El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-04
CANADA TRIES
ADVERTISING
FOR PEOPLE
Seeks Desirable Glass Of
Immigrants by Using
Newspaper Space.
GETS MANY POOR
ENGLISH CHILDREN
CBy Frederic J. Haskin)

five leading countries which are now
making a BID for dmmlgFadntS T 2iIu
lions OF them. There are rev coun-
tries in the new world Wh1ch 90 not
wish a healthy influx OF new t 81ooqi
but only CANADA, Argentina ana BRAN
have gone about the matter IN a care
full and systematic way In the O1o
world Australia and New Aea1and are
Standing in the market places OF hu-
manity irving to induce the emlgrdnI
to bend his footsteps their way
Canada offers an interesting eA-
annie OF a country with a definite i'm
migration policy, pollcy Elh S co 1II
sists of recognizing the countrys pecu-
snfficiently broad and flexible TO meet
those needs There are two charac-
teristics about the Canadian lnnlSra-
ton policy-the one is TO attract SET
Tiers TO the land, and the other Is TO
discourage the coming OF Sucn AnI !li
grants as tend to congregaIe IN CUES tts
and towns The United states, thS
United Kingdom and certain otner
countries OF northern and western Eu-
rope are regarded as IurnlShlRS ne
kind of people Canada needs Tor us
uDbuilding and the Dominion govern
ment has carried on propa ganoa lha5
has been carefully wrought out anu
The canadians do not try to attract
! immigration from southern ana east
ern Europe. In fact, they Iet II pe
known that unless such Immigrants
are headed for the land and not Tor
the cities Canada would rather they
would stay at home. -
The most significant feature about
the Canadian immigration laws IS the
latitude and discretionary power FeSleG
in the immigration authorlties- a
picked Immigration is wanted, and the
immigration authorities are permitted
to do the selecting without being ham
pered on every hand
Canada Does Advertising.
In the propaganda work much adj
vertising is dore, advertising by CIR
culars, through the newspapers
through permanent EXHIBITS IN Dig CIT
les and bv travelling exhibits in smaller
ones. And then Canada pays liberal
bonus to several thousand booking
agents in the countries from which
$4S6 is paid for each immigrant OF
certain classes who IS enlisted 1or can
ada 1t is given for such immigrants
as have been for at least one year en-
gaged in the occupation of farmer,
farm labOrer, gardener, sta0Ieman
carter, railway surfaceman, miner, or
of following farming or railway con-
structiOn in Canada Grants are aiso
made to the Salvation Army Tor the
purpose of assisting people TO come 10
another plan that Canada has hit
upon to encourage immigration IS 10
as delegates to Great Britain, paying
them to 90 about the United Kingdom
and tell the people of the wonderful
opportunities IN Canada. The result
OF the Canadian campaign and the
Canadian policy is that seven-tenths
of Canada's immigration today is from
northern and western Europe, while
eight-tenths of ours is from southern
and eastern Europe. IWo-thirdS OF all
the hOmesteads entered during the past
decade were taken up by Immigrants
from Europe and the United States.
and of these the United States FUR
nished nearly half.
Canada is also bidding for the i'm
migration of poor and homeless British
children These are brought over un-
der government supervision, and placed
in homes where they can grow up with
the country and have a chance to be-
come hOmesteaders in their own right
1t is estimated that in the past 50
years more than $4,000 Of these chill
dren have been placed in the, homes of
Canadian farmers How much greater
the demand for the children is than
the supply, may be inferred from the
statement that in nine years $4,000
juveniles were sent over, whereas
tons for children.
Australian Immigration
Since the establishment of the Aus
tralian comm onwealth in 1901, immi-
grafton has become a national ques-
icy pursued is that Asiatics and Pa
cific Islanders are excluded and a gem
eral plan of making the continent a
white Australia" is followed Aus
the area OF the landed part Of CONT
mental United States, and yet it has
a One-elRnLee0Ln
great as that OF the United states.
More than half of its lands are unoccu-
pied, and 2 billion acres await settle
ment In order to induce settlers to
ment allows them to purchase the free
hold by the payment of half-yearly in
improvement Of the lands in all the
states except Tasmania. In order to
stimulate immigration from the United
Kingdom some Of the states pay
expenses Of persons desiring to settle
on the land or to engage in farm or
liar nature Domestic servants and
other desirable settlers are likewise
aided to make the journey. To date
more than 100000 immi grants have
been assisted in Australia in this way
Great Britain is now furnishing immi-
grants to Australia at the rate of
about $4,000 a year. and this repre-
sents more than four-fifths of Aus
tralias immi grafton.
Australia has a literacy test It re-
quires that no one may enter the com
monwealth who cannot write, at least
so words dictated to him by an immi-
grafton official. This test may be re-
the arrival of the immigrant and if
he fails TO pass 1t he may be deported
However. in practice this test is ap-
piled only to the immigrants of those
countries where exclusion is desirable
New Zealand has an area about the
size of Colorado, and it has a popu-
which a fourth was born IN the United
Kingdom. The tide of immigration is
not a very extended one, and now
comes mainly from Australia In eight
years It numbered more than a quar-
ter million souls, three-fourths of them
from Australia. New Zealand has for
years coOperated with the steamship /
companies in securing reduced rates
for desirable settlers.
argentine Encourages Immigrants.
The Argentine republic has pOpula-
ton of about five persons to the square
mile, as compared with 1915 for the
United States Out of its three-quar-
ters of a billion acres of land. only
about 100000 million acres are arabic,
and out of the arabic land only one !
eighth is under cultivation. All i'm
migrants are exempted by the con-
stitutiOn from military service for a /
period of 10 years, and the govern
ment is expressly denied the power to |
restrict, limit, or burden with taxes of
any kind the foreigners coming to it
to cultivate the soil, to improve its in !
dustries, or to introduce and teach the |
sciences and arts.
Within a period Of IS years Argen-
n feaEr Fr-a-