Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-30

IT there Is one place the neWly-dr-
 rived immigrant is not needed it is
 in the large cities where large DOT tion of the incoming horde has shown a tendency to herd. Especially is this
 true of New York, where over eight tenths of the immigration to this coun- try is landed This concentration of the multitudes from every nation and cline in the already congested portion
 of the city is disease breeding and crime-encouraging condition, and is doing more to delay the healthy as- similation of the immigrant and hin der his development into useful American citizen than any other cir cumstance. Concentration of the newly-arrived foreign element in the large cities of the country is real menace to the future of those cities and the country at large. The federal government has long real ized this and has at last deter mined on steps looking to correc. tion of this tendency. Instead of con centration We are to have dissemina- ton. Instead of letting them take root in the cities to grow up foreign plant in American soil, the effort is to be made to broadcast them over the sections of the country where better living can be had for them and where their Americanization will be made more easy and certain.
 The plan devised under the direc- tion of Frank P. Sargent, commission CT general of immigration, is to estab- fish division of information under the immigration bureau, whose pur- pose shall be to place the immigrant coming to this country in the place where he is needed and wanted. It is expected that this new department will be ready to begin work by the first of July, and already useful information regarding the resources, products and physical characteristics of each state and territory is being gathered and tabulated, preparatory to being pub lished in different languages so that 1t may be placed in the hands of the incoming aliens as soon as they land and may aid them in choosing place and destiny in the wonderful prom ised land to which they have come with such expectant hope.
 As further means of bringing states that want immigrants. and i'm migrants that want homes into touch with each other, the plan further pro- vices that the states and territories will be permitted to send to the immi- grant stations agents who shall be given access to all newly admitted aliens. These official promoters will point out to the newcomers the spe- cial inducements for settlement offered by their respective states.
 Some of the states, particularly those of the south. already maintain immigration bureaus, and these will appoint the agents sent to the immi- grant stations. Other states desiring immigrants are expected to organize sucl bureaus before July 1. Practical | ly the whole of this educational cam paign will be waged at the Ellis Island | station, New York. Through its port | als passed last year ss0.000 of the | 1.057 900 aliens admitted to this land | of ours. How very badly immigrants are | wanted fin many sections of the south | and west Is disclosed in the urgent | ,n.oa1. r-b;,h nr Coroa,* ha. ho1- receiving. These come especially from | agriculturalists. mine owners, manu- lecturers and railroad officials. A ma jority of our immigrants are pouring into the sections where they are least | wanted and where the least chance of | work awaits them, while they are avoiding the sections where they would be welcomed with open arms -nd given remunerative employment.
 Just how this is will be seen by the | figures for last year. Over seven tenths of those passing through the immigrant stations said they were so- ing to settle in already thickly popu- lated centers, and all of this while the clamor for immigrants was coming from thinly populated districts. Over one-third of these aliens said they were going to make their abodes in New York state; more than one-sixth in Pennsylvania. and one-twelfth in Illinois Almost as many declared themselves bound for Massachusetts. and next ranked Nev Jersey
 The south in particular wants fnui- grafton nov. Formerly it desired nothing less. Its change of sentiment on this subject has been both recent and marked It offers . splendid f1eld