As mental tests show him to be less suited to literary
education than are the whites, it seems likely that agriculture offers
the best field for him.
[142] This letter, and much of the data regarding the legal status of
Negro-white amalgamation, are from an article by Albert Ernest Jenks in
the _Am. Journ. Sociology_, XXI, 5, pp. 666-679, March, 1916.
[143] A recent readable account of the races of the world is Madison
Grant's _The Passing of the Great Race_ (New York, 1916).
[144] _The Old World in the New._ By E. A. Ross, professor of Sociology
in the University of Wisconsin, New York, 1914.
[145] Cf. Stevenson, Robert Louis, _The Amateur Emigrant_.
[146] Interview with W. Williams, former commissioner of immigration, in
the _New York Herald_, April 13, 1912.
[147] Of the total number of inmates of insane asylums of the entire U.
S. of Jan. 1, 1910, 28.8% were whites of foreign birth, and of the
persons admitted to such institutions during the year 1910, 25.5% were
of this class. Of the total population of the United States in 1910 the
foreign-born whites constituted 14.5%. Special report on the insane,
Census of 1910 (pub. 1914).
[148] _The Tide of Immigration._ By Frank Julian Warne, special expert
on foreign-born population, 13th U.
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