The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11

 c. Loring Brace, secretary of the Chil- dren's Aid society, has been making special effort to find why, as the old adage says, "the poor are always with us" '"Too many foreigners" is his conclu- sion. To the crowdng of aliens into the city, more especially those from southern and eastern Europe he at tributes the larger share of blame
 There are more than half million persons in Greater New York of the Jewish faith, the larger proportion of which were driven out of Russia and Poland through prosecution" MT Brace says There are more than half a mill Ion Italians. the great part from Sicily and Calabrla, who left their homes on account of poverty. Strange people are h gre from the Balkans and Asia Minor AS many as ten thousand negroes from the West Indies are crowded into the tenements of the Henrietta school dis trict.
 All of these foreign elements find life here difficult, especially at first
 Bad as conditions are they are likely to grow worse, because these aliens find 1t necessary to underbid one an- other in the labor market"
 There are 906,O00 Jews in the city of New York, according to figures pre- Poi cu py LIT. JOStDn JdcODS. editor of the American Hebrew, and made public today.
 pr. Jacobs, In 1902, computed the number of Jewish burfals. These, ac- cording to the board of health, figures. range from 1875 in 1901 to 1O,91S in 1910.
 ''If we .may assume that the death rate has decreased to 13.5 per thousand this would give an average Jewish pop- ulation throughout the year of s20. GOO. an increase of, roughly speaking, 42 per cent over 1901" Dr. Jacobs says.
 We may get rough check on the figures by comparing the movement of Jewish marriages during the same period, which rose from 5O62 in 1901 to S332 in 1910, an increase in the enumer- ation of the marriages as well as inn proved social condition of the Jews in New York. The general marriage rate for the ciN in 1910 was 9.66 per 1000 Applying this figure to the number of Jewish marriages, this would indicate Jewish population in that year of S60, ,000."
 There is a larger proportion of mar riageable Jewesses, according to pr. Jacobs. than of young women in the general population, but this is counter balanced by a much larger preparation of males to females in the Jewish popu lation who are perforce bachelors.
 Therefore, he estimates the Jewish marriage rate at 10 per 1000, which would give a Jewish population of s33.- 900 in 1910.
 Dr. Jacobs estimates the population on July l, 1910. at s25, 5,OO0; he finds that 47,500 more came to New York and remained from July 1, 1910, to June 30. | 1911, and that in the same period the excess of births over deaths was 99OO | This gives total of S82,400. Adding $I. To- frI, f,,,t,, ,te,x ed at the port of New York since July | 1. 1911. less 1O,14O. who left the city immediately, and the excess of birth l over death in that period of 5000, he ar 1 rives at total of 9O6,fO0 as his final | estimate.
 'It is lot better sfor the cotton | growers of any state, and particularly Georgia, to raise an average crop and get good price for it, than to pro- duce big crop and get a low price Tor It. says Richard Hopkins, who has | proDabfy one of the largest rice planta- | tions in the south. Hast years Georgia | crop has almost ruinec the cotton grow CTS or the state.~ In 1910 the crop was | not nearly so large and the growers got as high as 15 cents for it. They will not get more than cents for the crop of 1911. When it is figured that the negroes employed to pick the cotton demand and get 3 cents a pound, it is not hard to understand that the grower is not left. much when he has to sell at 9 cents.
 The rice industry of Georgia is an- other than has suffered in the last few years. There was time when rice was profitable product. but it is not any more. l presume there are more than 100000 acres of rice lands in Georgia that are no longer of any &C.,