HOOTON FINDS NO ONE TYPE OF "AMERICAN"

"There is no anthropological ground for selecting any so-called racial group in America, or any ethnic or national group, or any linguistic or religious group for preferment or condemnation.

"Racial purity is desirable in one sense only. Every racial strain in our country should be purified through the sterilization of its insane, diseased, and criminalistic elements."

For "something must be done to stem the tide of human stupidity" acting in a political group.

Speaking before a meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in New Haven last night, Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, found no one answer on physical bases for the subject of his address, "What is an American?"

Data for his findings were provided by measurements of the Harvard Survey of 14,000 criminals, 3,000 Massachusetts and Tennessee law-abiding civilians, and 6,000 citizens at the Chicago's World's Fair. All nine of the commonly accepted racial groups were found in similar proportions among all the population studied.

If there is any way to discover 'the" American it is that of the Physical anthropologist. The observer who approaches the question from the nationalistic or cultural standpoint fails to draw a conclusive answer, on the one hand from his natural bias, and on the other by confusion and multiplicity of definitive bases.