Photographs from Frederic C. Howe 

 A TURKISH BANK GUARD EVEN ALGERIA SENDS ITS QUOTA TO 



AMERICA 



this wonderful mechanism labored as sel- 

 dom men have to work in order to keep 

 the machine moving fast enough to take 

 care of the vast flood of humanity pre- 

 senting itself there for inspection and 

 adoption. 



Now all is different. Military neces- 

 sity must be served, and hundreds of 

 thousands, perhaps millions, of those who 

 would have come to man our ever-ex- 

 panding industries are now on the battle- 

 fields of Europe, some still surviving the 

 awful avalanche of fire and steel, and 



others, alas, asleep in those last trenches 

 where the unending truce of death has 

 stilled the enmities of life! And so Ellis 

 Island is a somewhat lonesome place to- 

 day. The twelve hundred thousand who 

 came in 1914 are followed by the three 

 hundred thousand of 1916. 



THE WAR'S RELATION TO IMMIGRATION 



But what of the morrow of American 

 immigration? Will the war, whose mili- 

 tary necessities all but stopped the immi- 

 grant tide from Europe, be followed by a 



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