Professor A.E. Jenks, of the University of Minnesota, and his assistant, made a house-to-house study of families the result of mixed marriages, the marriage records not even showing the color of the man and woman. These people have in Minneapolis an organization known as the Manassas Society, membership in which is dependent upon the intermarriage of a negro man and a white woman. Already 200 such families are included in this society, with probable omissions. Similar conditions exist in many parts of the North and West. That condition alone, if unchecked, will in a few centuries legally mongrelize that portion of our country. If we turn our eyes southward, we find a different but even more serious situation. None of our Southern States permits the intermarriage of whites and pure blacks, but all except Virginia and perhaps two others allow the intermarriage of whites with those of one-sixteenth or one-eighth negro blood. This serious situation calls for the speedy enactment of laws based upon that of Virginia, which defines a white person as one with no trace whatsoever of any blood other than Caucasian, and forbids the intermarriage of whites with those with the slightest trace of negro blood. Clerks who issue marriage licenses are required to assure themselves that both parties are white, according to the new definition, when that fact is claimed, and are instructed to withhold the license, when in doubt, until satisfactory proof is submitted to them. The enforcement of the law naturally falls upon the Bureau of Vital Statistics, to which are reported the births, deaths, marriages and divorces of the State, all of which require a statement as to color. Our office has accepted this task and has undertaken seriously, as far as possible, to secure from all sources the truth as to this point. Circular letters have been sent to all clerks, physicians, local registrars, undertakers and midwives, with copies of the law, urging them [18] [right side] to use all possible care to furnish us with correct statements. School authorities have been reached through their journal, and the public is being instructed by newspaper articles and lectures. Much interest has been aroused and many cases of mixture are being called to our attention. When this condition is found on the birth certificate if the mother has other children, we refer back to previous births to the same parents and make the certificates agree. We have thus caught a number of families in the act of passing over from the colored to the white class, some of their children being already recorded as white and some as colored. Our custom is to notify the head of the family that his situation cannot be allowed and that if one of his children is colored, they are all colored. The case is different, however, when the process of intermixture has so far advanced that communities of mixed breeds have been formed, particularly if they have or claim to have some intermixture of Indian blood. One community of about 500 of this triple intermixture in one county on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, with a branch colony perhaps half as large across the mountain in another county, has been carefully studied by Professor Ivan McDougle, the of Sweetbriar, now of Goucher College, and Dr. Arthur Estabrook, of the Carnegie Foundation; their report soon to be published. They find these people of low moral standard, as evidenced by the fact that twenty-one per cent of their births are illegitimate. The army draft enlistment mental tests showed them very low, about D or D minus. A capable school teacher has never developed from these people, in contrast with the true negro. They differ from the true negro in the further fact that they show little disposition to attempt to build a church or maintain a religious worship, depending entirely upon mission work by white people. Their ambition seems to be limited to securing [19] [end]