Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-17

TINS was represented by the surprising
incoming tide of Slovaks. Out Of less than
2'Nnooo population they have given us
nearly 100000 in twelve years.
The wonderful military prowess OF the
people of the Balkan states-Servians.
Bulgarians and Montenegrns-has re-
Gently focused the attention Of the world
upon them. The Bulgarians are ply sically
of one stock and linguistically of another.
They are of Asiatic or Monaghan origin,
vet speak a Slavic tongue. The Tur 3
form only one-seventh of the population
of European Turkey as it stood before
the recent outbreak of hostilites. and
practically all of central Turkey down
TO the AEGEAN sea. except little strip
along the coast, which was occupied by
the Greeks. was populated by Bulgarians.
In industrial districts in the United
States largely peopled by foreigners one
are people who have relatives in the war
with Turkey. embracing the CrOatian, the
Servian. the Montenegrn. the Bosnian.
and several lesser peoples. They are
coming to us at the rate of nearly thirty
thousand year, but the present situation
in southern Europe is likely to wipe out
the major portion of this immigration.
Germany has furnished the United
States more immigrants since 1920 than
any other single country, although the
ter than Germany. giving us nearly eight
million souls as compared with Germany's
six million. But German immigration has
fallen off to a small fraction of it's former
proportions. and today more German i'm
migrants are coming to the United States
from Austria than from Germany itself.
During twelve years there came to the
United States enough Italians to people
five CT tt e 8
Greece and Italy like Rome:
Send Large Numbers. Greeks to o
people two cities like Athens; more Poles
than there are in Warsaw; more Scandi-
navians than there aresin Stockholm;
more Magyars than in Kronstadt and
more Firms than Viborg.
Italy's contribution to American immi-
grafton of nearly two and quarter mil
lion of souls in twelve years stands out
as a marked feature of immigration his
tory. Nearly nine-tenths of this came
from southern Italy. The people of north
ern and southern Italy speak such vary
ing dialects that they scarcely can con-
verse with one another. In some parts
of southern Italy more than three-fourths
of the people are iliterate.
Bosco. the Italian statistician, admits
that Italy leads all the nations in the
number of crimes against the person.
Niceforo. the Italian sociologist, declares
that the Inhabitants of northern Italy
possess all the qualifications for good citi-
zenship. but that the south Italian is an
ndividualist having little adaptability to
highly organized society. Yet Italians
from the south who come to this country
and who are not colon;2ed with their own
people. but who mingle freely with native
Americans. rapidly become good citizens.
There are a dozen or more linguistic
races which send immigrants out of east
ern Europe in large numbers. The Poles
gave us nearly a million immigrants in
twelve years. the Lithuanians 175,0OO, the
Ruthenians 10000. the Croatians and
Slovenians 49,. 900. All of these races are
Slavs except the Lithuanians, who are the
only people of the Lettic group in Europe.