The Washington times., 1922-04-23
SHORTAGE
NO BENEFIT TO
WORKER
Or. Hourwich Draws This Con-
cIusion From Analysis OF
Wartime Restriction OF
immigration.

immigration.
THE revised edition Of "Immi-
grafton and Labor" by
Isaac A. Hourwich Huebsch)
contains an illuminating chapter on
"The Lessons Of the War" The
war offered, as DR.. Hourwich says
in his preface. IAN opportunity to
test the effects Of the cessation Of
immigration upon the condition OF
labor in the United States
The reader Is thus enabled to verify
the deductions drawn from the
history of immigration prior to the
war, by the experience Of labor
during a period without immigra-
ton" The authors investigation
of the effects Of restricted immi-
grafton during the war confirms
the conclusions at which he ar
rived when he wrote this classic on
tho immigration problem.
The cessation Of immigration
during the war, DIR. Hourwich
finds, resulted in a labor shortage
which forced Secretary of Labor
Wilson to import Mexican poems;
in a decline in the purchasing
power, or real value" Of wages;
in an increased proportion Of NAL
nourished children: in an increase
in the number Of strikes: In the
movement Of labor from the farm
to the factories; in the migration
OF negroes from the South to the
North, as a substitute for immigra-
tion; in the increased employment
Of women and children, etc.
American capital. he predicts.
will. II the restriction Of immigra-
ton continues. seek investment
fields in Europe. Immigration
laws" he says. can prevent the
American capitalist from employ
ing foreign labor in the United
States. But with the present rates
Of exchange he may find 1t as prof.
liable to employ the same labor
in Europe In the manufacture Of
goods for the world market"
In short. DIR. Hourwich's war
investigation confirms his con-
clusion Of 1912: that the scarcity
of labor following restricted i'm
migration will not inure to the
benefit OF the American wage
worker. In an appendix to the
new edition Of immigration and
Labor" DIR. Hourwich answers the
critics of the first edition of this
now standard work.
SIDNEY NJ. AVERY. the cele-
brated Dickens authority. who
manages Brentano's Washington
store between intervals devoted to
alteration of the great English
novelist, celebrated last week the
anniversary Of his tenth year with
the F Street book shop. Getting
word Of the impending event, We
drifted in. We found him in rapt
contemplation Of an old print OF
Dick Swiveller, the while tho
employees Of the firm were en-
deavoring to attract his attention
to a basket Of magnificent Amer
lean Beauty roses, their gift to
him.
The genial Sidney. for a brief in
stant, appeared at loss for words,
and we waited in expectation Of at
least a goodly paragraph from tho
Master suitable to the occasion.
To our immense astonishment
he replied with well turned
couplet
Fame Is the scentless sunflower,
with gaudy crown Of gold;
But friendship Is the breathing
rose, with sweets in every fold"
In our chagrin at being unable
to Immediately place these lines,
we were disposed to consider them
as inspired by the occasion. but
at late hour we discovered them
to have been written by Oliver
Wendell Holmes. Anyhow, wo
wish the Dickensian we'll, and
hope he will be with us many
more years.
"REcoLLEcT1oNs AND RE-
Election BY A
WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE"
Doran). Is O chatty book Of COM
ments and stories upon the pc
culiarities, the experiences, and
habits of the great and the near
great. The Woman Of No I'm
portance tells all sorts Of little
anecdotes about the way Kitch-