Twenty-eight courts, with a total of 26,284 naturalization petitions filed during the fiscal year 1913-14, were visited during 1919, with the cordial co-operation of the clerks in charge. And inasmuch as this total number of petitions examined constituted more than one in five (21.2 per cent) of the whole number of petitions for naturalization (123,855) filed in that fiscal year in the whole United States, it would seem to represent a large enough number and a sufficient variety of local, racial, and other conditions to warrant a fair degree of confidence in the representative character of the results. FROM TWENTY-EIGHT REPRESENTATIVE COURTS The courts studied included two Federal and three state courts in New York City, having the great bulk of naturalization business; a number of courts in industrial districts, and some smaller ones taking in the business from outlying rural regions. Following is a list of the courts from which the information was derived: State court, Auburn, Maine State court, Worcester, Massachusetts State court, Bridgeport, Connecticut State court, Middletown, Connecticut State court, Norwich, Connecticut Federal courts, New York City State courts, New York City State court, White Plains, New York State court, Mineola, Long Island, New York State court, Troy, New York State court, Ithaca, New York State court, Rochester, New York State court, Elmira, New York State court, Paterson, New Jersey State court, New Brunswick, New Jersey State court, Easton, Pennsylvania Federal court, Cleveland, Ohio State court, Cleveland, Ohio State court, Akron, Ohio Federal court, Cincinnati, Ohio State court, Galesburg, Illinois State court, Iowa City, Iowa State court, Portland, Oregon Federal court, Seattle, Washington State court, Seattle, Washington And it is apparent that the courts from which the data were derived are widely scattered through the East, Middle West, and Far West, and are of a varied character as regards nature of racial and other characteristics which might affect the human factors in the matter. It is to be regretted that there are none from the South and Southwest; but there seems no reason to suppose that they would show materially different results. IN A REASONABLY NORMAL YEAR