The Saturday evening post . country to another country in one yearstime in the history of the world. Part of them went be-cause the agents of steamship lines painted glowing pic-tures of the ease with which money could be made inAmerica; part of them went because agents of big manu-facturing concerns circulated through the crowded districtsand mentioned jobs in American mills at wages thatseemed fabulous to the poor peasants; and by far the largestpart went because relatives and friends and acquaintanceswho had already gone to America wrote back to theirhome towns telling of easy money and bri
The Saturday evening post . country to another country in one yearstime in the history of the world. Part of them went be-cause the agents of steamship lines painted glowing pic-tures of the ease with which money could be made inAmerica; part of them went because agents of big manu-facturing concerns circulated through the crowded districtsand mentioned jobs in American mills at wages thatseemed fabulous to the poor peasants; and by far the largestpart went because relatives and friends and acquaintanceswho had already gone to America wrote back to theirhome towns telling of easy money and bright lights andfine clothes, and filling the minds of the stay-at-homeswith a red-hot sizzling desire to be up and doing in order toparticipate in the delights of America—especially in theeasy-money part. To-day Austria-Hungary no longer exists. It has becomeCzechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, a part of Poland, apart of Rumania, a part of Italy and a part of inhabitants of these new divisions of an old empire. Slovak Women, Prayer Books In Hand, Waiting Outside a Church on Sunday Morning have as little in common as they hadbefore the war; but the few things thatthey have in common have grown greatlyduring the past few years. They hateeach other even more passionately than they hated eachother in 1914; they are even more dissatisfied with theirgovernments, for the most part, than they used to be; andtheir longing to go to America is violent and poignant andall pervasive. They would do anything to get to America. Before the war there was a great pother over the vastnumbers of immigrants that were pouring into theUnited States each year. The United States ImmigrationCommission proved conclusively that the bulk of the morerecent immigrants from Central and Southeastern Europehived up in settlements of their own, where they retainedthe languages and the ideals of the countries from whichthey came, and failed utterly to become Americans. Undigested and Unassimilated THE
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