Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1920 — ONE MILLION FOREIGNERS GO [ARTICLE]

ONE MILLION FOREIGNERS GO

Nearly 1,000,000 More Ready to Return to Home Lands. Ne.w York, Jan. 7. —Nearly one million foreign-born laborers halve left the United States for Europe the armistice was signed and 1,000,000 more will leave as soon as passport regulations are made less strict, according to a statement by the international coiuncil of which General Coleman du Pont is chiairman. Tens of thousands of aliens are reported to be giving up their jobs preparatory to returning to their home lands, and many “as the result of radical prejudices will take back with them stories about America Whitfb will make this country less attractive to immigrants.” “The independence that has been granted the countries of Europe,” it was said, “and the fact that 30,000,00 0 persons, women largely, are drawing aid from their governments in the form of . pensions, are factors which detract from the incentive heretofore existing for foreigners to ' seek their fortunes in the United States.” A nation-wide educational movement among thirty nationalities in this country, having for its purpose the endeavor to “adjust the for-eign-born to American life,” has

been undertaken by the council.