IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19196, 12 June 1924, Page 2

IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS.

Bin, —While recently in Australasia studying your immigration problems, the writer noticed a published list of 29 naturalisations. These clas-silied by names as to their probable racial origin showed; Nordic 10, Alpine 5. Mediterranean 14. In other words, of that list over 65 per cent, were racially different from your dominant slock. This may have been an isolated case. This percentage, however, coupled with the fact that the birth-rato statistics show Nordic do not multiply nearly as rapidly as the other mentioned race, makes the student of immigration problems wonder whether you have the first symptoms of the disease from which America now suffers. America, with a war experience with non-Nordics that is little short of tragic, is battling for legislation to prevent further dilution of its Nordic blood. As this is being written, throats are made by hyphenated American blocs to retire from political life Congressmen who dare vote to restrict immigration. ]’,y the lime this letter reaches you, the cable will have told whether the American Nordics, overwhelmingly of British descent, have won the victory. Should not our Australasian cousins similarly enact legislation to keep racially clean their areas, precious reservoirs as they are of Nordic (British) blood?—I in, etc., C. M. Goethe, President, Immigration Study Commission of America. Sacramento, Cal., May 15. Ascerties and cynics are’dupes of despair, Their presence and prejudice poison the air. Each peevish pessimist jaundiced with doubt D shutting life’s all-too-few ccstaoies out. Whilst ailments haunting the morbid aaid sad, The world rings with laughter of those who are glad. For bronchial afflictions the cheerful aesure With doses of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

TO THE EDITOR.