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immigration laws. Unfair newspaper comment has seldom appeared, as compared with former times, and when such misrepresentations have appeared there has generally been a willingness on the part of the publishers to correct erroneous statements. All this points to a better public appreciation of the problems of administration, as well as to a better handling of such problems by the administrative machinery.

But there is also observable in the thought of the country, as set forth in the press, a significant demand for continued enforcement and strengthening of the immigration machinery, and even for further legislative safeguards in this connection. In fact, indications are not lacking of a desire on the part of the representative American public for an extension of existing quota restrictions to certain countries of this hemisphere which have not heretofore been limited by quotas. Apparently the thought of the country at large has crystallized upon the proposition of limited immigration and has reached a conclusion that restricted immigration, admittedly good in some directions, would likewise prove beneficial in other directions and should be more broadly extended than at present. Indeed, it seems strange that it should have taken so long for such a selfevident policy ...