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Show TirE PAYSOXIAX, PAYSOX, UTAH, MAY 6, 1921. oooxxxxxxxxxxxoooooooooooxoxoxxkxooxxxooooooo The Goddess of Liberty Listens to the Band By Oil A KI.ES I). ISAACSON' oxcxoxxooooxxxxoooxooxkooxxxxxxo When the ocean liner plows through its Inst milt of water, to where the good lady I.iberty lights the harbor, the immigrant family in the sterruge sigh with relief, and recognize the long hoped for America at brat. Now, however, along with the Statute of Liberty the new insignia of America for the stranger elitering our gates idea. is the musical Liberty and music- - for all! This transition marks a new epoch in the immigration history of the In.ted States, and is the he high ideals of the (if outCoic row 'oniniissioaer of Immigration, Frederick A. Wallis. My ha! is off, Wallis. figuratively, to Commissioner Frederick Wallis is not a musician. But ho thinks in terms of music. Jle likens this situation on Ellis Island (where the immigrants are received and jtassed info our country) to a symphony nil oul of tune, when matters are wrung, and to a lyric when all'airs are in better song, This mart is a human being, shape. lie met his new job with a desire to do something more than draw his He realized that heretofore salary. the ollieers in charge of immigration have felt it their business to His view keep out the undesirable. He believes is broader than that. it is his business to bring in the undesirables and make them as desirable as he knows how. I stood with the commissioner at his window one sunny afternoon reWe had been diseussing the cently. matter of coneerts at Ellis Island, and I had given my word to him that I would count it a privilege to assist him with a full nuisietile, one Sunday every month, with the best artists I eonld persuade to aid us The Globe in the name of Amerien. Coneerts have been pretty nearly everywhere else and why not Ellis Where better than there! Island I was pointing to The eiiiiiinissiouer a little ship at anchor. See, we ate now giving those he aboard some milk and rolls, said. They have been just taken off the I .a France, and are waiting for Next they wilWgo ininspection. to the medical rooms and he examined, then their passports will be vised, and after that they will be sent on their way to points all over America. Of course, some of them will be detained, sent to the hospital; some deported. East 'night we registered 3, 100 We are on Ihe island. sending through more than 85,001) immigrants every month, now men, women and number children a greater than eatne all through the war. Indeed, each week piles up more arrivals for the entire lli. n t h,. aggregate We are crowded, the war period. ,etent ion rooms art. not large enough. AltHotigh we have in excess of (100 workers in the organization, thiy are im rushed unreasonably, and flu migrants seared half to death. So wo brought in some music to entertain the newcomers. For twenty weeks weve been enrrying on this endeavor. Its working better than we ever imagined it would. Its Its making the listeners hnpiy. putting up a welcome sign to them. Its spiniking America Americas greeting in a language all of them understand. Before proceeding further it's well that von know the commissioner as He is a matt of I have seen him. core than medium height, well built, He with a fine, genial personality. has a face that is wide open, from His skin is the eves to the smile. toddy, his hair brown, manlier alert I noted his wav and svniputhetie. with his fellows the stafT and the menials are all very much his friends. He has himself injected the spirit he wants to see in all the individuals handle the immigrants and their He wears cli.-ine- after dirty railroad travel, he arrives at the point of deburka t ion. Here he is in for another There is one city, for insiege. stance, where it is required that the immigrant take a bath, and give up his baggage ami clothes to be sterilizGened. lie is handed a ticket. erally wltat he gets back is not what he gave- - he is minus money, and lie rags, and ptev ions belongings. He is made to cannot complain. get abroad the boat. A And there? dirty hide in the steerage smelly, cold, sweating and wet. Bud food. Nowhere to move The ship tosses. around. If, on the upper decks, they are sick, and in torture, what must it be down in Then quarantine is sight lit,, hole! Then, ed. Amercia at Inst! Alt, but wait, the immigrant is taken on the boat nnil lauded to endure another ordeal for ten days! Everything is fu Then comes tut- Ellis mignted. transport. Here he waits a day. (lrevious to the present regime, he was given no water or food.) Finally he is called to the medical dejmrtment. he is thumped and pushed, Again his eyelids are turned back, and a few other things done to him. Then is put in (l long line to bo A sheet that leeks like a mile long is held before him and he must answer inn tty quest ions.' Then he is led into n room where he is detained, and given some food; after all of which lie is labeled and put aboard another boat to be dtimed in New York Oily, or put aboard a train for the west, ninth or south. He is met bv sharks and employment agents who soak him ngnin unless he knows their game. AVhnt can he think of Amerien! the commissioner asks me. What kind of a welcome is this, in the land he has been dreaming about? Again the commissioner points out of th, window-- , Look ho says at that mob. Every nation is repreI sented. venture yen couldnt call out u single country without having some one hand raised in re ssinse. , I limited down. There were the I could costumes of ninny hinds. recognize Holland, Italy, Franco and T saw little ehihlren in Turkey. shoes and hats; old Hessians with beards; young, stout, strong women of the farms of Sweden and Switzerland; thin, emneiated, sickly women of the cities of l'ohind; I could detect the A rah and the Arnlenn, ihe East Indian and the (Velio Slovak, the Irishman ami the Cockney Eng lish. There was a Sente. .man in 'is kil's, a Spanish girl with her head cocked jauntily, coquetting. It and seemed to be the world in a birils-ey- . problems. set out to be, and what it always must bo. So, in the distunt little hut or the subhovel, the man discusses He wants to go. ject of America.. He wants his children to have the he ili.lnt have. In America is a relative or a friend or a btisi ness man who rounerts with him and come to gives him the means to America. For, its the reader tinder stands, the American immigration law requires that the third class passenger show a projer amount of money and a destination in America. he must He cun not just lund lien have I), place to go. Finally, aftoi h.r his savings, he craping bids packs up his belongings and farewell to th,. soil of his ancestors. He sets out on foot or by carriage and meets the government otlieials. The matter of ihe passport is a (Questions, and this, and problem. that, and th,. other thing. Many of the otlieials are in league with the highway robbers, and frequently the departing pilgrims uves a goodly part of his belongings with the clerk iit the desk. glasses e pretends his secretary and his are responsible for everything. So 1 suppose they catch the sag gestion and buckle down to severe I dont want to give away tasks. Commissioner Wallis s secrets to his associates, but I think I see his psychological method. It is admirable. To hear him, you would imagine he did nothing himself, llpt one of flic otltee people confided the truth- he is on the job until midnight neatly ev cry day. And thee have no weeks on Ellis Island. Sunday is the same ns every t.t'net day. Excepting that music day. Sunday is t. Now one can catch the laughter of Music in the the practical men: What immigration depart meat ! notions are these to inject into the routine! But think of the immigrant; and the commissioner's vision must be ndmired. the pcnnnnt, years and and farmer, and ,ty dweller ,of ancient lands dreams and pravs that some day he may get to America, lie has heard about the wonderful country, still believes the streets are paved with gold and there is No, man a chance for every man. and woman of Europe, there are no streets of gold, but, pray God, there still may be a chance for every man! If not, then America is not whut it view. Look steno-e-raplu'r- s the commissioner here, turned niv vision upon a horde in a crowded court. They were huddled together, men and women, listening eagerly to the man on the steps, who chnutc, to them, as he rend from a sheet. Ponieiiirn Ferillo, Raoul Blanche, .Tones. Moisrhe Brnglovv sky, Sarah Tiigishive de Wrnuski, Michael - six-da- , each mime was called, a hand up nt'd the man or woman attached to the hand moved to the scene stairway, I was reminded of out of the French revolution, before the guillotine block. All languages, all tongues, nil the commissioner wont Vn. nations, And this is Amerien, and to these poor souls, America scorns worse up to now than anything of their own As went land. How are cent citizens going to make deof men and women who come in with their teeth tightly turned to grinding, their lieartis stone, their fists clinched, their spleen The stuff of gone green with ire. which nnnrehy is made is oftenest brewed right at the port of the na jon. .v( to shake these people by to and say, Welcome This is a good land America. w I eant are glad to have you. talk to them in their native tongue, I want the hand, Without exaggeration 1 can' the conceits have done mine to in 'he morales of the force than nil my talks. My words were only But th lomise.s atel threats. is the ideal in practice, and. p. ii'ii believe me. the force could not side t mi the foriegners. top the It spr.-ioto the employees nml Hindi thi-iirahnmed to tie other thtin k to the music. Uv the way, there tire ninny in tcrcsinig sidelights to the musical Often we discover (in net iv it ies. Then we art'll in the audience. 'isinide him to get up find he finish es the program late in the night! You will see intitiy of the newcomers here hugging a violin, or a cello, in u flute, or a cornet, or even an tic eordion, to their hearts. They seem to be more careful of the instrument than of the members of their family really, I mean it. led the writer The commissioner He 'own into the general moms. showed the kind of food given now. There was a big, heaping plate of soup, then corned beef and ealdiage, and bread and coffee for inch of the detained ones. For those who tire bound for the interior, all labeled on their lapels, he has arranged boxes of food which he sells nt lower. than cost. Makes it more comfortable on the trains, he cxplairide, as he pat-tea littlo tot on the head, and lifted another little Dutch boy in his arms and kissed him, as the mother looked on smiling the mother in a skirt with n wide flare at the bottom that kept all persons a safe distance front her. We peekHere, look at this. ed through the keyhole of a room, where an old Russian sat playing an accordion while the others in the room were singing a wild Cossack mo. m cITi-c- -- l t go to each; but I know if music to them, f shall have accomplished a part of what I seek to do. That is the spirit back of om r coneerts. And, I can von, the music is working wonders. You should my them come in, then see You should watch the them go out. transformation in their faces the applause ,the isighs of relief, the effect afterward. Listen, the other day I was going throng., the rooms, and I came to a place where everyI body looked disconsolate. sniil, Wlmts the mutter.' Said one as We are not to lie allowSpokesman, ed to the concert, because we ar rived only today. I said, You He translated shall go,' what I had said, and everybody npph mled. Of course, understand that me, I know music onn not do everything. It is the leader for other ideals of The music mine, which are coming. is itoing its work nod will continue. T hope to spread it, and get it going in the individual rooms, and to encourage community singing. What kind of music do vve use? The commissioner showed me some pnst programs. There were symphony well concerts, artistic ri'eitals by known singers, ineluding Seliuiminn-Heirik- ; and Bodunzkys orchestra. The best music works best. Es the pecially the operatic bits for Italians, the violin classics fur the Russians, the folk songs fur tlo- difI dont use cheap ferent nations. music. I feel the classical ami up lifting are desirable. Do they listen? They drink it in. After all that suffering this I give it to the comes like a balm. I listeners as Americas welcome. have been giving ont apples many did not know what to do with an apple they M never seen one before. I gave out But they liked them. crullers anil buns one Sunday after the concert. Little things. Dont Sounds petty talkamount to much. ing about it. Before my Bpointment ns was oftieinllv announeivd I went about the island incognito to look over the ground. Accompanying me were two plain clothes inspectors of police (I was formerly ns you deputy police commissioner, Wo went over on the lit know.) tie boat, found grouches all along he line, were told to move on, move I en n I scud Our aim is to ive the very best grade of gioceries on the market to our customers. It is our constant thought to do this and give them out to the people at the lowest prices and think we possible. Some vender how we sell so cheap are merely trying to run out the other grocerymen. This is s not true, ns we do not give our attention to the other grocery-menour prices. We make our own prices. By getting we groceries in large quanities and paying cash for them, are able to mnke our prices cheaper and so give the people a good value on their groceries. 1 Lard and Crisco America. Wait, Yon know, must T 2 1T 7, lb 10 1 Th 40c th Suck TT; lb 3 Tb (i Tb 9 TTi 4 5c 85,- - 39c Im il Fun bard Fail Ftire bard Fail Fine bat'd ('an Frisco ('till Frisco Fun Frisco Can Frisco qt. Cun Ma'zokt 8Gc 2Gc $1.29 $1.89 d G9c "t. Cun Mnz.olu Od Oil qt. Cun Wesson C9c s.-- (. $2.75 Inysori Flour 500 Th Eots, Fayson Flour... $2.70 48 lb Back Idaho Hard Wheat $1.05 High Fa t en t Flour loo iii Idaho Hurd Wheat $3.2.5 High Fatent Flour 0 lb Back if Graham Flour.... 40e 1) th Sack White or Yellow Com Mini 35c 100 40c Soap, Washing P owder 49c Gcrinndc barge pkg Bun Ripe Wheat 40c barge pkg. Relied (hits 35, Sun Ripe 33c - e to 20c Flukes FRESH MEAT ... Saturday will be another chance for our customers to get their Sunday meats at a big savings. 14c ROaST, per lb. BOILING MEAT, per lb. I 7c Every Wednesday is Unusual Bargain Day v It was at vvhat is known meet Kissing Dost (whert. friends other and friends and kiss enc-even the inspectors that one petty officer was particularly disagreeable. Move on. One of He commanded, my companions tapped the petty officer on the shoulder and whispered, I couldnt wait never forgotten. afterward .to live in New 5 ork. The first impressions of the new prospecneighbors, tive citizens, our new must be of welcome. Thats tho way to end anarchy and bolshevism. W. greet the newcomers with music encores strike up the band. Play Im a innn, inSector where they wander. of polire, and the gentleman you in every city were so hnrsh with is the new commissioner of immigration. He The man almost fainted. Young wanted to apologize immediately. The first thing I did upon taking office Good was to call all the staff together. T told them of mv experience, and I went on, The wo laughed. The enthusiasm with which many place to break down anarchy is right We must be eager poultry raisers, particularly beginhere, gentlemen. to find the new citizens rather than ners, start' in the spring with young Let s to locate the. undesirables. chicks sometimes lags as the season assume these people to be worthy of fitW- America Lets be decent advances nml the ehieks get old and kind. lnt on the welcome enough to shift for . .icmselves. how-If care is neglected at this period, sign! Why, do yon know, I found that ever, success is improbable. The baby n water was being given at meals chirks may be smart little fellows the detained ones. I said, Here from strong, vigorous, parent stock, and thev may have been brooded give these people something to drink. for the first two or three Tt it makes the carefully man, Explained too sloppy to take water from these weeks, but unless they receive procr Ont on that boat theyre care anil management during their vdrants. they will not degetting milk, where formerly they growing I found that no sonp velop properly, and many of them got nothing. or towels were given to the detained will lit lost by sickness and disease. ones. I ordered that to be done. This is the timely warning made bV f course, some of the immigrants poult rymen of the United States dest pitted to e(t the soap but llio partment of nrieulture in Farmers bulletin 1111, management of growing general effect was good. Wo eant do everything at once. Young Glucks, published by the But you see what were aiming at? department, in which is given the I have gone into immigration de- essentials to projier growth and details because the situation at Ellis velopment of ehieks. The bulletin is And being written briefly ami in simple terms Island is so important. a- sense in the means for beginners, esjueeinlly members of being important and girls poultry clubs. of solving our labor problems, liigh boys it Provide Suitable Pood, and Care. costs, nml many, other difficulties Tho chief essentials to tho propet is to me, ns a musician and lover of music, a high compliment which is growth of chicks, according to the being paid the art by the accredited bulletin, nre good coops, or houses, water, popor feed and representative of the United States clennliness, and free range. shade, Growing government. What is going on there at Ellis chicks should be provided with large, Is'and is being cabled and written roomy coops or houses, which wil1 Leek to the old world. Already give them a comfort able place to new shiploads are coming who ask, stay at night and during stormy When do yon have your weather. The bulletin suggest no parFrom all ticular kind of house, but states it coneerts? over the world, newspapers are send should bo so built that it will provide Hie ehieks with plenty of light, ing clippings of comments on thl new spirit in American methods. air and sunshine, and prefer pur 'hem from dampness and storms of The telephone rang. You want to come to the concert: all kinds. It should be arranged so well eotne along, the commissioner that it can be cleaned easily nml Thats frequently, which is very important. said, then turning to me. Chicks should never be crowded the tenth request today from itn portnnt government officials to come in brood coops, for crowding will over. And. look here, this is what a n si them to become overheated, came in the morning mail. Of course, resulting in impnqsw growth and A good in dead chicks. wo cant let people come over here sometimes indiscriminately fn hear the concerts, house can be built from a dry goods hoy nre only for the newcomers to box or a piano box, which can America and employees of the sor with tar pajwr. tin total vice. cost being small. Sickness or disease usually starts And, by the way, the employees are getting the spirit through the in unclean quarters, and in such 'N plain-elotlie- Imrge pkg. Cream of Wheat.... 29c 20c Large pkg. Post Toasties barge pkg. Kelloggs Corn Hams, Bacon, Cheese folksong. Commissioner to the wharf, Wallis walked down and gave the writer the courtesy of liis private launch. s we shook hands he said with a gracious smile: We will be looking for you the immigrants nml myself, with Make of those concerts yours. 'hem, ns you say, the best music. nd do something else for us the immigrant and myself tell the peo-rdTell whnt is being done here. them not to keep silent when the future citizens appear. Bay welcome Saving Prices of Our A Few d fell von a story. south. come from th When I landed in New York City, I was met by some friends, who made me so happy that, ns far ns f was concerned, New York was the city in the world, peopled with the kindest souls, and every-bo.lseemed generous and smiling that was because of my reception, first impressions, which T had. ns the niv on. OUR AIM j PAYSON, UTAH s Keep Growing by Welcome-to-Amerie- i Chicks Feed things, therefore they require less places lice and mites are always more plentiful, tin bulletin says. The coops should be cleaned and spay id a Britishers Predominate Among Utah Foreign week. Hid elen n slmv ings. or sand put on the Hour. houses of'i-'.mine the ehieks Britishers far outnumber all othi for bee and mites ft lid if found they born white citizens now res onre. foreign should be gotten rid of :it Farmers Bulletin 1120 gives dirre-lie- dent in Ftali, according to figure t ions for fighting and mites. Th complied by the census bureau. white total foreign-borFeed Right for Rapid Growth. populatio The three kinds of feeds most of Utah is given as 5G,429, of whic once Ex-rm- e from came Eiiglaifc Soot land, 1304 from Wall and 1207 from Ireland. Danes and Swedes rank next, ni merieally, there being 29G1 Danes i Ftah at the time of the last censu and G072 who came from Swedei the Noryveginns numbering only 210! The German-boro population Utah numbered 3592, Netherlandci 1980 and Swiss 15GG. Italians nurr be r'd 3222, Greeks 3031, Canadian 1421 an, Mexicans 19,81. All othc nationalities numbered less than 100 each. The complete list follows: England, 14,280; Scotland, 2310 Wales, 1304; Ireland, 1907; Norway such green feed, should lie supplied 2109; Sweden, G072; Denmark, 6901 reguln rlv. Belgium, France 90; (includin A dry mash should be kept before 434. ehieks at nil time.-after growing Luxemburg, IS; 1980 they are three or four weeks old. Switzerland, 15GG; Netherlands, 3592 Germany, It is best to feed it in n hopper inside the building, or where il will Foland, 210;, Austria, 987; Hungary T.t; 1G2; Jugo-Slano be exposed to rain or wet. TV ia. S3G; Ruthenia, 684 1; Russia, bulletin suggests the following mash: Two pounds corn meal. 2 pounds mid- Finland, 779; Lithuania 12. Portugal 4; Spain 250; Italy, 3222 dlings, 1 pound oat men 1. 2 pounds ;!31; Bulgaria, 30; Rumanif wheat bran. pound beef scrap, t'9; Turkey ia Europe, 12; othe and V pound charcoal. GO. Grit and oyster shells should he Europe, Asia, ..(tt); Africa, 115; Australia provided so the ehieks may help 221; Canada, French, 45; Canada themselves whenever they wish. When sour milk can be obtained it should! "tlier, 1121; Newfoundland, 4. Cuba and other West also lie kept before the ehieks. as Indies, no feel is legnrded better for them Mexico, 10,81; Central America, smith America. 2.8; Atlantic island When this is giv.-the amount of! 1; Pacific 1.37 islands, at sea. beef s,mp in the drv mash may bo not specified, I country reduced one half. Flcntv of fresh.1 clean water is nb'ohiielv i.oeessa-- v Authorities on Lj and in hot mail her it should be pro vidoil twice ilnibj dishes that A Anita fib is the have been thoroughlv cleaned. 'fnr.v .and j. story- - is th The bulletin the im-- i a be. emphasizes portamv of fiee range and shade! Nelly No, it s not. for growing e! i, ks. They are Anita V es, it is, beeansi and dev,, p vigorous! ud si i, and my father i fowls. When growing ehi, ks hnvcj at the university.; tree range they obtain quantities of Nelly I dont care if gre, n feel. bug-- . wo,,Ms. other, Fit her is an editor, and nrand less Ruble to sickness; "tore about gfun lying than yo and disease. necessary for rapid growth are grain A feed, green feed and drv mash. grain mixture shnub. be fed night and morning, giving as a large quantity as the ehieks will eat clean, A bat no more. good mixture fur growing chicks consists of three parts C aeked nrts wheat, and corn, two two parts hulled outs. Kafir corn or Hilled or hulled barley- - rntiv be A supsubstituted for hulled on's. ply of fresh green feed is almost as necessary as grain for growing ehieks. They obtain plcntv of i if they have free t: ge, but if lawn grass.! kept iu confinement, beet toils, cabbage, lettuce, or other total, 11,820 2.110 from Alsace-Lorraine,- ) Czeclio-Slovakit- v 1 -- .8 - ad Flight v. |