Washington, and California — in all 20 

 States. We have considerably over 20,- 

 000,000 men of military age in the United 

 States. 



THE IMMIGRANT'S PREFERENCE FOR CITY 

 LIFE 



Another striking fact of our immigra- 

 tion situation is the unusual preference 

 of the foreign born and their children for 

 the cities. Of the 35,000.000 foreign- 

 stock whites living in the United States, 

 approximately 23,000,000 live in the 

 cities. In only 14 of the 50 leading cities 

 of the country do the whites of full na- 

 tive parentage constitute as much as half 

 of the total population. Only one-fifth 

 of the population of New York and Chi- 

 cago is of native white ancestry. Less 

 than a third of the populations of Bos- 

 ton, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Buf- 

 falo, San Francisco, Milwaukee, New- 

 ark, Minneapolis, Jersey City, Provi- 

 dence, St. Paul, Worcester, Scranton, 

 Paterson, Fall River, Lowell, Cambridge, 

 and Bridgeport are of native ancestry. 



Conditions have played some curious 

 pranks in the distribution of the immi- 

 grant population in the Lhiited States. 

 More than two-thirds of the Germans 

 live between the Hudson and the Missis- 

 sippi and north of the Ohio. The same 

 is true of the Austrians, the Belgians, the 

 Hungarians, the Italians, the Dutch, the 

 Russians, and the Welsh. 



New York, Pennsylvania, and New 

 Jersey have 47 per cent of the Austrians, 

 34 per cent of the English, 30 per cent of 

 the Germans, 54 per cent of the Hun- 

 garians, 45 per cent of the Irish, 58 per 

 cent of the Italians, 56 per cent of the 

 Russians, 34 per cent of the Dutch, and 

 46 per cent of the Welsh in the United 

 States. 



NINETEEN-TWENTIETHS OF OUR FOREIGN 

 BORN CAME FROM COUNTRIES AT WAR 



An examination of the data at hand 

 shows that nearly nineteen-twentieths of 

 our foreign-born population come from 

 the countries in Europe now at war. 

 AVith such a surprising number of people 

 among us who first beheld the light of 

 day under flags now flying over Europe's 

 battlefields, does it not speak well for our 

 country's adopted children that there 

 have been no more evidences of hyphen- 



Photograph from Frederic C. Howe 

 IN MATTERS OF COSTUME AMERICANIZA- 

 TION OFTEN PROCEEDS ALL BUT 

 TOO RAPIDLY 



ism than the past thirty months have dis- 

 closed? 



The war in Europe has largely closed 

 the gates of that continent to the emi- 

 grant. But three short years ago Ellis 

 Island, the greatest immigrant gateway 

 in the world, was one of the busiest 

 places on the face of the earth. The 

 wheels of the great machine that carried 

 the incoming alien through the doors of 

 America turned fast and long. Morning, 

 noon, and night, the men who manned 



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