Show Real Immigration Problem The report of Mr Claxon the f federal dera commissioner of education country today is found among tio tion that the least illiteracy in this A careful sta statistical sta- sta the children of immigrants sets one to thinking inquiry has shown that there is only third one-third as much illiteracy among native born children of immigrant parents as among children of native born parents m Thus in the second generation 0 of the families coming through the great melting pot the problem of illiteracy is is' obliterated The foreigner who is so unfortunate as to be unable to read and write because he has had no chance to learn in his native land feels keenly the handicap that ignorance places on him and makes cerin certain thin tain in that his children grasp the golden opportunity offered by American schools Declaring that the real problem of this country is not the restriction restriction re- re of immigration but the proper distribution of the newcomers new new- comers comez's A. A Piatt Andrew makes in the June number of the North American Review a plea for the creation of a national free employment employment employment em em- bureau Says Mr Andrew The phases of tho Immigration problem which m most st urgently require consideration on the part of congress and of the legislatures of some somo of ot our states have bavo to do not with exclusion and restriction but rather with the distribution and of our immigrants There should I believe be created In connection with tho department of ot labor something in the nature of a L federal employment bureau with branch offices In all of ot the states to collect and disseminate information in ln formation regarding opportunities and the demand and supply of ot labor throughout tho the country Such a bureau should operate co-operate with the state and anti municipal bureaus of employment wherever such exist and ana with the agricultural departments of ot the several states and should bould act as a II central clearing house for all aU of ot the those these so agencies The time thio has now como come when our government must assume the responsibility of systematically eye eye- f finding employment and of ot promoting tho the proper distribution distribution tion of labor And tho the state governments must cooperate operate with the federal government In III this undertaking State bureaus of ot employment with labor lanor exchanges In every community must bo be established or where they now exist in rudimentary and ineffective form tonn they must be developed |