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Page 246 - Government shall issue passports to Continental United States only to such of its subjects as are non-laborers or are laborers, who, in coming to the continent, seek to resume a formerly acquired domicile, to join a parent, wife, or children residing there, or to assume active control of an already possessed interest in a farming enterprise in this country; so that the three classes of laborers entitled to receive passports have come to be designated 'former residents,' 'parents, wives or children...
Page 246 - This understanding contemplates that the Japanese Government shall issue passports to the continental United States only to such of its subjects as are nonlaborers or are laborers who, in coming to the continent, seek to resume a formerly acquired domicile, to join a parent, wife, or children residing there, or to assume active control of an already possessed interest in a farming enterprise in this country...
Page 180 - I order and direct that there be established and maintained in the City of Philadelphia, a college for the promotion of and instruction in the Hebrew and cognate languages and their respective literatures and in the Rabbinical learning and literature.
Page 37 - To help preserve the ideals and sacred traditions of this, our adopted country, the United States of America; To revere its laws and inspire others to respect and obey them; To strive unceasingly to quicken the public's sense of civic duty; In all ways to aid in making this country greater and better than we found it.
Page 19 - ... an Indian, who would have conquered the forests and spanned the rivers, run from the Italian and the Pole. Alas! we too have deteriorated. We see nothing dramatic, we feel no challenge, in the fight to raise the standards of our less fortunate neighborhoods. The reason that the tenement fire-escapes are cluttered in Rivington Street and free on Fifth Avenue is not, as we fondly suppose, that immigrants prefer fire-escapes draped with bedding and pillows and children. The answer is that they move...
Page 179 - One need only go," remarked a gentile visitor, "to a Sunday morning Jewish Socialist Sunday school to get a glimpse of the leaven of socialism that is among all ages of Jewry. There over...
Page 5 - Protestant pastors, freethinkers, foreign-language newspaper editors, socialists, IWW leaders, saloonkeepers, doctors, lawyers and many others. An effort was made not so much to look into the wage, housing and political conditions of the immigrants as to study the men who in various lines are leaders, and the movements which are at present on foot, among our immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. This was done with the hope that it might throw some light on the perplexing problem of the training...
Page 5 - Investigations were carried on in many immigrant communities from the Atlantic to the Pacific, where mines, mills, homes, schools, churches, labor meetings, national and social gatherings were visited. Personal interviews were held with several hundred leaders among the immigrants. Included in this number were government officials, settlement workers, priests, Protestant pastors, freethinkers, foreign-language newspaper editors, socialists, IWW leaders, saloonkeepers, doctors, lawyers and many others.
Page 259 - Labor, and a woman, it represents a variety of religious and economic interests. The list of contents of its second annual report in January, 1916, gives a clue to its activities: Labor Camp Inspection, Bureau of Complaints, Immigrant Education, Housing, Constructive Housing, Distribution of Immigrants, Unemployment, Legislation.
Page 301 - The inefficiency of many of the Catholic parochial schools, to which in many places a majority of the immigrants' children have gone, has been a fruitful cause of dissatisfaction with the Catholic Church. The fact that in many cases, though not all, a child transferring from the parochial to the public schools has had to be set back a grade and thus lose a year, has not been an acceptable state of affairs.