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Atlantic voyage only to be rejected and 

 sent home. 



The new act j^rovides for much more 

 thorough medical examination of im- 

 migrants, especially with reference to 

 mental diseases, by jjroviding additional 

 inspectors and giving them additional 

 facilities. 



At ])rcsent, if an immigrant is found, 

 within three years of his arrival, to Ijclong 

 to one of the excluded classes, he may be 

 deported, even though he passed the 

 first examination at Ellis Island success- 

 fully. The new act increases to five 

 years the length of time during which 

 such dei)ortation may take i)lace. This 

 will enable us to get rid of many unde- 

 siral)le aliens, for whose defects we 

 are not resjjonsible, and who, if they 

 stayed here, would be a burden on the 

 United States and in too many cases 

 would establish lines of defective and 

 delinciuent offspring. 



The new law strengthens the pro\-i- 

 sions regarding the "white slave" traffic; 

 comj^cls stcamshi]) companies when 

 deporting aliens to give such aliens as 



good quarters as those for which the\- 

 paid on the voyage to this country; 

 makes ])ossible the expulsion from the 

 United States of alien anarchists and 

 criminals, even when they have become 

 such after arrival here; and in many 

 other ways j^rovides for the welfare of 

 the alien as well as for that of the 

 United States. 



In general, it will be seen that the 

 new law makes no radical changes in 

 practice; it only strengthens those 

 ])ractices which have been found de- 

 sirable, giving additional i:)rotection to 

 both the United States and to the indi- 

 \'idual alien. Such a revision of the 

 immigration laws has long been recog- 

 nized by every ex]jert as an imj^erative 

 necessity. The American Genetic Asso- 

 ciation, as well as every one who has 

 at heart the eugenic welfare of the 

 United States, has good reason for 

 satisfaction in the final enactment into 

 law of a measure which cannot fail to 

 result in a marked improvement in the 

 mental and jjhysical qualities of future 

 alien immigrants. 



Eugenics Too Broadly Interpreted 



THE EUGENIC MARRIAGE, A Personal 

 Guide to the New Science of Better Living 

 and Better Babies, by W. Grant Hague, M.D. 

 Four vols., 656 pi)., with illustrations. New 

 York: The Review of Reviews Company, 1916. 



Dr. Hague's book is ill named, for it 

 deals with home-making and mother- 

 craft primarily, rather than with eugen- 

 ics — four chapters, for instance, are de- 

 voted to the evils of imtent medicines. 

 Eugenics, in the sense that the word is 

 used by this journal, receives rather 

 scant treatment, and what is said is often 

 marred by exaggeration or error. 

 Hague's statement : "Any condition that 

 fundamentally means race-deterioration 

 must be rendered intolerable. The 

 prevalent dancing craze is an anti- 



eugenic institution, as is the jjopularity 

 of the delicatessen store," is hardly an 

 extreme example of the comprehen- 

 si\'eness and indiscriminateness of his 

 idea of eugenics. He has a good deal 

 to say about sex hygiene, but it is 

 unreliable and likely to do more harm 

 than good. His voluminous discussion 

 of child-birth, the care of children, and 

 the relations of husband and wife, 

 ajjpears to be much sotnider, so far as 

 the reviewer is qualified to judge. It 

 is to be regretted that this part of the 

 book could not ha\'e been i)ublished 

 alone, and the discussion of so-called 

 eugenics omitted, for des])ite the author's 

 enthusiasm and sincerity, he does not 

 possess an tinderstanding of eugenics. 



Progress of Reindeer Industry in Alaska 



The industry of reindeer breeding, 

 which was intrc^duced among the natives 

 of Alaska by the U. S. Bureau of Educa- 

 tion, is making steady j^rogress. accord- 

 ing to the annual rejjort for 1916. 



There arc now about 75, (KK) reindeer in 

 the country, and shii)menls of meat are 

 regularly made to Seattle. This in- 

 dustry was described by Levi C'lnilibuck 

 in the JoiRNALOF Heredity. v, 149 1.^4. 



