Deportation and immigration are the two great questions before us. We have made a good start at the first, but it will be useless to continue deportations unless we are prepared to take equally drastic action on immigration. Those aliens who deplore our individualistic, capitalistic system are preparing fellows already here to short-cut to fortune by confiscating our capital.

We must rid out minds of the notion that America i ssome kind of world institution for the care of nuts; that Americans have no rights that he guests are bound to respect; that her citizenship is open to anyone to accept or reject as his own whims and interests dictat; that men who cannot speak our language have a God-given right to tell us where to get off; that we can make a few passes over anyone regardless of race and presto! an American; or that we can keep on ceaselessly dividing with the whole world and have as much as we had before.

People talk of these immigrants from Russia, from Hungary, from the Balkans, as if they all need to become Americanized is to learn not to keep the coal in the bathtub and to be taught a little pushcard English. They see the negro problem; but they cannot grasp the Russian problem. They do not understand that many of these alien peoples are temperamentally and racially unfitted for easy assilmilation; that they are living in an age two or three centuries behind ours. They are white, they can read a few lines, and they have a few dollars--so in they come. We need three generations to educate, to crossbreed with Western strains, and to assimilate a large number of those that we have here now.

This matter of Americanization is only partly a question of education. Many second-generation Americans from Central and Eastern Europe, men with college degrees, are quite unassimilated to American ideals. Temperamentally and racially they are still Russian or Balkan or German. So further immigration must not only be rigidly limited in volume, but we muts analyze the possibilites and desirability of different races in a way that we have never done before. The matter of race, as well as the qualifications of individuals, must be given more attention.

Arguments for unrestricted immigration always go back to some petty selfish reason--never to the greatest good of hte country. A woman wants a cook, a manufacturer wants cheap labor, a laborer wants his relatives to share in the big wages, a politician wants votes and aliens want to take over our property and our country. The rank and file of these unassimilated alients still live mentally in the ghettor or as peasants on the great estates....