Walker Whiteside and company presented for the first time a drama entitled " The Melting Pot." President and Mrs. Roosevelt were among the many people in the audience. The story dealt with emigration from Russia to the United States. Israel Zangwill. the author. is not an American citizen. Today he is the president of an emigration society in Europe. His was an appeal to this country to admit without number the people of the Old World. claiming that America as a "melting pot" would fuse the various foreign elements into one typical American type and race. The play had its psychological effect. for the following six years saw an average of over a million aliens a year enter the United States. IL was not immigration in the old sense of the word. It was a veritable migration of peoples on a scale never before known during any period of our countrys greatest development. Zangwills theory was expressed in his words. "You have come to the heart of the crucible where the roaring fires of God are fusing His race with all other nations." The human "melting pot" is a theory rather than a fact.
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