The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-02-11


looking automobiles roll through
their narrow, dirty, streets- Thus.
according to close observers, are
"reds" and Bolsheviks bred.
DISTRIBUTION is NEEDED.
The johnson bill, which aims at
restriction of all immigration for
fourteen months, passed we House,
but it probably is doomed to die in
Senate Committee 1t is felt that
it is not the right type of measure
that what is needed is not so much
restriction as distribution.
The American farmer is yelling for
help. Labor has left the farm for
the higher wages and the movie pal
aces afforded in the cities. The farm
er yells in vain, apparently, for the
boys still leave the farms.
More than a million immigrants
pour through the portals of America
every year With the exception OF
a few Scandinavians, who trek to the
great wheat belts of the Northwest,
| few, if any, of these find their way
to American farms. Not many get
west of Chicago.
Harry A. Mcbride, chief of the wise
section of the State Department, re-
Gently returned from an extended
tour of Europe and offered the Senate
Committee on immigration a solu-
tion. Boiled down, what Mcbride
purposes is to create a small immi-
grafton commission to direct and con-
troll immigration in this country. He
would allow no immigrant to get in
without passport.
The commission would study the
economic needs of the country. If
Kansas wants 5000 farmers, let
them tell it to the commission. If
the coal mines of Pennsylvania want
10, 900 miners, let them communicate
with the commission.
Then he would have the commits
sion empowered to cable to American
COhouldl OLHSlolo dplOou thoI ANohoo'
wants 5000 farmers and Pennsylva-
mia wants 10000 miners. The con-
sular officers would then select and
approve these numbers and classes
from the hordes of applicants desir-
Gus of coming to America, ticket
them to America and when they ar
rive at Ellis Island they could be
dispatched to their destinations
without half the congestion, confu-
sion and suffering that now prevail.
Cooperation with State authorities
would, of-course, be necessary.
This plan, Mcbride points out, is
a solution of both the immigration
problem and the labor problem. 1t is
beneficial to both the immigrant and
the country.
BY the addition. of small force in
Europe, stationed at the various big
ports of embarkation, mental and
physical examinations could be con-
Quoted there and undesirables turned
back at their starting point instead
of crossing 5000 miles of ocean and
then at the end be placed on a ship
and sent back whence they came.
SEND THEM TO FARMS.
Congressman interested in the plan
believe that it would prove beneficial
from another viewpoint-it would
provide the means for assimilating
the foreigner into American life
more rapidly Instead of sending the
to the crowded tenements.
where hundreds and thousands of his
own people live, and where there is
little opportunity for him to learn the
American language and ideals and
methods of living, he would be sent.
under this plan to the American
farm, which Fourth of July orators
are wont to term "the cradle of
American liberty
Presdent-elect Harding is known
to be intensely interested in the en-
tire immigration situation. His ia
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the campaign, concerning trip
which he made to Europe. Coming
back, when the vessel reached quar-
antine he stood on the forward deck
looking down 1t the hordes of immi-
grants pouring out of the steerage.
Babies were yelling, mothers were
sick and weary, men were sullen and
tired. All told, it was very dis
tressing scene. And, aG the Senator
tells the story:
Turning to well-dressed pros
perous-looking man alongside me, 1
said: Say, it's all wrong, isn't it?
Things are not distributed right in
this world. Here we are riding in
luxury and all those poor suffering
people down there in misery
"The stranger sAiled. oh said
he, are you worrying about those?
If you are, don't do it. They're
coming from the lands of oppres-