4 (Sec 1 Statesman; Salem, Ore.. Simdcry, Nor. SI. 1954 '
4 (Drejaonatesman
"No Favor Sways Us. No fear Shalt Atce".
i From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
Statesman . Publishing f Company :
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
Published every morning. Business office 190
North Church St.. Salem. Ore, Telephone 4-6811
Entered at the postoffice at alem. Ore, as second
class matter under act of Congress March 3. 1S79.
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1 I ior repubUcaUon of all local news printed in
this newspaper. i -
Taxpayers Wake Up j
Taxpayers up iri Lane county met in
Springfield one night last week to form a
taxpayers'- association, backers hope the
membership will grow to 1,000. A speaker
Stated the purpose of such associations as
being the study of budgets of .taxing districts
and making recommendations' for cuts ''when
they're going too far." )
We are not surprised at the move. Taxes
are beginning io bite; and with the proba
bility of a state property tax in another jyear
the bite will go deeper. , f : .
I These taxpayer revolts are not pretty af
fairs. In fact they can be pretty rough. We
Recall how they developed in the depression
,0f the 1930s. Once a rugged group of tax
payers from Yamhill county filled Governor
iMeier's office to : demand relief. Marion
county had a live taxpayers' assocation,, with
Henry Zorn, farmer! in North-Marion county,
as president. It . was ' on hand in strength
. when the county budget committee met and
put in its licks for strict economy. This group
sponsored a referendum on an appropriation
lor higher education ""after Governor Meier
-had lopped off a big chunk of .it by veto.
The referendum when filed deprived the
schools of the money for the period before
' jthe election, and then the voters defeated
theappropriation which had become mean-)
jngless for school support iri the biennium.
That was voted on n 1932, at the same time
the Zorn-MacPhersbn bill for consolidating (
the state higher institutions bf learning was
voted on and defeated. The big argument
back of this initiative was economy.- ;
All taxing units have gone a long way
" from the days of depression budgets. Admit
tedly we can't go back and don't want to go
back to those days. Neither! do we want a
; tax revolution to start because it usually
"results in hacking and slashing, and hurting.
Tax leagues can be) of valufc in restraining
; government indulgence. They are also needed
to promote greater? equity in taxation. We
hope they will not become! instruments of
blind, fury of irate taxpayers. ! '
This week letter; carriers J will distribute
envelopes to houses' inviting contributions to
, the fund to fight muscular dystrophy, Then
the firemen have -agreed to call and pick
the envelopes up. Muscular dystrophy is a
dread disease about "which little is known and
for which there is no ciire. Money is needed
for research on how to combat it. However,
we .think it is wrong to recruit men in public
service uniform like the postal carriers and
firemen to conduct -the canvass. It can't help
but compromise ' them and the public. jThe
cause, though, seenis to be worthy. '
At United Nations Russia's Vishinsky has
turned on the switch for sweetness and light
and is expected to make unanimous the vote
to set up a scientific conference for interna
tional exploitation iof atomic energy." V. K.
Krishna Menon of j India wants to have his
say on Monday but the" amended resolution
is expected to be approved j , ,
Criktrc off lfnriiAlrinrlic 'Atomic'
ill wa i a ma
Statement i Fail to Answer Vitial Questions
By Joseph and ,
Stewart Alsop ' J
- WASHINGTON i Republic an
Majority Leader WDliam Know
land's now-famous Speech warn
ing against the dangers of an
"atomic stalemate" has1 bej,
much criticized for war-monger-ing,
doom - merchandising, and
bad logic. Yet it
attempt to an
swer certain, in
convenient ques
tions which Sen.
Knowland ,
when be
about
talks
his
speech. f .
Suppose, he says, that the time
has come when the Soviets have
the means utterly toj destroy this
country. Suppose they mobilized
the Red Army on I the Finnish
frontier, and demand a "friend
ly" Finnish government which
would mean, of
course, a Sovi
etized Finland.
T h e n. Sen.
Knowland asks
won't a great
many people,
here as well as
ab road, be
saying that af
ter all, we have
no treaty obli
gations to Fin
land, and anyway why risk de
struction for a lot of Finns? And
won't this sort of reaction tend
to be repeated, in situation 'after'
situation, so that in the end the
United States will be isolated and
paralyzed? . M ; j f
If there is a convincing answer
to these two questions, then Sen."
Knowland's gloomy, thesis that
an atomic stalemate will permit
the Soviets to nibble the rest! of
the world to death falls to the
ground. But in all the ctiticiim
of Sen. Knowland's, position, no
really convincing answers to the
questions be has posed have been
forthcoming.. And it is at least
worth noting that the Senator's
speech was no mere sudden ges
ture. He thought about it long
and hard before he made it
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milk products
to build up a
passes age 64.
Vw .
He first thought of making such
a speech during the recent cam
paign. Knowland Was genuinely
disturbed by 4he "peace biaef
as it was developed during the
campaign. ; The campaign line
. began to sound te Us ears' sns
pkionsly like "peace at any.
Mice." He made aa eamoain
time speech, warning against this
kind of peace, bat ne eee paid
much attention, '
' After the election hei decided
definitely that he ought to Speak
his mind, however inconvenient
this might be to the Administra
tion. He, carefully considered
. the time and place. He decided
" that the speech had to be made
before last Wednesday's meeting
of Congressional leaders at the
- White House. Otherwise, it would
be interpreted abroad as an of
ficial trial balloon, and this be
wanted to avoid. : f
' He decided also1 that it ought
to be delivered en the Senate
' floor, rather than in some other
public forum, in order t give it
all possible 1 weight. . But la or
der to avoid any Impression of
a Congressional concert te seixa
control of foreign policy, he was
careful te consult with ae ether
Senator before m a k 1 n g his
speech.-; ; ( . ij ..
AH this suggests how very seri
ous Knowland is about the issue
he .has raised. His purpose isJ
- First,1 he wants to wave what
he calls a "yellow warning flag"
before the Western governments,,
including the Eisenhower administration.-
Rightly or wrongly, he
senses that a deal with the So
viets may be in the making. He
wants to serve notice in advance
that he will lead a fight against
any deal which smacks of ap-1-peasement
which recognizes, for
example, Soviet control over the j
European satellites. ; . j !
Second. Knowland wants also U j
wave a warning nag before the '
Communist bloc. He wants te
serve notice ea the ; Cemmanist :
nderi that there is a price which '
the United 'States win lot pay
. for peace. . ... i ;
Bypass and Business ;
. The Stayton Mail and McMinnville News
register gave The Statesman the merry
Ha Ha on the subject of highways bypassing
cities, after The Statesman ran a picture and
stories of diversion of traffic to the new No.
99 bypass with consequent f allng off of busi
ness .among establishments catering particu
larly to the motoring public. j Well, The
Statesman prints the news; but that doesn't
mean-we thinkrthe bypass entrances should
be barricaded to force motorists, through the
heart of the city. Nor do the injured busi
nessmen seek that. They do think a change
in the signs would be helpful to them and
those who are using Highway 99.
i ' The Statesman in supporting the highway
commission program for locating new high
ways where they will be of greatest service
.has not denied there wpuld be some loss of
business by roadside establishments. 'That
has been true;; whenever a relocation of any
consequence was ordered. The bypass, how
ever, does delight motorists and truckers
who do not want to stop in the city and "it
reduces-traffic congestion inthe city io the
' satisfaction of other users and of those who
live along the arterial streets.
'; Put the roads where fromthe standpoint,
of maximum usefulness they belong. , j
Would Drop Passenger Service ,
; The Portland Traction Company is seeking
. approval from the Public Utilities Commis
sioner to discontinue its passenger service on
its Bellrose fand Oregon City interurban
lines. Hearings are being held at which' resi
dents, along the route protest vigorously any'
dropping of the service. The company has
' presented figures showing losses from haul
ing passengers though its freight runs keep
the whole operation, in the black.
It's a familiar story by now, the decline of
passenger travel on the rails. Steam-diesel
railroads hav? discontinued many passenger
trains, and most of the interurban lines which
once flourished "have "been pulled up or re
stricted to freight hauling. Those who find
the trains a convenience or virtual necessity
naturally resist losing the service. The real,
competitor of rail lines now is the private
automobile. The PUC will have to decide this
Portland Traction case in the light of the
testimony at the hearings. If j the service is
dropped the ; travelers iwill promptly find
some other means of transportation. They
will not stay home. . ' i
E. W. Tiedeman, dairy department director
for the American Farm Bureau told the Ore
gon Farm Bureau at its annual meeting in
Medford that: the milk industry is going to be
revolutionized in the next ten veSrs. and that
and even milk itself, will be
taken over by substitutes. That's putting" it
pretty strong; Substitutes have been crowd
ing hutter and have made a little headway
against ice cream, but so far no substitute
for fresh milk is in sight, especially for chil
dren It remains the most perfect food and
will for longer than ten years.
. The , administration seems to be trying to
connect Senator! Guy Cordon with a job and
hjs name 'is mentioned in connection with
the post of ambassador to India. Cordon has
very definite talents, but this'job seems the.
one he is least; fitted for. He may push all
tenders aside .and return to the practice of
law "in Washington or Oregon or both" he
said after the election. Only it isn't too easy
good law practice when one
1 Vice President Nixon is doing his best to
insure peaceful! coexistence for Joe McCarthy
and Senator Watkins, et al. :
Stalemate7
Third,' hd wanti to remind the .
American people, that the price
for peace can be too high. He
fears that the Eisenhower admin
istration may find itself isolated
and without popular support if
in some future crisis it is neces-f
sary in the national interest to
risk war.!..-
;
Finally, Knowland wants te In
itiate another great debate on
American policy. He says frank- j
Yy that he does not know where
such a debate will lead or where
It ught te lead. For himself, he
says with apparent sincerity, 'he
rules out preventive war. He does
not rule out much higher expen.
; tares for conventioal arms, or :
the drawing of a "thus far and
ae farther" line right around the
perimeter of the Communist em
pire, or some ether course as yet
unconsidered.
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, In any event, he Is sure that
the most public possible re-examination
of our strategic position,
with all the key civilian and mili
tary leaders parading before Con
gress, ' is now essential. For
Knowland Is old-fashioned enough
to believe that when the Ameri
can people know the essential
facts of their situation, they will
react wisely to them. -
Knowland may be wrong. There
may be, for example, seme aa- i
disclosed' reason why ear posi
tion is really getting better and
better, as claimed, while the
Soviet Union is obtaining the
. means te destroy as. . Bat no
one who has talked te him can
doubt that the big, lumbering Re
publican leader is absolutely sin
cere in the course he has chosen. .
"I have three grandchildren,M
he says. "God knows I don't
want them in a war. But if the
Soviets get a decisive atomic
stockpile, and then we. have to
choose between surrender and a
hopeless war, I don't want my
grandchildren asking me why I
didn't try to do something about
it, when I was in the U. S. Sen
ate and the United States still
had a big lead in atomic, weap
ons." :
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tCoprnstt. 164. Xe York RwaU
! Trams. xbcJ
Well, I was wandering around inside this super -market
the other day looking for breakfast cereals. I found a store
employe busy marking down candy cigarets. So-1 asked him.
..;... . 'Tprpah'" V aiH IKrnslrlir 'f?nrtainlv
I I
know. The
boxes. ,What
vegetable or
A ei! 1 "Well, I don't know " I began.
U l -, -. j ... ,
I & I I j "Take these Atomic Cornies," lie said,!
i 7T getting down a box. "Inside every box is a;
coupon. You save enough of these coupons and you get a.
surplus Navy submarine. And over here's a big favorite
with the kiddies. Nibble-Nabbles. Each box contains a part
of a , real sub-machine gun. Buy 3,682 boxes, put. the parts:
together and you got a genuine gun. These big boxes here are!
Oatie-Floaties. Iiveaca box are a fishing pole, a set Of lures,! '
a jar! of salmon eggs and a can of , live (jumbo-size) angle '
worms. .V j 1 H
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' My attention was distracted by a mother and Jier small
son who had invaded the cereal department. . j.
"I jiion't want any Snakie-Flakies," he lad shouted. "They
onlj shave white mice in 'em. And I've already got:43 now.
I want Pasture-Pards. They got a octopus in each box." j
' "AN octopus, dear,' hlis mother corrected him. j
Something tugged at my sleeve. . - J s ' ;
"Please, mister," said a small girl, "would jyou, mind
reaching, me down a box of Rustle-Crumbs. I'm paving the
tops. Two thousand more and I get a free trip td Algiers."
t i . - ' ' ; . ': ! ' !
f i t , i
The 'store employe who had originally started out; to help
me was still searching around. -j
"Here's a dahdy," he said, slowly reading the fine print
on a large red box of Granny's Old Fashioned something; or
other, "After this box had been emptied, you can soak it in
water, roll it into a ball, attach a fuse to it and use it to
blow up stumps." I ' ? I . j .
He looked at me hopefully.! I mumbled somethiBg about
beintf allergic to explosives.
"This cereal ihere," he said, shaking a solid-looking boa
"contaiis in each and every box ar folding camp stove, a pair
f roUer skates, a croquet set,
lacut ran and saUSaKe-maUDK nuenwe. juia
and a sausage-making
for only $10.98 a box, too."
. : i .
WeU I thought, what the heck. He'll think I'm a piker
if I expect nothing but cereal in cereal.. So I wrote out a
Check for three! boxes; of Nifty-Nuggets. One of he clerics
helped me carry; them to the car. Well, sir, the next morning,
my wife opened a box for breakfast. And the kids were
pleased for all ofUwo or three minutes with thei treasure.
But when it came time to eat we couldn't find any cereal
in the box. Bui there was a coupon, While the rest of s
listene'd in hungry silence my wife read it. "Because the
makers of Nifty-Nuggets, the breakfast food choice of the
U. S. Senate, try to cram these boxes full of, as many prizes
as possible there is no room for this wonderful cereal. How-1'
; f thAsV ennnons tlus 30 cents in coin will entitle
you to a box of Nifty-Nuggets.'
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Time iFlies:
10 Years Ago
Nov. tlj 1844
A plain GI Joe's travel prior
ity "bumped" royalty right off a
ewnmerical airliner. The royalty,
Austria's former Arcduke Felix,
eoroute by plane from Pooatello,
Idaho to Los Angeles. '
A national cofMnuoicatioiis
crisis developed as Washington
telephone operators walked out
in sympathy with Ohio's "hello
girls" and Detroit workers were
preparing to follow suit, despite
a war labor board warning.
25 Years Ago
' Nov.' til 19M
il
Seven additional boys'
and
girl's 4-H clubs have been organ
ized m Marion County schools.
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The SatetV
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SITE FOR INSTITUTION
DISCUSSED
To The Editor:
I am surprised at your editorial
of November 17th, regarding the
intermediate institution i t e.
From the standpoint of a tax
payer find one familiar with soil
structure, .1 think the purchase
of marginal farm land a very
poor investment.!
If the State wants a farm then
good farmland should be ac
quired If a farm is not needed
for the new institution, then it
could very well! be located on
present property owned by the
State. ! j
Could it be the St. Paul site
was selected because a' promi
nent Republican Party official
owns the property? As a tax
payer and a citizen I am very
curious about this whole transi
action.
E. Butcher
. Woodburn
ALTERNATE ROUTE
To The Editor:
I just read your item along
with the picture "By pass sub
ject of bitter complaint' and its
effect on South 12th St. I do not
go along with you as to its effect
on 12th St So far I have failed
to hear any complaint . We were
all glad to get the trucks off our
harrow street And as for pas
senger car traffic, it flows much
more freely and without much
loss, if any. And I think most of
us are pleased with the change.
But you know it could have
been better for all of Salem, if
it had not been for the selfishness
of some. I to try and force all
99E traffic through downtown
Salem and leave South 12th St
and South East Salem as a
fourth rate section of town. With
the same money that was spent
on the bypass, j we could have
had a nice 4-lane highway from
the 12th i St Junction on the
south end and straight north on
12th and along the railroad to the
underpass in North Salem. With
signs at both ends and all the
way along pointing to downtown.
Thea everyone would have been
happy , ' ; !..! - L . ..
i 1 J. K. Cloyd
803 & 12th St .
sir. What do you save?" ' ; ,
"Save?" I said. ' . , ! . '
?. "Yes," he said, walking ' over to . a wall
lined' with stacks of breakfast goodies., "You
loot The gimmicks inside the
do your kids like?; Animal,
mineral?" '
30 feet ot genuine norsenair
stuff
sells
t
!
.. . L-m I
tave mese coupons:
From Thaj
Statesman Filo
with a total of 18 dubs, 13 of
which are sewing groups, three
, cooking and one each rabbit
chicken and home making.
Several car loads of big onions
have been sold and f topped out
the past' several days. Those
who have sold one or more cars
are Clyde Leedy, Frank Isham,
Wm. Daughterly"" and Ernest
Dunn. The price continued i to
hover in the vicinity of one dol
lar per hundred. j
40 Years Ago ,
Not tl. mC
in the state is owned by a wo
man, according to a statement
made by Stat Labor Commis
sioner O. P. Hoff The shops em
ploy 663 workmen and the plants
are valued at $253,107. ' j
Valve
"SUPREME BETRAYAL" t
Tb The Editor: - , j
This is an attempt to express
the feeling of one of some 350,
000 Oregon voters who put Wayne
Morse in the United -States Sen
ate four years ago. i At that time
there were not enough Democrats
in the state to defeat him, that
. there are more now, is not due
. to his manuvering, but to the
incredible stupidity of a large
segment, of party folk who ought,
to know better. " j ' 1
There is no criticism of i the
senator's voting record these
past four years, every legislator
has the right and privilege, as
well as duty to vote in accord-
ance with his honest convictions.
However, this does hot minimize
his obligation to the party and
platform that placed him in the
office he now holds! It is not a
partisan matter but a trust im--.
posed upon him that can not be
shifted lightly. It is a question
of fidelity .or subversion i of a
sacred trust ' f ' . !.
The platform on; the basis of
which he was elected, has not
materially changed: these inter
vening years, if he has changed
his viewpoint to such an extent
.that he can so longer support it,
the only honorable course, in my
judgment is to resign his of
fice and try for re-election on
a platform he can support f
, - I can not find printable words
adequate to, express the denun
ciation of the course he says he
- will take in the organization of
. the new congress. . It so happens
that his one vote may change the
entire complexion ; of the new
congress. It is too great a
power, to be entrusted to the
keeping of irresponsible, and un
i principled individuals. , f j
To say this does not make me
feel any better, have waited a
; , long time for some-one else- to
1 say it, but am firmly convinced
that it should be done before the
SUPREME . Betrayal so glibly
boasted about for. January next,
v is consummated. I I
, ' John A. Blank
403 N. 20th St
A skunk produces about a third
of an ounce of the odorous chenv
kal it uses for defense in a week.
To Drop Russ
Offer to Talk
. i i - : v'-' -
1 By J. M. ROBERTS A.
Ass&Uted Press News Analyst
For years, every' time the Rus
sians have made some gesture to
ward a European : settlement,
France has wavered about 1 some
move toward Western European
defense unity. '
This time, things are different
When Russia made her Bronosal
for a Europewide conference for
establishment of a mutual defease
system jt was immediately recog
nized, as it was recognized before
the four-power conference at Be
lin last year, as another move de
signed to ' ston iacorooration of
Western Germany into a European
Ac t '
Britain, the United States and
'others reacted auicklv. Thpv wre
not, interested in another confer
ence until after Western European
Union had been ratified, which
was expected to take several
months. , '
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France was a little slow to react
There was some worry, among
other parties to the Paris agree
ments that she might again grasp
at some straw which might in the
end save her from agreementytp
West Germany's rearmament.,
But Premier Mendes-France lias
spoken out firmly now. It would
be dangerous, he said, to attempt
a conference this month, as Mos
cow suggested. When the defense
arrangements have been complet
ed it will be timeenough, he said.
This should lay, once and for all,
the fear entertained by some in
the United States that Mendes
France, who was credited with
killing the old idea for a European
Defense Community, was in reality
still stalling on rearmament. -
It does not, of course, guarantee
that WEU will be ratified. The re
action ot either the French or Ger
man parliament could go against
that regardless of the determina
tion of Mendes-France or Chancel
lor Adenauer. But .it has a good
start in Germany.'-
'
With the Premier's strength hiu
lind it as it was not behind EDC,
and with the French Socialists uni
fied in a wav when thev were not
for EDC, chances in France are
greatly brightened. The over
whelming vote for British ratifica
tion, despite the large number of
abstentions, also will encourage
the Europeans. ' . ,
Ratification will mean that when
another period of negotiation with
Russia does begin, she will have to
be vastly more realistic about the
German and Austrian unification
problems than she has been be
fore. ,
1 Despite the fact mat West Ger.
many's new strength will be. re-
sinctea to defense, and that she
has disavowed any intent to seek
reunification exceDt bv twarpfnl
means, her changed status, her
new power, her autonomy within
a Western Dartnershin. will vaetlv
increase East German resentment
toward its own enthralhnent and
in the long-run weaken Russia'
hold mere.
TLC Used in
Cafe Bakery
SACRAMENTO, Calif. JF) "We
make and bake our own pies' with
TLC," reads a menu in a Sacra
mento restaurant t ''
What's TLC? ) -
"With fender loving care," says
the waitresses. -
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coverages and conditions, re
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renewal. Call me for more in-,
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Phone 4-2215
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DTP IMJJUS TO ClD3'
(Continued
Chinese Exclusion Act was
passed in 1882. In 1917 bars
were raised against Orientals
(Japanese) in the wake of anti
Japanese ii agitation in Califor
nia. ' It was the Immigration
Act of 1924, introduced by Al
bert Johnson, Representative
from Hoquiam, Wash., which
really reduced the stream of
immigration to a dribble; It
continued, restriction by coun
tries of national origin in! the
1921 acf but made it tighter,
limiting the annual immigra
tion to two per cent of the
number of persons from each
country residing in the United
i States according to the census
of 1890. if
jThis law and the depression
of! the 1930s- virtually shut; off
all immigration for a time--in
fact there was a backward flow
,for a year or two.. World Warj
II interfered with migration
until gates were opened j for
more generous reception of refugees-
and displaced persons.'
Thefirst general revision of, the
192 immigration law came
with the ' McCarran-Walter 1 act '
of 1952J While it. is severely
criticized for alleged discrimi
nation it did go farther toward
putting Orientals on an equality
with those of pther races. Our
laws, hOwever, , are now both
strict- and in some respects
quite harsh, though some
1 chance for tolerance1 is pro
vided through the department
of justice. , ;
- Through the years the source
of our. immigration varied : ex
ceedingly. Up until 1885 immi
grants came chiefly from North
ern Europe, at first mostly from
the British Isles with infusions
' during colonial times of Dutch
and Swedes and a few French.
The rush of Irish following the
potato famine there in the first
third of; the 19th century pro
voked hostility which bore fruit
in the American Know-Nothing
party, opposing immigration.; In
the middle and latter part: of
the century there was a steady
immigration from Germany and
the Scandinavian countries.
JTheir "layers" may be found in
the advancing frontier: large
German' elements in Cincinnati,
St Louis, Milwaukee; large
from $50
galls y
1 others j
in a trio of rin$ cUstangwfehed ior their . .
unusual settings. In those show at the top
and centerthe decorative siwaH stone nestle
in the graceful passby design. In the other.
j . they pave each side of the large diamond.
1 All in fourteen karat yetto gold.
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j No Interest or Service Charge -
Prices indud Federal tax Charge or budget
h Costs No More
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Scandinavian elements in Wis
consin, Minnesota, the Dakotas.
After 1885 the source of our
immigration shifted to South
ern Europe: Slavic .elements
from the troubled Austro-Hun-
garian empire; Italians, 1 par
ticularly from South Italy and
Sicily, Greeks, Jews from Rus
sia and Poland. This later im
migration did not flow out' to
the agricultural frontiers: the
free land was pretty well gone
by 1890. Instead it poured into
the industrial centers. A poly
glot population dug the. coal,
made the steel, dug the ditches,
worked in garment industries.
Our- big cities became zoned
into Little Sicilies and centers
for Poles and Slovaks and Jews.
The "older" stock was resent
ful of thi influx, alien as it
often' was in language and , re
ligion and culture. This resent
ment plus labor's fear of alien
competition accounted for the
restrictive: legislation.
The story of how this immi
gration was absorbed (some
times not assimilated) into the
American culture is one of the
epics in American , history.
Some of it has been told in
books such as "The Promised
Land" by Mary Antin; and per
sonal accounts by writers like
Louis Adamic and Michael
Pupin. The second generation
suffered in being caught be
tween two cultures, the old
European of their parents, and
the new American I of the
schools and their environment
But this immigration made a
contribution whose value we are
beginning to realize. The New
York Times noted this in its
comment on the closing of Ellis
Island:
"They rewarded with mag
nificent gifts the country that
had received them with" such
magnificent hospitality. ' They
gave us scientists, artists,
writers, actors, philosophers,
.teachers. They produced great
1 men of affairs. Their descend
ants sit in Congress. They make
part of what is now the Amer
ican temperament a livelier
and richer national personality
than could have existed without
them." '
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