Distribution of Admitted Aliens and Other Residents; Proceedings of the Conference of State Immigration, Land, and Labor Officials (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...of Colorado, and the methods that we can determine by talking these things over should be valuable. I have found that the librarians of the State are good agencies through which to work. We are like the minister who comes into a new community for the purpose of holding a revival. The first ihing he has to do is to line up the members of the church and gel them into good working order. That is what we are trying to do in Wisconsin. We are trying to convince our own people in the southern sections of the opportunities that can be found in the more undeveloped parts. We are doing this partly through the agency of the public librarians. The ladies that have charge of the libraries in all towns receive publications from our department. They place them on the reading tables, together with the placards which we issue showing where Wisconsin stands first in crop yield. Then these librarians report to us the results of this distribution, and we issue many hundreds, yes, thousands, of pamphlets to people in our own State through the agency of the ladies who are working in the public libraries. As one member suggested this morning--the gentleman from Maryland, I think it was--the immigrant from the old country has his destination pretty much in mind when he starts out. We have tried to get in touch with the German, Scandinavian, and Polish colonies in Wisconsin. We have written to all the county clerks and to all the county judges asking for the names of community leaders, those who are more or less prominent in their own colonies. We have written these men, asking them to send us names of their friends and relatives who are living in Iowa or Illinois or Texas, or any other State, or in Europe--men whom they believe would be interested in getting publications about Wi...