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Show Immigration's Problems Are Just Now Interesting and Very Perplexing By MAJ. II. II. CURRAN, in New York World. Immigration is at present interesting to everybody. And everybody seems to have a plan to solve its problems immediately. People will tell you on the telephone how to deal with immigration thoroughly. At present we have an immediate, pressing problem : how to get rid of thousands of Immigrants weekly so that the couple of thousand arriving daily can e handled. Two-thirds of the immigrants who arrive in this country lani? it Ellis island, and in the last four days I have been confronted with all the ramifications of that problem. During the last week and up to Saturday night wt will have handled more than 16,000 immigrants. The most we can accommodate easily are 2,000 each day, so you see that we have cause for work and worry. For those who can regard it impersonally this race for port is a pretty problem in the nature of chess and with all the elements of a game of chance, because we never know exactly how many people we shall have to accommodate. But for those who are also interested in humanity our problem is not merely a pretty and perplexing game. What we do means comfort or lack of comfort for thousands, and I am interested in preventing suffering. |