New-York tribune., 1919-09-29
A N AFTERMATH of the war will be

A N AFTERMATH of the war will be
N renewed human migrations. 1t is re-
ported, for instance, that five million
Germans likely to emigrate in the course
OF the next few years, chiefly to South Amer
lea. When the veil has been lifted from the
regions beyond it probably will be found
that many others are preparing to remove
from unhappy environments to more favor
able climes
During the war American immigration
ceased to be problem. but with the coming
OF peace it takes its place upon the stage
again. The announcements Of tourist
agencies of tours through France, Belgium
and Italy are signs of the folding of the
wings of the dove of peace more easily read
and comprehended by the average man than
the prolonged argument over the league Of
natlons. While no one is advertising special
trips for those claiming middle Europe as
their birthplace, yet there will be large
tourist movement among those who have
been here period of years. Great num-
bers of former immigrants from lands east
OF Germany and from the Mediterranean
countries are awaiting the time when the
bars Will be lowered so that they may return
10 their old homes to see relatives. settle es-
tates and discover what the war did to their
native places. large proportion of them
purpose to return to the land Of large wages
IN the course of the last year the net in
crease IN alien population according to the
Immigration hgures for the fiscal wear ter
minated June 30, recently made public, was
1o''9o-the incoming aliens numbering 237
vi and the outgoing 216231 The net add
tlon IN 1917-1S was 1855. The influx this
year, however, was approximatev o. mn
greater with a corresponding increase in
outhow. Ihe immigration has been chiefly
African, English, French, Irish, Mexican and
Scotch while the departing aliens have been
largely Greeks, Poles, South Italians. SDan-
iards and Jugo- -Savs. The departures wera
due to desire to revisit the old home while
the inward movement was stimulated by the
aoor demand here and was governed bv the
constructed channels of transportation.
Inc United States should take ADVANTAGE
OF the present period of small immigration
10 determine upon definite policy.
America, apparently is ready for the adon-
ton of policy of regulation on grounds of
political and social welfare. The maioritv
W i''i'iiiS ants III tne last two decades have
not come to America in search Of a nolitical
asylum but for an opportunity to reap in
the rich fields open to unsklled labor. II
IS not illogical, therefore, that this fact
should be frankly recognized
Legislation is being proposed in Congress-
senator Dillingham;, of Vermont, for several
years chairman Of the Senate Committee on
immigration and former chairman of tho
UNITED States Immigration Commission has
brought forward plan in which he long
mas peen interested. 1t is PROPOSAL to limit
Immigration on racial basis He would
permit the admission annually of ) per cent
OF the total number Of any nationality now
represented here The terms of the hin ex-
cept natives OF countries of the Western
hemisphere, members of specified profes-
s'onal classes and aliens who. in the oninion
OF the Secretary of Labor, should be admit
yea as measure of humanity
Or. Sidney l.. Guck, secretary of the Ma
uohal committee for Constructive Immiqra-