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...These two divisions of the "foreign" element require of us education and deportation respectively. Until these two problems are solved, however, a third measure is immediately necessary. It is the rigid restriction or prohibition of immigration for the next few years. Each time such a bill has appeared in Congress it has secured stronger support, so that the present immigration bill is very likely to become law in the next few months. Its purpose is to safeguard the present and future of America from the dangerous accumulation of material, which the melting pot cannot assimilate. Without such provision, this...
...Randolph Coolidge, Jr., '83, will address the University League of Nations Society in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, tonight at 7.45. Mr. Coolidge was one of the originators of the League of Free Nations in New England and was prominent at the meetings of the recent Congress in Boston. All members of the University are invited to be present...
...England Congress for a League of Free Nations opens at the Tremont Temple this morning at 10.30 o'clock. President Lowell will be the presiding officer at the first session, and addresses will be made by Hon. William Howard Taft, Dr. Henry Van Dyke '94, Governor, Coolidge, and Mayor Andrew J. Peters...
Today's program at the congress is as follows...
...army of the unemployed is daily assuming more threatening proportions in the United States. While Congress is groping with conservative haste among a multitude of bills designed to relieve the situation, the curtailment of war industries and the rapid discharge of soldiers is adding thousands each week to the already over-supplied labor market. When we add to these two potent sources of unemployed the present inevitable halt in the industrial machinery while it is changing from war to peace operation, the problems of relief become both grave and complex in the extreme...