Sad times have overtaken the foreign language Press in the U. S. The Immigration Quota Act of 1924 laid it low by cutting the influx of foreigners from 700,000 in that year to 35,000 last year. Depression has put a number of gasping sheets out of misery. Last fortnight saw the passing of two more: the 75-year-old New Jersey Freie Zeitung, and the famed old Milwaukee Vorwaerts, founded 40 years ago by the late Socialist Victor Louis Berger.
The Freie Zeitung was the oldest foreign language daily in New Jersey. In 1930...
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