Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-07-06

'Americanization' is shown by the
face. This has lost the prominence
of the cheek bones and that of the
angles of the lower jaw, and in the
well nourished approaches a char
acteristic straight-sided, rather high
oval. The nose is variable, with ten
dency to convex (acquiline) in males
and concave-conveX in females. The
hands, feet, mouth, ears are not
large, but also not small.
Heredity Still I'm Evidence
In declaring hat there is no
American type of either nan or
woman as yet, still there is an ap-
proach to such a type in ~physiog-
nomy, stature. build, pigmentat4
and in other directions, DR.. Hrd-
licka said that heredity IS still most
in evidence, but is no longer abso-
lutte.
The old American are to an I'M
portant degree still the English,
Scotch or Dutch of their ancestry"
said the doctor, "but ii part they
are already something new COM
mon. acuv;red in this land-they
are American. Were it possible for
this stock to breed exclusively
among themselves for several more
liSSy d&tOIoIhl5 ~ Il 4 ~
dications would produce as distinct
a national type as have the various
| older European nations. But inter-
marriage with recent elements of
the population is so common that
no hope can be entertained for any
rapid progress in this direction.
Form of head, that was supposed
once to show rapid changes, was
found under the new environment
to De one cI the most persistent of
characteristics.
Another prevalent notion that
tnds no support in the results of
! these Investigations is that of any
physical difference between the old
Americans of the Northeast, the
Yankees; and those of the South.
There is no difference of any i'm
p~ortance. The people of the South
| are rot darker. the Yankees are not
taller. The only regional difference
in the old American stock are such
as ale due TO different ancestry,
English, Scotch, Huguenot etc. But
the whole strain shows a plain ten
dency towards darkening of hair and
diminution of b~londness.
The long governmental investiga-
ton to determine whether there is
such a being as the typical Ameri-
can did not take into consideration
those people who are to ne regarded
as the only true Americans-the In
dams, or Amerinds. as they are some
times designated. Here a type may
be found, for the essential charac-
teristics of the Indian are uniform
Above the average height, with g
tendency to overweight after middle
age, the Indians are almost invaria'
bly, of red or copper-coiored COM
p~lexion, with straight black hair,
brown eyes high cheek bones anC
rather broad faces. No cne would
ever look upon p~ure-blooded 1ndiar
and have any doubts as to what he
was.
AS the rnelting pot of the whit
races. however, it is not to be eX-
pected that America will develop a
decided type of men and womer
who may he readily identified al
American from their physical char
acteristics. 1t is not surprising tha'
it required eight years of research
to find 100 individuals whose par
ents, grandparents. and great
grandparents had been born In this
country.
BUT tnerS Is one Cidi iStis
other than physical which many
Europeans insist is distinctivelI
Observation-Disclosures. They sa.
that we use superlatives only in ev'
erything we say about ourselves ant
our country and our individual and
national accomplishments. The!
even intimate that we have no
been at all modest in discussion a:
to who won the World War.