New Britain herald., 1924-05-23
Reports From Buffalo Meeting Made By Mrs. Rose, Miss Cheney and Miss Bulkeley At Morning Gathering.
Howard Bradstreet, Direc- tor of Hartford Bureau of Adult Education, Discuss es Immigration Problem This Afternoon.

The annual convention of the Hart.
 ford County League of Women Voters
 opened at 1l:30 o'clock this morning
 at the Burritt Hoted with more than
 '5 delegates in attendance.
 The business session was taken up
 with reports of Mrs Lewis Rose, and
 Misses Marjorie Cheney and Mary
 Bulkeley. who attended the recent ma
 tional convention at Buffalo, N. r., as
 representatives Of the Connecticut
 league.
 They discussed the various matters
 that were brought before the national
 convention and their application 10 tn,
 affairs of the Connecticut league. II
 was announced that tho national or
 sanitation now embraces more than
 2O00,000 members. New Britain's
 chapter has an active membership of
 more than B0 women voters.
 Dinner was served In the dining
 hall of the Burrltt at l2:30 o'clock.
 At 2 o'clock this afternoon, Howard
 Bradstrcct. director Of the bureau of adult education for the city of Hart ford, spoke on: stock Taking and Stock Making"
 Mir. Bradstrcct's Talk.
 MT. Bradstrcct's talk on the immi- grafton problem vas, in part. as fol- lows:
 To speak adequately Of immigra. tion in half an hour is impossible Ii is a most complicated problem at best, doubly so noy by reason of pre- Nions neg,cct in this country and the abnormal situation in Europe.
 Tt is essentially not a matter for detailed congressional legislation. The success of the Canadian system is due io its expert handling through tho minister and orders in council.
 There is agreement that We need restriction Of immigration in this country until the causes for nproo;- ing arc removed from Europe: that VIC need selection: that admnistra. live changes should prevent the ab- surdities and distresses at Ellis Island during the last few years. All of these have been provided for in the pending legislation, and to that ex. tent Inc legislation is good
 Above all there is hooded at the present time. q stock-taking as 10 what makes an American and upon what principles our country was founded whcih make it unique.
 ''Snch phrases as alien hordcs.' flood of Immigration melting pot give correct pictures only to those | I4f,a tssfs la rect conception of Inc subject. As- ! similatton is desirable. There may be physical ar spiritual assimilation. | The report of the adjutant general ' speaks of the surprise of the Euro | ueaii soldiers al the way in which , tho Italian or the Irshman only n few years in the United States rec gards himself as a true American. Every graduating class Of high school or grammar school shows nothing but Americans. The parents may or may not speak the English language but with inc overwhelming majority, there is nothing but America in the heart after residence long enough 10 know the country. On the other hand. physical assimilation is limited by the laws Of human reproduction. Out of the Angles. Saxons and Nor mans grew the English people. but if g as matter of hundreds Of years and the physical assimilation not yet 
 Those who put America on physical plane are discounting her greatness.
 "Congrcs has not only been indulg- Ing in stock taking but 'stock-mak- Ing. In the new law, the National origins Pian' has been adopted On md after July 1st. 1927, the term American will no longer be elusive. for an official American stock will nave been launched into the world. After that date, The annual quota Of my nationality for the year shall be number which bears the same ratio @ 15n.ooo as the number Of inhabi- ants in Continental United States in age having that national origin bears e the number or inhabitants in Con mental United States in 1920. Then elbows the details as to how this ball be obtained. The theory is sim ,a. Our present position depends |, ipon a certain racial blend among .ur people. Determine that blend. leep that Blend. Future prosperity iall equal that Of the past. II has :. H thr advantages of mechanical ex- : once the mechanism '. as becn detised. II wiIl be as easy Y b regulate the flow of immigration as :. Q cook for varying sized family ]. :, tain the ingredients in due propor- Ii ion and the result follows. This plan ' wolves determining.-1. The num- TT Of Amsrfcans descended from the IL population Of f7sg. estimated at 4s H liIii0n z The number of native orn of native percentage by arrivals nce 1S2d. estimated at II million I. 1a thousand. 2. Foreign stock. esti- al iated at ss million. c, '-Thrse years will be given to re- ot 9lro nrr present population into its E. Y-ty component national stocks. per ia fCoutf-asd nn Twenty Ninth pars1 fr