Southern Methodist Boys State Teutonic Preference

Dallas Jews were somewhat disturbed last week by stories of a race preference ballot taken among students at Southern Methodist University in which Germans received a higher preferential rating than did Jews. Germans were preferred as matrimonial mates, friends, neighbors and labor companions. Immigration of Jews would be restricted, but not that of Germans.

Forced by complaints—Jews are students and good friends of the school albeit it is denominational and regarded as the most important educational center of Southern Methodism—to make some explanation, Dr. H. L. Pritchett, head of the sociology department, said this: “The survey is without siguificance. It was taken some months ago among thirty-five students in a beginning class in sociology, not, as the stories said, throughout the nation. It recorded merely the prejudices of these students without recording how deep they are. The aim of sociology is to level these prejudices. In the light of recent events, had the survey been taken now, it would doubtless have shown far different results.”