The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10
ANGLO-SAXON STOCK FIRST IN WHO'S WHO Smith, Miller, Brown, White
 Lead in New York SCOTCH RANK NEXT Massachusetts Professor Says the De- scendants of British Are Most
 Likely to Succeed in the
 United States
SCOTCH RANK NEXT

America" and tables of the commonest surnames found in centuries of the old world and the commonest names found in the directories of the large cities in this country, pr. Frederick Adams l Woods of the Massachusetts Institute 1, of Technology has made study of the racial origin of men of distinction or high official position in this country In Popular Science he makes the fol- lowing conclusion:
 | Thus, to summarize: In the four leading American cities. New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston, 1t is safe to say that, at the present time. | those of English and Scotch ancestry are distinctly in possession of the lead ing positions, at least from the stand point of being widely known, and that, 1 in proportion to their number, the An 1 glo- -Soxons are from three to 10 times as likely as are the other races to achieve poistions of national distinc- tion."
 In New York Taking the list of the 50 commonest names in New York city, pr. Wood con sidered 19 to be characteristic of Eng land or Wales, eight of Scotland, Is of Ireland and German or Jewish The 19 English names were found 16S times among New York residents in the Who's Who in America" of 1912, the | 8 Scotch names 57 times, the 15 Irish 37 times, the German or Jewish Il times.
 Among the commonest names in New
 York those which occur more than five times in Who's Who" are: Smith 27, Miller 10, Brown 13, White IS, Hall 13, Allen IS, Johnson g. Clark 9, Taylor g. Lewis g. Jones 8, Martin 8, Wilson T. Davis 2, Thompson T. Ward '. Jackson z. Harris 6, Young 6, Murphy 5, Moore 5, Robinson 5, Morris 5.
 Other names of persons residing in New York not In the list of the 50 com monest names, but occurring five or more times in Who's Who" are: Ab- bolt, Adams, Alexander Baker. Chapin Clarke, Cooper, Curtis, Davis, Eaton, F'iske, Foster, Fuller, Gilbert, Greene. Holt. Johnston, Lawrence, Lee, Merrill, Mitchell, Moore. Morse, Norton Par sons, Perry, Phelps, Porter Post Put nam, Richards, Russell, Scott, Stokes Thomas, Vanderbilt, Walker, Warren, Wood
 "It would seem," says Dr. Wood, that the original Dutch element has not maintained itself in general leadership | in New York. The English element has. l suspect that much of the con- centrated emience now in. New York | city Is due to migration of New Eng land strains from Connecticut and Mas sachusetts."
 l Dr. Wood asserts that Connecticut and
 Massachusetts lead in proportion to their l population in all forms of creditable
 activity, no matter what be the criterion | or distinction.
 In Chicago the German and Scandina- ! vian clements show themselves in the
 surnames, but leaving out Johnson and Anderson as doubtful cases, Dr. Wood found IS characteristic English names | in the list of the 50 commonest names,
 and these 5S occurred 59 times in Who S Who among the residents of Chicago: 1 ' Scotch names occurred "A times, and II l Irish names occurred Il times. The 12 remaining names-Johnson and Anderson
 being left out-did not occur at all in the Who's Who"
 Philadelphia and Boston Tn Philadelphia 32 characteristically l English names among the 50 commonest
 in that city occurred among residents of | Philadelphia in Who's Who SC times; | the IS non-English names occurred only I | times.
 In Boston the English names in the list
 of the 50 commonest occurred 64 times in | Who's Who'' and the Irish times. The
 
 "The truth of the matter is," says Dr | Wood, that all the stocks that have I come into America in recent years since 1880 have been very inferior to those al i ready here in the 17th and 18th centuries
 and in general they have been gettine worse There have been a few notable exceptions, but broadly all our capable men of the present day have been engen- dered from the Angio-Saxon element
 already here before the beginning of the l19th>century. Hs
 We sometimes read magazine, and newspaper articles about the irish ir
 America, the Germans. in America, tht Jews in America, describing the achiev- ments of distinguished foreigners wht
 have risen to high esteem and publishint I portraits of the same. It is because they are relatively few that 1t is possible tt make a magazine article out of the ma terial. Who ever saw a similar article
 on the English in America? The statistic ally true can be exciting only to ths scientifically inclined.
 "We have heard a great deal about tho
 melting pot but no one, so far as
 know has brought forward any proo1 that there Is melting pot in the true biological sense. 1. e., that there is any genuine mingling of blood sufficient tc overcome the natural testimony that al
 species and varieties have to grow apart and become more dissimilar in the course