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Show EUGENICS AND OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS Recognition by congress that Immigration Immi-gration constitutes ono of tho greatest great-est of the after-war problems of tho United Stntes makes timely n suggestion sugges-tion In regard to controlling the great Influx of foreigners to this country, udvuncod by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, In n communication to tho National Na-tional Geographic society. "Why should not congress provide for nn ethnical vurvcy of the people of the United Stntes," ho asks. "We should have definite nnd reliable reli-able Information concerning those foreign for-eign elements which aro bencllclnl to our people und thoso which uro harmful. harm-ful. "Tho problem of Improving n rnco of human beings Is a most perplexing ono to handle. Tho process of Improvement Im-provement must be slow where tho forces concerned act from within nnd nre not amenable to control from without. with-out. Under the best conditions It would require several generations to produce sensible results; but lu tho United States we have, In tho now blood Introduced from nbroad, an Important Im-portant means of Improvement that will act more quickly, nud that Is eminently emi-nently susceptible to control. All tho nations of tho world linvo been contributing con-tributing elements to our population; nud wo have now, and now only, the opportunity of studying tho process of absorption before it Is complete. "TIiq grand spectnelo Is presented to our eyes of n now people being gradually evolved In the United States by tho mingling together of the different differ-ent races of tho world In varying proportions. pro-portions. It U of tho greatest consequence conse-quence to us that tho flnnl result should bo tho evolution of n higher nud nobler type of man in America, and not deterioration of tho nation. "To this cud tho process of evolution evolu-tion should be cnrcfully studied, and then controlled by suitable Immigration Immigra-tion laws tending to cllmlnnto undo-slrablo undo-slrablo ethnical elements, nnd to stimulate stim-ulate tho admission of elements assimilated as-similated readily by our population, nnd that tend to ralso the standard of manhood here." |