Evening star., 1932-09-18

Tn snite of all the tales Of the 1oreish
born. hudd,ed in big city 'eiienieN -,
of FI,n,kies and Polacks dwelling III
comnanv sbacks In the mine fields anu sna
Of the foreign Adventures WHY % "a
! to America merely to make monsy the
take home. the cold statlstics % 80
bureau of the Census reveal tnat 20.
foveiSn Dor, American Is the prhiIIps
home owner in the Land OF the IT,
THE highest percentage OF tas
ownership for the entire Uniteo Ssr,,
5I8 per cent. is shown by the 1ole'sl
horn To emphasize the exten. w
which new Americans are hiahesS
percentage OF home ownership, w. ,,.h
shown by families the heads OF WED
are OF either foreiw-born OF inniu .o;r
parentage. with a strong foreign .ers Ssrs
much in evidence. Ihese the
to American shores are taxing up .ns
title to property in their own hAni''
In reporting that the foreign Do.A
show a 81 g per centage OF home owner
ship the Bureau of the Census Goes
not mean that foreigners own more
than half of all the homes. the ng,
ure means that of the homes occupies
by the foreign born more than nai
are owned by the immigrant occupants.
This is true of no other class witnln
our borders
The numbers of these Immigrants
are large. OF the foreign born, tne
largest home owning class, there are
5,736,49I families. OF the second class
mentioned, those Of foreign or mixeo
parentage. there are 5 5,460,8l0 famliles.
Here are more than ii 000. 900 families,
representing about half the popuiailon
of the entire country. And more than
half of them own their own homes.
Mixed parentags refers to persons one
of whose parents is of foreign birth
and one a native In many cases,
even the native is the offspring OF i'm
migrants and bears the foreign stamp.
These census figures explain why one
can scarcely pick up q telephone pook
or consult city directory, read
newspaper or the signs Of business es-
adjustments without sometimes won
dering II he does not dwell in some
foreign land. These figures relate only
to persons of the white race. '-
Basis for Census Figures. -
While the number of foreign-borp
families and those Of mixed parentage
is less than half the total number OF
families in the United StatesE29, ,s04,-,
663 - foreign-born residents usually
show q larger average number of chill
dren per family. SO that total OF some
IL 1896 900 Of foreign-born and mixed
parentage families ACCOUNTS for not far
short of half the entire population In
Census Bureau figures a family is fig
ured in terms of home establishments.
Each family Is regarded as unit.
single person. living alone in a house
or apartment, is reckoned as head Of
household and family unit for EMU
meration purposes. If he is q lodger in
another house he is not SO regarded.
Inasmuch as very few of the foreign
born or even those Of mixed parentage
maintain independent establishments
when single. 1t is regarded as a wholly
safe statistical assumption to state that
larger average population per family
is represented in the families of for
eign strain than those of pure native
strain.
Every city has developed its foreign
quarter and unmarried sons or daugh-
ters customarily dwell at home. When
immigrants send home for single BROTH
ers or sisters or other relations, the