Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-03
TIMELY REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Immigration Commission is Now
Badly Needed in Nebraska.
MOVE OF LOCAL. REALTY MEN
cs'n @ittee of Three - Appointed ~
ESchRRRc 60 Eramc Tentative
Bui ts Draw Desirable
IWmieFBsts.

An immigration commission tor Ne
haaska and an adequate approx Tta tiou
for tho conduct q TIE business oS such
n commission, ie afrueg th,' thiner the
Omaha Real EstAtc exchange wants OF
the coming scxslcu os THO legislature
The motion VAS introduced hy John T.
McCasue of the cAchaasc. also chairman
OF the executive committee al ths Com
mercial elub. lie said tho Commercial
club wu'ild be found on dcvk when the
Real Estate exchange aot the movement
started
A commjttee 81 three was appointed -
look into the mater ana report on . bill
for the creation et such a comnlissian
Those Of the committee are Frank u.
Myere ID. c. Patterson and Mark Martin.
II all came about after. tho Real Estate
exchange, at It's last meeting. had dis
GUESSED Belsisn emigrgtion and the pos
sibility Of getting a lot Of these refusec
immigrants in Nebraska
Frank Myers spoke on the subject, de-
ciarinS they would make coed citizens
and thrifty farmers. lie said he did not
hope 20 eonfine the movement TO Bel
gians alone. as he felt there would I've n
great rush Of emigrants out Of Germany
otAl Nlit tliAfN N0I-llGAAN AphllAilth AZ
the close Of tho war. and he wanted Ne
braslSa to set in line to he able to alb
sorb and amalgamate some of this desir-
able timber.
George II. Payne said the BelEans are
good farmers. intensive 20 a htgh degree.
He did not, however believe in cohonis-
ing them In any section Of Nebraska. but
was in favor OF getting them over here
Go so to work on the farms as hands.
when in a few years, he declared. they
would be In shape TO buy farms. 81
have known II many times" he said. In
Iowa, where I lived when boy, the
farmers were all American farmers.
Nearly every farmer at that time had a
Swede working for him. ] went back
there on a visit few years ago, and
found those same Swedes move own TIE
entire county. Hardly an American
farmer can be found IN the county They
have Swedish churches ana other tnstitu-
tons. At church | met a lot of them
Some OF them owning big farms and
driving splendid horses came TO me and
said they knew me. ] could not place
them, but they told me they were some
body's hired man when l was boy
back there, That goes to show how
thrifty these people are and how they
make good when they go to work as
hands on the farm. To oolonise these
Europeans. however Is a mistake, for
they do not know the ways of farming
IN this western country. What they need
IL few years training on Romeone' s
farm where they can learn all about IT,
They make splendid hands. and in the
meantime they learn the business and
save UP few hundred dollars to get a
start at buying farm
%, c. Patterson said he did not look
for a great rush OF Belsians to America,
as they are not a people that emigrate
great deal, "and from the looks of the
war pictures" he continued, Il believe
they will all have work enough to do in
Belgium 10 reconstruct that country for
several years"
Mark Martin had some comment "a
make on tho subject. with tho result
that no was placed on the committee OF
three, and the movement for an lmmi-
grafton commission for Nebraska was
launched. ..t.