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The article would not bear investigation. in my judgment. At least. other similar articles have not. and to show up precisely the sort of evidence the gentleman offers. I want to read a newspaper article which is to be found in the printed hearings of the House Committee on Immigration for February of this year. It is entitled: " Says western jobs are mythsBowery Mission makes a test of a demand from Nebraska for 1.000 menTold all places are filledThe bread line diminishing. but Secretary Earl estimates there are still 150.000 idle men in the city." The article. from the New York Times. is as follows: " In an effort just made to place a number of the unemployed men in the Bowery Mission bread lines on farms in Nebraska and the West I find that there is a vast difference of opinion between the newspapers State officials. and farmers of the West as to the need of more help from the East." said John C. Earl. financial secretary of the Bowery Mission. who Is also In charge of the work of the free labor bureau conducted by the mission. to a Times reporter yesterday. "On February 10 there appeared in two papers published In Omaha.