INFLUENCE OF ECONOMIC CONDITIONS 165 
citizens of that country were hurrying home to answer the call to 
the colors for the Balkan Wars. 
There are, however, differences in degree of fluctuation. The 
decline in emigration in the prosperous years 1909 and 1910, from 
the high point reached in the depression year 1908, is most marked 
CHART 37 
FructuaTioONs IN NUMBER OF EMIGRANTS FROM THE UNITED 
STATES TO SELECTED EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: 1908-1924. 
Ratio Scale 
; 500,000 
250000 
100,000 
50,000 
25,000 
10,000 
| 5,000 
i 2.500 
y= 
foes] 1510-1078 i. 0 [ iG20T554 I I WT TF 
Years Ending June 30 
*The annual statistics of emigration for the several countries are given in the Annual 
Report of the Commissioner General of Immigration, 1924, pp. 119-121, U. S. Bureau of 
Immigration. For list of countries classified as “old” and “new” sources, respectively, 
see footnotes to Table 4. 
for the countries of southern and eastern Europe. (See the right 
hand section of Chart 37). The movement to Scandinavia in 1909 
and 1910 is more akin, however, to that of Italy, Austria-Hungary, 
and Russia than it is to the relatively small decline in Germany and 
the United Kingdom. Of the several emigration movements re- 
presented in Chart 37, the least susceptibility to employment 
conditions in the United States is evidenced by the emigration to 
Germany.