The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
NEW YORK C|TY|S
 BABEL OF TONGUES Make Regular Tour of the
 World in an Hour POPULATION OF N. c. Only State With Population Made Up of All Native Americans-FoOd
 Has Increased 9 Per Cent in Cost
POPULATION OF N. c.
By ROBERT LEE CARTER

tongue of some present New Yorker.
 As a rule thess outlanders settle in col onies. which is not unnatural, and it is possible in half an hours walk in certain sections of the city to make a practical tour of the world.
 All of which leads me to the work which is being done by the East Side Settlement House in East Seventy-sixth street. With in the Influence of this house there are no less than Il distinct races, many of them with strong inherited race prejudice' against others. As Q result the police in those sections have their work cut out.
 It is the prime object of the settlement to bring the warning elements together, b do away with race prejudice and to make |of these aliens good citizens. Miss Mary deG Trenholm, who has charge of the work. says:
 Any one who has ever studied condi- tions in the congested sections of New York; recognizes the fact that those who first come here from foreign coun- tries and even the first generation born here, develop into nothing more nor less than grown up children. Men and women Of middle age, who have lived among trl- ditons of a foreign land, cannot be ex- pected to suddenly throw off the ideas that have been inculcated in them througt generations; neither can they understand the necessity of tolerating the different opinions of others. They have inherited narrow line of thought and action and it is from this that a great deal of our trouble and lack of harmony arises This is the condition with which the Yorkville community is trying to cope.
 Look at these reports said Miss Trenholm, tapping the pile of popers that lay before her; "These are reports of over 300 families of various nationalittes. We have found that at least half do not speak English at all or only indifferently well. When they speak in other than contented way of this country 1t IS be- cause they cannot make enough money, or they are lonesome; it is from this house to house canvass that we have discovered the real things that these people need.
 '"There is a pronounced fear Of rdicufe in most of them, for the members or diS- ferent nationalties have great habit of making fun of each other, and the chll- dren are so sensitive and so elemental In their passions that instead of letting a slip perhaps meant in joke pass by they begin to defend themselves with their fists, and more than one lasting quarrel has been started over some very trivial matter.
 Before this condition can be broken up, before real peace and harmony can 6e established among these people, clannish- ness must be overridden, and this cannot be done by preaching or force; 1t must be accomplished by that greatest of all means, education
 "The majority of these men and women speak their own language to. the exclu- sion of English, save when English Is ab- solutely required in their work. They read papers printed in their language and have no chance to get away from the narrow ideas and prejudices that they have brought with them to America.
 The West Indies and South America are rapidly becoming the favorite winter play ground of the rich American. The steam ships carrying 2150 cabin passengers sailed from New York the other day for south ern ports outside the United States.
 North Carolina has the distinction of having, perhaps, the only county in the United States populated practically by native born Americans" says William Ed mond Breese, Jr., of Brevard, N. c. In Pennsylvania county. North Carolina, there is only one person of foreign birth, and he is now a member of our legisla- ture." MT. Breese was formerly member of the North Carolina senate and is being urged by his friends to run again for the legislature.
 We are just waking up to the value of advertising our state, continued MT. Breese. Few persons are aware, I sup pose, that North Carolina is the most un- developed state in the south, and my sec tion around Asheville has been less de- veloped than any other in the state. We know in North Carolina that our state is one of the richest in-the south. All we need is capital and a greater population. Not long ago we organized the Greater Western North Carolina association, With headquarters at Asheville, for the pur- pose of letting the rest of the world know the great opportunities that are to be had in that state. This organization has repre- sentation from six counties. Most every body knows, presume, that Asheville has the most healthful climate in the world, but there are many who do not know that North Carolina has some of the richest timber and agricultural lands to be found in the United States.
 The state is rich not only in timber lands, but in mineral and agriculture, and everything else except coal We haven't any coal. In 1876. at the Centennial sv- position in Philadelphia, North Carolina apples took first prize, and we have been taking prizes ever since. We captured first prize at the Tacoma fair in Washing ton against the celebrated Washington apples. Our farm lands can produce any thing in the agricultural line. These lands are valued at from $15 to S10O an acre, but 1t will not be many years, be- lieve, when they will be far more valu- able than tho orchard lands of Oregon, or the famous farm lands of Iowa. There are thousands of acres of timber lands, and the opportunities for investment are greater, I honestly believe, than in any other section of our country"
 According to a statement issued by the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, the costs of many essential family table foods. when bought in small quantities. have increased nearly 20 per cent during the past year. The following sample grocery bills have been compiled by the association from the records of purchases made for the city's poor in 1911 and 1912:
 Jan. 1911. Jan. 1912. Inc. Bread ...........-..$ .0S .08 ... Half pound butter... .16 20 .04 quarter pound tea. 10 10 ... Half pound coffee.... .13 .15 .02 Two pounds sugar.. .12 IA .02 One dozen eggs...... 80 40 10 One can tomatoes.... .09 .12 .O3