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society hears from its correspondent that the wage earner is in 

 a position to care for his family, the latter is sent on and a re- 

 union of the family accomplished. 



The value of such a movement as this can not be over 

 estimated. The United States still has possibilities for thou- 

 sands and even hundreds of thousands of new immigrants. 

 There are still vast tracts of territory unexplored and which in 

 time will offer excellent opportunity for new settlers. Follow- 

 ing out this thought, the organization above mentioned dis- 

 tributes families to points as far south as El Paso, Texas, as 

 far west as California, and as far north as Winnipeg. In fact 

 no section of the United States has been ignored where it is 

 possible to obtain work, nor has the employment sought been 

 confined to any particular trades. All classes of laborers have 

 been sent away, both skilled and unskilled. Aside from the 

 fact that such a scheme as this will in time remove thousands 

 from the congested centers of the large cities, its value for the 

 future, however, hes in the fact that with each family sent away 

 from New York city, or from Philadelphia, or from Boston, a 

 new nucleus has been formed for the immigrant who may come 

 in the next ten or twenty years. At present 70 per cent of ar- 

 riving Jewish immigrants remain in the city of New York. The 

 reason for this is obvious. The man who emigrates to the 

 United States goes by preference to that place where he has 

 either relatives or friends, or to the destination for which in 

 many instances relatives have provided him and his family with 

 the necessary transportation. So far as the immigrant himself 

 is concerned, it matters little to him whether he goes to New 

 York or to Saginaw; what he asks is an opportunity to earn his 

 living for himself and his family. If 70 per cent of the Jewish 

 immigrants remain in New York city, it is because practically 

 all of the immigrants of the last twenty years have remained 

 here. With the new nuclei and the new foci that are being 

 formed in all sections of the United States through the move- 

 ment inaugurated by the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial 

 Aid society, there is every likelihood that the percentage of 

 Jewish immigrants remaining in New York will be decreased 

 year by year. Finally, under the conditions existing in other 

 communities, the Jews will again be able to renew the home life 



