Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-16
GERMAN BORN PEOPLE
 IN UNITED STATES
And Other Striking Statistics of in-
 terest in Present Situation.
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 Washington. D. C.. May 15.-The National Geograhic Society, from US Washington Headquarters issued to- day a striking bulletin on the number of German born people in the United States. The bulletin also includes oth- CT striking statistics of vital interest in the present situation.
 During the last quarter of cen tury there has been a startling falling off in the percentage of Germans In the total number Of immigrants Wno have come to our shores,'' says the bulletin. with more than 17,0OO, ,000 irnnigr arrivals since 1890 only 1,- O23,000 have been Germans, whereas in the 114 years between the estab- 1ishment of the American republic and 1890 out of a total of 15,689. 900 immi- grants there were 5,125,000 Germans every third arrival a Teuton-
 If from the 1,023,0 ,000 who have come to America since 1890, the period of deduction is made for those who re- turned to their homeland and those who have died since their arrival 1t will be seen that there are fewer than million former subjects of the Kaiser in this country who have not been here more than 26 years. Of more than 8,G00,000 people of German birth and immediate ancestry among us less than 100000 fail to have the background of birth or long residence in America behind them.
 An examination of the statistics of American immigration shows that since the foundation of our govern nent the United Kingdom of Great Britain and ireland has contributed S,400,000 of her people and Germany more than 6,000,000. Ireland with more than 100000; Great Britain, with little less than 4,0O0,0 900 and Scandi- navia, with something less than D. 900. 900, have together with Germany contributed more than half of the total immigration to our shores since the beginning of the Revolutionary war.
 AuStria-Hungary stands next on the list of contributors to the immi grant stream that has flowed from Europe to America. Although Austro- Hungarians began to immigrate in considerable numbers only when the arrivals from western Europe had be- gun to fall off, sufficient have come from the dual monarchy to populate the State of Texas to it's present den people to duplicate Montana, Wyom- ing, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
 "The Russians who have come to our shores number, 3,419, ,000.. They could replace one-half of the popula- ton of New England.
 Although the people of foreign birth constitute only one-seventh of the country's population. they contri- bute nearly one-fourth C22 per cent) of the arm-bearing strength of the nation. At the last census many of the States had 8 greater number of foreign-b born men of arm bearing age, than they had of native ancestry cit izens, among them Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut. New York. New Jersey, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota. Taking the states where those of foregn birth and their sons together constitute a major DOT ton of the men between the ages of IS and A, 1t will be found that the list includes the above named states and the following: New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Michigan, South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Idaho, Arizona. Utah, Nevada, Washington and Cali fornia-in all 20 states. We have considerably more than 20,000,000 men of military age in the United States.
 Another striking fact of our in1nai- grafton situation is the unusual pre- ference of the foreign born and their children for the cities. Of the 35,- 0o0, 900 foreign-stock whites living in the United States, approximately 23,- 100000 live in the cities. In only 14 of the 50 leading cities of the country do the whites of full native parentage constitute much half of the total population. Only one-fifth of the total population of New York and Chicago is of native white ancestry. Less