Evening star., 1924-03-03
IN TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT
BY PAUL y. COLLINS

courts. Within the last six weeks
5000 Italian women and 1900 men. in
excess of the quota. have come in.
y = x !:
Another defeat" of the exclusion
lists comes through proxy marriage.
which are recognized in Spain as
legal. A Spanish longshorepan
named Nadal, sent from New York
authority for a proxy to marry 4
| Spanish girl. She arrived after the,
| Spanish quota had been exhausted.
The officials at first forbade her entry.
but when they were convinced that
proxy marriages are legal in Spain
they admitted the bride. upon the de
mand of her husband whom she had
not yet seen.
1t will be recalled that so much
objection has been registered against
the harshness of the Department OF
Labor's construction of existing Law
in separati families. that all new
bills now pending provide that when
the husband or father is admitted.
all children under sixteen years, as
we'll as wives, will come in, aside
from any quota restrictions. The
Gottlieb, Markarian and Nadal court
decisions would apply that principle
to existing law, also.
Upon the passports issued by Italian
consuls permitting Italians to go back
| to Italy and return here within six
| months as eXempts. il is stated that
none such will be exempt If they ar
rive here before the quota Of their
| nation is exhausted; they will. in
such cases be counted in the quota
| The effect of this is that Italians will
continue TO come in upon such passes
for some months yet.
Throughout Europe there are
J ganizations for the business of al
! ranging the smuggling of immigrants
| into America. Sometimes these COM
| panies operate honestly so far as
concerns the faith the emigrants put
in their promises: often they rob the
| emigrants. persuading them TO go first
into some other European country
than their own, in order, as pfc
tended, that they may hasten their
departure. There the victims are
abandoned. The actual smuggling OF
immigrants across our borders l.
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hciaIly reported that in 1923 there
were 735 sailors" who deserted ship,
from. one line. as soon as they were
given shore leave in America, and
officials estimate that there are not
| less than $4,000 smuggled Italians
! now in the United States.
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The attitude of most European
governments is sympathetic toward
encouraging migration, because there
are now too many idle workers and
too many hungry men, women and
children to be fed at governmenttex-.
pense. In England, according to the
pay the passage of boys aged be-
tween sixteen and nineteen who will
go to Canada as farm apprentices.
| 1t will also loan (witllout INTEREST,"
to adults the amount of the transpor-
| tation, provided they are nominated
| by any resident of Canada for mi
grafton to that country. In the case
| of household servants, II they prove
! that they have remained for u year
in the employ of the family which
| Nominated" them, they are given
credit on the loan of passage money
| TO the amount of six pounds sterling.
lit is not required that the Canadian
family which "nominates" the immi-
grant shall have had any acquain
I tance with the nominee. What is
aimed at is Increased migration, to
ifelieve- England and supply Canada
with population,
South American countries, wh6r.
Latin races predominate, are inviting
Latin immigration.
copyright, 1924, by raui v. osiffns.S