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...distinct need for the immigrant just as there has always been, and therefore we do not need an literacy test to cut down numbers. Further, we have better-means of assimilating the immigrant today than ever before and such a test is not needed to solve our assimilation problem...
...immigrant who comes to our shores today does not contribute to our political, economic and social problems sufficiently to demand total restriction. Of the immigrants already on our shores, it is the immigrant of the old type, the type that came in greatest numbers 50 years ago, who contributes most to our problems. Since these races have a relatively low rate of illiteracy, the illiteracy test once effected, would not affect them much and hence our problem would in noways be lightened...
...cutting down the numbers of this present undesirable immigration 300,000 immigrants every year, 1,000 immigrants every day,--immigrants who go to the most congested parts of the large cities of practically all but seven states, where they are cut off from American influences--will alleviate our problem of assimilation...
...investigation of actual conditions, startling facts were revealed, chief of which have to deal with the cost and size of the problem. Since 1901 the number of arrests for drunkenness has increased by 49,272, or 88 per cent, and the annual average increase has been 4,106 arrests per year; statistics of grave import to the state. Although it is impossible to estimate in dollars the yearly cost of inebriety to the Commonwealth, yet an idea of the expense may be obtained when it is considered that the cost arising from 63.4 per cent of all arrests...
...question of real moment to the University at present, and asked of the undergraduates, "What is your job now?" Men must first realize their actual duty, where they are needed most, and then act accordingly. He warned against hasty action, and advised sane consideration of the issues of the problem such as the actual need of volunteers and the advisability of taking untrained men for the tasks of soldiery from their work which will result in incommensurable good to the state. What we may now hastily interpret as patriotism may only be an artificial excitement and a bubbling over...