Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-11
GERMANS NSSTART
EMIGRATION MOVE
Many Teutons Are Anxious to
Get Away From Their
Native Country

Berlin-"I beg your pardon, but
could you tell me how to get to
Japan"
The question has been addressed
many times recently to an acquaint-
ance OF mine in Berlin who is not II
japanese, but for some reason is
often supposed by Germans TO hail
from the Land OIL the Rising sun. 1t
is typical of the great eagerness OF
large numbers of Germans to seek
Their fortunes anywhere rather than
in the fatherland, which is regarded
Just now as Il grand country TO live
out OF.
The first question asked me by the
young woman in the booking office at
my motel in Berlin was il / could
tell her how long it would be before
she would be allowed to go to Amer
lea. She wished to so to Chicago,
where she has Ielations. The first
bookshop | entered had prominently
displayed Il number OF pamphlets on
the prospects of emigrants to ArgeL-
/ tina and other places in South Amer
ica.
Intcliectuals Want To Go
1t is particularly the intellectual
classes, those with a high school OF
university education, who are pre-
pairing to leave Germany in large
numbers. The desire of these people
to go abroad is to be explained by
the fact that they have confidence in
their own. power to earn u living in
new way in Il new country. So fan
from attempting by propaganda OF
otherwise to dissuade people from
emigrating, the German government
apparently wishes to direct the emf
grafton from Germany into regular
channels. 1t recognizes that Ger
many can neither offer to it's popula-
ton anything like a secure possibility
of existence from industry nor supply
its necessities from German agricul-
tural produce, which has sadly fallen
off owing to the neglect of the land
during the war. The government
therefore, regards emigration on a
large scale as an economic necessity
With view to the prevention OF
needless and unconsidered emigra-
ton, a special department of state to
deal with emigration, immigration
and repatriation. under the name OF
the Reichswanderamt, was estab-
lished some weeks ago. This office
has arisen out of n central informa-
ton office for emigrants, founded
some time ago at the suggestion OF
the imperial government by the Ger
man Colonial Society. Any one inter
ested in the subject is able to obtain
from the Reichswanderamt informa-
| ton and printed matter of trust
worthy nature, giving particulars as
to conditions of settlement in the
various countries.
The German government regards
Japan, Brazil, and, above all, the Ar
gentine, as the countries particularly
adapted to afford a home for Ger
man emigrants. A German commits.
sion, consisting OF representatives ol
the Reichswandermt, will shortly
proceed to the Argentine, primarily
for the purpose of safeguarding the
persons arriving from being, as sc
often happened before the>war, in al
foreign ports, robbed and taken n
| by foreign Germans and people oi
the countries themselves. The gov
ernment is not at present considering
the question of wholesale emigration
to Russia. Most German political
| economists are of the opinion thai
German workers would not take very
kindly to emigration to Russia, as
they consider Russian conditions too
primitive. AS matter of fact, the
lGerman worker does not wish to
leave the towns for the country, and
still less does he wish to go east
ward from Germany. On the other
hand, many German engineers, tech
uicians and chemists are prepared to
settle in Russia.
The country districts of Germany
! and in particular German agriculture
are suffering severely at present from
lack of labor, especially since Gal
ician and Russian laborers, who be-