The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-02-21
COLOSSAL MIGRATION
OF EARTH'S NATIONS
coroNTsTs FLOCK TO NEW
uoPLD TO ESCAPE BUR
DENS OF WAR TAXES.
AMERICANS JOIN THE THRONG
n 10 France or England g wade
The Volstead Law. Swiss InoC
wove Into Germany, While the
French Go to Italy.

mace among the HdtloiIs VI p
t.@ , has occurred with any nation
.; ," the days Of Moses, according to
t-Ser;-an officials Stationed abroad,
.Ln ser in this vast migration direct
VII n the world war. Thousands OF
.-.-;:a. IRE moving to new countries
,.-a-.4 al unrest, high taxation and
~ an effort to secure material Dene-
H'Is7v families of wealth are leaving
.,a;- 'rative countries, seeking a place
,..l heir money will be worth more
.Ta, At home and where the burden
- +a>ation is not so heavy. This IS a
~ ,l, thing for the people lett at
lame and is causing grave concern to
.Coro~oists. who see in it the danger
y; bankruptcy facing some OF the
smaller countries
Go to South America.
South America is haven for thous-
ands of Europeans, especially Ger,
mans Austrians, Portuguese ana
Snaniards. who are establishing colo
MES there. Many OF these Europeans,
seeking TO escape the high taxes at
home caused by the war, are gong IN
.or ranching, while many others are
boroInjng established in trade and pro-
;sss;ons Canada and Mexico also are
recejying many of these colonists.
Within the last year several thous-
and French families have lett their
homes TO settle in Italy. They are all
more or less well to do, in most cases
possessing fixed incomes, which, in fu-
-~re while drawing them from France,
thew will spend in Italy. The reason
i no lack of patriotism or love Tor
T+aIv It is simply because the French
3-anc is worth two Italian lire, and
the French can live twice as comfort
sb1v on the same income.
While the French are leaving France
the English are moving into IT.. 1t IS
no exaggeration to say that half mid
d,e-class England is turning its eyes
toward France, where its money will
be worth double what it is at home.
Thousands of young men and wo-
men in England learned during the
war that life can be very pleasant III
France when there is not war on:
Now that unemployment has reached
such desperate lengths in England
they are going back to France. The
exodus however, has been so heavy
that France now has no work tor the
thousands who are arriving constantly.
Swiss Enter Baden.
The case Of Switzerland presents yet
another aspect of the international eX-
odus. Swiss money is held at high
exchange rate at present, with the IN
evitable result of commercial crises,
lack OF foreign trade, and unempoy-
ment. The out-of-work Swiss receives
small unemployment grant, averag-
ing something under so Swiss francs
week 1t IS paid him every fortnight
IF he remained at home, looking tor
the work that is not there, he would
come near to starving.
But he does not stay at home. lie
slips across the frontier into Baden
where his unemployment dole IS worth
some 5000 marks, and where prices
are lOW There he lives comparatively
on the lat OF the land.
Swiss Industries Move.
Much more serious from the Swiss
national point of view is the fact that
many manufacturers, finding that the
home rate of exchange, of costs and
of wages are making it impossible for
them to do any. export business, are
the frontier, some into France, the
majority into Germany. They have al
ready bought large tracts in Baden
and erected plants. while, through the
abundance Of cheap labor and compar-
atlTely enormous reduction OF over
head, they are doing far better than
was ever the case i'll Switzerland. rs
1ecla.ly is this movement evident II
the watch trade for which Switzerland
las long been the European headquar-
,eTs, and It IS causing grave concern
to the Swiss authorities.
Broadly speaking, however. the exc
dus is most evident in the middle class
IS, retired professionals, annuitants
and those with small fixed incomes
And II runs around the whole Euro
2ean circle, for. while the British look
onengly to France. so does the
[rencaman 10 Italy, and the Italian tc
GERMANY and the German to CzCho.
9.oEaEia, and the Bohemian to Ruma
Ma, and the Rumanian to Poland OF
AUSTRIA, where at last the limit I;
.eac1ed and the unfortunate native car
ma no country which confcsses to
currency so deprecated as his own.
Struggled Into United States.
Many foreigners are being smuggleC
INTO the United States, via Mexico OF
canada, in spite Of the precautions o
immigration officials. Within the las
Jew months it was possible. it is said
.r European to be Struggled into
ne United States from Monterey
--lsEtco Tor as little as eight pesos
-ae foreigners are brought across The
.olaar much as Chinese and booze art
.a-se.ed IN, and, in some instances
immigration officials have discovered
.s. organized bands which carried
WI d highly profitable business il
smuggling
I-s me Europeans are not the only
who are on the move these days
H. '. Is said that the number of veal
- aerrcan residents in France anC
sand Is larger than it was in pre-
s -a' Gays, and is still growing. Their,
---l :y.le who say that this is due t.
;-'.'iaon. but, whatever the reason
Wen known fact that American
re-. 10, exempt from the general TN
3D. 4 they are seeking new field
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