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This paper examines the economic reasons advanced in the U.S. both by some scholars and by some labor unions in order to justify the limitations placed on immigration with the intent of making their moral evaluation. Whenever one speaks of immigration into the U.S., one must therefore always keep this in mind: any easing of immigration laws cannot in any way effect unfavorably the employment of workers, the expansion of investments and the productivity of labor. It is true that if the immigrants are assisted by public funds they will create an additional demand for consumers' goods including durable consumers' goods such as houses. This difficult housing problem rising out of the present distribution of income seems to give a proper justification for the clauses limiting immigration. There is a consistent correlation of direct proportion between immigration cycles and business cycles. From 1890 to 1950 immigration declines while unemployment rises and vice versa. It is furthermore noteworthy to point out that the peculiar aspect upon which the Catholic Church was urged to pronounce its verdict: the right of the human person not to be prevented from immigration into some country. More than once the Holy Father Pope Pius XII has manifested his skeptical views about the economic trend which tends solely towards the increasing of the purchasing power of the raising of the standard of living and the realizing of a program for full employment.

A series of forty-eight stimulus patterns were painted and converted to sound by the pattern playback. At the Haskins Laboratories, New York, experiments concerned with resonant consonants have been carried out in which the approach was somewhat different from that employed in the experiments to be described in this paper. The basic pattern used in the Haskins experiments was probably designed to compensate for the absence of third format, since an addition of it to the Haskins pattern made alteration necessary to gain a satisfactory approximation to the speech sound desired.

This paper offers a look at the involvement of the National Catholic Welfare Conference (N.C.W.C) in immigration. The Bishops of the U.S. established a Bureau of Immigration in their main N.C.W.C. headquarters in Washington in the early 1920s. Offices were opened both in New York and El Paso, Texas at subsequent dates in order to handle immigrants coming through those ports of entry into the U.S. In 1938 when many Catholics were being persecuted by the Nazis, the Board of Trustees of N.C.W.C. established the Catholic Committee for Refugees, whose principal function was to assist victims of Nazi persecution. In December of 1945 the President of the U.S. issued a directive authorizing the use of normal immigration quotas for refugees of Eastern Europe and refugees who had been persecuted by the Nazis. War Relief Services--N.C.W.C. was called upon to expand its U.S. and European staffs vastly in order to be able to handle the Catholic displaced persons. In order to be eligible for admission to the U.S. under the Displaced Persons Act a refugee was required to have a guarantee of a home and a job. The N.C.W.C. has appropriated 400,000 dollars of its own funds to be used as counterparts for travel loans which are supported by the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration.

The article presents a summery to a paper that was delivered in the fifty-first and fifty-second annual meeting of the American Sociological Society. The paper investigates the differential mobility rate among an assumed middleclass stratum in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. The data revealed Irish and English ancestry to be positively associated with longer residence, higher educational achievement, membership in professional and proprietor occupations an higher income.

Highlights the symposium sponsored by the Data Sciences Laboratory of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories at the Hotel Somerset, Boston, Massachusetts on November 11-14, 1964. Objectives of the symposium; Presentation of invited papers; Attendance.