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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. No American Problem, in recent years, has awakened such sudden and lively interest as that of race suicide It has become a theme of conversation in our homes and a subject of debate in our halls and universities. We are told of it constantly, in editorials, sermons, lectures, dramas, and Presidential messages. And so we have been building up a national structure of opinion which may or may not be of solid and well-chosen materials. As usually happens, when a new problem con fronts a nation, theories arrive before facts. Each theory, as a rule, is based upon its originator's personal experience - inevitably so, because of the lack of data on the subject. Such has been the case, to a remarkable degree, in the discussion of the race suicide question. Naturally, a nation as young and vigorous as ours could not foresee the coming of such a contingency - one which has hitherto occurred only in older countries. We have been taken by surprise.