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CHAPTER XXII
THE  PRESENT  VIEWPOINT

It is not difficult to show the inaccuracy of the charges
outlined in the last section, that were made both against
the Italian and the younger generation. The best evi¬
dence is the activities organized, administered and en¬
tered into by botli these people. Industries of every
description and all of the professions alike afford con¬
clusive testimony in certifying to the general co-opera¬
tive qualities of these peoples.

With respect t6 agriculture. Prof, Geddes, Jr,, states
"that their influence can be felt in many garden sections
cultivated in this country where they have made the
rocky hills bloom as the rose," On this same point we
quote in full the reply to our symposium of Prof, Lindley
M, Keasbey formerly of the University of Pennsylvania
and Bryn Mawr College, now editor of The Interna¬
tional :

"European civilization is made up of two parts ; the
Beer and Butter civilization of the North, and the Wine
and Oil civilization of the South, The beer and butter
people are made up of Nordics and Alpines; and the
wine and oil people are predominately of Mediterranean
stock,

"Our environmental conditions are such as to .give
rise to Beer and Butter and a Wine and Oil civiliza¬
tion in the United States, Except, hovi^ever, for t!ie
Spanish and French, our Wine and Oil region has been
occupied and developed for the most part by Anglo-
Saxons and Teutons who are Beer and Butter people.
As Nordics and Alpines they have done well in their
strenuous ways. But when all is said they have not
really adapted themselves to our wine and oil condi¬
tions, nor have they made of this Southern section what
it is destined to be.

"This I take is the chief contribution of Americans ol
Italian descent. They have gone into and are developing
our Southern Sea Board States, and wherever they go