128 THE TREND OF THE RACE 
Fertility of Foreign Born Stocks in the United States 
Italians........... 4.9 Norwegians....... 4.7 
Bohemians........ 5. Austrians......... 4.6 
Finns34 ideas o.3 French.......... 4.3 
Russians.......... 5.4 Germans......... 4-3 
French-Canadians. 5.6 PriShis toss e eed 4.4 
English-Canadians. 3.5 Swedes...... Lee 4.2 
Poles iusis as ain 6.2 Scotch........... 3.6 
English.......... 3.4 
The peoples from southern and central Europe show a higher 
fecundity than those from Great Britain and the northern part 
of the continent. For most cases this is true of the second genera- 
tion of foreigners as well as the first. Mr. Hill who worked over 
the data referred to grants that in the southern states the families 
of the American born may be of larger size. It is questionable, 
however, if they would be enough larger to make good the losses 
through death. 
When we consider that with our present death and marriage 
rates nearly four children per married couple are required to 
replace the preceding generation, we are compelled to conclude 
that, taken as a whole, the stock represented by American born 
parents is probably not reproducing itself. It is the aliens and 
their immediate children who are responsible for the increase of 
our population. If these were deducted from our numbers we 
would probably see that the population of the United States 
would show an actual decrease. Among the people we commonly 
call Americans race suicide would probably be found to be con- 
siderably more rapid than in France. 
We are losing such stock as is represented by the Mayflower 
descendants, the first families of Virginia, and the daughters 
of the revolution. New England, once so prolific in typical 
American manhood and womanhood, is now largely filled up with 
recent immigrants and their children. Recently in connection 
with one of my students, Miss C. M. Doud, I have been studying 
the decline of the birth rate in one important group of American 
