The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-16
AS Others See Ii
THE RACE is NOT TO THE SWIFT
Saturday Evening Post.)

The stranger who visits New York rarely sees
anything except Manhattan Island, brilliant da2-
cling, congested, the place of hotels, thea tiers.
apartments and tenaments. Across the river there
is another section likewise with millions of peo-
pie, but less congested because there no nat
ural obstacles to prevent the growth of Brook
lyn far out into Long Island. There many
cities of homes in this country, but New York
is not commonly thought of in that connection.
Indeed it would be placed last the list in most
peoples thoughts. But the Long Island portion of
New York is full of small homes. Thus the pro-
cess which is going there, though no differ
ent in kind from that in many other parts of the
country, is perhaps more striking because OF its
metropolitan setting
Reference is had to the American process of
satisfying the land hunger of the dispossessed
peoples of the earth. The land is passng-at
least great portions of ito those whom the
descendants of Pilgrim Fathers would hardly
acknowledge as Americans Certainly they are
but lately come. An infrequent visitor to the
Long island section of New York City recently
went to the offices of Il company which deals in
mortgages, nspects and grants titles to real es-
tate and is party in other ways to the purchase
of homes and real estate in general. He found
himself surrounded by many people, a strange,
shabby, foreign looking multitude.
There were peoples of every kind and each
person there meant that someone had a few thou
sand dollars enough at least to provide the equity
OF land ownership. An officer of the company
showed the visitor his daily list of transactions
sheet upon sheet, with hundreds upon hundreds
OF separate individual rea-estate operations, each
involving at least few thousand saved dollars
and next to practically every transaction was
written distinctly foreign name. The officer
eXpatated upon the absorption OF real estate and
other property by Jews as shown so wildly in
his daily sheets.
THE Jews succeeding, not because they are
so much smarter or brighter than the older Amer
leans, or because they are more honest as bust
ness men, but solely because they are willing to
save. | believe that most of the more recently
arrived peoples distinctly inferior in most
ways to the older American stock; but the out
standing trait of the older American, as | see it
in my business here is his unwillingness to ac-
quire money by saving and his insistence upon
getting it by making hit or a killing Mean
while these other peoples steadily saving and
as result steadily supplanting the older native"
The immigration problem does not consist sole
ly in keeping out further hordes of undesira bes
or even in assimilating what we have. 1t con-
sists in some degree at least in the older natives
learning from those who have more lately come
a little of their persistence in thrift
The older American kids himself by saving that
he cannot save without lowering his living stand
ards. The truth is that in far too many cases
he does not save because he will not be bothered
with petty things 1t is not that the few dollars
week saved will reduce his living standards; it
is that he expects shortly to make fortune and
therefore sees no point in bothering with small
savings. He is always waiting for something
big to turn up instead of bit by bit turning it up
himself.