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...ruling divides border aliens into two classes-native and foreign-born. Native Canadians will be permitted continued commuting privilege upon paying a $10 passport fee ard $8 head tax. Foreignborn Canadians, even though naturalized Canadian citizens, are rated according to their country of birth, not their country of naturalization. They must secure passport visas from U. S. consuls in their native countries. The ruling approved by U. S. Secretary of Labor Davis goes into effect June 1; provides six months there after for persons affected to get necessary documents...
...Foreign-born Canadian commuters said that the ruling was downright exclusion. They could not get the necessary visas from their native countries if the immigration quotas from those countries were filled. They pictured themselves and their families destitute. Through officials they appealed to Premier W. L. MacKenzie King of Canada. Thus came to Vincent L. Massey, Canada's first minister to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 22), his first truly knotty assignment in Canadian-U. S. relations. The handiest solution that he might urge would be to have foreign-born Canadian commuters classed specially as nonquota immigrants, a distinction...
...poorly educated. With our present system, he showed, great numbers of young people are forced through the required number of schools years and are then thrown, without any means of support out into the world to shift for themselves. Quite naturally a great number of young people who were born morons are not fitted for intellectual work with out the necessary training they are unable to do other skilled work, and soon sink to a position in which they can only kep alive by petty larceny...
...argument that impresses the layman, being made so dogmatically that he feels that it must have some basis of fact. The first point becomes absurd when once one realizes where its logic leads. One of the greatest minds of all time was Leonardo da Vinci, and Leonardo was born out of wedlock. It is moreover, no guarantee of greatness in a nation that its people spawn promiscuously in order to provide greater opportunity for high-grade germ cells' meeting...
...them measures by which they themselves can tend to relieve their poverty. The experience of our clinics shows that this is possible even with high grade morons. The feebleminded of lower grades we must care for; but let us see that as few as possible of such incompetents are born. They are expensive. Let us try to cut down this expenditure and use the money to promote advisable economic reforms...