The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-06-02
nervous and very much on edge.

said. my father wanted me TO get
my education out of a college. A
college is good thing, of course;
but 1t never appealed to me very
much. ] had an idea that IL ] took
a packhorse and few books and got
out into the country, ! could soak up
as much education as could get out
OF a college. II seemed to be all the
same to my father; so when ] had
finished prep school he gave me my
'colleg emory and went out TO Colo
RADIO and got a saddle-horse and
horse, wandered AL thru that
country, mountains and deserts and
conons. It's wonderful country,
like all the rest of our country.
loved II then and ! love 1t now -
He hesitated and loked around
at the human stream which moved
steadily on its serpentine course be-
fore us.
when / think" he went on, that
these people, who don't know the
meaning of the word patriotism
and who have been brought up to
hate every form of government, are
going to America to have a voice in
the future of that country, it makes
me see red!"
One of the other young men pushed
back his stool and looked around at
me.
THAT goes for me, too" he said.
After you've seen these mobs pour
ing over to America for a few weeks,
you get so fighting mad that you
can't talk about IT,"
The third young man looked up
from a scrutiny of e doubtful consul
lar fee stamp. What do they say
about it at homc?" he asked What
are they letting this go on for? They
can't know what's going on, or they'd
stop it in a secorG. What's the mat
ter with them. anyway? Are they
crszy?"
Mr.. Roberts II en- comes to point
which he considers of great import
ance to the future of America. 1t
is tho stimulation Of Jewish immigra-
ton to our shores by the Hebrew In
migration Aid S0Qety. His criticism
of this society is presented here az he
gives it, without prejudice, purely for
the information of both sidas. Mr..
Roberts writes:
Has is not exactly what its name
implies. When an alien leaves Eu-
rope for America, he is an emigrant.
When he arrives in America he is an
immigrant. If Has stopt with being
an Immigrant aid society and con-
fined its work to America alone. no
body could have the slightest OBJ
lection. When, however, it becomes
an Emi1rant aid society and moves
it's activities TO Europe, ii automati-
cally becomes an artificial stimrla-
tor of emigration; and stimulated
emigration has always been rocog-
niZed by every immigration authori.
ty in America as a very offensive and
undesirable III Lg. 1t was offensive
and undesirable in the past because
tho WHO left their homes to go to
America did not do so in answer 10
an economic demand in this country,
and because America was in no ~ay
benefited by them. The Jews who
are coming to America to-day are
through no fault of their own-unde-
desirable for these reasons, and for
several others as well. In the old
days there were two great stimIla-
tors of emigration in Central and
Southeastern Europe-the transpor-
tation agents and the labor agents.
The work of these agents in stimu-
lating emigration was characterized
by the United States Commissioner
General of immigration in 1909 az
"crying shame" HAS is as much of
an emigration stimulator in the sec
tors where it operates as Transport
tation agents and labor agents were
before their activities became illegal
and were forbidden.
The American flag floats from a
flagstaff above the door of the Has
office in Warsaw, and when condi-
tions are normal, as they were in
early 1921-under this flag pass one
thousand prospective Hebrew emil
grants every day. Every one of the
thousand is ruthlessly selfish and is
determined-as the Warsaw head OF
the Has organization stated Ito get
there first. Nevertheless, the strug-
Cling, excited, irritating crowd Is
handled quietly, eGpeditlously and
patiently by Has. 1t is remarkably
efficient and excellent organization;
and the work for which II exists could
not be done in more capable and
nraisaworthy manner