The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-27

test, the Doc pinned back his ears and yelped at the 135th anniver- sary dinner of the New England Society in New York.
 This educator is shining ex- ample of what is wrong with our schools, colleges, and universities. He advocates that Yankees inter- marry with "the fertile and robust central Europeans" who have managed to infiltrate Into the green hills and kindly valleys of New England. He states that it may be the Yankee mission by physical inheritance to assimilate and train these lesser breeds with out the law" and that's another reason why he should be investig- ated, checked-up on, and returned to One-rOOm school where his sphere of influence will be as nar- row as his vision appears to be. It's risky letting 8 man like that supervise higher education" even of the sons of men who are foolish enough to send their offspring to schools directed by persons who cannot recognize their cultural surroundings.
 Doc Fuess wants to arrest the biological attentuation of the orig inal Yankee strain. he mentions plans for stimulating the birth rate of the D. A. R. He is as full of grand ideas about improving the Yankee as skunk is full of reasons for demanding more than half the road. If this professor had his way. the Tanks would probably import few savages for foundation stock and then endeav- or to reproduce offspring untaint- ed with the pride of ancestry. The Doctor talks like a hired man who has just had his proposal turned down by the farmers daughter. This critic who travels to New York to unlimber an attack on us that he dares not voice here among us, claims that Yankee far mers have lost out in competition with immigrants of other races; he is of the opini n that other races with lower living standards have the edge on us when it comes to making a crop, and that's some more bunk. Nobody can raise bet ter potatoes than Ike Platt, and Ike is a dyed-in-the-wool Yankee with hair on his chest and the father of fine pair of twins. Why, even Odell Shepard discov- cred that Yankee makes a crop faster, quicker, surer. than any other race.
 This Doctor Fuess has just writ ten a book about Cal Coolidge, but he classifies our soil as "arid" de- spite the heavy rainfall of Yam keeland. Cal never complained about arid soil, except in Wash ingt0n. One wonders, will the Fuess book on Coolidge prove arid, tcO?
 ADOuL OIlCG III SO O1tcIl, AIt 1uS tellectual tries to grab a handful of headlines by decrying our an- cestor worship and our rugged in- dividualism. These folk are in marked contrast to the genuine students of human nature who have lived with Yankees long enough to understand them and the land they love. The out standing feature of every critic of tine Yankee way of life is an un- dercurrent of grudging admira- tion. @ jealousy, a feeling of in- feriority. Beneath the varnish of the Yankee critics this admiration is so evident that we usually, have to hang out the SRO sign every time we advertise that we need a professor to teach our kindergar- ten. Yankees may be hard to live with but the manner in which they meet all obligations attracts outlanders like a molasses barrel brings in flies.
 Tip IIall, genial Yankee black