In No. 8 of Lietuva (and also in other Lithuanian newspapers) the problem of how to help our Lithuanian immigrants has been raised. Many of them have been sent back from Ellis Island simply because they had no clear address of their destination. If the Lithuanians had had a Lithuanian immigration bureau at Ellis Island, or in New York, or Brooklyn, may of our Lithuanian immigrants, who were sent back without great cause or reason, would have been left here. Many of these immigrants were political refugees from Russia. They have been sent back to the prisons of Russia because we have no such bureau to protect them.

Our main organizations, such as the Lithuanian Roman-Catholic Alliance of America, the Lithuanian Roman-Catholic Federation, the Lithuanian Alliance of America, and the Lithuanian Socialist Alliance of America (also the benevolent societies), must take into consideration the immigration problem.

Our liberal societies and newspapers have been discussing this problem for some time, but the clerical societies (and especially the clergy) said nothing on this matter. The clergy have been preaching the brotherliness of Christ for a long time, although they have never showed or ever practiced the brotherliness that they have been preaching. Now is the time when the clergy can prove what they preach.

I think the New York City and Brooklyn Lithuanians ought to establish such an office, and then all the American Lithuanians would help them financially.

P. Galskis.