New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1921, Page 9

American ProspentyDemandsImml fiol L&) By FRANCIS H. SI88ON, Viee President Guaranty Trust Company of New York. HAT Am taeking” the problem of W immigration, which s one of the mest vital of all our natiomal preblems, is net more technieal regulations, not the extension of hardships, not the erection of barriers based on tem- porary expedients, but a racial in- ventory and a farmulation of peoli- cles, with such genersl powers as the gevarnment te meet m ag it arises. We need which will cever the reception, dis- tribution, and adjustment of immi- granty after arrival so we can real- 1y ascertain If we have assimilated the Immigrants who have entered with a view to determining how many we may wisely admit. 1 have no sympathy with the hys- terical fear that the country is te be flooded by immigrants or that it in about to be invaded by hordes of radicals whe would destroy oye In- stitutions and by the victimg of dis- . who would undemmine ‘our health. Suarely such extremes are easily subject to regulation. Lat us consider that transportation facilities for the ar- rival of only one million immigrants a year, and arrivaly since the armi- stice do net bear prophecy »f any tidal wave of im The total net gain In population by immigration through the Pert of New York in 1920 was about 266.- 000, or abenut fifty per cent of the yearly aver for the five-year pe- riod preceding the war. Statistics show that during the last thirty years the dwindling eof immigration has heen chiefly from the countries where economic stabi- rica néeds in-at-| igration, | TRUCK MARM OVNED AND ORERATED BY WOUSTRIOUS IMMIGRANTS, lizatien was oceurring most rapidiy, ] sueh as the United Kingdom, Ger- ny and Seandinavin. And there is good reason to he’'ieve that immi- | gration to the United States wili ’lmu as the present econemic stabilisation of Europe preceeds. Already, (n fact, there are evi- | dences of this. There is alse le incentive now than in the past fer many foreigners to seek her asylam from religions persecution | and politieal oppressi As a re- sult of the celossal fice of lite during the war Rurepe, as a whel | sorely needs its man-pewer will continue to need it during years of reconstruction. that ad Germans areas at heme for ization purposes, and the military laws of Poland, Czechosiovakia and Greece deny passports te all of military |age, while Rumania threatens less of citizenship t: I of its natienals whe emigrate te the United States. There is agitation in Czechoslova- kia to make impossible the activity of agents who seek to cause mass emigration, while a law has just been enacted there prohibiting men twenty-twe years of age te pass over the beundaries. Germary has established a2 Department of Tmmj- gration and Emijgration to undefr- take the task of bringing her cele- nists back to the Fatherland. Great Britain Is seeking to direct ehigra- tion te her own dominions. 'Spain, Belgium and Greece are gderting | similar policies. Italy faces & dearth of rAw mate- rials, while she has an abundasce of man-pe She hopgs te dis- this surpius in/ the laber | small scale. BRITAIN- DAILY HERALD, SCENE ON A BI6.SOUTH DAKOTA WHEAT FARM OWNED BY A nou(-w POLISH MAMGRANT products ror her indnstry. Already| the experiment has been tried an a Several thousand Ital- | ians wers sent inte France on an agreement batween the Italian and French governments that for every man sent to France so many tons of coal wonld be delivered yearly te Italy. But the scheme will in- clude an attempt to establish Ital- ian colonies which will retain all their natienal features and not be- ceme assimilated in the new coun- tries. The Italian Socialists quite rightly express the helief that such legiziation would close the United States to Ttalian emigrants, because the United States will not accept immigrants under such conditions. The Tnited States could not have been as fully developed and as powerful as It is feday if it had not drawn so liberally upon the populations of Europe. We must, in fact, acknowledge our great eco- nomic debt to Immigrant- workmen who teday mine three-quarters of our output of iron and coal, consti- tute the mafority of the laberers in sur lamber camps, are used almost exclusively to lay our railroad tracks and build eur reads and te k:ep them in repair. Because of the shertage of such workers, in fact, the building of houses in this country Is seriously handicapped. Immigrants aise bake one-half of our bread refine one-half of our sugar, prepare feur-fifths of all our | markets of the world in such a wey as to guarantee her coal aad ra¥® leather, make fifty per cent of our gloves, shees and »silks and ninety- MONDAY, MAY 2. “y 192 ELLIS lfl.“ mwfl WHICH AMERICA IS lECKIVING s NEBOED AECAUITS IN TWE LABOR FIELD. five per cent of an our clothing as well as constitute sixty per cent of all the employees of our packing houses, It is quite possible, in fact, that unless immigrant labor is obtaina- ble in the proper quantity and qual- ity when needed some American in- dustries may have to set up facte- ries in countries where labor is available on a basis that will per- mit such industries to compete with these of rival nations. for certain of our industries are almost wholly dependent upon immigrant’ labor, as it is impessible for them to obtain an adequate supply of native-born laborers at any price. Furthermere, this country—the richest of all in natural resources —is under-developed and under- built, "Hundreds of years will elapse hefore we will hegin to ex- haust our resources. Reviewing our resources many years age, Lord Macanley estimated that net until eur population had reached the fig- | nre of 20.000 per square mile would we strike the danger sone of suffi- clency. Today our population aver- ages 35 to the square mile. But it is patent that we have pro- gressed to the point where the un- regulated flow of immigration is ne longer needed or desired. More scientific handling of immigration is demanded now for the most suc- cessful future economic develop- ment of this and other countries. There can be no doubt about the advisability of negotiating immigra- tion and labor treaties with foreign governments to take the place of the present inefficient and inade- quate methods of control through consular service and passports so as to insure the admittance of only those Immigrants desired and se- lected according to standards. It would seem equally obvious that under such treaties it would be possible to arrive at definite un- derstandings with each country in- volved on the quantity and quality of immigrants wanted here, to pro- vide proper machinery for the regu- lation of arrivals and to insure some co-operation on_the part of legiance foreign born citizens ow- _abread, would_ investigate all im- . Ll pondln‘ Immigration and wonld quire into the motives lndudn‘ im-| migrnlon of particular persens o | Peoples. The Board would repo: on the amount of uwnemployment and the kind of immigration 1 sired. It weuld anmalyze the num- ber of allens admitted anneally .Q eording to the ethnic groups, number of those naturalized nct Year and the nymber of Amarican children born of foreign parem Finally, the Board would booklets in English and foreign lan- guages on the rights and duties of aliens and distribute them ameng immigrants. These provisions, of. course, would permit a much closer investigation into the echaracger of all! immigrants who come here and would provide a method of distribu- tien. It would put the burden of proof as to admiseldbility at the source of immigration. But legislation alope can never efs: fect the desired assimilation of im- migrants. The solution of the as- similation problem lies largely 1 the economic co-operation with im. migrants 6f our varions business interests. There should be adequate legisia- tion te supervise immigrant banks doing an interstate business to safeguard immigrant deposits and | eliminate competition from irre- T=ponsible =ources. The national and State banks should establish’ | foreign departments, in charge of trusted persons speaking the im- portant foreign languages of the community and with facilities te meet the personal neede of immi- grants during their process of ad- Justment. There should be mys- tematic publicity eampaigns orgam- | ized to reach immigrant wage-earn- ers, with special emphasic placed on the protection afforded to thesa wage-earners by American banks. There should be adequate legisia- tion to provide for the registratiom of farm-land offered for sale, te prohibit misleading advertisements apd fraudulent interstate transace tione. There should be co-operative ar- rangements with industries that would help to introduce the immi- grant, who is usually shay ef Amer- fcan banking institutions. This' could involve the paying of bonuses' . through banks, the developing of ' credit for housing and similar real- ty invesimoetiis. There should be developed co-operation between oup banks and the forty or more large foreign trade organizations doing’ business in thix country and having considerable commercial contaet, ‘with immigrant races. There should’ be established in the Treasury De- partment a Bureau,of Export Sav- ings to have gemeral superviston over the transmission of goney abroad in sums of $100 oy Jessi And there should be stringent lawse to prevent profiteering throngh for eign exchange and the rale of worthless European currencies. I leave \to others who are better qualified than I the discussion of the many other important phases of this vital and complicated sub- Ject. non TEACHING NEWLY NATURALIZED FOREIGNERS TO VOTE - SELECTION AND ASSIMI| ATION, NOT EXCLUSION, THE SOLUTION OF OUR IMMIGRATION PROBLEM . other countries In seeing that the right kind of immigrants come. There are four immigration bills pending in Congress, including the Johnson, or House Bill; the Dil- lingham and Sterling Bills in the Senate and the Senate Committee Bill. The first of these—namely, the Johnson Bill—would prohibit immigration for one year. The,Dil- lingham Bill provides for the limit- ing of immigrants annually to five per cent of the number of persons of their nationality resident in the United States nationality to be de- termined “by country of political allegiance.” But there is ambiguity in this proposed law. If nationality is determined by the country of al- ing their allegiance to the United States would not be included. The Senate Committee B{ll would likewise limit the number of uliens of any nationality who may here- after be admitted to the United States in any fiscal year to five per cent of the number of such nation- ality resident in the United States, nationality in this case, however, to be determined. by the country of birth. Under the provisions of this bill the approximate number of aliens who would be admissible an- nually from northwestern Europe would he 337,000; from the remain- der of-Europe 255,000 would be ad- missible, while about 80,000 would be admissible from the rest of the world. The Sterling Bill considers immi- gration not from the single aspect of exclusion or restriction, but from other vital aspects as well. It would lodge the general comtrol of immigration in an Immigration Board, of which the chairman would be the Secretary of La- bor. After the necessary negoti- ations with foreign gevernments this Board, through its agents | pew Britain Boys Club News K lllTl'ID Fl\' .\Nll IN MAY POSITIVE VIRTUES. ““Virtue is never negative. The ther can promote the plain virtues of pbriety, honesty, tolerance, and kind- . The most offective way of teach- & these virtues Is for him to illustrate em_in himself, to show how teousness looks when it lived. ind remember always that right living & positive thing." DAVID STARR JORDAN. KEEPING AT IT. ive the boy a hammer and A pocketful of nalls, rn him loose at making Soon there will be walls, . then sniffles—then he's but Trying it anew t's the thing that counts in life— Grit to see it through we're boys most all our lives; ly sometimes we ¥ our hammers down too soon, 'Wishing we could be oot h things as someone eolse, Wolks are mighty few ho are born all-wise; the rest tuck, and saw it through CHICAGO NEWS things NOTICES ls evening will be the first meet- of the O. B. A. under the super- lon of C. W. Messenger. It ix very pornlnt that you make « special of- to be at this meeting, which we 1 sure will very interesting and pfitable. frhe next meeting of the W. J. R. I be Friday evening at 7:30 p. m We wish to announce the nppointment Wallace Knapp to the cditorial staff the Boys' Club News and he will e up his duties as assistant oditor WEEKLY ACTIVITIES, jonday-—Calisthenics and floor work. track team is making good pro- EAMSHIP TICKETS TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. ph A. Kloskowski AGENT FOR rd ~— White Star — American meet again. inavian Idnes — French — Red g battle for twenty ST, & Malt suodhh-.\mf""(’l)‘mp"‘ hall, London, on May = Holland:American — Anchor a side stake of $5.000 and the gate | wedged in beneath the debris. Beckett has twice kno(')(td' = Royal Mail = _FEORe-AL Steam ntic_Linc APP, Assistant Edi J THE INTEREST OF BOYS. 2, 1921, | ’ | I Packet recelpts. ———————mm h, Shop Mgr. NO. 18. gress. Juniors baseball team practiee. Clay melding. Printing class. Game room activities. Tuesday—Movies and entertainment. Boys enjoyed themselves very much and our movies were quite a treat, ‘‘Jack the Giant Killer.”” Wedneésday—Junior Calisthenics and floor work. Troop No. 10 boy scouts’ gym classes. Junilors indoor baseball team practive. Carpentry class. Print- ing class. Thursday—Troop No. 10 boy scouts’ meeting. FPastel class for juniors. Or- ganized games in gym. .Comets and Eagles indoor baseball practice. Irint- ing class. Carpentry class. Friday—Junior and senior . calis- thenies and floor work. Games, print- ing class. Clay molding. W. J. R. C. meeting at which sixty boys joined. Officers were elected for two units as follows ! Supervisor“or both units, Connors; assistant supervisor for units, D, Richman. Unit No. 148~ L taymond Onwin; recorder, William Kolosky: Warden, Geotge Halloran; range officer, Fred Bramhall; instruc- tor, Charles lLevine Unit No. 439—Assistant superviser, Charles Farmer: recorder, Michael China; warden, G. Laurinsitus; range officer, R. Anderson; instructor, Harry Tracy. Saturday—Juvenile police Games and other activities John F. bolh nt supervisor. court. ““Johnnie jus’ got his finger jammed the pantry door ““Al-h He didn’t get the kind of jam he was lgoking for that time."" - in Joe—4*I noticed Fou got tp n\\d save your seat td & lady-in the u:r - Bill—*"Singe childhopd haye cted a woman with a s np in hand,> OLD TIMERS TO MEEY. New York, M —»Joe Beckett, the heavyweight champion of Eng- land, and Bombardier Wells, former holder of the title, are matched to They are_scheduled to rounds at the 10, for Iol Pennsyivania reiay carnival Beckett . scored . his first knockout oyer Wells in five rounds lnd v.he second in three. BecKett nged to come to the. United fiutel or a _our under the 'manage- ment of Charley Harvey, but his match with Wells and others with Dick Sm'th and Joe Goddard will pre- vent histcoming for at least three months. his masten. COURTOIS WAS WINNER. Philadelfhia, May 2.—Courtois, of New York university, and not Cowles, of Yale, wen second place Saturday in the broa¢ jump at the University BEoth men wore the same numbers on their Jjerseys, Cowles by the officia’ announcer. ror was discovered in checking up with other officigls of the meet. Cour- tois jumped 23 feet 10 inches, only half an inch lest than E. O. Gourdin, of Harvard, wihner of the event. PRINCETON—PENN GAME. Princeton, N. J.. May —The Pennsylvania-Princeton ball game which was called off Saturday be- cause of rain . will be played here Tuesday afternoon. ' BURNES TO DEATH“IN WRECKED MOTOR: CAR Woman Companion Maryland Horseman, Taken From Blaz- of iz Car, May Die. Raltimore, .\\'adgpd hind the stee mobils when reph pole early vesterday . William MicCracken, aged owner of several horscs ning on Maryland tracks. W wd to a erisp when the i, jand extricated Mrs. Emma Mcore, 40 years orth Arlington avenue, his paaion, sustnined a fractured Eroken legs wrists and infuries 4f Mrs. Moore her iife to Alser( ayg'an, his helper, newspaper delivery tention was attracted hy an obile horn hlowing contini They investigated and fodnd th chine a mass of burning ruins. The side the round. The telegruph o« pale had been uprooted and was also ablaze. They raised the burning car Moare. who wns am Ahuli, sther lives she will ave Long and Harcoer: who were nn a truck. 1=y, firemen jal ex- It was not until beirg placed second | The er- | machina the machine. He was wedzed tightly behind the steering gear it was necessary. to cut away of the machine to free him. in so parts LEWIS' TRAINING NEAR END. He Will Aad ishing Touches This Week for Zbyszko Mat Bout. New York, May 2.—FEd (Strangler) Lewis, heavyweight wrestling cham- pion, will begin today to put the fin- ishing touches to his training in preparation for his match Friday night again Stanislaus Zbyszko, Pol- ish giant. at the Twenty-second Regi- ment armory. The match is heing held for the tund It will be the last competitive appearance of Lewis, who has an- that | benetit of the Irish Relief - nounced his intention of retiring re- gardless of the outcome. Lewis is reported to be in superb shape, but the champion is eager to attain the highest point in physical condition for the defense of his title. Accordingly he has selected a quiet spot on Long Island for his training camp and will work there up to the day of the match. COLORED FIGHTERS IN RING. Kid Norfolk and Jamaica Kid to Clash Tomorrow Night. York, May 2.—Kid Norfolk Jamaica Kid, colored heavy- weight, are scheduled to clash to- morrow night in the principal bout of fifteen rounds at the Central Man- New and the | Iy c//f', -/C/AHJ %{)1/{)77 /{‘l)l/ifl)?‘l | reqecesily Mhe lionor r//,ym(r//rz//(.ufye' ~3 | /(;r lhoe /l’)’(-ll /t'n(y, (//' 7/0(/(/{//} Ihvvclations and Arenowncesments al thocix Sore ¢Zjl/( y-ier Chocerch Slreet u'f::l(: 12 welaern; '6-211 necliceed | f i | ? MUSICIAN 43 YE! (‘har]es A. Joslyn of 170 became a member of a mu sanization forty-five yea¥ Thursday and since that been active in local musid He, with Edward J. Lynch the Philharmonic band in| He was also connected wil mous Joslyn and Son org] 1873, hattan Boxing club. This bout orig- inally was slated for last week, but! because of the illness of Norfolk h‘ was deferred. . ’ A ten-round semi-final between Jimmy Kelly and Babe Smith, Bronx welterweights. and two six-round bouts complete the card. . The prin- cipals in the six-round <contests will | be Boots Hansen and Young Otto, | and Bert Connors and Johnn Smith The Glenn Studio Announces Their Opening On MAY 2ND — We are offering as-a special inducement for \ period of ten days a discount of : 25% on all work. 68 WEST MAIN ST. Phone 424 Vacuum Cup Announcement A Reduction of Approximately % IN ALL VACUUM CUP TIRE and TON TESTED TUBE " Prices Goes Into Effect Today. This places Qu¢ ity Tires within the reach of all auto owners. T.H. COGSWEL 8 CHESTNUT smsmi