The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-18
NEARLY MILLION
 ALIENS ARRIVED
 DURING PAST YEAR
More Than 0ne-Fourth of Those Admitted Italians. Total Number Deported
 Is 4,517
By Associated Press

Washington, December 17.-The tide of immigration. which was ap- preaching it's flood when the restric- ton law went into effect. brought s05,22s aliens into the United States in the fiscal year ended last June 30, according to the annual report of Secretary Davis of the depart ment of labor. This number com pared with 43o,001 in the previous fiscal year. and Is more than twice the estimate of $50, 900 which MT Da- wis makes for this fiscal year, under the operation of the restriction act
 More than one-fourth of the aliens admitted last year were Italians, the number being 222.26O, as compared with 95,145 in the fiscal year of 1920. Numbered by race, apart from na- tionality, the report says, the Jews arriving numbered 119,o36.
 Chinese admitted numbered 4.017. an increase over the preceding year, but the admissions of Japanese de- creased from 12.Sss in 1920 to 1o,es5 in 1921. In Hawaii the Japanese ar rivals showed a slight increase, with total of 3,599.
 The number of aliens in general deported, the report says, showed a considerable increase. with total of f,517. as against 2.762 for 1920.
 It cost nearly s4,000,O00 to pass upon and admit the immigrant tide for the last fiscal year, MT. Davis says. To enforce the laws against alien anarchists cost an additional s5sO,o00, while the deportation of un- desirables added $127, 900 to the total
 Complain At Smuggling
 ''The bureau of immigration" says the report, raises complaint as to smuggling and surreptitious entry of aliens. The 'seamen route Is fa- vorite device. That is, they arrive as sailors and manage to disappear in the depths of the country Many others arrive at Mexican ports and sneak across the border. Several hun dred of these were arrested and de- ported during the year, as rigorous deportation to the country of origin has been thought the only effective means of breaking this practice"
 Aliens filing petitions for citizen ship during the year number 19S,55o while tho number of declaration of intention was 4.4St. an increase of
  yious year.
 Citizenship training activities of the department have been extended to S,526 communities over the coun- try, Mir. Davis says, but industrial unrest resulted in a reduction in the number who availed themselves of these benefits, the total this year be- ing 117,073"
 seIf-sustafning
 Despite the cost of handling the aliens, MT. Davis says, his depart ment was more than self-sustaining during the year. The total expenses. covering appropriations by Congress. amounted to s6,660,SSs, while ball anced against this were receipts as follows: Immigration head tax, $5.- 712,T63: naturalization fees, S912.302: fines for attempted evasion of the immigration laws, s352,411, and for feiture of bonds. $41,0
 Reviewing the activities of the di- vision of conciliation, the labor sec retary notes that during the year de- partment concilators were asked to adjust 457 industrial disputes, rang ing from the strikes in the packing and shipping industries, to minor diff ferences, involving only a score of men. These disputes, 1t Is stated. affected 420.745 workers directly and 1T2,Z6l wOrkerS 1nulreClly, anu III only AS cases were tho conciliators unable to reach a settlement.
 Secretary Davis asks Congress for means and authority to add addition al conciliators. He also urges that additional funds be appropriated for the United States employment serv- ice, declaring that "the government has, already organized within itself. a means of meeting the problem of unemployment which could be made available at once with an appropria- tion of s1,000.000."
 In tho interest of economy. 1t IS stated, MT. Davis wrote the shortest labor department report of record. the document covering only 43 print ed pages. Copies of 1t were not is sued for general distribution to the newspapers of the country as hereto fore, the department giving out only an abstract