Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1923 — Page 3
Friday, September 21, 1923
THE FIERY CROSS PAGE THREE
MT. WASHINGTON HAS t ELAN CEREMONIALS
Fake Fire Alarm Turned In When Gigantic Fiery Cross Is Lighted
' MT. WASHINGTON. Md.. SeDt. 15
-The fcpen-alr meeting and naturalization here 6n September 4th was
a big success. The affair was held under the auspices of the Hampden
Klan and Klansmen from the Thomas plxon Klan and Thomas Jefferson Klan took part. It was a Joint naturalization event and aliens to the number of 156 Were Initiated into the three Baltimore Klans. A large cross 75 feet
tall and 80 feet across Utamlnated the field, while oyer 3,o60 mabsmen,
all in roll regalia, attended. Those attendiflg the meeting were carried to the grounds In automo-
Fanatic Glres Alarm Borne little excitement was caused shortly after the fjery cross was lighted by some fanatic turning In
the fire- alarm, which necessitated the
Baltimore county firemen making e
run of four ana one-nail miles. T;hls happened at about 10:30 p. m. Noth
ing else out of the ordinary took
place.
Dr. J. H. Hawkins, of the Imperial
Palace, in behalf of the Imperial office, In a public speech at the grounds offered a reward of $50 for
information leading to the arrest of
the party or parties guilty of turn ing in the false alarm of fire.
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Ject, stressing jartlcnlarly the difference between the asslmllabillty of
the old and new immigration.
"That commission reported In 1910
and jts monumental work still stands
as tne Droaaest ana most aumenuc
Information on the racial, social and civio qualities of these diverse peo
ples. Since that date the researches
of other agencies have added facts corfSborating these of the commis
sion.
"Let me state briefly the most im
portant of these vital facts. They are alarming to one who has the
true interests of America at heart
and who desires that it shall be the
greatest moral and spiritual force the world has ever known for the
spreading of those two great civil
concepts government by the con
sent of the governed and government
for the common welfare in every
land.
"First of all let me state briefly
a few sajient facts showing that the source of our immigration has
hanged. Before 1883 more than 5 pter cent of all the Immigrants
irom juurope came irom. mngiana,
Germany, Scandinavia, the Nether
lands, Belgium, Prance and Switzerland. Then a great immigration
movement began from Italy, Austria,
Russia, Poland, Greece and the Balkan states, until, in the vears
before the war intervened, more than 70 per cent of our total immigration was coming from southern and
eatern European nations. Italy Leads Immigration
"Just before the outbreak of the
war, Italy alone was furnishing more immigrants than came from
Great Britain, Germany, Scandi
navia, France, the Netherlands
Belgium and Switzerland combined!
"With this momentous change In
source came a great increase in the
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total number of immigrant In the tfO's leas than 4JO",0Q:0 kyear were oenUng. Inl905 the million mark was passed, and for Che entire ten years before the war broke out the
arerage was oyer 1400,000 a year. "Our Immigration was more than doubling. It bad suddenly become
an influx and an influx of Latins
and Slavs. In tbe years -from 1901 to 1910 no less than 6,880,000 Immi
grants came to us from the new
racial sources. In 1911 alone there were 900,000 and more.
That was the thought-provoking
record under the long-time policy of practically unrestricted admission to our gates.
"Many of us Americans going
about In our busy life have made
our own observations of some of these new types of Immigration and have picked up from the newspapers and in other ways casual Information
about them. Many may have formed
some opinion in the way as to the
quality of this new human material
for the purposes of the republic.
But I wish to give you the epitomized results, not of casual observation
and reading, but of the great governmental inquiry of the Immigration Commission and the other agencies that have assembled and interpreted masses of detailed facts
bearing upon this question.
"And in statmg the results of these
scientiflo inanities as to whether the
immigrants of these newer types are
an aid or a detriment to our na
tional life, I do so without prejudice, in a 'spirit of kindliness to all men.
seeking simply the common welfare
of America and its honest helpful ness to the world.
"Moreover, please bear In mind
that the facts and the conclusions drawn from them apply not to those
nations as nations or peoples, but
to tnat element of them which has
immigrated to America. The older immigrants, I have said, were the
best Individuals of their races for American purposes. It Is clear that
the individuals who come to ns nnder
present conditions from the south
and east of Europe are not the best of their respective races. We should not judge their home countries as
a whole by these samples. Immigration Now Inferior
"In this spirit let us face the fol
lowing facts:
"In the first place, the new immi
grant has been shown to be much inferior to the older type and to the
native American stock in Soundness of body and mind and in physical
and mental development The lmmi
grant from some of these newer
racial sources is also inferior in
moral character.
The evidence on these points is
clear, abundant and Incontrovertible.
A few examples in proof are suffi
cient:
"During the war the rejections
of drafted men proved the relative unfitness of the foreign-born for military service as compared with the native and older immigrant
Stock A comparison was made be
tween wards of eastern cities con
taining ,a large proportion of for
eign-born and primarily American
communities in Indiana end other centfal states. In the foreign-born communities 1? per cent of the men
were rejected as unfit for military
service, only 13 per cent in the Am
erican. About 300,000 men were ex
amined in these two sets of com
munlties. The results can have but
one meaning.
'Our war records of the physical
and mental health of the drafted
men give a far more complete and authoritative index of the health of our population than was ever avail
able before. Not only was there a physical examination of every man
called by the local draft board, but those not rejected by them were sub
jected to much more rigid examination after their arrival at the .en
campments. AIL fold, two and threequarters of a million men were ex
amined.
may be unfavorable to the immigrant, the recent inmigrants, aft a Whole, present a higher proportion Of inborn, socially inadequate qualities than do the older stocks.'
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Mental Disease Prevalent "A 1600-page, official compilation of the results, prepared by the office
of the surgeon-general of the army,
reveals the fact that some form of mental disease or deficiency was found in 50,000 of the men. "These medical examinations were separate from the army intelligence tests psychological tests that revealed the predominance of" a low grade of intelligence among the for
eign-born men a predominance es
pecially due to the newer immigrants. These were seven grades ' of Intelligence recognized from 'very superior' down to 'very inferior.' Among the foreign-born soldiers almost half were in the two lowest grades, 'inferior' and 'very inferior with a mentality equivalent only to that of a normal 11-year-old American boy. Two-thirds of the Poles and Italians were in these lower groups. These intelligence tests covered 360,000 foreign-born men. We can not doubt the validity of the comparison.
'The committee of immigration of
the House of Representatives at Washington caused an exhaustive In
vestigation to be made of the in
mates of federal and state lnstitu
tions for the custodial care of the
constitutionally diseased, the de
pendent and the criminal, with special reference to whether the new
races of Immigrants contribute more than their share to the number of
social lnadequates in such institu
tions. The study was made by Dr.
Harry H. Laughlln, eugenics expert of the Carnegie Institution, who presented elaborate statistics compiled
by the most scientific methods, and this is his conclusion on the whole matter:
" 'In reference to feebleminded-
ness.' insanity, crime, epilepsy, tu
berculosis ana aeiormity, the older
Immigrant stocks are vastly sounder
than the recent.
" 'The number of inmates dealt with in these calculations is large enough to justify-considering the several groups as fairly representative samples of their particular
types in the whole population.' "Again he says:
"'The outstanding conclusion is that, making all logical allowances
tor environment conditions, . which
Crime Average Buns High "Of crime, fa particular. Dr. Laughlin says: "'The countries which ran lowest in crime are those which' have contributed most to the elementary
foundation of the population of the United States such as Great Britain,
Scandinavia, Ireland, Germany and
the Netherlands. Those im
migrant groups that run high in
crime are from the countries of
southern and eastern Europe.'
"The Italians, the Greeks and those
of the Balkan states have from two to three as many criminals In our prisons as the proportion of these . . . . . . , j . .
races in our uuu population noma entitle them to If they were only average In their criminalistic ten
dencies.
"Finally, the death rate of our
foreign-born Is shown by the census
to be appreciably higher than that of the American stock. In any people the death rate of infants is so high that it materially swells that for a people as a whole. But, on
tbe average. Immigrants are about 28 years old when they come to America and there are consequently very few foreign-born babies in the
country. Yet tne loreign-pqrn death rate, even Without the factor of in
fant death rate to swell It, is higher
than the American. This was in
1910. No figures are available for
1920.
When it comes to literacy the
census shows that while only two
and one-half per cent of native
white persons from ten years of age,
and up, are unable to read and write,
thirteen per cent of the foreign born
of ten years old and up can not pass
these rudimentary tests. The nar
ticular deficiency of the southern
Europe races in this respect was
brought out by the Immigration
Commission in 1910 in its report which showed that the immigrants
of these races at the time of their admission were thirteen times as illiterate as immigrants from the northern countries. Low Grade of Mentality "Children of these immigrants, the commission showed, are considerably below the children of native-born parents in ability to pass their work at school, or to attain distinction. Belatively few of them ever finish high school. This condition among the children may well be explained
by the lower grade of mentality found anion? the forelirn born men
themselves In the army intelligence
tests.
"This startling series of facts is
from official records. There is here
no produot of passion. I repeat
them in no spirit of indictment. In
tne main ujey snouid be loomed at
not even as the fault of the particu
lar individual concerned, for the
science tells us these types of dis
ease, of mental deficiency, and social Inadequacy are inheritable, carfled
in the blood from generation to gen- ? ration, and often incurable. But or that very reason they are more serious and must rouse us to a sense of the danger of an inescapable national impairment, unless we heed the warning In time.
To continue to admit the members of inferior races into this country on a large scale dan only mean a steady and inevitable decline In
the physical, mental and moral wellbelnsr of the American nation.
"Next, let us look at what may be termed seme of the 'social.' results
of this newer immigration. Ethnological experts have advanced con
vinclng arguments to the effect that
immigration in the long run does not result in a new addition to the total population, but only in a displacement or substitution of immigrants for native-born the birth
rate of the native stock being reduced to correspond approximately with the increase of immigration. Moreover, there appears to be a tendency toward the gradual displacement of our native stock by descendants of the new Immigrants
from the fact that the birth rate of our foreign-born inhabitants is very muoh larger than that of native
stock. Birth Bate Per Cent Astounding
"A recent pamphlet published by
the New York State Department of Health contains the following re
markable statements:
'Attention Is directed to the fact
that 73.1 per cent of all births to for
eign-born women were to Italian,
Russian and Anstro-nnngarian
women, and that these races nc
counted for nearly 27 per cent of all the births occurring In the state out
side of New York City, although taey
furnish less than 7 per cent of the
total population.' "Mr friends, the significance of an
thoritatlve statements like these can hardlv be overestimated. Unre
stricted Immigration would appear to result in a gradual contraction of our native American stock. Shall we
take the responsibility for contlnu
ance In such a course!
"One of the oft-deplored tendon
cies in modern American civilization
: is the ever-increasing congestion of
nnnulation in cities and industrial
centers. Let us see what influence
the new immigration has here.
"When one Paul Slovenskl, for ex-
amnle. a typical immigrant from Po
land or czecno-siovaKia, tanas at Ellis Island before the quota from
his country for the month is ex
hausted, does he go as a pioneer to Alaska, or as a farmer to the great
Middle West? It is not likely. He
is far more likely to be absorbed in some 'Immigrant colony In New
York or Pittsburg.
"He lives In about one-uura of one room, and adds to tbe ever-'
increasing menace of foreign colonies
with low standards of living ana anti-American traits. Crowd Into Industrial Centers "Statistics show that nearly half of our total foreign-born population are crowded into the great industrial cities of the United States having a population of 1,000,000 or more, while only 23 per cent of our native
whites of all types are found in these congested districts. The steady, tide Ot the new lmmigratlc4 ony adds to the congestion. Which B such an unfortunate tendency dr bur modern life, for the foreign-born city, dwellers are In large proportion from these races.
"There Is no assimilation to American standards and ideals, in the ease of the great majority of the newer immigrants. Masses of human
beings of inferior races, Ignorant of
ail tne laeais which Americans hold dear, are poured into our factories as
so much raw material and they are not 'digested.' The new immigrant
comes here as a foreigner and he re
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