Photograph from Frederic C. Howe 



CHILDREN FROM THE BALKAN STATES 



"Such pretty dollies as they do have in America ! 'Course I'll have my picture taken if you 



let me hold that sweet little dollie !" 



replace one-half of the population of 

 New England. 



Although the people of foreign birth 

 constitute only one-seventh of the coun- 

 try's population, they contribute nearly 

 one-fourth (22 per cent) of the arm- 

 bearing strength of the nation. At the 

 last census many of the States had a 

 greater number of foreign-born men of 

 arm-bearing age than they had of native- 

 ancestry citizens, among them Massachu- 



setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New 

 York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Minne- 

 sota, and North Dakota. Taking the 

 States where those of foreign birth and 

 their sons together constitute a major 

 portion of the men between the ages of 

 18 and 44, it will be found that the list 

 includes the above States and the fol- 

 lowing: New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, 

 Michigan, South Dakota, Nebraska, Mon- 

 tana, Idaho, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, 



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