Show Davis Has 11 II o Foreign c SPECIAL TO THE CLIPPER To what extent will Davis County and the foreign-born foreign segment of its population be affected af affected affected af- af by the country's new im immigration migration law which Is to go into effect on July 1st HOW many of the people who have taken up residence In the local area were born in other parts of the world or are the c children h 11 d r e n of born foreign for e I g born n-born parents On July 1st the national origins quota system which has governed the pattern of immigration immigration immigration im im- migration to this country for the thelast thelast thelast last 43 years will be discon discon- ITS PURPOSE was to preserve preserve preserve pre pre- serve the ethnic balance that existed In the United States in 1920 People were admitted from foreign countries there there- thereafter thereafter hereafter after at a rate proportional to the number of those countries who were already living here On July 1st the whole procedure procedure procedure pro pro- will change There will willbe willbe willbe be no more quotas Instead within certain limitations ad admission admission admission ad- ad mission will be on a first-come first served first-served basis with preference preference preference given to close relatives of people now living here AS TO DAVIS County's population population population pop pop- the latest data from the Census Bureau shows that some per cent are of foreign stock This includes persons who were born abroad as well as persons of foreign parentage who were born in this coun coun- try Elsewhere In the Un United it e d States those of foreign stock total per cent and in the I Mountain States States' per cent CONVERSELY the great bulk of Davis County's population per cent of it consists of native-born native Americans with witha a background of at least three generations here Under the new system priorities priorities prior prior- will be given In addition to close relatives of American citizens to members of the professions arts and sciences and to other needed workers ALTHOUGH immigration wasat was wasat at a high level in the past year when people entered it didn't compare with what oc occurred occurred occurred oc- oc in some earlier years The peak was reached just before World War I when new I arrivals came In at the rate of ofa a million a year OF THOSE OF foreign stock in Davis County 2362 are listed listed list list- I ed with backgrounds In the United Kingdom in Germany Germany Ger Ger- many and in Canada I |