Evening star., 1925-03-26
BY GEORGE C. BRIGGS,

BY GEORGE C. BRIGGS,
Correspondent of The Star and the Chicago
Daily News.
HAVANA, Cuba, March 26.-Having
passed restrictive immigration legis-
1ation, members of the Congress are
now flooding American consulates
with letters asking that something
be done to expedite the application
of this that or the other applicant
for admission, who has been pleading
for a wise to get into the States
These urgent letters from Washing
ton are in behalf of friends or rela-
tives of constituents of the letter
writing Congressman or Senator'S.
Every case is represented as particu-
1arly meritorious.
Several hundred such letters reach
the Havana consulate every month
One of the important duties of the
consular force is to investigate these
special pleas and write to the pc
titioning lawmakers that while the
cases may be meritorious the quotas
for the countries from which the ap-
plicants come are filled. They are
lovely letters which the impoTtuning
members of Congress can show to
their constituents. Idle gestures
though they are, these rites have to
be performed.
More Colleges for Aliens.
But the attention which these spe-
cfal pleadings require consumes time
and labor which agents of the United
States Government could better EN-
ploy in the important work of en-
forcing the laws which Congress has
made.
Still, there appear to be holes in the
law big enough to push whole fam
lilies through-if the families insist,
for instance, that they want to go to
school. The bars must be let down
for aliens seeking admission to the
United States if they can demonstrate
that they have been accepted as
students by any of long list of
accredited schools"
The list of schools is constantly be-
Ing enlarged by decree from Wash
ington. Originally it included only
the larger and better known educa-
tional institutions. Now 1t embraces
a remarkable range. The most recent
additions to the list are contained in
letter sent to consulates under date
of February IS. 1925. The letter from
Washington, signed by Wilbur j.
Carr, for the Secretary of State, au-
thorized consuls to recognize, in ad-
dition to those previously approved
the following schools:
University of Oklahoma Norman.
Okla: Culver-Stockton College Can
ton, Mo; Pennsylvania State College,
Pennsylvania; University of Santa
Clara, Santa Clara, Calf California
Christian College, Los Angeles;
Rochester Athenaeum, Rochester, N
y; st. MaryS Seminary Laporte, Tex
And on December s the following
were raised to the rank of schools to
which foreigners seeking entrance
= into the States may be admitted as
students: Cleveland Y-Prep School
Cleveland, Ohio; Institute of Musical
Art, New York; Angusburg Seminary,
Minneapolis, Mimi; Williamsport-
Dickinson Seminary, Wiliamsport
Pa; Knox School, Cooperstown, n. Y.
"Students. for Many Years.
BY paying the tuition to one of
these institutions and being accepted
as student by it, a foreigner may
receive the open sesame from the out
post consul and pass through the
otherwise forbidden portals into the
United States. He who enters thus is
entitled to stay in the country as long
as he continues to rate as student"
The law sets no other time limit
In the case of aliens admitted to
the country as students 1t is conceiv-
able that an unscrupulous school-or
one maintained for the purpose of cir
cumventing the immi grafton law in
the interest of nationals of certain
countries against which the restric-
tfons are particularly drastic-might
continue to keep a foreigner on as a
student for an unlimited time, or at
least until the governmental agencies
lost track of the student
mimeographed letter from Wash