New Jersey, 

 in such a way that other communities 

 will know how to ado]3t it. Copies of 

 this bulletin can be had for 5 cents 

 each, singly, or at 3 cents each in quan- 

 tities of fifty or more. 



Annual Business Meeting of the A. G. A. 



The annual business meeting of this 

 association will be held, in conformity 

 with the by-laws, in Washington on 

 the second Thursday in January at 5 

 o'clock in the afternoon. Three mem- 

 bers of the council are to be elected, 



those whose term of oflice expires being 

 George M. Rommel, T. H. Kearney 

 and W. C. Rucker. The regular an- 

 nual meeting of the council is to be 

 held on the third Tuesday in January, 

 at which time officers will be elected. 



