Arizona republican., 1904-12-05
PHoENrX, ARIZONA, DEC. 5, 1904
The Yankee Head Losing its Shape.

After years of observation in the crowded tenements of New York end Chicago. Robert Hunter declares that continued immigration from Southern Europe will make the American skull ehorter and broader.
 And James CreeIman, in the New York World, marshals an interesting array of fact and comment in support of 2Ir. Hunters contention. MT. Creel- maR asks us to remember that more than @. O00,OOO immigrants have come to the United States since 1920, and that our immigration-which at pres ent amounts tc about 100000 a year has largely changed from Northern Europeans to Southern and Eastern Europeans, Italians, Hungarians, Lith- uanians. Croatians and Polish, Rou- manian and Russian Jews, and he thinks this prophecy regarding the shape of the future Americans head is pregnant with suggestions of com ing changes in our national character istics.
 Here are some of MT. Creelman's cb- servations: The broad-and-short- headed man Is practical but unimagi~ native. The man with the high and narrow head is the idealist.
 One can execute, but cannot invent The other is a dreamer. without force or mental disposition to carry his ideas into effect.
 Last Friday 4,905 immigrants were landed in the port of New York. The next day 4,949 mere were landed. This made 9,S54 immigrants in two days, the vast majority being of the short-and- broad-headed type of southern and eastern Europe.
 In those two days less than six hun dred persons were born in the whole city of New York.
 It is said that Americans are be- coming less sentimental and more practical and this criticism is applied more frequently as the industrial su- premacy of America becomes more ap- parent.
 It is. also asserted that the birth rate among native Americans is decreasing in communities where the thrush Of aliens has increased industrial compc~ tition and forced the standard of living downward. That suggestive fact is shown in Connecticut, Maine, Massa- chusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Isl- and and Vermont, where in 1900 the yearly death rate Of white persons cf native parentage exceeded the bhth rate by more than one in a thousand. but the birth rate among white per sons of foreign percentage exceeded the death rate by more than forty-four in a thousand.
 The Change in economic conditions being better for the immigrants and worse for the native, explains rhis cU- rious and startling tendency, which leads many who are studying the situ- aticn to prophecy the rapid suomerg- ence and final extinction of the original white stock of the country.
 If the American Of the future Is to have a short and broad skull-lnd a glance at. any average audience in the crowded neighborhoods of New Ycrk tends to. confirm the theory-it is in- terestinG to know what science reveals concerning the subject.
 While the so-caIled science of 9hre- nology is not seriously accepted, there are certain average characteristics of the skull, as to size and shape, which the scientific world takes as indica- tions Of mental power and type. Men like Broca, the criminoIogist, and Man tegazza, the .anthropologist, have, by Investigating the skulls and mental characteristics cf thousands Of human beings, proved a relationship between the two to which there are few excep- tions.
 The moral and imaginative faculties lie on the top of the brain. The prac- tical faculties lie at the base. The rer- ceptive brain Is in front. The attrl- butes of domesticity are behind.
 Among the early immigrants to Am erica was a large number of persons whose devotion to political ideals in duced them to cross the Atlantic The Irish, German, English and French whose love Of individual liberty drew them from their native soil, had high top heads. They brought with them minds strongly disposed to idealisms
 These pioneers with high skulls drew after them those whom poverty and drudgery impeHed to seek new homes fer purely material reasons. The inn . migrant with the broad, short head was seen more frequently.
 Today the great bulk of our immi- grafton comes from the countries in which for generations the peasantry have been coerced from the ideal to the practical and material. The few