The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-06-28

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Poland it is pointed out that East
ern Galicia has been given up by
Germany but has not yet been al
lotted to another country, and the
Pinsk region is defined as "the
area bounded by the so-called (a)
Curzon line, (b) Treaty of Riga
line, (c) Polish Lithuanian neu-
trail zone Northwest of Wilma, and
(D Eastern Galicia." The Bes-
sarabian, Esthonian, Latvian, Lith-
uanian, and Pinsk regions are
special immigration areas and
therefore are not included in Eu-
ropean and Asiatic Russia.
Esthonia includes the land area,
with adjacent islands, bounded by
the so-called -Esthonan
boundary and the Esthonian-Lat-
Wan boundary; the Latvian region
takes in the land area bounded by
the decentralization boundary,
the Russian-Latvian boundary,
and the Latvian- Lithuanian boun-
dairy; while Lithuania embraces the
land area bounded by the Latvian-
Lithuanian boundary, the Polish
Lithuanian neutral zone, the Ger
man frontier, and the boundary of
the Nemel region, which last nam
ed was surrendered by Germany
but has not yet been awarded else
where.
The Free State of Fiume is an
other country that has an immi-
grafton quota, if very small one,
for it embraces territory given up
by both Hungary and Austria and
therefore unable to be included in
the quota of either of these coun-
tries. Fiume has a quota of only
II persons, or monthly allotment
of IA. This is the smallest quota
in the entire table, save that of
Palestine, which is 81.
Rumania comes in for subdivi-
sion into Rumania and the Bessar-
abian region, which is the land
bounded by the Pruth and Dnies-
ter rivers and the eastern boun-
Diary line of Bukovina. Geograp-
hic sharps of "before the war;
time and students of European
and Eastern affairs have had much
Of their laboriOusly acquired
knowledge to unlearn and make
over since Armistice day was in
augurated, and it is small wonder
that the average school boy balks
at the hopeless task Of commit
ting boundaries to memory when
in some parts of the world they
are today about as unstable as
the waters of the streams that
help make them.
So much for some of the COM
plications that the experts of
Mr.. Husbands Bureau and the
State Department have been do
ing their best to solve in the new
adjustment of immigration quotas
for the ensuing year
While the divisions and subdi-
visions have been changed in many
instances, the sum total of aliens
who may be admitted under the
three per cent law from July /,
1922, to June 80, 1928, is sub
stantially the same as could come
in the preceding year, the differ
ence in favor of the new figure be
ing but 1878 persons. Hence
fears of an "alien flood" are
groundless so long as the Dilling-
ham law is in operation.
The United Kingdom still enjoys
the distinction of having the larg-
est quota of them all, namely,
77,342 for the year, or 15,4G8 pc
month. Only about one-half of
the quota for the fiscal year just
closing was taken up by immi-
grants from the United Kingdom.
Next in line reading down the
scale comes Germany, which may
send a total Of 67,607 Tor 1881
per month"; to these shores. Ger
many used hardly more than one
fourth of her quota for the year
1921-1922. Italy is third in line,
with a quota of 42,057 for next
year. Here a marked change is
noted, for the Italians emigrated
to the United States in such num-
bcrs as to exhaust by the seventh
of this month their entire quota
for this year.
There is a big gap between Italy
and the country next in line, Flu
ropean and Asiatic Russia, with
a quota of 21,613.
Poland, with its subdivisions,
follows close after with an allot-
ment of 21,O76, while Sweden,
with 20,042 is in the same class.
Norway's quota is 12,202. The
Czechoslovaks may come in up to
a total of 14,357, and they prob
baby will unless the situation in
their home land changes, for dur
ing the current year the Czeeho-
slovakian quota was quite exhaust
ed.
In this connection it is inter-