Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1930, Page 54

THE - SUNDAY__STAR, -WASHINGTON, .D. .C., -FEBRUARY .16, ..1930—PART . THREE, What Do You Know . About Washington? BY BERTRAM BENEDICT. . Do you know any people in Washing- ton who were borir in Germany? You are not likely to any more, for there are now less than 3,000 of them here. Out of every 1,000 people who walk or drive the streets of Washington today, only about five were born in the father- land. Twice that ratio is true of the United States as a whole. The great German tide began to swihig most strongly toward the United Staies around 1848. In that year a series of republican revolutions broke out in Germany, only to be sternly put down. Many of the revolutionists, still republican at heart, migrated to the great Republic across the Atlantie, where republican principles could not only be breathed but could also be im- parted to their children at birth. Helped to Win Civil War. i ‘This German tide, beginning in 1848, | overshadowed the Irish, which had had the greatest racial flow into the United States from 1830. From 1848 until 1870 more settlers came from Germany into the United States than from any other iand. _The date of the German war with France was 1870, and after it fewer Germans came to America. Per- haps - republican sentiments had been swamped by the pride of victory. From 1900 to 1910 more people came to America from Austria-Hungary, from Italy, from Russia and Pwand, and even from England, than from Ger- many. In the year before the World ‘War only about 80,000 came from Ger- many. Now Uncle Sam, who has put | the brakes on immigration, admits only | about 26,000 from Germany in any one r. They are only 15 per cent of all admissible from Europe. In_the period immediately precedin; the World War, almost 1,000,000 per- sons were coming into the United States from Europe every year, Now the number has been restricted to less than 150,000 annually. The great German flood from 1848 to 1860 was one of the factors which en- abled Lincoln to preserve the Union. It settled almost exclusively in the North and helped to furnish the North a much-needed superiority in man power over the South. Helped to Build Washington. You are much more likely to know people in Washington who had at least one parent born in Germany than peo- ple who were born there themselves. ‘There are about 10,000 of them here, making up about two in every 100 peo- ple whom you meet on Washington streets, in Washington stores, at Wash- ington fll]“hx.\gk::luom or within Wash- cht . re ‘are in Washington more peo- ple who were born in Ireland, Italy or Russia than people who were born in Germany. On the other hand, there are more people in Washington who were either born in Germany or had at least one parent who was born there than people who are the first or the second generation in Washington from ary other country except Ireland. In the whole United Siates there are more people of this German stock of the first or second generation than of any other stock from another country. ‘There is almost twice as much of this German stock in the United States than of the Irish, which is second upon the list. Out of every 100 men, women and children who work, live and die in this country today, there are almost seven who were either born in Germany or had at least one parent who was born' there, Decline in Washington Seen. Today people in Washington who i 3 were born in Germany are only about | li ° 10 per cent of all the foreign born in | 1 s the city. - Thirty years ago they were 3 5 . { ¢ Olce 0 almost 30 per cent. In the whole United States, German stock is today about 15 per cent of all | merare | BN | | or NEUTRODYNE Circuits & proportion of German born in its population as any other State. It is followed next in this respect by Illi- nois, New Jersey, New York and Iowa. Almost_one-fourtn of the population ; ot 2 Over 1,000 satisfied customers have Earl Radios in many or had one parent born there. Mot 7 per_ecnt of. the population Ho 00 e | their homes. Ask any one of them about the Earl. $a Chiceso i 1= 4 per cont. and o 1 ; in icago per cent, and al % ) : £ 5% | § 4 ¥ . 5 N & Popiiiin ST « : - » ! Let them tell you that it incorporates all that’s good in in Germany or had i Jeast one | _ e : M e radio . . . in materials, tone and performance. Com- it is about 15 per cent. e - . . . . * ‘proportion of German-born » : S , g i pare it with any radio on the market today. 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