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The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-07-29

liminary to barking back to the days
Of the rioting talented youngsters
Give, Wolfe and the younger Pitt:
Young England thinks lightly enough
Of the old men who could neither in
sure peace nor prepare war with Wig
our" Here in America his pronounce
ments upon the trend in England may
seem circumspect enough, despite his
frequent reference to Carlyle. who is
obviously his model in all he writes.
But in England. or wherever the con-
text Of his book Is fully understood.
his assured Weighing Of all and sun
dry politicians. statesmen. generals.
artists. journalists, hunorist5 and
poets in his scale Oft would take
q very careful weigher to determine
what Mr.. Raymond's code Of Weights
is-his latest book must descend upon
them a. . whizz-bang.
For anyone who has Q taste for por-
trait painting, with . nation or two
for background. "All and sundry"
stould be ~ interesting as 4 year in
with each night spent at q
club with one Of the men who keeps
the mills going, the railways running. |
the court alive. the theatres full and
Tommy Atkins out where Npling's |
verses are the pale shadow OF the
ruth.
Woodrow Wilson, Hilliare Belloc, T.
P. O'Connor, Marshal Foch. G. X.
Clemenceau and Conan !,
Doyle are q few Of the subjects who |
are portrayed BY this Londoner who
must do his thinking and his writing
On Mount Snowden.
Henry Holt q Co.. New York;
cloth. 284 pages.)
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-07-29
THE ANGLO-sAxOS,s TEST

The Anglo-Saxon is passing
through q test period in America to-
day which will tell whether or not he
Is of q race which can endure great
prosperity in a great country. VIII
he live in the United States which
he has founded and be able to stand
the prosperity which he enjoys or
will he become as the Greeks, proud.
indolent and naughty and allow what
he considers an inferior race to come
in and take possession OF the-country
to which he has won q right?
The tendency Of the people today
is to leave the farm and quit all 9TH
er kind of menial labor in order to-
make big money. They are mad in
their desire to gain riches. They are
willing to import any kind Of labor
in order to have the work done which
will make them wealthy. Labor is
looked on as a commodity the same
as steel or iron.
The man who will eventually own
the country is the one who gains what
he has by the sweat Of his brow. III
the Anglo-Saxons refuse to work but
turn all the menial tasks to those OF
other races which they import, the
chances are that In a few more gencr-
ations the type of Americans will have
changed entirely and that there will
be different Americans from what
there is today. The American will be
of Chinese, Polish. Greek, italian,
Turkish or some other descent.
The importation of the Chinaman
is proposed by the National Indus |
trial and Agricultural Committee Of
Chicago. The committee supports |
the proposition by arguing that the
Chinaman has been used In the back |
areas of France and that he has
proven himself to be very efficient
help. He does not demand q six-hour |
day and five-day week but is will |
ing to work from morning until |
night every day. It is the belief Of
the Committee that the Chinaman will |
furnish the necessary labor required
in the country.
But with the millions Of negroes in |
the country who are Americans bur
who can never be Anglo-Saxons and
with the millions of others who rep
resent all the races Of the world. what |
il to become Of the Anglo-Saxo II h
attempts to absorb the Oriental'
To quote from E. Davenport Of the
University Of Illinois in q recent ar
ticle in the Country Gentleman III
the Saxon here can keep his soul, II
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-07-29
HELP SOLVE HOUSING PROBLEM

Tho t,ma has come for co-operatjon
nm tho AZ q, al, co,umh,ans IN helm
inc N so,ve the bopsin, nrob,em for
The coming school wear II ia the
moot .sr,ous rroh,.m With which the
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The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-07-29
THE PUBLIC MEMoRr

Many spectators have grown rich
in the last few years and in a great
many cases they have been allowed to
do SO by manufacturers who had ad-
vertised for years that they had the
good OF the consumers in mind. These
manufacturers owed much to their
prosperity to the liberality Of the pub
lie. They knew what the speculator
wanted with the goods and were will
ing to let him have them because it
would enable the manufacturer to
make more goods and more profits.
But the day Of reckoning is begin
ming to come. Those who have treated
the people uniustly are beginning to
feel the effect of their methods. The
votes which added the Eighteenth
Amendment to the Constitution Of the
United States were not all cast by
teetotalers. Nor were there enough
teetotaler votes to put the amendment
through. Many Of the votes were cast
by men who like their drinks with a
kick in them but who wanted to put
the liquor business out because Of the
way the big distillers and brewers had
allowed the retailers to treat the Gus
toners.
The railroads have in way realized
that they have aroused a public which
can become powerful and vengesul.
Packers are being made the target of
much legislation. adverse to them, due
to the fact that people think they have
been wronsed by the packers.
The public has a long memory and
in the end the industries which can
hope to prosper are the ones which
treat the public fairly and honestly.
The public will hold companies which |
departed in the last few years from
the path Of honest treatment Of their
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-07-29

he can keep Prussianism out of busi-
ness. II he can develop an industry
Of his own. and II he will hang to the
land and work It with his own hands,
he Ill have here q glorious futures
But he must stop gambling with his
opportunities Until our people will
do . decent days work and at least
take care Of themselves, 1t Is worse
than folly to add to Americas pro.-
lem by making further importations."
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-07-29
THE NEW BOOKS
"An and 6undry.1

II one would know how English
politics. English public morals, Eng
lish artistic and literary standards
from the inside In, one should include
in the list Of research literature E. T.
Raymond's All and Sundry." slight,
2S4-page book which uses thirty-six
Englishmen and others as points of q
graph by which the author depicts the
movements in English and Continen-
tai guiding life in recent years-even
since the end Of the war.
Under the topic, The. Prince OF
Wales" Mr.. Raymond says, as a pre-
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-07-29

Does this cool you on? On the cold
est days Of next winter you may have
no heat in you house because you
haven't any coal because the coal
dealers here refused to pay the high
prices for car-lots and because the
railroads didn't have enough cars to
move enough Of IT because there
wasn't enough labor and material to
make the cars.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-07-29

New Tsylsr Garage II Completed
The new Taylor Garage building on
Seventh street has been completed and
we are planning to move the Chevrolet
and Nash Sales business In the new
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-07-29
women's watches never agree. How
about the women themselves?

We have a hazy impression that bet
ting on the primaries. even at the rate
of 3 to 1, is not the highest form Of
citizenship.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-07-29

Changes have indeed been wrought
by high prices and prohibition. Why,
even the moon can no longer get full
on its last quarter.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-07-29

sales room in the front part Of q
building. TIE used car departna
will be in the rear Of the new bun
ing. -Adx~
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-07-29

customers, to account for what they
did and win bs doing only what Is
just to them for being "gougers."
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
A Bird That
Likes Water

rJST A mousc-colored little bird,
y not quite 50 big as robin. with
sharp pointed bill, almos,
straight. and rather short tail.
held high like the wrcn's that's the
water ousel or dipper Like the wren.
the water ousel has the queer little
habit Of ducking his head and jerking
his tail upward at the same time. SO
far as looks go there is nothing very
exciting about him. And to tell the
truth, he is very little known save,
perhaps, in his own home in the
Rockies But he is very interesting
character as the folks at the American
Museum Of Natural History can tell
you.
The dipper frequents clear streams,
feeding mostly on mollusks and in
sects. He finds his food on the bot
tom of streams and spies It out from
above with his sharp eyes In rocky
gorges he may be seen scuttling about
among the moist rocks or swimming
on or under the water sometimes div
ing to the bottom OF The stream Not
the swiftest current or maddest rush
ing mountain streams can daunt him
He slips in and out OF the water with
remarkable speed and ligntness But
his most remarkable performance is
his underwater swimming Beneath
the surface he propels himself with
his wings and can stay under water
two or three minutes at time.
In flight this little bird shows arrow
Ike swif,ness. He darts up the face
OF 4 torrent within few inches
Of the water. washed by the flying
spray. Then he descends from the ton
OF the rapid to its foot, hurting him
self over the brink with what looks
like reckless violence. but always stop-
ping instantly and without apparent
effort just at the point he chooses.
This bird IS not web footed, but has
claws. Yet so dexterouslv does he
swim and dive and so closely does he
keep TO watcry localities that he il
classed with aquatic. or water, birds
Like them, too, his coat sheds water.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
disappointment Ahead

"The housewives of the United
States will be disappointed, there
fore, if they look for any early
resumption of the influx of eligibles
needed to rcplenish the depleted
forces in industry or the home"
The only way of testing the
soundncss of any of these views or
predictions is, Of course, to scru
tinize the immigrato figures and
to discover, if possible. the nten-
tions Of the newcomer. For the
moment, unfortunately, these sta
tistics are extremely limited, but
such as they are they offer con-
crete basis upon which TO judge the
trend.
One thing that seems to be en-
couraging, whatever the actual con-
dtions may be, is that for the first
time in two years the balance of
incoming and outgoing water borne
passenger traffic, at the port of
New York at least, is again begin
ming to show a balance in favor of
/ the United States
In the week ended January , last
1900 steerage passengers - this
class is cited because it is from it
that the bulk Of laborers and ser
wants are obtained-s from New
York for foreign ports, as against
6,l0O Of the same class which ar
rived The next week 4,4O0 departed
and 5000 arrived. In the seven DAYS
ended January 10 there were 1000
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25

were spending operations, but out
of thousands of eligibles only five
applied. Private agencies Of smaller
size reported similar scant results,
although in scores Of instances per
sonal solicitations were made. The
women who had graduated into fac
tory work sought employment in
similar fields when those which had
employed them closed. An unusually
large percentage of the others mar
ried. This was either because good
clothes and improved financial con-
ditions had opened up new oppor
tunities for meeting persons of the
opposite sex, or because so many
men in the laboring class, who had
heretofore thought they couldn't
afford it," sought wives when they
became prosperous.
81 met many women whom | had
formerly known as servants who
were working as conductors on
strectcars and as elevator opera
tors" one investigator reported, "but
none would return to domestic em~
ploy, even though the pay was much
higher than it previously had been
and, with meals and lodging, more
than equaled the pay they were re-
ceiving for their new work.
"a large number who were for
mcrly domestics have, therefore,
permanently been removed from the
source of supply"
Others who believe that conditions
ultimately Will return to what they
were before the war call attention
to the fact that because of the
millions of men killed in the war
there has been a marked increase III
the surplus of women in European
countries, and that these arc certain
to rcplcnish the domestic market as
soon as they have the opportunity to
come to this country.
"But it will be some time before
this opportunity comcs," student
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Not the Servant Glass

1t has already been said that in
the thirty days ended January IT
last 10000 Italians arrived in New
York from Southern Italian cities.
But of these fully so per cent were
women, many of them old, and chill
dren. The remainder were men
we'll along in years. who, it ap-
peared, had no intention of doing
manual labor if they could help it.,
but were planning either to seek
employment in factories, or were
thinking of going into agricultural
pursuits. Certainly none of the
men was contemplating engaging
in domestic service. and it has long
been a we'll reorganized fact that
Italian women rarely go in for that
sort Of work, either
Il come into personal contact
with but few immigrants" Super
intendent Baker of Ellis Island said,
"but l doubt if the supply of ser
wants will be increased to any great
extent from among the Italian ar
rivals"
Next to the Italians the majority
of the new arrivals in the second
and third classes seemed to be
Scandinavians, but although the
women of this nationality make ex-
cellent domestics. few of them, when
interviewed, expressed any inten-
ton Of adopting this calling Most
of them had heard that women in
the United States were receiving
large pay in factories and in other
industrial fields, and hoped to share
in this prosperity. Virtually none of
/ the arrivals was Irish, and, of
course, there were no Germans or
! Austrians. The same was true to a
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Another Flood Possible

Coming now to the present stu
alton, it may be stated that at the
outbreak Of the World War our i'm
migration from Italy, Austria Hun
gary and Russia, not to mention
Greece, the Balkans and Asiatic
Turkey. had reached stage which
closely corresponded with the influx
from Germany in 1871. That is to
say. the movement from those cOun-
tries was at flood tide and promised
so to continue for years to conc.
consequently, if history repeats
itself, we may reasonably expect a
repetition of the German experience
unless, Of course, artificial barriers
are erected either by the countries
themselves or the United States.
There is, however, highly i'm
portant factor which presumably af-
fected German immigration only to
limited degree, but which now
must be taken into account, and that.
is the political state in which Central
and Eastern Europe finds itself as
result of the war This factor may
have a powerful influence on future
immigration from such sources, in
cluding even Germany itself.
Economic pressure and political
unrest and oppression are all potent
promoters of immigration.
All of which is another way Of
saying that Commissioner General Of
immigration Caminetti expects "A
great flood of immigration into the
United States just as soon as all the
passport barriers are down.
But time alone will tell when il
will begin and just what effect it will
have on the servant problem.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25

large extent Of Poles and other
nationalities WHICH, in the old days,
sought employment in the homes.
Reports from San Francisco and
other Pacific Coast ports show that
there, too. there has been a slight
acceleration of immigration, al
though, Of course, still far below
the normal, but it is to Europe that
the United States must look for by
far its greatest proportion Of new
supply Of incoming labor.
In the century Immediately pre-
ceding the war Europe provided 80
per cent of the immigration into
this country. About 30,000,000
were added to the population of
the United States from that source
in that period. Of these the United
Kingdom sent the largest number
or approximately 100000. OF
whom 1850. 600 came from Ireland.
Germany was next in the list, having
provided 5,5OO,00O; the rest came
from Italy, Austria Hungary, Rus
sia and the Scandinavian countries.
Prior to 1870 nearly all our Euro
pean immigrants came from north
ern and western nations, Belgium
France, Germany, the Netherlands,
Scandinavia, Switzerland and the
United Kingdom But in the sue
ceeding decades, up to 1910, there
was q constant shift of the chief
source Of supply, and from 1901 tc
1910 only 1911 900 came from the
old fields, and 100000 from new
sources in FurOnp
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25

With the signing of the armistice
came slightsrelaxation of passport
restrictions and with it a correspond
ing resumption OF immigration.
The Commissioner General Of I'M
migration, in forecasting what the
United States may expect in the
way Of future immigration, has this
to say:
How the situation will be af-
fected as result of the war is
problematical, and the history of
our past immigration affords no
really substantial criterion as basis
for speculation. We have no statis-
tlcal data prior to 1920 which would
make possible survey of the effect
the Napoleonic wars and our second
war with England may have had on
immigration, but it is said that fol-
lowing 1915 there was a sudden in
f1ux which reached the then unpre-
cedented total of 1900 in 1917,
and it is worthy Of note that most
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25

departures in round numbers and
4,100 arrivals.
These totals, though exceedingly
small and showing the extent to
which the passport restrictions are
still enforced. would seem to refute
the pesslmistic views expressed by
some observers, but the investiga-
tor quickly runs into fresh trouble
when he seeks to ascertain the in
tentions, and availability as SER
wants, of those who are now coming
to these shores.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
An Ebb Tide

From then on until the present
time the tide Of travel flowed stead
lily against this country, and the
supply Of domestics constantly
diminished. This condition con-
tinued to prevail up to the very be-
ginning Of the present year, and in
the calendar year ended December
81, 1919, the Port of New York alone
showed $4,000 departures in the
second class as against 44.3OO ar
rivals, and 1000 departures in
the third class as against $4,000 ar
, rivals.
These figures for all bat two
months Of 1919 were furnished by
the immigration Service, and show
comparison of arrivals and depar-
lures in the first, second and third
classes:
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25

had rolled up the highest total for
immigration in any twelve months in
its history, with record of
1,427, 600 incoming aliens. Incoming
steamships continued to bring ca
pacity arrivals until that fatal day
in August when the armed forces
openly began marching against each
other, after which the nations at
war began to impose restrictions on
travel.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
The Golden Age

During all this time, although
some times one country and then an
other took first place as Americas s
biggest employment agency" there
was rarely any scarcity of. servants.
The last ten years especially might
be described as the ''golden era"
for the housekeepers, and all kinds
of domestic assistants were to be
had, from the humblest "slavev" to
the trim French maid or governess.
and at wages which were approx
imately one-third what they are to-
day. Whereas III those days a
woman ito do cleaning" could be
had at $3.50 day, it costs $3.50
for the same kind Of service to-day.
With the beginning Of the Euro
pean war came an almost immediate
suspension of immigration into the
United States, although the zero
mark was not reached until this
country took hand in the fighting.
In 1913, the year before the out
break Of the war, the United States
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25

Of conditions predicted. "The
European countries are in desperate
need of workers and will continue
to interpose obstacles to prevent
them from migrating Their need
is even greater than that of the
United States They are confronted
by the task Of repairing the ravages
resulting from the war and need
the cooperation of every able
bodied man and woman.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
1he New York Center

In New York City, Of course, the
"he big clearing house for immi-
grants Of all classes is Ellis Island
An's Ii the station through which,
before the war, 80 per cent of all
WORKERS available for home service
'assed, and, presumably, will pass
'kaih once normal conditions are re-
'"'sd. In addition to being the port
=" entry for the bulk of all new in
"'"ing workcrs, the city itseI7 con
~""y employs something like 70O,-
~" domesticg, the hotels alone re-
"''ng about $1,000 men and
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25

of these came from a nation with
which we had just been at war. On
the other hand. immigration de-
creased following. the Crimean war.
but this is readily attributable to
conditions in the United States
rather than to any influence that
that far away war may have had on
the sources from which we were then
drawing immigrants.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
The Burning Question

I'VE can't get help. When are
We going to get servants?"
In each of the big seaport cities
which are ports of call or destina-
tons for transatlantic or transpacific
liners there are certain fixed and
definite centers where the required
information, if any information at
oil is available, can be obtained.
There are, first of all, the quaran-
tine stations, through which all
aliens or immigrants must pass be-
fore landing in the country. Next
hre the Federal, state and municipal
employment bureaus which, since
the war ended, have been established
IN most Of the big cities. Finally,
There are the private agencies which,
unlike the others, are operated on a
Zee or commission basis of compen-
eatlon, and which keep in fairly close
touch with the situation because
they are the institutions to which
most householders apply when in
heed Of servants.
Within the last two or three
months, and especially in the last
1ew weeks when printed reports be-
gan to appear of non-citizen ar
nvals, deluge of requests for in
formation has flooded all these
agencies. Some large employers of
eomestics, like the hotels, went tc
tne extent Of appointing special
representatives. to keep watch of in
coming, irnmigrant-bearing steam.
Ships, and lists Of arrivals have been
eiosely scrutinized with a view to
nnding the kind Of workers Of which
there is such scarcity at the pres
ent time.
What, then, is the situation and
"has assurance does the immediate
Auture hold Of an improvement ir
Conditions?