CZECHOSLOVAK INDEPENDENCE
days, for the purpose of giving their children instruction not otherwise obtainable.
Criminality of the graver sort is quite rare among Czechs. Speaking of the Czechs in Chicago, Capek states that the Czech percentage of burglary is the same as the Canadian and the German, but both of these latter nationalities have higher percentages of the total of gainful offenses and of the specific crimes of forgery and fraud, of larceny and receiving stolen goods.
In a report to the Congressional Committee on Naturalization and Immigration, H. H. Laughlin, of the Carnegie Institution, places the Czechoslovaks in the very forefront of desirable immigrants. The report is a racial analysis of the in mates of institutions for the care of defectives, which in turn was analyzed in The Survey, and results of the analysis are found in The Literary Digest for Feburary 23, 1924, from which the following is especially pertinent:
If we are required to draw conclusions respecting these main sources of immigrants, it is clear that these data present immigration as least desirable from Ireland, the Balkans and Russia, in that order; most desirable, from Austria-Hungary (including the present Czechoslovakia) and parts of Jugoslavia and Poland, Germany and Great Britain, in that order.
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