The sun., 1916-12-08
SAYS THE SOUTH Is
NOT FIT FOR WHITES
DR.. O'Malley Startles Catholic
College Students in
Address.

The leading collegiate Institutions of
Adelphi. New York University. Hunter
College. Teachers College. Brooklyn
Polytechnic. Barnard--not to mention
Princeton, the University OF Pennsyl-
vania, Harvard, Syracuse. Smith and
many other seats OF learning-were rep
resented yesterday In an overflow meet
ing In the ballroom OF Delmonico's:
nevertheless the student federation that
assembled is next to unknown.
Its official title Is the Federation OF
College Catholic Clubs. II is made up
of groups OF clubs OF Catholic students
IN Protestant or non-sectarian institu-
tions. About the only college OF the
big four so far not represented In
.he federation Is Yale, and the Catholic
students in Yale already are at work
forming a club on the lines OF the New
man Club of tho University Of Pennsyl-
vania and similar organizations repre-
scented yesterday.
Mrs. Jacob L. Phillips. . Philadelphia
woman OF wealth. who was present yes
terday. was chiefly responsible for the
iede Grafton idea and at present !s the
fociety's most ardent supporter. In Man
rattan. Prof. James VI. Kieran. OF the
chair of education In Hunter College, is
the federation's most active worker.
The meeting OF the students yesterday
was one OF two held here each year TO
permit them to combine extraneous COT
legiate instruction with pleasure in the
form Of a lecture by some noted Cathc-
| lie savant. followed by an absolutely
"unhighbrowish" dancing party. the
lecturer yesterday was Austin O'Malley.
liz D.. NJ. D., Of Philadelphia. well
! known to the readers Of scientific Jour-
nails.
DIR. O'Malley. whose subject. THE FL
feet of the American Climate on the
European Immigrant" might have beer
expected to frighten the college students
away. but instead held their close at
rention, was introduced My Mgr Lavel'e
rector OF ST. Patrck's Cathedral. Be
! fore DIR. O'Malley was introduced Prof
! Kieran OF Hunter College told briefly OF
! the college Catholic clubs formed since
the last meeting and OF the organization
| about to be formed in Yale, Dartmouth
Nassar, Bowdoin and other institutions.
Or. OMalley. who. with the late
Major Woodruff OF tho regular army
and others. has made a long study OF
the effect OF sun rays on the white
mans efficiency. elaborated upon ideas
which In briefer form he delivered re-
Gently In the University OF Pennsyl
vania and thereby brought down upon
his head the invective OF countless
Southern editors. 1t Is his contention
in short, that the United States south OF
North Carolina ''is not fit for the white
sraces to thrive in. and as matter OF fact
no white race ever has thriven there
to quote from that part OF his lecture
which has to do with this country.
In a lecture which indicated that thu
speaker had made exhaustive anthropo
logical and cl!mactic research Or. OMal
ley dwelt for the better part OF an houl
on his contention. also held by Major
| Woodruff. that the southern sun doe:
not make for efficiency among the bon'
races. The lecture seemed to cause IN
young college men and women TO forge
even the dance which soon was TO follow
hut they remembered the party" part o
the programme after the Anal npplaus
had died down. and spent an hour o
more of the late afternoon In terpslcho
rean exercises that were not altogethe
OF an intellectual order.