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Show IMMIGRATION IS INCREASING WEEK BY WEEK I GREAT HORDES FROM EUROPE COME TO U. S. Newcomers Give Many Reasons Rea-sons Why They Want to Make America Home Mai SM el.ll. NEW YORK. Oct. 18 The tide of immigrants continues to swamp ull post-war records. Five thousand land-i ed a day at Ellis Island Is a common, occurrence. Lack 0f Shipping prevents pre-war records fro'm being smashed, officials say, for each new week sees a new high mark for the period since 1914. What kind of immigrants are coming? com-ing? Why are they coining" From what countries arc they coining? Returning travelers say that the entire population of Poland Is ready to emigrate to America, that Italians, Greeks and Spaniards and Jugo-Slavs. Czechs and Rutb-enians Rutb-enians and Slovaks arc all looking look-ing once more to this country as a Promised Land, where wages are j high and where work is plentiful. Where taxes are low and food abundant., where there is neither oppression, nor war nor revolution. revolu-tion. if you want to find out what kind of people live in Cincinnati or Memphis or El Paso a pretty good way to find ' out would be Ju! to talk to the people In those cities; go into a barber 'shop and a grocery store and a wholesale establishment and a bootbluck parlor and see v, hut the people there are like and What they are thinking alout Si X rY-T-WO CASES Mil. ST! DIED. This paper adopted a method of that sort In attempting to learn a little about the immigrants who are coming to this country. Through Interpreters it approached them in various places : nay from official influences of all kinds and asked them a few simple Questions. It found them ut South Ferry, where they are landed from El-lis El-lis Island. In tho Pennsylvania and Other depots on the Jersey side, where they take trains to the west; It found them in immigrant homes and at the headquarters of charitable organizations, organiza-tions, where they are sheltered until relatives can 101 mem. And What slfrles the table contains' con-tains' Each line holds a tragedy or comedy of its own, from Elias Atlas, who came here from Gall-cia.eto Gall-cia.eto escapo "war, starvation j and pogroms" at home, to G. Cer-nlglio Cer-nlglio of Palermo, Italy, who comes hero at the age of 62, ill and without a trade, ' to make a living." I ' idalia Goldberg, 19. arrives from Odessa because her father Is opposed to the Bolshevik," who control that city. C. Mlniconi, a laborer. Is on j his way to Itutler, Pa., on a "pleasure; trip." l. imacci sucointly sums up the troublous state of Italian Indus-! try by saying that "conditions are; unsettled at home." G Marozzo thinks,: as Well he may, that he will have a I ''better chance" here The wants of J. Reglu. 13. from Vicena, are simple: i he desires "to make a living " II! s I RED OF W R AT IIO.MI," Eugene Shvetz, here from Russia, gives the conventional excuse of the married man for going to the club he is "tired of war at home." J, Di j Plglio. who has reached 20 without. (Continued on Page Two.) ' J Great Hordes From j Europe Come to U. S. (Continued From lagc One.) acquiring an occupation, was sent for by his father Jacob Mlrski evidently regarded his alms as none of the interpreter's in-terpreter's business, while T. raletz. a Russian farmer, wants '"peace and u chance to make a living " The major! of thmeii and women questioned were Italians, as are the) mnjorlts of the Immigrants who arel arriving here toda-. . Most of them ar-i laborers, and they are Impelled to I come here for economic reasons; they hear that conditions In the I Sited States nr. better snd w?kres higher. Po- nrlc.il reasons pogroms, persecution play a part In sending to this country i many Immigrants from central and eastern Kurope. oo |
