Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24

which is exceeded only by New York
in the number of immigrants that find
home within It's portals. will have
$4,000 strange citizens from other
lands to care for. The Philippine
Islands will get the ''booby prize in
the immigration card game. with one
newcomer.
The country. as whole, will find.
when the final returns are made, that
the fiscal year of 1927 has brought to
these shores about 339, 500 immigrants
who intend TO make this country their
home permanently.
District Gains Also.
The District of Coiumbia's gain
through immigration will be found to
10 Nbc'it 930 for the fiscal year. while
that for Maryland will lie app<oxi.
mately 1850. with Virginia claiming
around $40.
Annual quotas of the principal coun.
tries sending immigrants to the United
states are: Czechoslovakia, 3.073;
Germany, 51,227; England, Northern
Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 34,007;
Irish Free State. 2s,567; Italy. 3.S45;
Norway. 6.453; Poland, 5,9S2. and
Sweden. 1851. The annual quota for
most of the countries in Asia. Africa
and the Pacific Is 100. There are sew.
eral European nations assigned to this
figure, including Albania Bulgaria,
Greece, Iceland. Luxembourg, Monaco.
San Marine and Turkey in Europe.
The quota for Japan. over which such
rumpus was raised, in and out of
Congress some time ago. is 100 also.
but the years total will be found to
be about a third of this figure.
Countries which still enjoy freedom
frny1N lir,,ff DR IL,
| Newfoundland, Mexico, Cuba, DOmin.
lean Republic. Haiti: Canal Zone.
| Central American nations. and by
| far the greater part of South Amer
| fca-all, in fact, save Guiana over
whose sections wave the British,
| Dutch and French flags. A move
ment has already started, however,
| to place these lands under the same
restrictions as apply to others.
| While the greatest number of i'm
migrants get their introduction to the
| United States under the eye of the
Statue of Liberty. a large percentage
enters by way of the Canadian and
Mexican borders. The New York fig.
ures for the IL months just ended will
be in the vicinity of 900, with the
| other ports on all coasts minor in
comparison. Baltimore, for instance.
| will total less than so. Immigrants
numbering about 50. 900 have reached
the United States by way of the Ca.
madam border. while over Mexican
border points approximately $4,000
| have passed.
All Callings Represented.
OF course these newcomers repre-.
| sent nearly all imaginable callings.
nut those listed as having no occupa.
| tion' which includes women and chill.
dren. predominated. Despite the
| legally dry state of the country, about
uoZen brewers came in. While the
Nation Is admittedly smoking tobacco
/ at tremendous rate, less than a
dozen cigarette makers from abroad
sensed the fact and came here to live,
making the least number in the skill.
ed category to report. Clerks and
| accountants poured in by the thou.
SAND. with farm laborers, servants
ana laoorers looking for new oppor.
tunltles In America. Teachers led in
the professional line. with engineers
ana clergy close followers. NIiehtv
rev editors sought to make living
In the United States from lands afar
as scarcely more than a score entered
An increase in the number of inn.
migrants from Italy is explained bv
the ract that the act of May 90. 1925:
permits World War veterans. their
wives and children to be admitted.
swinging to the other extreme. one
nnds that the lands which sent
scarcely any immigrants are Monaco.
Afghanistan, Siam, Liberia, South.
west Africa and Samoa, but Muscat.
Nepal. French CAMERON, Togoland'
Nauru. New Guinea and zap ignored
the United States altogether, inn
internationally speaking.