Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-20
PROF. JENKS AWAITS
AMBASSADOR CREEL
IMMIGRATION COMMISSIONER is
TOURING COAST
VIII Investigate Smuggling OF Chinese
Across Southern Border-Re-
port Will Be Published
in Few Months

| Prof jeremiah w. jerks of the United
States immigration commission is staying
at the Alexandria for few days, prin-
cipally to await the arrival of Don En-
rique Creel Mexican ambassador to the
| United States, with whom Prof. jerks
will have an important conference in re-
lation to the immigrant question.
The commissioner is making a tour of
the Pacific coast from Vancouver to San
Diego. He is studying the class and con-
dition of immigrants who seek admission
here. Accompanying him are Mrs jerks
and Miss Alice jerks, a daughter G. S.
Atkinson, one of the secretaries of the
immigration bureau, is also one or the
party.
"Of course. the information 1 am gath
ering on this trip is not for publication
at this time" said Prof. jerks yesterday.
Several months will elapse before my
report will be ready, and then it will be
submitted to congress before 1t is mace
public. 1 am visiting all of the ports
| along the Pacific coast where foreigners
enter the United States.
"At each of the cities 1 secure the
best possible information regarding the
possible sources from which our future
citizens start. Not only the number and
nationality of the immigrants interest
us, but more particularly do we wish to
| know something of their condition and
mode of living in the home country.
"This is so different land from what
most of them have been used to that 1T is
interesting to note the great changes In
a family during their first three or four
years of their residence here. Perhaps
the most noticeable of all the new condi-
tions is the difference in the values here
as compared with other countries.
Learn Money Values
Most of the immigrants spend the
greater part of their time aboard the
ship that brings them to our shores In
| mastering the relative value of the money
! they have been used to at home in com
| parison to ours.
Then, when they are told that LOAF
of bread costs nearly twice as much as
| at home they begin to wonder. But after
the head of the house applies for work
and is offered, well. say 81 per day, ht
goes home to tell his wife what an ex
/ travagant people the Americans are. TWO
dollars in our money is equal to four II
Mexico. nearly ten francs in France ol
as many marks in Germany. 1t is no un
common thing for a man to work whole
I week in any of those countries for like
sum-
PERHAPS the first idea these embryo
Il Americans get is to save something fo
the future. They are partlcularly lnuuS
trious in the matter of owning hom'
of their own.
Then, of course, there is always II
their hearts the desire to see the lanC
of their birth and they forego man!
pleasures to lay by a little every weel
or month with the cherished hope II
view.
mo. it wouldn't be fair to say" th
commissioner laughingly replied. whei
asked which nation, in his opinion. fur
, nished the best immigrants.
"It takes a lot of different kinds o
men to make this land of ours, and hov
can one tell of which kind we get tn
best material?
''I shall travel along the Mexican bor
der before returning to the east, and
considerable part of my report shal
deal with the subject of smuggling Chi
nese into the states" said COMMISSIONS
jerks in conclusion.
Besides Prof. jerks there are eigh
other members of the immigration com
mission-three senators, three represen
tatives and two more private citizens.
When at home Prof. jerks presides owe
the chair of political economy at Cor
q nell university He has filled severs
! other important government positions
, notably as a special commissioner to tn
, Philippines. where he established ne'
:. system of currency