Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-27

York, a silent, patient group of Dutch peasants
who were going to be taken care or by the
Dutch immigration headquarters, and a few
Czecho-Slovaks, who were destined for shop
work in Chicago. AS far as could be ascertained,
the great mass of others had nothing further IN
view than a welcome from friends and relatives.
Some Typical Cases.
One of the CZecho-Slovaks said that MS
brother had found a factory job for him IN chi
cago. He spoke enthusiastically in giant Slavic
s~yllables, which an Interpreter neatly converted
in plain English. In the old country, the man
explained, he had made only forty cents a day,
but that had been on a farm. He laughed
scornfully when it was suggested that he might
find farming more congenial than FACTORY work
in this country.
No; the new immigrants know what they
want in the way of work, and, as a matter
of fact, they stand a fairly good chance of get
ting it. They have all the advantages on their
side when 1t comes to competing with Amerl-
can-born workmen. The immigrant may not be
able to speak English and he may not be ac-
quainted with American customs, but these
things are scarcely necessary. Upon arriving in
this country, he is met by friends or relatives
who speak his own language and who imme-
diately escort him to a colony which speaks IL
also. He can read the signs on its stores ana
he can read its newspaper. There he finds PEG
pie from his own province, perhaps his own 1T
They cluster around him and pay him extrava-
CANT compliments while he gives them the latest
news from home. There is (alas, Mr.. .Volstead)
wine, as q rule, and food of the peculiar, native
kind to. which he has been accustomed,
In the district, moreover, there Is almost
always a relative who stands in with one of. its
prominent men-a man who controls many JOBS
and knows the location of many others. rms
important parsonage is frequently an American
born member of the race who, resisting assi1nl-
lation, has remained in his native colony be-
cause it yielded him abundant profits. III the
immigrant fails to obtain employment through
him, there is always the foreign employment
agency to which he may apply.
Thus it may be seen that the plight of the
newly-arrived immigrant is by no means as har-
rowing as some are wont to depict 1t. Com
pare it, indeed, with the lot of the average UNI
employed American workman, who, lacking this
.n afn 1nnni 6 on iSn1atnd Injt II the
community, and its superior advantages VIII De
apparent.
In the past, perhaps, before large foreign col
onies were built up in all our big cities, the i'm
migrants struggle was unduly arduous, but since
the war, conditions have improved for him. For
one thing, he is no longer cast off like deadWood
from his native land and left to drift for himself
by an alien government. In the eyes of both his
mother and foster countries he has become a
figure of importance. While the United States Is
proceeding industriously with its Americanlza-
ton campaign, European nations are building
up strong naturalization programs.
Tho Homeland Helps.
Before the war, the chief European nations
were too powerful and self-complacent to worry
over the emigration of their surplus population.
The Western Hemisphere, they felt, was more
than welcome to it. There was, they decided,
no necessity for a definite emigration policy.
The war, however, revealed two disagreeable
facts: that each nation was harboring disloyal
aliens within its borders, and that its own loyal
sons on foreign soil had been ignored until they
were beyond retaining.
Every important European nation now has an
immigration policy influenced by these two dls-
coVerieS. Every nation is encouraging the emil
grafton of alien nationalities from it's borders;
which explains the tremendous exodus or Hun
garians from Czecho-Slovakia and of Jews from
all of Europe, Every nation is refusing to re-
ceive back in its fold aliens who left 1t during
the war to fight for their mother countries.
Every nation IS determined to keep track of Its
own native emigrants; to see that they are well
protected in foreign lands, and thus win ana
keep their loyalty. Holland mas already caiieu d
conference of European states to consider uni
form plans for affording such protection, and II
has been one of the first countries to open 1mmi-
grafton aid bureaus in foreign cities.
According to Frances Kellor, an American
woman who recently toured Europe with a view
Of studying its emigration policies, many coun-
tries have enlarged the powers of their consul
ates in the United States to protect Immigrants,
and they are supporting societies and homes and
movements to look after their nationals. "They
are encouraging them to apply to their consul
ates for advice and assistance" she says. In
this work they have able support from a consld-
cradle part of the foreign language press IN thls
country.
They mean to control the interests of their
immigrants by advancing their economic inter-
ests: by the establish ment of parish schools; by
supporting the foreign language press through
advertising and fostering the establishment OF
cultural societies-all for the purpose of perpet-
kuating the language, ideals, culture and interests
of the native land.
! "They mean also to keep in touch with their
nationals by social events, and, so far as the
United States is concerned, it will see more and
more distinguished members of these races WIS.,
iting their nationals here as guests OF honor,
for the purpose of preserving home ties. They
mean at least to consider the ACCESSIBILITY OF
giving their nationals abroad representation in
the home country. They favor the establish
ment of immigrant banks and of branch banks
in immigrant countries where the native Ian
guage is spoken to stimulate the transmission or
money home and investments in the home land
In other words, in the future no European ma
ton is going to lend its man power to promote
the development of a competitive country. 1t
will let it's men go to relieve an economic strain,
but it will demand them back, with interest,
when the proper time comes. This definite pol
| lev NAV not he pleasant for the Unlted States,
but it is fine for the immigrants. No wonder
our latest alien newcomers are not worried
about finding jobs. They have the strength or
their respective nations behind them.