Evening star., 1927-11-20


to send even to the United States. is
being made to feel just now the truth
of the exploding" danger.
In a period of four months this
year the French government had to
let 3l.72i foreign workmen leave
France after they had immigrated
into France and found work there!
In exchange France has received as
new immigrants only 3,1S5 exclusively
farm laborerS.
In four months. that is to say,
France has been obliged to let 2S,5S9
men, able and willing to work, leave
the country. although she had well
coined 100000 such workmen since
the war!
1t is now foreseen, moreover, that
1000 such immigrants will re-emigrate
out of France every week until France
comes again to have work to give
them.
Furthermore, these would-be emf
grants cannot take refuge in the
United States, as they had done for
100 years. The quota pushes them
back. France never let them into
her territory tafter the war killed off
her own laborers) except by quotas
rationed for each organized trade.
And now that people are buying no
longer, France has work enough only
for her own.
Yet France has been hailed as the
underpopulated country, full of natu-
raj and acquired riches and ready to
ease Poland and Italy, at least, of
their surplus populations. France, in
fact, became the rival of the United
States in receiving immigra rants-300,-
600 a year and more,
Ltvar tho world crisis In r,nnr,a Yl1oxy.
ment, because producers cannot sell,
is less felt in France, but she has no
money to give in doles, and when 50,-
600 Frenchmen Ia small number for
England or Germany are out of work.
she must absolutely see to it that her
own sons get the work that is left. 1t
is only Frances farming (by which
she is all but self-supporting) that
needs immigrants now
What will the rest of Europe do
explode?
I'm the next so years between 100
and 200 millions of people have got
to leave Europe Il do not include
Russia). If England and Germany
exported two millions per year, they
could hold their present populations,
which are sufficient for their re-
sources
These are words Of Robert Sohr,
a colonization specialist, who Is the
only man having a permit from Mus
SOlinl'S government to recruit eml-
grants in Italy for foreign countries.
He went on to answer my questions:
All over the world, outside Of Eu-
rope Except the United States, prac-
tically closed to immigration), a great
desire for population and labor exists,
and it Is surprising. despite the enor.
nous numbers in Europe desiring to
emigrate, how comparatively few are
able to do so!
You have Canada, where wonderful
railroads cross with empty tracks, be-
cause there is no agricultural or busi-
ness population to give the railroads
sufficient work!
Australia cannot go ahead, for lack
Of population! The Britisher, who SO
years ago was the pioneer, has been
spoiled politically for emigration-he
home, instead of becoming a parsonage
abroad as formerly!
$50 long as this situation exists"
continued Sohr, 'the congestion of Eu.
rope is what Mussolini said of his own
Italy-such that he fears. to see it @ex-
plodei This will not cease in Eu-
rope. but get worse every year, where
rs across the ocean, countries starye
for population and productive labor!'
I replied that the United States had
never sny difficulties in getting emf
grants, but just the contrary.
Yes" agreed Sohr, 'and France has
Just had the same experience. But
look at the lands crying aloud for
population! have been for years
carefully Investigating this question
Arz1 1ox xt-fr - 10 80 =,
present moment I am trying to popu-
late not less than $4,000. 900 acres of
virgin country in eastern Bolivia
where, If things are properly handled,
vast cotton fields will grow out of pres
ent wildness."
I asked him to go on.
"In Italy alone" continued Sohr, "at
least million people want to emf
CRATE simply because finding work for
growing children is the greatest prob
lem which the energetic Mussolini has
before him! Twenty thousand Italian
families alone have 10 children each
which will give you an idea!
I'm France, on the other hand, a
great business boom brought all kinds
OF Central European workers-from
Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc. A
million labor people came into France
Then broke out the French busi-
ness crisis. a year ago, which left no
more room for them-except in some
farm and mine districts where labor
is still wanted"
j protested.
Neither the United States nor
France should incur odium because
they refuse immigrants whom they do
not need" ] protested. But we
should like to know what is to become
OF those who would otherwise go to
the United States.'
Each nationality requires a coun-
try suited to it," answered SOhr. "A
Pole is not so good in hot Brazil as an
Italian is-he would be happier in
Canada. President MaZarik is favor
able to emigration. if the country
they are to go to will be favorable to
Czechoslovakians.
You see" he specified, 1--WE have
just had the experience of DantZig.
The government, at its own expense,
tried to give an outlet to the over.
population of DantZig in the Argen-
tine. The emigrants arrived in Bue-
nos Aires-and there was no work for
them! Now they are slowly trekking
back to DantZig. heart-broken and i'm.
poverished. They should not have
DccH peIIHlLIeu " settle III any tOWTl
OF the Argentine when thousands of
square miles are lacking in agricul.
tural workers.
/ objected.
Probably they did not know agri-
culture" / said
Young men can learn anything" i"
replied Sohr, "eVen to be farmers.
Also. they can become we'll off, inde-
pendent and happy at it,
Here is another example of the
present moment, which he gave me,
concerning a people whose forbears,
the Mennonites. have been favorably
known in Philadelphia for couple of
hundred years as settlers up State.
The Mennonites." said Sohr, "a re.
ligious people such as you have had in
the United States ever since Colonial
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