The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-11
THE BUSINESS OF AMERIcANlzINc
THE UNITED STATES


THE UNITED STATES
Americanzation is the big word in the lexicon of the
eope of the United States Just when have so
many unhappy experiences with the oregnborn element
of population and when many aliens have been held
up leaders in attempted revolutions and schisms of
people becoming much alarmed the outlook much
too, that have paid little attention to
our migration problems in the past and very much agtat
ed sto what shall be done with this Big element peo
pie.
To Americanize eths republic is admittedly easy
task We pointing out the other day the very I'M
fact that practically threefourhs of all
our manual aborers in the basic enterprises Of this
country foregn-bo That high percentage Of for
egners against native workers applies such indus
tries as Steel to garmentmakng to coal mining and to
half dozen other of the important industries upon which
the well-being of people is Immediately dependent
And how amazingly large is the proportion of foreigners
to natve1born in population is wildly brought out in
recent bulletin issued by the National Geographic Soci
ETY. which says that $4,000 900 of our people have made
the long voyage from foreign shores to ctzenize in this
country Thirythree million people represents half the
population of Germany represents all the prewar country
of England except the country of Kent and population
today of all the States of the Mississippi plus the state
of Alabama The bulletin oges on to show that Of the
49, 900 who have than $4,000 900 still live
among US, and their children and chidrens children
in good truth bone of our bone and blood of our
blood
OF long ago America crossed the hundredmllon line
the composition of that population
To begin with, there 100000 colored people, in
GLIDING negroes, Indians Chinese ETC. Then there are
14500 900 people Of foreign birth among In addition
to these, there 100000 children of foreignborn
fathers and mothers and 100000 children of foreign
of these have bee deducted from the 100 900 900 only M
100000 remain of full white native ancestry.
Yet the 100000 American people who are of for
eign stock-that is foreign born the children of for
einborn parensinclude of the most lustrous cit
liens of republic Even the president of the United
America and the list long and notable of statesmen cap
ains of industry leaders of finance inventors makers of
literature and progress who have strains of blood not
than generation on this side of the sea-
An examination of the statistics of American mmigra-
ton shows that since the foundation Of government
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland have
contributed 100000 of her people and Germany
than six million Ireland, with more than four millions
Great Britain with little less than four million, and
Scandinavia with something less than two Million have
together with Germany contributed ethan half of
the total immigration to shores since the beginning
of the revolutionary war;
when we take the German immigration of the United
States between 1776 and 1890 and compare it with that
from other countries somewhat startling result and
usually unsupported disclosed The total arrivals of
aliens in those Ia years aggregated 156S9000 of whom
more than 100000 British and Irish and 525,0OO
were Germans which shows that alien of every
three arriving in America during than century Of
shows greater proportion.
Since 1890 the trend has been very different With
more than 7OO0O 900 immigrant arrivals since that date
only 100000 have been Germans. If from this
Der proper deduction made for those who returned
to their homeland and those who have died since their
rival it will be seen that there are fewer than million
former subjects of the kaiser in this country who have
been here than twentysix years Of than
5000 900 people of German birth and immediate ances-
try among u.s. less than 100000 fail to have the back
ground of birth long residence America behind them
GIVE 1T TO MOTHER?
What became of that mothers pension bill that was gp