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Things To Think About 
Organizing a Vigilance 
Committee 
This community, like many others, has 
suffered from the depredations of thieves. 
My own home was robbed. The burglar 
was apprehended in my bedroom at mid¬ 
night with flashlight in one hand and re¬ 
volver in the other, threatening to shoot 
me if I made a move to stop him. We 
found out in a few days who he was, ar¬ 
rested him in Philadelphia and he is now 
in the Eastern Penitentiary for a maxi¬ 
mum period of 26 years, minimum of 13 
years, at hard labor. On my recommen¬ 
dation our Grange authorized the forma¬ 
tion of a “Vigilance and Protective As¬ 
sociation,” the object of which would be 
to rid our community of suspicious or 
undesirable characters with seeming 
criminal intent, and to punish criminals. 
It seems to me such an organization with 
a fund in the treasury could do much to 
prevent these things. One cannot go 
very far in apprehending and punishing 
criminals without some money to work 
with. Detectives do not go very far in 
that kind of work unless they are paid 
for it. Can any of your readers give an 
outline of how such an organization 
might be managed, constitution and by¬ 
laws, yearly dues, anything which may 
help the writer in putting this into 
shape? . H. L. D. 
Chester Co., Pa. 
R. N.-Y.—This is a good suggestion. 
We have heard from several places where 
such organizations have been formed and 
conducted successfully. We would all 
like to know how they operate. 
“The Other Side” of 
Immigration 
As a reader of The R. N.-Y. for the 
last eight or 10 years, and an admirer of 
its policy of fair play for everybody, I 
regret the fact that, during the last year, 
only one-sided propaganda against im¬ 
migrants finds place in your pages, as 
expressed by the letter of J. J. on page 
1129, called: “Farm Labor aud Immi¬ 
gration.” It is deplorable, in general, 
that the noble ideals of pre-war United 
States, of fair play, justice, “live and let 
live” should be substituted by race 
prejudice, intolerance and race super¬ 
iority. 
Allow me to point out, in the first 
place, the wrong aspect taken by the 
writer of the afore-mentioned letter 
toward the problem of immigration. The 
writer and others seem to discuss the 
immigrant from the selfish viewpoint of 
availability for the native farmer as farm 
help, as they would discuss importation 
of draft horses or purebred cows, etc., 
and not from the viewpoint of consider¬ 
ing so many human beings coming to 
settle and make their homes over here as 
pioneers of earlier times have done. 
J. J. asserts that the Eastern and 
Southern immigrants are not welcome to 
this country because they are not farm¬ 
ers or farm laborers. You would hardly 
expect poor immigrants to go into farm¬ 
ing which nowadays requires a consider¬ 
able investment of capital, and also 
knowledge of agricultural methods. The 
process of “going back to the land” is 
very slow, and as such shows a steady 
growth in the last decade. The writer 
seems to forget that 70 per cent of the 
population of this country lives in small 
towns and cities, and is occupied in in¬ 
dustries, which are just as important to 
the welfare and growth of the nation as 
agriculture. The immigrants, upon their 
arrival, naturally, flow to the cities, until 
they learn the new, for them, language, 
and adapt themselves to uew conditions. 
After this adaptation a certain percentage 
goes into farming or rural settlements. 
The 50 per cent of Hebrews living in 
the big cities is occupied in gainful oc¬ 
cupation and form a body of consumers 
which furnishes a splendid market for 
farm products. The best market prices 
for eggs, poultry, fruit aud vegetables 
are paid by the Jewish and Italian trade 
in New York City. This is a fact known 
throughout the East. How can J. J. ex¬ 
pect immigrants with limited capital and 
no experience, to take up farming when 
the native farmers’ sons and girls are 
deserting their old farm homes, and are 
flocking to the cities? We read fre¬ 
quently of the problem of overproduction 
on American farms. This problem could 
certainly not be solved by adding another 
half million new farmers to this country. 
The theory of superiority of Nordics 
over non-Nordics (imported idea from 
Germany), which possessed the minds of 
a good deal of our countrymen and its 
legislators, is nothing but a silly copy 
of the theory of superiority of the Ger¬ 
man kultur, entertained by Germans 
before the war, and possibly after 
It is beyond human understanding why 
a German, worshipping the Kaiser, void 
of ideas of democracy, shouting as yet 
his head off for a Ludendorff or Hinden- 
burg, is more welcome to this free coun¬ 
try than a freedom-loving Russian or 
Italian. Why is a German ex-soldier 
who might have killed a few Americans 
in the war, welcome to this country, be¬ 
cause he is a Nordic, while a brother or 
father of an American Jewish or Italian 
soldier, who lost his life or was maimed 
in the war, shall be excluded? 
It is beyond dispute that immigrants 
should be admitted upon their physical 
and mental merits. It is also beyond dis¬ 
pute that, in times of business stagnation, 
immigration should be restricted. But 
why discriminate between different na¬ 
tionalities? There are jails and lunatic 
asylums in the northern countries and 
there are great cultural institutions, col¬ 
leges and museums in eastern and southern 
countries. People drink whiskey or wine 
and fight and commit crimes in Sweden, 
England and Germany as well as in Rus¬ 
sia, Italy or Poland. Why the preference 
of Nordic over non-Nordic? 
As far as the assimilation of different 
races in this country goes, we still have 
an influential Swedish and German press, 
and this is after a 30 to 40-year-old set¬ 
tlement of these nationals in great bodies. 
The fact is, that none of these foreign 
newspapers and cultural activities, be 
they German or Hebrew, Swedish or 
Italian, do any harm to the unity of this 
country. They raise the cultural and 
spiritual level of the different nationals, 
•and thereby also raise the level of the en¬ 
tire American spiritual life. At no time 
are those activities opposed to American¬ 
ism in the sense of opposing democratic 
and spiritual or moral ideals. 
It is the narrow-mindedness and snob¬ 
bish assertion of superiority, through 
racial, accidental parentage, that en¬ 
dangers the unity and harmonious co-liv¬ 
ing of different nationals in these United 
States. To illustrate this view, there was 
the clouding of important national issues 
in the recent national compaign, by 
the fight of pro and anti-Klan forces in 
this country. “Men are* created alike. 
Yi ii’ libert y an< ^ pursuit of happiness to 
all, was proclaimed by the fathers of 
the Revolution. They had no ideas of 
discrimination in back of the noble ideals. 
Are these ideals dead to the American 
people? Let us hope they are as alive 
as ever before. Let us not discriminate 
between peoples because of their names 
and birthplace. Let us judge the immi- 
grant as well as the native upon their 
individual merits, not their family 
trees. We are a11 e 9 ual before the law 
of God. Why should we be different be- 
lore the law of men? Hatred and preju¬ 
dice or suspicion toward one another as 
preached by individuals, as well as secret 
and non-secret organizations, will not 
make better men or women out of any 
of us. Unprejudiced consideration of 
virtues and vices of all immigrants living 
among us, as well as our native neighbors, 
will benefit us greatly and weld us into 
a spiritually strong nation, respected and 
honored by the entire world. a. P. 
Toms River, N. J. 
Child Labor Amendment 
In regard to the child labor amend¬ 
ment, why is it that the farmer, who is 
the cheapest paid in the world, is always 
against reform and progress? Why, the 
one who suffers most ought to be more 
for radical changes. You know that many 
working people reaching the age of 36 or 
over are actually played out, used out. 
Why? Because they started to work too 
young. Many a man of 20 years of age 
is overworked; their engine is worked 
out. Have a look in the woolen mills of 
New England where so many children 
under age are employed. The employers 
don’t want old people; young blood means 
more gold, more profit. Why are work¬ 
ing people smaller than rich people? Be¬ 
cause in the time when their body is sup¬ 
posed to grow they are hitched to the 
harness. I have seen the young children 
working and fainting while at work. In 
the time when they ought to go to school, 
when they ought to live and enjoy being 
out in open, brilliant sunlight, they were 
lying in the trenches of the black sweat¬ 
shops of New England. A child grows 
until 18 years, and some until 21. When 
children start work early it stops their 
growth. The human race was not creat¬ 
ed to make profit for anybody, m. c. 
New Jersey. 
R. N.-Y.—That seems to be a fair ex¬ 
ample of the argument for the child labor 
amendment. We know men over 70, hale 
and hearty, still working in the mills. We 
deny that the rich are always larger than 
working people. That is nonsense! 
Outlawed Note 
I have a judgment note dated Febru¬ 
ary 1, 1911, for $200. The maker died 
last January and now the administrator 
of the estate claims he does not have to 
pay it, as it was held too long. Please 
advise me if I can collect it? The note 
was given in Pennsylvania and the giver 
died and the estate is in New York 
State. a. w. M. 
West Virginia. 
The statute of limitation expired on 
the note in question six years from the 
date of last payment, unless there was 
a new written agreement to pay or un¬ 
less the debtor was outside of the juris¬ 
diction so that action could not be com¬ 
menced against him. N. T. 
