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REVIEWS OF SPRING BOOKS Gilbert Parker Turns to the Bible for Characters—A Volume! { humans conditions. | first I have believed in a system of strict | of American Poctry—Sergt. York’s World War Career and a Few Novels. BY IDA GILBERT MY THE PROMISED LAND. By Gilbert Parker, author of “The Power and the Glory,” etc. New York: Fred- erick A. Stokes Co. ROWNING, George Moore, Donn Byrne, John Oxenham and now Gilbert Parker. among oth:us, are demonstisting the quality of the Bible as oviginal malerial upon which to draw for some of their most dramatic invenilons. Browning Byrne and Gilbert Parker have chosen ul as the source of their dramatic inspiration. Here Mr. Parker disen- tangles the career of Saul from the maze of Jewish history wherein this highly poetic and tragic figure found its triumphs and defeats. Saul, David, Selomon. provide the high points of the drama whos? objective is the return of the Jews to their earlier high and powerful estat>. The keynote of the | parrative is simplicity. This and straight cou set by these three Jew- ish leaders. together with that artless story-telling gift that engenders confi- dence and acceptance on the part of readers. constitute the true charm of “The Promised Land” setting it with the highest work of this writer. The ineidents chosen for the illumination of the theme serve their purpose of revelation in a way that the man and woman of today can appreciate and enjoy. ‘The beauty of the story at cer- tain significant points is high and fine. | Sir Gilbert Parker's keen insight in Tespect to the human heart works as potently here as it dves with his char-| acters that are much nerer to us in time. That immemorial theme, “David | and Jonathan,” here takes on a new beauty. The tragic end of Saul, a new pathos. David's love for Bathsheba, of which the good people disapprove, is ike a fine idyl here. A beautiful story. | Yet, reading, we are impressed all over | again with the essential cruelty of life, | the cruelty of man. Not of the Jews any more than of those who have come affer them. Yet, here, in the name of Jehovah, Saul and David and Solomon, for the glory of their people were, | after all, barbarous. And so are we today. A million years, perhaps—- I'm running away from the latest and one of the most beautiful novels that Sir Gilbert Parker has yet written in & lofty vein upon a great theme. * ok %o AMERICAN POETRY: 1871-1928. An Anthology. Edited by Conrad Aiken. New York: The Modern Library. COMPACT to fit every man’s lack of leisure for long deliberate res | ings. Comprehensive to give him an | all-around Jook upon American poetry | from its beginnings up to the present, up to last year in fact. Well propor- tioned in that it pays fair- due to the poets of the and bour instead of scanting these in favor of the well known New England group of & much earlier period. A most useful and ex- cellent survey upon the whole fleld of poetic achievement in this country. “American poetry, if one takes it as a | whole, is not yet a great or rich poetry” —Conrad Afken talking—"though it has shown not infrequently the ele- ments of greatness and richness: it has been provincial, uneven, tentative, bril- liant; but if one cannot as yet say that | it takes a very high place in the poetry of the world, as the expression of & na- tional soul or culture, one can at least say emphatically that the time has come for a firm revision of our critieal attitude toward it. We are too much accustomed. I fear, to what oue might term & high protective tariff in this matter. We are a litlle too willing o suspend or modify judgment, on the ground that too much was not to be expected of & pioneer people in & new continent. Insensibly, we have got into the habit of accepting the second best; and by closing our eves to the best ~—by which I mean the best poetry of | the worli—have found it not too difi- | cult to persuade ourselves of the ex- | cellence of the native product.” * * *| “If American poetry is not yet great,| it has at least reached that point at which one may say that it is mature. It has & history of nearly 300 years." | *e s s “And if we admit cheer- fully enough that the first two-thirds of its history is pretty barren, one can also say that it now comprises names of which no country need be ashamed.” | In such critical mood Mr. Aiken seeks to proye the increasing value of our | poetry. The older poets, Longfellow. Whittier, Lowell, do not take a back seat, but they are required to give some | place to such poets as Poe, Whitman, Dickinson and other moderns. That is | the outstanding point in this collection. | Men and women right around us are | singing worthily and stimulatingly of the great present and the immaediate | past. These along with the earher | writers serve here to indicate the | growth of the poetic spirit In America its pliancy to meet the changing days and deeds, its flexibility of form Lo suit the same purpose. Reserved withal, simple and, in a measure conforming. this_anthology will a whole meet satisfyingly an actual need on ihie part | of those who are interested in the quality of American poetry in its high points and in its general sum up to the present time. * ook SERGEANT YORK: His Own Life Story and War Diary. Edited by ‘Tom Skeyhill. New York. Double- day, Doran & Co. J T _reads like legend. Out of it Serg York emerges like the pagan Her- cules, mythic, unbelievable. ~Yet this is A true story, one of the terrible true stories of the World War. The ‘whole band of dignitaries whose business in wartime is to confer honors upon those who do the fighting agree that here is one of the great soldiers of all time. Just a plain man down in Tennessee, a mountaineer, this Alvin C. York—a re- ligious fellow who cherished conscien- tious scruples against war—yet when the big war came—well, suppose vou let him in his own way just how it ' ned that he went over “to do his ,bit.” A tremendous story, even though you hate fighting as York himself did. A grammarless story in the main, Dlainly stated in the vernacular of the Southern mountaineer. Of no account whatever. save to make the tale more driving, more poignant, more personal to the reader himself. Curefully liying aside his conscience for the tinie being this York, when ihe urgency came. took over an entire Geruan machine gun battalion. killing. capluriug guis and bringing in over & hundred prison- ers. All by himsel. 0. “The out- standing civilian soldier of the w said Gen. Pershink. Aud here le tells us all about it. This 1s oue of the best of times to read Sergt. York, right round about this 30th of May. Heroism is| an essential in peace as well as in war and, without question, here is example and pattern that cannot be surpassed. ! i | SUICIDE BATTALIONS. By Wendell | ‘Westover, Captain, 4th M. G. Bn. A. E. F. Tustrated by Lucien Jon official _Freneh war artist. Ne 'ork: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. A LONG train of coaches was l'uldyi to leave the siding at the Syracuse | camp. Relatives, sweethearts and | frisnds erowded along side. i “Destination unknown! “Good-by, fis: I'll bring you the Kaiser's mous- ! tache.” “Keep your feet dry, bo) don't catch cold.” “Bob, if you ‘eli funny with any of them m dem-o-‘ selles you better stay over there; you | won't have no more business with me. | The train pulled out. Eighteen | later the battalion was at sea. And Tere is the story of the battalion, mm‘ by oung captain who offers it l‘rmnI 1he standpoint of the enlisted man and commander as well. from that of the And the author tel fhese two is the 0, S— | is blunt and forthright. information from the higher command sifts down in somewhat meager quan- | as well as he can he inter- ormation to the fighting “His, the direct and &ll- tiies. But prets th.s an himseli. | important task of leadership, of under- standing, of living the human and - human days with men who occupy the ground and gain the decision of batile.” “The lieucenant is taught that it i lecessary to sacrifice men in the at- teinment of battletield objective—then asked to lead those men into the bat- tle™ Id point of view for the young ofti always young this officer Almost alway s Here Is the action of the battlefleld— fighting. Jjoking, daring, laughing at their own' fears—they must have had fear—plunging into the thick of the madness and death. We say. “Let us forget the war'—yet, that is just what we must not do. Certainly not on a day like this, with bands marching along All the streets of all the cities | and towns in America on this May 30. | making their separate ways to the | spots of war remembrance where voung soldiers lie. No, let us remember the war and one way to that end is to read | and re-read, year by year at this time. such records as fhese. Let us read | “Suicide Battalions” and _“Sergeant York” and others of like subsiance, so that we shall not forget the inhumanity of war. the futility of war and its hu- | man waste. R A MARINE TELLS IT TO YOU. As told by Col. Frederic May Wise to Meigs O. Fiost. New York: J. H. Seais & Co. JT was Col. Wise's regiment of M rines that fi effectively ¥ fought for 17 days through Belleau Wood. Therefore, “A Marine Tells It | to You" is sure to find an eager hearing | from all of us to whom the name | “Marine” simply signifies those terri- | ble days of their daring and sacrifice | and achievement. This is not, however, a story of the World War. It is in- | stead an account of life a5 & part of | the United States Marine Corps. Col. | Wise begins with himself when he, | for the first time, appears before his | commanding officer. From that mo- | ment there is neither | To Cuba, to China, all over the water world, in fact. wherever this country has interests that command the serv- ices of her enlisted sailors. It is & dash | from one adventure to another, now here, now there, with no interludes for | a reader to pause to get his own bear- | ings. If Alexander Dumas had written | this gorgeous adventure it would promptly have taken its place with the fiction of which he was so much the master. But Dumas did not write it. Instead it is the sober (?) record of an official in the Marine establishment. It is hardly conceivable that another such combination of events and a truly inspired interpreter could be found s this partnership reveals. “In the main it is Corps’ of which I write. There are damned few of us left. We lived hard. we drank hard, fought hard. In the old days liquor was accepted as a rule. Yet, even then. 1 never saw an officer on duty drunk.” | ““We entered the service under marti- | nets. ‘They accepted no excuses. They | required results. They left their mark | on us. If we survived we were offi- | | | | i e ‘Old Marine | “I have tried to tell the story of men 1 have commanded them in every se of & soldier's life, in berracks, on shipi in training camp, the mareh, in billets and in action. A genuine simon-pure d'Artagnan takes the reader in hand here for & thrilling adventure all over the world in the service of the Marine Corps. The effect is like earthquake, cyclone. tornado and typhoon, Spiendid! Read it, ook x THE SPIDER AND -THE FLY. Clyde Arden, aufhor of “Entice. ment.” etc. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. | 'LIVE ARDEN sets himself quite a job in the working out of this his atest story. Under the nursery rhyme is a veritable Don Juan, limmer with flies in the shape of beauteous damsels seduced by the arts of the young male. An obnoxious | role to mssign to auny self-respecting | man. It must be ‘conceded, too, that Clive Arden adroitly saves the fellow | from the utterly sbject implications of the role. However, with the end of | the matter in mind, the hor s | compelled to lea escape. | For the issue deals mot at all with a Don Juan, but with Don Quixote | instead. I leave it to you if much more | than even acknowledged skill is not| required for 30 precipitate a divergence | as this. Not & hundred per cent per- | excoss. Entertaining stuff of it< kind, without tco much of qustion in re spect to it i BOOKS RECEIVED THE GREEN ROAD. By Walter author of “The Wrong New York: E. P. Dut- HE VILLAGE DOCTOR. Kaye-Smith, author of Smoke,” etc. New York: ton & Co. THE LASTINGHAM MURDER. By v, author of “The Win | ning,” ete. New York: Edward J..Clode, Inc. THE BROKEN MARRIAGE. By Sin- clair Murray, author of “Sands of Fortune,” etc. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. THE GUILTY HOUSE. By Charles lélré[slon. New York: E. P. Dutton 0. By Sheila “Iron and E. P. Dut- LEFT IN TRUST. By Huliet Wilbor Tompkins, author of “The Top of the Morning,” etc. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. PRECIOUS BANE. By Mary Webb. With an introduction by the Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co,, Inc. MAMBA'S DAUGHTERS. By DuBose Heyward. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, THE HAVERING PLOT. By Richard Keverne, author of “The Strange Case of William Cook.” New York: Harper & Bros, JOHN WESLEY. By Arnold Lunn, Author of “Roman Converts,” etc. With a_foreword by S. Parkes Cad- man D. D. New York: The Dial ress. AS THEY SAW US: Foch. Ludendorft and Other Leaders Write Our War History. Edited by George Sylves- ter Vierick, with the assistance of A. Paul Maerker-Branden. With Maps and Halftone Illustrations and Complete Indexes. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. THE CATSFAW. By Robert Terry Shannon. New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc. |LIV. By Kathleen Coyle, author of “It Is Better to Tell." etc. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inec. CARMEN SHEILA. By Robert Keat- ing Clay, author of “By Night” etc. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. OUR CHANGING CIVILIZATI How Science and the Machine are Reconstructing Modern Life. By John Herman Randell, jr., Ph. D, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, author of “The Making of the Modern Mind.” New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. THE AFTERMATH; The World Crisis, 1918-1928. By the Right Hon. Winston 8. Churchill, C. H., M. P. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, THE ROAD. By Andre Chamson. Translated by Van Wyck Brooks. With_a foreword by Ernest Boyd. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. THE STRANGE COMPANIONS. By John Cranstoun Nevill. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. New York: and Mexico. By Phillips Russell, Llustrated by Leon Underwood. New York: Brentano’s, on | THE LAND OF GODS AND EARTH- QUAKES. By Douglas Gilbert Har- ing. New York: Columbia Univer- sity Press. SHEILA BOTH-WAYS. Cannan, Stokes Co. | LAFAYETTE AND THREE REVOLU- TIONS. By John Simpson Pen- man, author of “The Irresistible Movement of Democracy.” Boston: ‘The Stratford Co. THE INTELLECT IS A BRUTE; A Novel. By Samuel H. Ordway, jr. New York: Diffisld & Co. PUBLIC LIBRARY. Recent accessions at the Public Li- brary and lists of recommended res ing will appear in this column each Sunday. By Joanna New York: Prederick A. Travel. Borden, C. L. L. Northern Light. Crowther, Samuel. Rise of the G961-C81 L The Cruise of the G14-B63. The Romance ‘and American Tropics. RED TIGER: Adventures in Yucatan | ‘The Flavor of Hol- fect, the metamorphosis’ it seems to D3 me.” The early work is too well done | to make (he subsequent change altogether convincing. Not from lack | of skill. possibly. Rather as if the author had himself become more or less enamored with this devastating spider, | this conquering Don Juan, 50 that when the true character of the young' Ril Englishman is set to come to the sur- face it Is the suthor who shrinks away in a certain distaste for the revelation. However, it is, throughout. an engaging | romance, whose richness in fine detail | g , Franc I Discover Greece. G34- F84. Giudici, Davide. The Tragedy of the Italia. G14-G448. Greely, A. W. The Polar Regions in the Twentieth Century. G14-Gi 3 Holmes, Edric. Seaward Sussex. 1920. esenherg, Felix. Shipmates. G13- s, G45Sus-H733. 4478, ‘Wilkins, G. H. Flying the Arctic. G14- 651, Metallurgy. | these writers without auy nec | the rest of hi is as impressive and absorbing as is the brisk action of the adventure itself. Much more than the average mnovel. this, In its waywise use of material, in its clear feeling for personality. in ite skill of portraval. The majority will vote for “The Spider and the Fly." R ARSENE LUPIN INTERVENES. Maurice Le Blanc, author of “Ar- sene Lupin. Super-Sleuth.” ete. | New York: The Macaulay Co. | HE sharp revival of the detective story in popularity 1s, like most other stations, but a reflection of the By T reformer on the other. Certain | it is that with the spread of news pr ically instantaneous there is an unparaileled record of lawlessness. This | with the expert modern method of de- tecling crime serves to expand and di- versify the material of the writer of | mystery tules. Adventure of exciti character is new within the haud of Ly on their part for the aid of pure invention, ‘These stories wre popular partly be. cause of the quality of the action that they project, pertly because of the human's basic satisfaction with the his brother” man. propitious T the | brings again to the front our old friend Arsene Lupin. ‘This time, however, he plies his arts under the name of Jim Barnett. This is the only recognisable change in the facile and ingenious Arsen A gay and amusing crook is Jim Barnett, just as he ;ll':“ u‘nderLt&o re euphonious name of n. e the 2k , he h'p:\h lh‘: despair of official inspectors of Par police force. Master eriminal as well as master sleuth, he keeps both the | reader and Inspector Bechoux on their | toes in pursuit of this agile crook, at the top of their bent as well to figure | and | out the labyrinth of his ready and in- . Barnes, Mrs. Bechoux s | ‘ventive mind. Inspector bound to get Jim Barnett. He has to. His reputation rests upon that achieve ment, 8o the reader goes along, half hoping that Bechoux will fail, for this is an engaging scamp, this Jim Barnett. No danger. Instead of catching Barnett, ‘houx becomes the prisoner of this artful dodger. The mere reading is adventure so stirring that one for- . - | Fairbanks, E. E, ed. The Laboratory | Inves ion of Ores. REC-F 15 1. | Keffer, Robert, and McNeil, C. L. Methods in Non-Ferrous Metal- lurgical Analysis. REC-K25 Reed, E. L. Photomicrographs and Steel. REC-R25. Willilams. R. 8., and Homerberg, V. O. Prineiples of Metallography. REC- W676pa. “of Tron Biography. | Andrews, Mrs. M. R. 8. | 7 'mander: Florence Nightingale. | N564a. Beraud, Henri. My Friend Robespierre. As God Made E-9B725a; Brion, Marcel. Bartolome de las C her of the Indians. E-C286: | Cook, 8. L. ‘Torchlight Parade: Presidential Pageant, E-9C775. Haldune, R. B. H “‘l:‘ll vl:tuuul An A Lost Com- E- nel. K- MeCoy, 8. d 14u e harles. And Then Came Ford. E-Fi54ne. | Mullany, K. F. Teresa of Avila. E- 273m This Man Adams. E- ns-Ellis, Amabel. The Exquisite an timate Life of John E-R80w. Willk x ed; Ru!{hl. | Electrical Engineering. dison, O. E.. and Norris, F. W. Elee- | trical Engineering Laboratory Prac- | tice. TDZ-Ed47. | Jones, E. W. Essentials of Applied | Electricity. TDZ-J713e. | U. 8. Bureau of Standards. Discussion of the National Electrical Safety Eleciiral Tnpinergng; A General Ref | Electrieal eeging; - erence m v. TDZ-El 23. Child Training and Ca M. F. H TFeeding the Child From Two to Six. QPB-B26! Chadwick, Mary. Difficulties in Child { Development. BIE-C343. | Pyl;." v‘v Training Children. BP. i { Thom, D. A. Mental Health of the Child. QPB-T36m. Fiction. lls us that between | gets to be critical of certain points ef | Beckwith, Brainerd. Spinning Dust. u&::;m‘m:m overstrain and somewbat apocryphal | Buchan, John, mw‘g’m e 8. [ i | | nearly evervbody said this could not be | matter tha (Continued From First Page) | 4 | From the very selection of immigrants overseas. No | one should start to the United Stares with the intention of remaining here unless he is reasonably assured that he will be permitted to enter. At first done, but it is besing done at present, and we have made such progress in the immigration administration now has become probably 90 per cent selective. A peculiar thing about the temporary quota law of 1921 was the fact that as & numerical limitation it wi not very successful, though it did reduce the number of immigrants entering annu- below the former figure of 800.000. The frst vear's immigration under its operation was more than 300,000. The second vear it amounted to 522 . In the third year the number reached 706,896, | Dealing With Humans. | While it was the prime purpose of the temporary quota agi to reduce immigra- tion, I could not Yoee aight of the fact that we were dealing with human be- ings. and in making my frst recom- mendations regardic legislation to cor- rect errors and onizsions in the law I' kept that in mind. Imposition of larger | fines against steamship companies for bringing inadmissible aliens helped to prevent unscrupulous practices. In one | instance a steamship company which packed its ships with immigrants with- out regard to the quota limitation, even earrving on one ship more than an en- tire year'’s quota for a particular coun- try. was put out of business. Nearly 11,000 fines were assessed against it. The greatest singie stride was made when the immigration act of 1924, un- der which we are now operating. was passed ‘The fundamental difference between this and the previous law is that it pro- vides for determination of quota status before the immigrant leaves his foreign | Lome, and gives a reasonable time after | the quota visa has been issued in which he may settle his affairs and depart for | the United States. A new quota system Wwas also estab- | lished, using the census of 1890 as a base. and allowing a quota of 2 per cent of that eensus, but providing also for | what is known as the “national origin” | quotas to became effective, as the act | was amended, beginning July 1 of this| year. Unless Congress repeals or changes that section of the 1924 act. these new national origin quotas will| be effective on the first of next month. The 1924 act gave to American con- suls the right to refuse visas to immi- grants who, in their belief, would not be admissible upon arrival at a port of the United States. This fact. together with the quots control by consular officers, gave me a long-sought epportunity to put forward my plan for examining aliens abroad, and to save them the expense of a useleas journey to this country, Plan Was Welcomed. T already had made a study in many | of the countries of Europe. had con- ferred with representative officials there. and had found that there would not | be any serious objection to this pro- cedure. Most countries welcomed this opportunity of protecting their na- tionals. The plan was first tried out at consulates In Great Britain and th: Irish Free State, and it worked so smoothly and so satisfactorily that gradually the system has been extended, by invitation of the foreign govern- | ments concerned. to all the larger im- migrant sending countries. Experienced immigrant inspectors and physicians of the Public Health Serv- ics are stationed at United States con- and when an alien is about to an_immigration visa, these offi- cers examine im and advise the con- | sular officers as to whether or not he | appears to be worthy of admission to the United States. Rejections at the | port of New York have dropped from several per ceut to & small fraction of | 1 per cent and would be reduced still ' lower but for the fact that we have still been unable to work out a satis- | factory method of overseas examination in a few countries from which small | numbers of immigrants come. | Another feature of selection which | the 1924 law provided was the prefer- | ence and non-quota status given to cer- tain relatives of American citizen: preferences for fathers and mothers. | children under 32 and husbands—and the non-quota status of wives and chil- | dren under 18. Preference also was | given to immigrants skilled in agricui- ture, their wives and children. Thus it will be seen that to a certain extent | the law itself is selective in principle a3 to certain classes, but not as to in- dividuals within the classes. However, | no other preferences were allowed. | ‘While the 1924 act incorporated many humane features, several modifications | were necessary. For instance, I believe | that an American woman is entitled to | bring in her husband, regardless of the | quota. We admit the wife of a citizen: | why should we mot admit the husband of one? Furthermore, why should not an un- married child under 21 years be en- titled to the same nou-quota status as a child of 187 Who would say, in & given case, that a girl of 19 is better | able to look out for herself, separated | from her family, than a boy of 182 As & father, I am inclined to believe that I should rather let the boy of 18 go on his own t the girl & year older. Congress heeded this suggestion, and i | May. 1928, passed an amendatory law | iving non-quota status to unmarried children of citizens up to the age of 31.| It also gave non-quota status to hus- | bands of American citizens who were | | are different. I have aiready said about the way the laws have been amended from time to time so as to protect allens. you may understand that in safeguarding the N tion's interest the humane factors have not been overlooked. In fact, we have been o careful to protect the alien that we have been taken advantage of. ‘Thousands of aliens have gone to near- | by territory and endeavored to sneak in through holes we were not watching. A good many have got away with this practice, but not so many as may com- monly be supposed. Sooner or later many are apprehended. Under the first limi(ation laws there was a time limit on deportation and those who came in improperly are now mostly safe from deportation. illegal entry since July 1. 1924, may be deported st any time they are found, regurdless of how long they stay here. Grounds for Deportation. Because we have been taken advan- tage of so often, especially by aliens who keep returning after they have been | deported, Congress decided that some drastic action was necessary., So the new law provides new grounds for de- portation. Any alien who enters by making & false statement may be de- ported: any alien who has ever been ordered deported is forever barred from the country. Such barrier is, by the law, effective even though formal de- portation was not accomplished—when, for instance, the alien departed volun- tarily upon consent of the Secretary of Labor. While this law is more drastic than I should write it. so long as it is the law of Congress it will have to be enforced. There are many aliens who have been deported because of minor irregularities in connection with their entry, but de- ported without prejudice to their right to reapply in a legal way. Under the law as it now stands they will be for- | ever barred from admission to the coun- try, and I believe that authority should be given to the commissioner general of immigration to use his discretion in | the matter of their reapplication, sub- ject to the approval of the Secretary of Labor. Sympathy for Alien. At the time this deportation measure | was under consideration other grounds deportatior: .were considered, and these probably will be taken up again another session. I have much sym- pathy for the alien who, notwithstand- ing the difficulties of alienage and lan- guage, makes an honest effort to better his condition here. With such as are unworthy of this consideration, how- ever, I believe we should deal in a manner befitting their attitude. With the narcotic peddler and the | chronic violator of our laws I have no svmpathy. If they do not like our in- stitutions they are at liberty to go som where else. own standards and we are proud of them. The alien who doesn't like our form of government or our laws can find other countries in which the laws requires me to help such aliens out of the country, it will be a pleasure to perform the function. Immigration to the United States has been reduced from over 700,000, under the last year of the old quota law, to approximately 300,000 in 1923. Besides being more effective as a restrictive measure, the new Jaw has almost elimi- | nated hardships. and as a workable | policy the present system has been de- veloped to a high point of efficiency. Had Host of Enemies. Not all of the efficiency of the present system is the result of legislation. Prom the outset restricled immigration had a host of enemies. Their onslaughts took the form of stories of hardships which the law was alleged to have cre ated. As has been explained, every effort has been made to minimize these hardships, many of which came about not through the operation of the statute but through excusable error or willful disregard of law by aliens themselves Many of the stories published about rdships were either entirely untrue or sufficient facts were withheld t make them essentially untrue. A half- truth is often more vicious than a falsehood. Here are two which recently came to my attention: ‘The pre has quite generally carried the atory of a young man born in Rhode Island. who. it was said, lost his citizen- ship through service in the British mil- itary forces during the World War and was refused admission at New York. ‘The published story stated that he served throughout the war, was wound- ed and still carried fragments of shrap- nel in his body. Very naturally regret and even horror were expressed at the thought that an American-born man should be refused admission to his native country when his only’ offense had been that of serving in the army ‘{1‘! one of our allies during the World ar. ‘The true story is that this man never He ran aw shipped on cattle boat to Great Britain and worked there as & laborer throughout the war perfod. Inucidentally, he escaped ser: s by remaining out of the country while we were in the war. In 1921 he enlisted in the British Air Force and worked as a laborer In that service for two years. For the last seven vears he has been working s a laborer when he could find a job. Instead of going to the American consul and inquiring as to his status, this man came to New York with no documents whatever. Having enlisted in the military forces of, and having sworn allegiance to, a foreign country during times of peace he necessarily expatriated himself. By this act he ceased to be an American citizen. He But all who have gained | ‘We Americans have set our | If my official position | {down to all comers, but it seemed ro | the law N ing. Maxwell, W. B. We Forget Because We X married prior to May 31, 1923, Reunion of Families. ‘The reunion of families separated by the coming of fathers and husbands t this country to establish new homes has been of particular concern to me. Until | last year no provision was made to facilitate such reunions. I did not b. lieve that the bars should be thrown | became an alien within the meaning of our immigration law. and having none of the documents required of aliens he was necessarily refused. Still Another Case. Here is a case of a different naturs In December, 1924, immigration of- ficers apprehended a boatload of aliens being smuggled in from Cub: Amo them was a girl 19 years of age. With | the others she was ordered deported as the law directs, but at the request of the trial eourt deportation was delayed | until her services as a witness the smugglers were no longer neede: The trial was concluded only recently. ‘The girl's deportation was about to | proceed when it came to the attention me that within the quota we aould pe especially concerned with the needs of those already here. The act of May 29, | 1928, gave a second preference in favor of the wives and minor unmarried chil- dren of aliens who are lawfully resident | in the United States. This has greatly facilitated the reunion of families. By the act of 1924 aliens Ineligible to citisenship were debarred. Congress probably did not realize the extent of | N 31ay in the United States she had Ll “ 4 | married an American citizen and had that provision. for it included. wmong | prl it B ATWEECR SR BAE ad others, Canadian-born Indians whose | h child. She is stlll deportable, and al- griginat domain hiud beett I the Uulled | (ough under the older law she might ! limve permission to reapply for adinis always folt that we should lei these Tu- | 1 BErbnsion Lo veabily for adiis disus cross the Lorder freely. Under gl during the closing days of the Lowever, they ¢annot become 1 o, . ; 5 ast Congress, shie mmy be forever de- citizens, hence they were excluded. Afb.l‘léd and may not be able Lo rejoin special law was passed to give these | o 0 Canndian Judians Uie bt (0 cross our | et UsUAN and child in i United BRI ’ I do not know what will be the out- Naturalization Laws, | come of this . a8 it must be passed Two laws recently added to the many | Ubon by the solicitor, but I am glad to which deal with sliens relate to natu- | say that I directed a stay of deporta- ralization and deportation. The natural- | tion, with instructions that every pos- ization law signed by the President | sible effort be made to adjust the mat- March 2. 1920. makes naturalization | fer so that this girl may be permitted somewhat easier for those who are | to leave the eountry voluntarily, later morally and mentally qualified for citi- | to re-enter lawfully and join her hus- zenship and also makes possible the band and child. my hope that this naturalisation .n’t me’h ;}l;;u w:o ar- | can be accomplished. rived jor to June 3. , And were Gnable %o, prodice. their Tacérds of 8t | oy, LIP0C o Be Criticbed. " mission. They may now, if not subject ese are only two examples of the to deportation, have a proper record Numan problems that are constantly made of their arrival end may become | Présented to the Labor Department for eitlisns; nu:lm‘}enl Wn‘ u:l:ns rp;lgllu thaa we e deportation law signed March 4| pre dealing w man beings and we ry to solve their problems in a human {8 very drastic From Whe! ;av. Public officers expect to be criti cized and sometimes deserve it. but be. fore condemning the immigration serv- ice verely when reading sob- | stories one should be sure that one has all the facts, Must. | It space permitted, it would be in- O'Shaughnessy, Mrs. E. L. C. Other teresting to discuss some of the many Ways and Other Flesh | phases of the cases which come to the Pedler. Margaret, ‘the Spiandid Folly. Seeretary of Labor for decision. Undse!. Sigrid, Kristin Lairansdatter, | Gradually the Jaw is being improved. Van Doren, Mrs. D. G. Brothes and but I beli carry out | | Burt. M. S. They Could Not Sleep. Frank, Bruno. The Persians Are Com- | of the Labor Department that during | That principle is largely dominant now. but several steps meed to be taken to make it completely so. More and more our consuls. technical advisers and phy- sicians ought to broaden their investi- gations in respect to the characters and cultural backgrounds of prospective immigrants. We ought to make sure that every applicant is not only physically sound | and mentally alert, but also that he | comes of a line of people of strong character and that his record for hon- | sty, sobriety and industry assures his wholesomeness and worth when he ul- timately assumes the mantle of Ameri- | can citizenship. Ought (o Show Preference We ought aiso to give preference to! t1ose few men, skilled In new industries and new methods, who occasionally are | required {o set n operation more and greater opportunities for employment of our people. ‘The need for those par-' ticular men first should be definitely | established here and then. by certificate | of the Secretary of Labor, they should be ullowed to enter shead of some new immigrant who would add nothing to| our future or perhaps even be a burden | to overcrowded industries, Along the | same lines it seems desirable to set | aside an allotment of a few quota num- | bers to be assigned by the Secretary of | Labor in cases of extreme hardship. | | Of course, we still have the problem | | of the non-quota aliens who may enter | | in unrestricted numbers merely bscause they were born in countries of this | hemisphere—Mexico. the South and ' | Central American republics or Canada. | | Immigration from these countries is as | great, approximately, as from all the! quota countries combined, and the numbers may be increased. [ Aside from the problems which grow |out of this lack of restriction. I belfeve | ! that. the suggestions which I have made in the previous paragraph would just about cure all the apparent ills of tha | restrictive policy as expressed in present | legislation. Of course, & codification of the va- rious acts which make up the body of the laws would be helpful in making them more understandable by the great | mass,of the people, but we have now reached a point where only a few finish- ing touches need be applied to make the immigration laws meet the needs of the people of the United States. It is our country and our problem, and any re- vision “of the laws, if made, should b: solely on the basis of what is best for us. ‘This is what I term my “selec- tive” policy toward immigration, it | | Hawaii Is Neutral On Sugar Embargo Hawalian sugar interests are “neu- | tral” on the Timberlake bili in Con- gress proposing restriction of sugar im- ports from the Philippines to 500,000 tons annually as a measure of protec- tion for domestic producers. The two | main reasons for the attitude of Ha- | wail are: First, Hawail is dependent | largely on the Philippines for its un- skilled labor, and secondly, Hawallan capital is heavily invested in Philippine enterprises, principally those connected | with sugar production and manufactur- | ing. Hence it would be considered both ungracious and unbusinesslike for Ha- wail to be a party to restriction on a promising Philippine industry. Many | Hawalian sugar men have gone to the | Philippines and helped to build up the industry and have helped to mold the | sentiment against Hawalian opposition |to the Philippines on major measures. At the same time Hawaii could hardly take active part in urging & “no limit” {on Philippine production. since it must | ! be recognized that the Philippines do | | actively compete with Hawaii in the domestic sugar market. This rather anomalous situation has convinced is- land leaders here that it is best to take no part in the campaign before Con- | wress. | Fishing in Honolulu Water Is Held Risky Hazards of deep-sea fishing for the great markets of Honolulu are vividly illustrated by the disappearance of a big Japanese sampan, or fishing beal with a crew of five men. As this was written the sampan was missing for sev- eral months. It had a 30-horsepower Diesel engine and carried 200 gallons of water, 2,700 pounds of ice and a month'’s provisions when it put out to the far fishing banks northwest of Honolulu. All but one aboard were Japanese. The exception was a Pilipino who lived as a Japanese and actually had adopted a Japanese name. These sampans, extremely seaworthy, ®o 500 to 700 miles out from Honolulu to the fishing banks and often have ad- ventures as thrilling as those of the Gloucester men on the Grand Banks. The Japanese fishermen are skille hardy and enduring, and if the sam. pan has survived the December gales, it may still be floating somewhere on the ocean waves. More than one in- stance is recorded of small fishing boats drifting for months before they were | picked up, and tragedies of this sort are not unknown the brown fishermen | of the Hawallan sampan fleets. | o ; |Pope’s Literary Data Valued by Scholars | Only a few scholars and intimate friends are aware of a most unusual | beneficence of Pope Pius XI. | his long years of study in the libraries |of the Ambrosiana at Milan and at the Vatican, of which he was prefect, Mgr. | Achille Ratti, whom the world now | knows as Pius XI, collected valuable his- | torical and liter: ¢ | | As the scholar studied the precious | manuscripts under his custody he made extensive notes on the index cards, which he carefully filed away. When a | ung student or even an older scholar | |or a friend disclosed an interest in a | | given topic Mgr. Ratti would produce | | from his overflowing files hitherto un- | known data. which he gave to his confi- | dant with full permission to use in sei- | lentific and literary publications as | though it was the writer's own dis- covery. When Achille Ratti came to the Vati- can as Pope he brought his still abun- dant collection of cards with him. From time to time he turns material over to his friends who publish learned articles, | the chief data of which came from the | | Pope, whose part is. of course, never | known. So rich is the collection lhull those familiar with it believe it will | some duy be studied and published by | sume scholar less busy with ecclesiastical affairs than is the Pope. {eru-s Are Blam:ni In Hawaiian Deaths Uneasiness over deaths of person closely connected with the territorial | Legislat: now in session, has led to the removal from the hall where the House of Representatives meets of three . lis,” or tail feather standards, pic- tus e relics of monarchial days in Hawall. Just before and up to date in this session the following deaths have occyrred: A former Territorial Sen tor, the mother of a Representative, thi wife of a Representative and others closely related to legislators. | While no legislator will admit to a it that the presence of a Kahili" | were made to the Speaker of the House and the custodian of the Capitol. They thought it best to order out the kahilis, iand relief has spread visibly over the ! legislative membership. The Legislature is composed largely of those of Ha- wailan blood, though it also numbers a g00d many whites, one full-blooded Chi- is called “low-grade” gold and silver rock give ore the name of “refractory. In the old days, when a prospector came across such a deposit he left it alone and went hunting elsewhere for pure gold or pure silver. Oftentimes—much of the time—there would be no pure vein to lighten his eyes, and he would go on, leaving mounds of effort behind him, like giant gopher workings. The reason for his migratory habits as that a man couldn’t afford to load his mules with base ore and pack it for miles to a single-gauge railroad bound for a smelting plant—and have to pay a fine, in addition to shipping cos cause of the percentage of znc, etc., that was in the ore. If h done that, in the end he would have been paying the smelting company in- stead of the other way around. That is why those towns of hope that sprang up overnight were abandoned so quickly and completely. ) Now, thanks to metallurgical science, | that long-ago abandonment which caused suspension of at least 60 per cent of the mining operations in Colo- rado alone, simply because men were unable to mine refractory and low-grade | ore at a profit, has taken on the aspect where the woman comes into the story. One day a prospector'’s wife was washing ore sacks. This wom- | an. applyinf plenty of soft water, noticed | particles of gold floating on the top along with the suds. This was the be- ginning of what is now known us the selective flotation process, about which the United States Geological Survey di- gresses from figures to comment, “It permits recovery from complex ores which previously were considered too lean for utilization.” How Process Works. However true the story of the pros- pector's wife may be, it 1s certain that there are now an increasing number of concentrating mills where the selective process brings about a separation of these low-grade ores which caused giant dump heaps and deserted towns. | ‘There are many types of flotation ma- chines, but the principle of the process is this: Air is drawn in at the top of the machine and is agitated with the crushed ore and some oil called the re- agent—pine tar, for instance. The bub- bles of air make a froth and cluster around the mineral. The pure mineral rises to the surface as do soapsuds, flow: over the top of the mixture and shipped to the smelter as concentrates. Minerals chiefly concentrated in this | way are lead, copper and zinc. There is | | | usually a _silica residue of gold and sil- | ver, which goes to its special mill. | Nowadays every mining camp has a concentration mill close by which per- forms this valuable office and thus saves the shipper smelting penalties which (nrr::erly would have made him a bank- rupt. To put it into figures: Take a ton of low-grade ore that would have brought about- $9.60 before the prospector’s wife noticed the glittering soapsuds, Nowa- | days that ore can be treated at the centrating mill for approximately $4.25 a ton. Say that the ore runs $1.80 in gold, $5.38 in silver, $12 in lead and $5 in zine. That makes a total of $24.18 on one ton of ore. The cost of the se- | Jective process and the freight on that ton will not be more than $7. To that has to be added the cost of smelting And the miner nets considerably more tan he got for the crude ore formerly. Nothing Now Wasted. A fine on rebellious ore now is rare It is hard to pay a fine of 50 cents a ton for org having 10 per cent zine in it, for example, and then have the zinc wasted, so to speak. Nothing is wasted now—not even the pig’s whistle, as they | say in the abattoir. They even have | smoke bags in the smelters to catch the | last precious bit of metal which for- merly went literally up in smoke. ‘Thanks to the selective process, pro- | duction figures in a Utah plant alone increased more than $16,000,000 in one year. The immense quantities of mo- iybdenum in those Colorado mines could | not be mined at & profit without flota- | tion. The combined output of gold in | Montana, Arizona, Nevada and Utah equals about a quarter of the country's total, and it comes from low-grade cop: per ores. In Utah gold is produced | almost entirely from ‘copper, lead and lead-zinc ore and the abandoned dumps. The same is true of silver and all the other metals. And the deserted dumps in the deserted towns are fast disap- | pearing. Leads in Lead Production | ‘The United States now leads the | world in lead production. The increase in late years, says the United Stal Geological Survey, “is largely due to improved methods of ore dressings (re- agents) and especially the use of selec- tive flotation. The process saves the United States from exhaustion of its | lead supply, for there are many old flelds still to be recovered.” No new | fields are being opened up or prospected | to any extent. ‘The immensely lucrative properties of | the Utah Copper Co. the Anaconda and others could not pay | denum. used to harden steel. As it haj , there is a great short- age of gold, and gold, of course, is the money of ultimate redemption. The whole world production is considerably under what it was in 1916, and Europe alone needs twice as much as she did before the war. Gold and silver, there- fore, must be mined in increasing quan. tities. The United States Geological Survey points out that there is plenty to be found—there are $2,000,000,000 in gold reserves alone beneath our soil— and that within the next 20 vears, “if economic conditions continue.” $300.- 000,000 of this amount may be pro- duced. Much of this gold wiil be taken from new territory. for less than hall of the mineral flelds of the Nation have been prospected There are high hopes of : greater activity in silver, zine and iead mining. Efforts are being made to get a_protective tariff on silver to keep out Mexico's silver, mined by cheap labor. Since we do not now produce half of the silver we use. it is felt that & nominal tariff would bring to life again all the rest of the Ghost Towns of the West. An industrial metal which has given the west—Colorado in particular—a share of the mining impetus is molyb- Eight; five per cent of the molybdenum supply used in the United States comes from the Climax mine at the top of the world, while business is so brisk at the Royal Tiger, near Breckenridge, that the next census will show the popula- tion of that town to be 1,500—larger than the present population of the en- wre county. Thirty million tons of the ore have been blocked out here. Tung- sten and vanadium, blood cousins to molybdenum, are also increasingly necessary. The fact that we are an almost ex- cessively prosperous nation contributes to the revival. Feldspar, used as & flux, is needed more and more for tiles, por- celains and the so-called marbles used in hotels, restaurants, drug stores, kitchens and so forth. Mining Has Changed. If science has changed mining from rushes to steady development, so has sclence changed prospecting from guess work to & near certainty. In former days the prospectors went by intuition rather than sense. They just jumped out. They had what they thought was a ‘“nose” for metals. Sometimes they did, sometimes they didn’t. Some would gopher near a strike. Of would go off by themselves looking for a float—a broken-off plece of the desired metal. If they found a float they would begin to trace deposits here and there, like & hound on a scent, going nx and up, sometimes for miles. The float prob- 'ably was brought down by glacial ac- tion or torrentials. More often than not they failed to find the mother vein. Others looked for croppings, going along with their eyes glued to ground. It was mostly guess work. ‘Today, if the prospector is intelligent, he will go to & Government office and find out likely places to . Not only is metallurgy well aware of flelds, but it has developed sensitive instru- ments far more accurate and just as “almost human” as the now defunct divining rod. Claims are staked out now just as they were in other times. Plenty of Thrills Left. It's plain to be seen from all this that there are plenty of thrills in the old hills yet—plenty of prospecting to b2 done. It's as easy or as hard as one's sense of adventure chooses to make it. A commissioner of mines in any mining State will quote such figures upon the thousands of square miles of mineralized territory still un- prospected as will make a man's head swim. He will say that barely one- quarter of the mineralized territory in his State has beemy prospected. He will say that this téfritory. contains 1 numerable veins running in every di- rection, crossing and cutting each other, carrying all the precious and industrial metals. Just a year or so back. in a certain California placer district, 25,000.000 cubic vards of gravel were sluiced dredged. Gold!—gold!—valued at cents a cubic yard. was recovered. The profits ran well over a million dollars. The Colorado mining commissioner ays he can go that record one better. Recently he tested 600 acres of | ground in which 55 drill holes have 21 cents average to the cubic yard. That makes one itch to get out and shovel and pan. President Coolidge himself might have prospected for gold in his back yard that Summer he spent in the Black Hills. He was in the richest 10 square miles in the world. Since placer mining started 50 years ago, $300,- 000,000 in gold alone has been recovered. Fabulous Lost Mines. Thrills? These same Government offices know of fabulous lost mines and 1 tell where they are guessed to be. There are actually hundreds of them, not counting those that are the dreams of men in delirium. I recall one case where a man went out every year from Massachusetts. As soon as Summer | melted the ice on the passes he went in with three jacks. Each Autumn he came out with $15.000 or $20,000 worth of dust—gold. He covered the mine ell. No one knew where it was. He Copper_Co. such dividends without this process. The ore of the Utah Copper Co., for in stance, contains but 1 per cent copper, but the dividends have been large. e The methods of mining are improving | died suddenly. His son has made re- rapidly, also. Not long ago, for ex-|peated expeditions to the approximate ample, 'the Utah Copper Co. mined In | territory, but he has given up mow. shafts, & very expensive process, espe- | That mine is somewhere in Colorado, cially for low-grade minerals. Now the | along with dozens more, ore is mined in terraces and the loca- | Yes, there are plenty of thrills in the tions of the company look not unlike | old hills yet, thrills of that greatest lure pyramids. First holes are dug, then | of all, “G dynamite 1s set off in them, then steam | | use. The mi that boll ‘t;l\“ ghm;‘ex"m X at are bringing the Shovels scoop the ore, a ton at & time, | T o and dump it into the ore cars, which convey it the rest of the way. | Similar methods are constantly in who sticks to the old- fashioned ways is losing money. There are hundreds of mines working that couldn't be worked at all with the old hand methods, and there are millions | of tons of low-grade ore turned into | bank accounts that were nothing but ‘waste rock before the air drill made it possible to mine at & profit. This progress in the art of mining has, to 8 great extent, made possible the industrial age—which must have mineral products if it is to carry on. | And it is this same industrial age, with its demands for minerals, that has brought the boom to the mines of the | ‘West that has paved the way for the return to life of the Ghost Cities. | Take copper: The amount of copper annually consumed by two major forms of transportation, auiomobiles and rail- roads, now reaches a total of 340,000, 000 pounds. Railroad electrification | programs (his year will swell these fig. ures considerably. Total mine produs tion in the United States during Janu- | ary was more than 1,000 tons over the production for the preceding month— and set & new high record for all time. Since both lead and zinc are used in the copper alloys of brass and bronze, the demand for them is also constant and prices are good. 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