88 WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

We shall oppose any radical and violent demonstration which may tend to
create conflicts and disturb the peace and tranquillity of our country.
In this connection I wish to call attention to an article entitled The League
of United Latin-American Citizens: A Texas-Mexican Civic Organization, by
Dr. O. Douglas Weeks, of the University of Texas, published in the December,
1929, issue of the Southwestern Political and Social Science Quarterly. If the
committee has no objection, I should like to have Doctor Weeks’ article made a
part of the record of this hearing.
In his book entitled “Your Mind in Action,” Dr. Fred A. Moss, associate
professor of psychology, George Washington University visiting psychiatrist,
Gallinger Municipal Hospital, says:
“Every race has certain customs and manners which have grown up through
che centuries, as well as certain physical characteristics which are typical of the
race. Other races with different physical and mental characteristics resent
these, and the result is race hatred or race prejudice. Such epithets as ‘frogeating
 Frenchman,” ‘pig-tailed Chink,’ ‘flat-footed nigger,” ‘Russian Whiskerino’
and ‘unspeakable Turk’ are but a few of the uncompvlimentary expressions of
race predudice to-day.
“Wherever two distinct races live in close contact with one another, we find
race prejudice, and the greater the differences between the two races, the greater
the prejudice. As regards physical beauty, for example, the most attractive
traits of a race are regarded as the ideal. If fairness is characteristic of the race,
the ideal beauty is fair; darkness is ugly, and vice versa. This explains why the
acclaimed beauties of other races frequently appear quite revolting according to
our standards of beauty. The farther away a race Is from our own racial ideal,
¢he more hideous it seems, and the stronger our prejudice.
“Yet another cause of racial prejudice is the fact that a conquering nation
generally forces its customs and civilization upon the peoples it conquers. Fear
is an important cause of race prejudice—the fear of the people of one race that
those of another race will usurp their place in the economic or social world.
“Wherever two races come in contact with one another, race prejudice is
found, and the closer the contact the greater the prejudice. In the United
States we find the prejudice against the Oriental much greater in the West than
in the East. We find the northerner arguing for social equality for the Negro,
while the southener considers the Negro race too inferior to possess this equality.
The negroes realize the prejudice against them in this country, and some react
with bitterness, others with resignation. %* *

“RACE DIFFERENCES IN ACHIEVEMENT

‘Is the achievement of a race a fair measure of its ability? If the question is
answered in the affirmative, we have a fairly easy means of comparing the ability
of races. Yet there are several objections to considering the achievement of a
race a fair measure of its ability, chief among which are the following: (1) The
civilization and culture of one race may have been borrowed from other races,
and so indicate little as to the ability of the races which possesses it. For example,
in Japan to-day we have a civilization that compares favorably with that of the
leading western nations, but if we had examined the civilization and culture of
Japan some 50 years ago, we should have found an entirely different state of
affairs; the change being due to the fact that since that time Japan has adopted
the civilization of the western nations. (2) The achievements and civilization of
a race may have been due to the efforts of men long since dead, and so be a very
poor measure of the present generation. For example, the civilization and
culture of China are due very largely to the work of such men as Confucius and
others who have been dead for more than 2,000 years. (3) The progress and
achievements of any race are made by a few superior men. That being true, the
larger the race, the more variable it is, the more likely it will be to produce these
superior men. For example, the achievements of which our Nation boasts were
produced by such individuals as Edison, Burbank, and Henry Ford, and, other
things being equal, the more people we have, the more likely we shall be to have
more Edisons, Burbanks, and Fords.” (Your Mind in Action, pp. 111-113, by
Dr. Fred A. Moss, published in the year 1929.)
“The Indian: Although the American Indian was the original inhabitant of
this country, and has been here since the white man first took possession of it,
little of a scientific nature is known concerning the traits peculiar to the Indian
race.” (Ibid. bo. 94)