The Cordova daily times., 1920-12-23
DEPORT ALIENS WHEN IN DOUBT
 SAYS WILLIS

NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (by Associat- ed Press) America should have some say as to who should be allowed
 to emigrate to this country and where | they get here, in the opinion of Com missioner of Immigration Frederick 1 A. Wallis. He said in a survey of | the immigration situation made pub /! lie here today that an army of 15,000,- 900 foreigners is clamoring to mi grate to this country and the United States has no means available to stop those not wanted.
 Distribution of immigrants to farms and mines where laborers are greatly needed, instead of permitting them to clog up already congested l cities where no more inhabitants are wanted would help to avert the men ace created by the unparalleled influx of foreigners through Americas front door, according to the commissioner.
 More than 100000 of these aliens many of them refugees in the strictest sense of the term'-will en- ter the United States during the cur
 rent fiscal year, the commissioner said. Some of them, he added, will find their way to farms where they are greatly needed, but the great ma jority will flock to cities, which is particularly undesirable in this period of readjustment because of food and housing conditions.
 Municipal officials in several cities have importuned the immigration of- ficials to stop sending immigrants to their cities, and to induct them to settle on farms, the commissioner de- clared.
 There are thousands of people out of work in those cities today" he said. These added to thousands of new corners only make conditions worse They cannot find work. They are not producers, and they remain in the >'N'S'' S'+.iiito tp IOOt Illdt lSa SCdTcP enough at present.
 Il have been told by the vice-presi- dent of one of our greatest western railroads that in the Dakotas next year the harvest will be less than 60 per cent what it was this year be- cause they cannot get sufficient labor ;,{,, n the immigrants, if it could be brought about by legislation, would circum- vent this threatening situation. Ut would send thousands to the farms, thus dealing one of the most effective blows at the high cost of liv- ing. It seems to me that much could
 De done in encouraging these people to take up small bits of ground and work them. I think the government ought to help out"
 Commissioner Wallis suggested the establishment of a preferential selec- tive method of admitting immigrants from the 15,000,000 who, he believes, are trying to come to America.
 But he added, preferential ad- mission cannot be instituted without first amending the constitution. Num- erous suggestions have been made for the handling of the coming millions and there are many bills before con gress on the subject"
 (Of ha clared, there never was a greater literary farce" and that it affords mo safety to the country" Some of the 72 radicals confined on Ellis Isl and recently could read and write in several languages, he said, and could have passed any literacy test devised but they were destructive citizens and bad people for this country"
 We need tests that will deter mine whether man or woman in- tends to be real worker and a real 1aw-abiding citizen. Many people who cannot possibly pas sthe literacy test will make the most substantial citizens.
 II believe we should have some say as to who is to be allowed to come here and where they should go. Perhaps we could have a reciprocal agreement with other nations to have our representatives on the other side of the ocean to determine who should f0 ables and I would rather send back a thousand good men than let one bad man come into the country.