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We will notify them just before Christmas, and will send you a statement after the holidays The Outlook "The most-quoted weekly journal in America' The Outlook Company, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City WAR-IMPELLED MIGRATION NE of the questions asked, but not answered with unanimity by experts during the war, was, Will Europeans try to flock to America when peace comes, or will they want to stay at home? It is plain by this time what the answer is. With the cessation of hostilities the impulse to leave their stricken homelands and flee to a refuge in America was widespread throughout the peoples of Europe. Even with the strict and arbitrary literacy and other tests, and with the enhanced difficulties involved in the obtaining of passports, which was made compulsory because of the war, the immigrants have been crowding Ellis Island in New York Harbor, and have at times overtaxed the facilities of the Government for handling incoming aliens. A Committee on Immigration of the Merchants' Association in New York, after an inquiry, has, for example, reported that sleeping quarters at Ellis Island are frequently used to accommodate at least twice the number for which they were intended, and that the staff of inspectors is overworked and their efficiency correspondingly impaired. The Commissioner-General of Immigration, Anthony Caminetti, who recently sailed from New York to investigate conditions at centers of emigration in Europe, said on the eve of his departure that many of the immigrants who had sold their belongings and broken up their homes and spent their all in buying transportation to this country found upon their arrival that they were not admissible, and he expressed the opinion that this ought to be remedied by dealing with immigration at its source. The question of immigration is further complicated by the special difficulties involved in dealing with immigration from the Orient. To admit any considerable body of aliens who are incapable of becoming assimilated to the general population is to invite domestic disturbances and friction with foreign countries. It is generally believed that Orientals do not become easily Americanized, and yet such a country as Japan objects to any policy that discriminates against her Emperor's subjects. All these facts and others have raised anew the immigration question as a DECEMBER 8, 1920 matter to be taken up in Congress in the session beginning December 6. One proposal is to limit immigration from any country to a certain percentfrom any country to a certain percentage of those already admitted. The proponents of this plan are largely actuated by a desire to establish a policy which will actually limit Japanese immigration without formally discriminating against the Japanese. As there are comparatively few Japanese in this country, the percentage system would cut down immigrants from Japan to a very small actual number. The objections to this proposal, however, seem to us to be conclusive. The fact that this measure, if it became law, would admit great numbers of Germans and a very small number of French is in itself enough to show how ill adapted it is to deal with the problem. It is a bill to establish the status quo. It is dealing with a problem essentially vital and human in an arithmetical and mechanical way. Chairman of the House Committee on Immigration, proposes that Congress should pass at once a bill virtually stopping all immigration for the time being, allowing only those aliens to come in who have parents, wives, or children already in the country and naturalized. Of course he does not propose this as a permanent policy but simply as a measure to prevent the otherwise to inundate our ports of inflood of immigration that is almost sure gress after March 4, when the present provisions requiring passports will expire. In spite of the study given to the (C) Keystone View Co. subject, there has been no really thorough and consistent immigration policy officially adopted by the United States. We have much to learn with regard to inspection, selection, and distribution of immigrants from our neighbor, Canada. Certainly we ought not to postpone decisive inspection of immigrants until these aliens become congested on our shores. AN AIR RACE THAN HANKSGIVING DAY saw the victory of an Army battle plane, the Verville-Packard, in the triangular race for the Pulitzer Trophy on Long Island. The winning machine is credited with flying 132 miles in forty-four minutes and twenty-nine and fifty-seven hundredths seconds, which means an average speed of 178 miles an hour. Some question has been raised as to the accuracy with which the course, starting and ending at Mitchel Field, Mineola, Long Island, was measured, but the achievement seems to have been a notable one. Thirty-six machines took part in the race, though only eleven finished. Three foreign machines were entered in the contest, representing the manufacturers of Italy, Great Britain, and France. The Italian machine, an S. V. A., finished in third place. The British and French machines did not finish. Brigadier-General Mitchel, Chief of Operations of the United States Army Air Service, has stated his belief that the Verville-Packard is capable of two hundred miles an hour on a straight course. The speed records of the Long Island LIEUTENANT C. C. MOSLEY, U. S. A., AND THE AIRPLANE WITH WHICH HE WON THE PULITZER TROPHY RACE (C) Keystone View Co. INTERIOR OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH, BROOKLYN, SHOWING DAMAGE DONE BY FIRE IN THE LECTURE ROOM Air Meet exceeded the record established at the recent Gordon Bennett race in France. RIDDANCE TO RINTELEN FRA RANZ VON RINTELEN, a former captain of the German navy, who country by January 1. It is possible that this was believed to be the best way of getting rid of a noxious alien. THE INJURY TO NE of the historic places in Amer was convicted of fraud and of conspicis the plain brick structure racy to destroy munition ships of the Allies by putting fire bombs in their cargoes, has been released by President Wilson. Very few crimes that the Germans committed during the war were so contemptible as those for which Rintelen was imprisoned. There is something particularly cowardly in the method which he employed with others to strike at his country's enemies. He was not an open combatant. He was at the time of his acts a resident in a neutral country, enjoying the protection and safety provided by this Government; and he not only struck at the lives of civilians of combatant nations, which outside of Germany was considered to be murder even in war time, but violated in a dishonorable way the neutrality of a nation with which his own country was at least technically on friendly relations. In view of the moral turpitude involved in his crime, Rintelen's sentences amounted to a very short term, aggregating, after a year in the New Jersey penitentiary, three years in the Federal prison at Atlanta. The conditions on which commutation of his sentences was granted may indicate the reason for it. Under the terms of the commutation Rintelen had to give a bond of $5,000 to leave the in Brooklyn, New York, where Henry Ward Beecher preached. On November 23 it was injured by fire. America is not so rich in buildings of historic association that it can afford to lose even one of them. Fortunately, the fire was discovered before the flames had got beyond control, and the building, though badly damaged, was saved from destruction. The fire started in the boiler rooms which are underneath the lecture room. It was here that the greatest damage was done. This part of the lecture room was ruined and the church parlors were very badly damaged. The lecture room and parlors were closely associated with the life and activity of Mr. Beecher, and continue to be an essential and important part of the church building. The church auditorium itself was injured somewhat by smoke and steam, but the great and fine old organ was apparently undamaged. Eight of the stained-glass windows put up as a memorial during Dr. Hillis's pastorate wêre broken in the process of controlling the fire, but these can be replaced. The portrait of Mr. Beecher by Conant was injured, though the face of the portrait was not badly disfigured. The portrait can possibly be restored. The old Beecher pulpit and the old Beecher piano were saved. Though some of the cases of the Beecher relics were damaged and many of the old Beecher letters apparently ruined by water and smoke, a great deal was saved not only from destruction but from injury. THE BLUE LAW AGITATION N' EWSPAPERS have been filled with reports these last few days of a movement to force the adoption of a Federal Constitutional amendment enforcing Nation-wide Sabbath observance. Some of those who have been active in the Prohibition movement are listed among the supporters of this venture in un-American practice. Others are professional reformers of considerably less standing and importance. One who is emphatically of the latter class has recently been quoted as saying: I see no reason why the public libraries or the art galleries should remain open on Sunday. We shall seek to eliminate the huge Sunday newspapers and establish a censorship over the stuff that gets into them on other days. I might add that a sensible censorship should be placed over such galleries as the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well. I shall never forget the shame that overcame me the first time I went through that place. ... Of course we shall back no law that would compel a man or a woman to attend church. But we believe that if we take away a man's motor car, his golf sticks, his Sunday newspaper, his horses, his amusement houses and parks and prohibit him from playing outdoor games or witnessing field sports he naturally will drift back to church. We should have no objection to his taking decent recreation, such as walks in the country or reading good books or healthy conversation. But if he wants to see baseball or play golf or tennis or go automobiling let him do it during the week. The character of this particular reformer's mind may be further understood when it is added that he has recently opposed (on "moral" grounds) the wearing by children of half-hose! We suspect that the newspaper reports have been exaggerating the size of the movement in a natural desire to fill up the vacuum which usually follows a National election. But as much as this can be said: The reformers who are agitating for a revival of Sunday laws should have the hearty support of those who opposed the Eighteenth Amendment, for we know of no better way to make the Eighteenth Amendment ridiculous than to extend National prohibition to matters with which the National Government cannot rightfully concern itself. If the reformers desire |