Photograph by Frederic C. Howe 



CHILDREN OF ALL XATIOXS OX ELLIS ISLAND ROOF GARDEN 



Many of the poor little boys and girls who arrive at Ellis Island do not know how 

 American kiddies play, but the roof-garden romps one may see every fair day show that 

 they are apt at learning. 



tive lineage, and even less disposed to in- 

 sanity than the child whose ancestry may 

 be traced to colonial times. In everything 

 that goes to show good citizenship the 

 grandchild of the immigrant stands the 

 statistical test as well as the child of na- 

 tive parentage. How many immigrants 

 we shall receive in the future no one can 

 say. But, assuming that we have no im- 

 migration, and that the United States will 

 grow as fast during the three centuries 



ahead of us as Europe grew from 1812 

 to 1 91 2, we will have a population of 

 nearly 500,000,000 in 2217, or approxi- 

 mately 166 to the square mile. 



Agricultural students have declared 

 that the soil of the United States has a 

 sustaining power of 500 to the square 

 mile. Assuming that one-third of the 

 country is occupied by waste land, we 

 have room on this basis for 900,000,000 

 people. 



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