Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-03
Immigration To
START WITH PEACE
SEVERAL MILLION FOREIGNERS
WITH THEIR FAMILIES WILL RE
TURN JUST AS SOON AS THE
WAR is OVER.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Three mil
lion persons among the foreign pop.
ulation of the United States are pre-
pared to emigrate as soon as the world
peace is declared While this figuer
appears enormous, 1t is based on
careful survey by a government ex-
pert oand the threatened crisis in
labor supply that must result is be-
ing carefully considered by tha adj
ministration officers.
The total includes workers only,
and not all, but most all, are heads
of families No account is taken cf
the number of women and children
they will carry to Europe and Asia
Minor with them.
The mining industry and the steel
aid kindred industries will be the
hardest hit by the emigration. Work
ers in these fields are preparing to
leave by thousands. This is particu-
larly true Of the Poles, the Russians
nationals and other Slavs, the Sy-
rians and Greeks, the Bohemians and
other nationals of the dual monarcy
A government official here, one Of
the most widely known labor experats
in the country, has in his office safe
tickets for large number of these
men The lists include United States
citizens as well as aliens who have
entrusted their tickets to the safe
keeping Of the official, who declares
that every passage on all of the big
trans Atlantic lines, even the German
lines, is booked for months after
peace is declared.
These men are for the most part
land hungry and opportunity hungry
They Da,ieve that the tax burdens In
their native lands will be no greater
than they are In America. They like
wise bo4.sRe that they viii command
respect and influence at sope in the
reconstruction and political adjust.
ments expected after the war, but
most of all they believe that wealth
is ahead of them at th3 end Of the
homeward path because of the ca
tai and ln0a edge they will carry
with Thea f-om Ameeica.
Greeks re preparing TO leave by
the wholesale. bat they viii be large
ly guided by the terms Of peace. II
Aisa Minor is opened to trade they
will go back in swarms They dream
OF a revival of the old commercial
empires Of the southern seas Of Eu
rope, with Greece a mighty factor
in this commerce as the was IN the
erly centuries. The syrians share IN
this hope also. Whole communities
are preparing to leave the United
States to stand at the forefront or
the movement they believe inevita-
bic
The Russian national, particularly
.he Jews are going back to a free
Russia and it's opportunities. Like
tine tradrs of the south, they see
vast development opportunities that
have remained untouched for centu-
ries.
Bohemians in this country. accord
ing to Uncle Sans expert who has
been in close touch with the foreign
communities for years and has studied
them and worked with them, are talk
ing of free Bohemia.
Strange to say. he does not believe
that the Armenians will go back.
Whole villages have come to this
contry at every opportunity, and they
expect a great tide of immigration
after the war that will transport all
Armenia to the United States. Ar
menians are cancelling return massage
that have been held for months.
The Tithuanians and Poles from
the mining and steel industries are
making great preparations for a. re-
turn home. Turks, too. are preparing
to eturn in large numbers.
This movement will have a f-r-
reaching effect or the raw material
industries. Most OF the miners Of
the country who are foreign born are
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