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Along with that thoughtlessly generous idea that America should receive any and all imigrants with open arms, there runs a parallel theory that America is a "melting pot"--a kind of cauldron into which the most fundamentally different races may be poured, stirred together, and turned out American citizens. If there is to be a recognized, American type, then the various races must give and take within the pot and emerge much alike. But up to the present time there has been little of this expected merging. Instead of a national type, there remains the same widely differing groups, not even as closely conglomerated as hash. Every large city has its segregated cities within the city, chunks transplanted from the old country which have never yet mingled with the soil of the New. Whether it is biologically possible to interfuse all these stocks into one is not definitely known because no trial has been possible.

It is certainly no aid to these conditions to have the President of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America start a drive for an Orthodox Jewish College in New York. Such sectionalism, such isolation from the commonwealth is to be commended neither among the Jews, nor among the Catholics in their Catholic colleges, nor in Episcopalian or any other denominational Institutions. For such institutions run, flatly counter to the ideal of American citizenship, of giving all the population America's heritage of traditions and America's purposes.