Americus times-recorder., 1915-05-01
UNITED STATES
MUST RESTRICT
|G RAT | D n
(By Associated Press.)


grafton America will need to work the
country's mills and shops and mines
when the great industrial revival
starts at the close of the European
war, and having ascertained the coun-
try's needs, restrict immigration to fit
them-such was the plan outlined be-
fore the American Academy of Polit-
ical and Social Science by FIR. Frank
Warne, expert on foreign-born popu-
lation for the last United States CEN
sus, author and authority on immigra-
ton.
DR.. Warne's plan provides for the
creation, by federal legislation of the
governmental machinery necessary to
make measurement of American i'm
migration needs for the revival of in
dustrialism, which he said, is lust
around the corner.p The body-board
or commission or otherwise-thus Gre
ated by the federal government,
should cooperate with now existing
state and private employment bureaus.
And the needed immigrants should be
employed at standard American
wages.
"The demand being thus ascertain
ed," DR.. Warne said, "the supply ca,
be regulated to this measurement,
through already existing administra-
tive machinery. In this way, the
present haphazard system which in
variably operates to produce an over
supply of this labor in all our indus
trial centers can be coordinated and
made to work for our common good,
instead Of as now, to our social in
jury.
Already we have the nucleus
around which this machinery can be
built. This is the division of informa-
ton of the bureau of immigration of
the department of labor. In addition
to its reorganization along the lines
indicated, it should be given supervis-
ion over all private employment agen-
cies and so-called labor exchanges en-
gagged in interstate commerce"
DR.. Warnes text was The War am
immigration" He reviewed the great
influx Of labor to America that has
followed the wars of Europe within
the century, spoke of the days of re-
adjustment-economic maladjustment,
he called ito come at the close of
the present struggle and predicted a
tidal wave westward from Europe sucn
as the world had never seen before.
"They (the immigrants) will be
confronted by one of the most re-
markable industrial revivals this coun-
try has ever experienced" he contin-
tn Il % hn
vinced of this is to remember that
this is not the millennium; that the
United States has hardly begun the
development of its material resources;
that they are here in such abundance
as to give us wealth beyond huma /
comprehension; that there is a to-
morrow when the enormous amount of
capital now being destroyed will be
replaced; that this country, even un-
der the stress of European war condi-
tions, is accumulating a surplus of
capital unprecedented in Its history,
and that this capital, when released
from the fetters of fear, viii start
industry and business on an era of
development and expansion which viii!
more than make up for the present
period of retardation.
when this time comes-and it is
just around the corner-accompanfed
by adverse conditions among the
workers in European countries, the
possibilities and opportunities the
United States will have to offer to the
unskilled laborer will be much better