The sentence "if the father and mother are of different races the children are sometimes unfit for brain work", circulated as a Golden Age teaching of 1920, is an aside by a named reader, Joseph P. Samek, in a signed contribution about crop rotation and hybrid potatoes in Czechoslovakia, printed in the magazine's agriculture department.

Confidence note. Read page by page from the item’s djvu.xml on 19 September 2026 and read again independently on the same date. The leaf carries the running head "The Golden Age for January 7, 1920", the departmental heading "AGRICULTURE AN[D HUSBANDRY]" and the by-line "Czecho-Slovakian Farming by Joseph P. Samek". The printed folio on this leaf is not legible in the scan, and neither are the folios on the two leaves either side of it; the nearest legible folios are 233, 234, 235 and 238, in an unbroken run on consecutive leaves, and the item’s page-number file gives 241 for this leaf, which is what that run requires. An earlier version of this record said the adjacent leaves carried legible folios in an unbroken run to 248; they do not. Nothing about the writer could be established from the magazine beyond his name and his statement that he left Czechoslovakia twenty years earlier.

Scan provenance. Internet Archive item “Magazines: The golden age, 1920”. Printed page numbers taken from the item's page_numbers.json joined to the djvu.xml leaves and checked against the running head “The Golden Age for January 7, 1920”.

Notes. Critical sites print these two sentences under the bare heading “Golden Age 1920 Jan 7 p.241”, without the by-line or the subject of the article. In the magazine they close a paragraph about hollow hybrid potatoes in a signed contribution on Czechoslovakian farming.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-race-ga-1920-0107-samek-brain-work

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