[page number] 6. [end page number] last one hundred years, and is at present increasing at the rate [handwritten underline with question mark]of twelve thousand [end handwritten underline with question mark]a year. Nor is there any well-grounded fear of the extinction of our own particularly cherished white race. As a race we are increasing more rapidly than any other. During this same period while the world's population was doubling, the peoples of Europe and their descendants more than tripled. The paler people are the most numerous race, and they show no immediate indication of approaching the vanishing point. What we have to fear is not race suicide, but the "family suicide" within each race, of the healthiest and most gifted families, and the disproportionate increase of the most handicapped and unhealthy. In other words, the danger is not race suicide but race deterioration. The State of New York spends eleven million dollars annually, or twenty per cent of its entire income on the care of the delinquent and defective. It is true that idiots and imbeciles die off. But the nearly feeble-minded or morons reproduce rapidly under present conditions. A study of children separated as mentally retarded, in the London city school systems indicates that these children come from homes in which there were nearly twice as many children as the general average. It has been estimated on the basis of the army intelligence tests that there are twenty million people in the United States who do not have adequate intelligence to carry them thru the grammar school, even with hard driving. Under such circumstances it is not surpirsing [sic] that elections in American cities can be flagrantly bought and sold, or that a