Arizona republican., 1920-11-14
The Immigration
 Stream
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKiN

WASHINGTON, D. O.. Nav. 4--Afri- can negroes made up about seven times as large a part of the stream of immi- grants that flowed into America dur ing the fiscal year of 1919 as they did in 1913. Mexicans, tired of the rev. olution swelled the proportion of their race in the stream to about IS times what it was before the war.
 These striking facts. it should be re- membered, are based on proportional figures. The total immigration in 1913 was over a million, while in the fiscal year of 1919 it was only about 10000 In other words, we were then receiving nearly eight times as many immigrants as we did during 1919. But it is the proportional change of the various races that is significant.
 Many scientists regard the question Of race as one of paramount impor- tance in the effect that immigration has on the future of the country. Pol iticians, on the other hand, uniformly dodge the race issue because of it: delieacy. Only on the Pacific coast where Japanese immigration has be come a burning issue, Is any attemp made to face the racial factor. It | i interesting to note that nearly as mar, Japanese entered the United States il l 1919 as in 1913, which means that the, were about nine times as large per centage of the total immigration las year as they were before the war. Certainly racial snobbishness is no | to be tolerated The theory of the es l sential superiority of the blonde race ] over the dark ones. for example, ha been vigorously upheld by some an thropologists: but il has now fallen int | disrepute. It is generally recognize' that the dark Mediterranean people for example, have certain racial trait which the blonde Nordic strain lacks Likewise the usefulness of any give man to his adopted country does no depend primarily on his race. A ne gro may become 8 valuable citize and a Swede may be a rogue. But cannot be denied that 8 thousand extr Swedes are to be preferred to a thou sand extra negroes. 1t is hard to con template with equanimity a deluge C negroes, Mexicans and Japanese; ye
 that is what we have been receivin
 during the year 1919.
 Great Changes
 The whole makeup of the immigra
 tion stream has been radically altered
 As is generally well known, America
 immigration was made up for man
 years of Englishmen, Welshmen, Irish 1 men, AJeEQlanS anu cGaHQl1dNidH
 These immigrants made up the Amer
 ica which was until 1890. Then th South Italians and the East European
 began pouring in, while the influx
 north and west European races fell of
 Now all is changed. With the growt of Jajanese, negro and Mexican imm i grafton as new factors. the East ar South European immigration has grea ly declined. The proportion of Soui Italians, for example. was only abol tenth in 1919 what is was in 191 and the proportion of Hebrew, Magya , Russian, Slovak, Roumanian. Syrian , and Turkish immigrants has also d. clined enormously. At the same tin the proportion of Englishmen, Scotcl men and F'renchmen who came to tn , country in 1919 each increased to abo four times what it was in 1913.
 This is the encouraging feature
 the immigration outlook-that Frencl men and Englishmen are seeking il ;. home of their late allies in ever-il
 creasing numbers.
 ' Of course, the character of our pos , war immigration is still in the makin v The influx of aliens is much great f today than it was in 1919, threatenil : to reach pre-war proportions. Also
 is different to some extent in chara ! I. said to have sent a horde of Poles q this direction, while in 1919 compar ;. lively few of them arrived. But t d important fact it that the charact [, Of immigration has radically altere Z, The old immigration problem has b @ come a now one. Intelligent legisl d tion on the subject should be based 5. a complete new survey of the facts. r. A new immigration bill is undouh 3, edly to be a part of the work of co
 gress. The house committee on inn n grafton has been holding hearings o : on the Pacific coast and also in Was = ington. Various bills have been dra1 - ed and one of them by Johnson of Ca
 ifornia, the chairman of the comm
 tee, will doubtless form the basis
 legislation which the committee " 5, lay before congress.
 Importance of Regulation
 Is It is obvious, of course. that not o ing is more important to this count
 than the way in which immigration
 beng regulated. The whole eastern h. d of the United States is simply COT ,- plex mass of the humanity which e. have chosen to import from abro; - We have a republic which is bas
 lupon the assumption that the indivi