Show LITERACY TEST President Wilson remains firm in h s oppos t on to the liteiacy test for us m grants He sees no logic in it It is not a true test of any of those quail f cat ons wh ch an imm grant should have Th s country is concerned in the mental moral and phys cal health of the immigrant It makes little differ ence to us whether he can read or wr te If he is mentally morally or physically defect ve the ''government can prov de no remedy but if he is ill te ate t can transform h ni or h s descendants by means of the publ c schools 111 telacy is the least of evils amo g immigrants T! e Amer can system of educat on is an easy remedy The tests wh ch should be provided should make sure of the mental moral find phys cal soundness of the imm grants Tortunately we have a number of such tests and to them there is no objection After the war there will be a new t de of immigration to th s country It is the general opinion that it will be heavier than of old. This is unlikely In all the countries where war is raging the able boded men are bo ng killed and wounded by the hundreds of thousands After the war there will be greater need for workmen than ever before and the supply will be less than it was when the confl et started The imm gTat on coming to th s couh try v 11 consist largely of those seek mg to escape religious and polit cal persecution These we have always wel corned and these we should cont n le to welcome We have had no reason to regTet open ng our doors to the op pressed m the past and there is noth ing vital to rnake us change our pol cy now It would be foolish to rejoct tl thrifty peasant of Belg m because 1 cannot read or write and to adm t somo potential cr mmal from London Paris or Berl n because he can t |