The Washington herald., 1921-02-02
The Alien
Problem
immigration Expert Says
Europe Striving to
Retain NatiUeS.
BY Darling,
BY RAYMOND G. CARROLL.

NE" YORK, Feb. Are We de
sirOus OF new immigration Ar,
the European countries in favor Of
an outflow of their already wdr-
dwarfed populations to the United
States? These are serious questions
uppermost in thinking minds upon
both sides of the Atlantic In the
last century Europe has contributed
more than 3l,OOU,OOO persons to
American progress.
When Ellis Island is thronyed
with those anxious to enter as nov.
apprehensiOns arise in the ranks of
orgapized labor. When that major
clearing station is deserted there
are also approximations, but they are
the apprehensions of those who en-
ploy labor and wonder from where
We shall draw the toilers always
needed to perform the tasks upon
the lower rUnEs of the industrial
ladder; places vacant by the STEADY
rise in position in the working
classes.
Problem Is Perpetual.
Miss Frances Keller. OF this city.
long a close student Of our aliens
and author of Immigration and the
Future" says:
Whatever immigration policies
We adopt will affect Europe no
less than European emigration
policies will affect this country; and
between the two continents there
are irreconciIable differences which
will create constantly new >itua-
tions to he adjusted"
Miss Keller continued. Europe
is nov concerned with the separa-
tion Of races, not with their ANAL
gamatiOn. Her tendency is to purify
racial strains rather than tN mix
them. France desires no one in
. France but Frenchmen, and is more
than ever discouraginE any DartiCi-
patton in her internal affairs by
other races. Belgium sends out
word that she needs her ablr-hodied
men from all over the world.
Poland appeals to her cmi-rants
to return. Czecho-Slovakia urges
them to visit the homeland and to
help build a new nation. Germany
has established a special depart
meht to undertake the work o.
bringing her colonists back to the
fatherIand. From America alone,
nearly 4OS,000 immigrants left in
the second year of the armistice.'
Opinion Is Divided.
Upon the general subject Of ru-
ture immigration, Miss Keller says
that she finds American opinion
divided between the restriCtlOnists
and the liberal immiErationIsts
There are those who advocate the
solution of the present problem by
means of the admission OF tenn
porary labor" she added:
They point out that America al
ways needs workmen; that the con-
ditions of employment vary, ana
that the movements of men should
be extremely fluid to meet the huc-
tuating demands of both production
and markets. They hold even that
birds of passage'-those who come
only to return-are, desirable be-
cause on their return home they
spread American ideas abroad and
that will help America to extend its
foreign markets
Nearly 81 900, 900 is seeking right
full owners, the aggregate of $4,000
forgottCn accounts in savings banks
trust companies and private banks
in New York State. Every five years
under the banking laws the State
banking department is required to
publish a list of such accounts. 1t
took thirty newspaper columns Of
agate space 10 tell the story of this
lost money" which, pending claim
ants, is rolling up interest and be-
ing used by the fnahcial institu-
tions in the run of their business.
MANY of the dead" accounts go
back fifty years. some even antedat-
ing the civil war. The majority Of
the accounts are, as a matter Of
fact. small in amount. Their exis-
tence is ascribable to o-change of res
idence, death without heirs, and pos
sibly in some a deliberate CONCEAL
ment, the deposits having been made
by persons who changed their
names or desired to drop out OF
sight. q.