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and their fecundity have pre-
vented any material cutting
down of the supply in sight
- Under the direction of Dr. Dam
iel Folkmar dictionary of our immigrant races
prepared for the commission. It is the first work
that ever has undertaken fully to measure the nu-
merical strength and the geographic distribution of
immigrant in the United States. Having done
this it gives many striking views Of immigra-
ton in its effect European peoples. We see in
cases, notably in those of the Slovaks and the
Hebrews that the supply is small and the rate OF
immigration large that it may terminate ultimate
ly from the exhaustion of the stock On the other
hand in the Of the russians, the Germans and
the Italians the visible supply is great and its
rate Of recruitment high that draw from
them indefinitely and in large numbers without Sc
riously affecting the general balance.
In the preparation Of the dictionary of Immigrant
DR.. Folkmar and his associates called in the
authorities the country up and verify
their work Even then troubles were encountered.
instance, of the grea. distinctions which eth
biologists make between people is the shape
of their heads. They are sharply divided between
long headed broad-headed and the ethnolo
gst the effect of the comminging of RACES
by the changes in the shape Of the head Broad
headed big hats and longheaded ones havs
long faces in profile.
1t was stated by DR.. Folkmar and his associates
that of the Greeks. rubbing against other
to the north and east of them. had changed
if you want to get rise out of creek tell him
that Greek head is not long in the days Of an
Client Hellas He prides himself his ancient an
cestors. He wants to be considered genuinely Hell
lenic. The official title Of his country is the
Kingdom Hellas" every subject OF the Danish
George. no matter mixed in his styles him
self HELENE. When it stated that the Greeks
were more inclined to observation-disclosures, it stirred
them up. and the Greek legation took the ques-
and protested against such base SANDER upon
people of Greece. But scientific fact cannot bs
changed by diplomatic representation, and the die
t.onary shows the Greek heads have bean undergoing
a change.
Some striking illustrations of the great movement
of humanity American shores afforded by the
Investigations OF DR.. Folkmar and his associates
For instance, find that there more Irish and
their children IN the United States there in
ireland There about five million in America
compared with half million in Ireland and
they still coming to at the rate of about thirty
thousand year. No other of its size has con-
trbuted so largely American immigration the
Irish During the forty years following 1920 they
gave nearly two-fifths of all our immigrants and
since the beginning of 1900 have sent approximate
" million of their people. The Irish tongue
rapidly goiag out Of existence as means of COM
munication. It said that there fewer than
five thousand people in Ireland who read books
in Irish; that single newspaper is published IN
Irsh single church service conducted in it
Only four people out Of thousand in Ireland can
not speak English, and they mainly in the
mote part Of the country.
The Jewish immigration to America has been vast
in numbers and rich material They have
here as led his hosts into Canaan, found
home for themselves, their children their chill
dren's children and all who have studied the imm
grafton problem with profit concede that in the jew
we have secured of the best elements in cit
izenship New York City alone has Jewish
population more than ten times great that Of
all Palestine. and the United States. whole, has
eight many all Asia together. New York
has million of them, which is one-half Of Americas
Jewish population During a period Of fourteen
years they have been coming to our shores at the
rate of ninety Thousand a year. The entire Jewish
population of world placed at eleven million
Europe eight million of these and it is from
them that Jewish immigration mainly is drawn
The wonderful military prowess Of the people
the Balkan states-servans, Bulgarians and Montene
grins-has recently focused the attention Of the
world upon them. The Bugarians physically of
one stock and nnguisticany Of another They OF
Asiatic. of Mongolian, origin. yet speak a Slavic
tongue The Turks form only one-seventh Of the
population European Turkey It stood before the
recent of hostilities and practically all OF
tie strip along the coast which occupied by the
Greeks. populated by Bulgarians
In industrial districts the United States large
" peopled by foreigners, hears much about the
Cretians They are people who relatives in the
war with Turkey, embracing cretian, the servian,
the Montenegrin the Bosnian and several lesser
pies They are coming to at the rate of nearly
thirty thousand year but the present situation in
southern Europe likely to wipe out the major
ton of this immigration.
Germany has furnished the United States more
immigrants since than other single country.
although the United Kingdom, whole, has, done
better than Germany giving nearly eight million
souls as compared with Germany's six million But
German immigration has fallen off toNa small frac-
ton of its former proportions, and today more Ger
man immigrants are coming to the United States
from Austria than Germany itself