What light do the petitions throw upon the question of the relative “civic and political interest” of the various racial groups, as shown by the interval that elapses between their attainment of the age of 21 years, or if they come here after they are 21, between their arrival and their filing of the final petition? TABLE XXII AVERAGE INTERVAL BEFORE FILING PETITION, AFTER ATTAINMENT OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS, FOR THOSE ARRIVING AT AGES OF ONE TO FOURTEEN, BY RACES ========================================= | NUMBER IN | AVERAGE COUNTRY OF BIRTH | AGE GROUP | INTERVAL | 1-14 | (Years) ------------------+-----------+---------- All countries | 2,900 | 6.2 | | France | 19 | 12.9 Norway | 13 | 12.5 Switzerland | 7 | 12.4 Sweden | 31 | 12.4 Scotland | 13 | 11.8 England | 77 | 11.6 Ireland | 77 | 10.8 Germany | 280 | 10.3 Canada | 88 | 9.8 Denmark | 13 | 9.5 Holland | 17 | 9.5 Hungary | 192 | 5.8 Greece | 12 | 5.5 Finland | 6 | 5.3 Russia | 873 | 5.0 Italy | 651 | 4.9 Austria | 389 | 4.5 Turkey in Asia | 10 | 4.0 Rumania | 89 | 3.8 Turkey in Europe | 8 | 3.6 ========================================= We have three groups of statistics on this point: those petitioners arriving at the ages of 1 to 14, those at 15 to 20 years, and those 21 years and over. In the following table the countries of birth are arranged in the order of the average interval for those arriving at the ages of 1 to 14 years. The complete table will be found in the Appendix. TABLE XXIII AVERAGE INTERVAL BEFORE FILING PETITION, AFTER ARRIVAL, AT AGES OF FIFTEEN TO TWENTY, BY RACES