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WEDNESDAY. MARCH. 5th.. 1919
MAKING AMERICANS
With the coming of peace, the Bureau of Naturalization of the l\
Dcinirtment of Labor is charged with continuing the work, which the war has
shown to have been already so well established, of cementing the many races
and peoples represented in this country’s population into one homogenous
nation. The achievement of national unity, involving the assimilation of 17.
£00.000 alien born residents of this country, is the peculiar task of this bureau,
which is beginning this season the greatest campaign in its history to effect
its aims, says a Department of Labor bulletin.
Realization of the ideal of America-as the inciting pot. in which dhe
peoples of many lands are fused into a new and characteristic* national type
is the purpose of this bureau’s Americanization work. Last May, Congress
passed a law to Americanize every man and woman of foreign birth in this
country, and it chose the Bureau of Naturalization t«. have charge of the citi
zenship training which will he carried on through the public schools. '
Foreigners are becoming citizens by hundreds of thousands every
>oar, and the war has done much to promote interest in America among the
aliens living here. There are still, however, many ditficulties in the way of a
successful accomplishment of the great plan to make every inhabitant of this
country American in thought, word, and action.
For example, there are 500.000 foreigners in New York City who can
not read, write, or speak English. Probably 100 languages anti dialects are
spoken here. There are between ten and twelve million persons in this
country who owe allegiance to other nations. In no other country in the
world is there so great a percentage of uliens.
The Bureau of Naturalization is more closely in touch with the foreign
horn than any other government organization. Through its naturalization
examiners, it has gained acquaintance with about three million immigrants,
and during the last four years the schools have begun their great work of
instructing the millions of others in the essentials of American citizenship.
This great educational work is going on in nearly 2,000 communities,
tlu* home cities of millions of immigrants. % Hundreds of thousands of these
.ia\e taken out their first papers and the bureau has prevailed upon the school
authorities wherever these candidates live to open evening classes in which
first-paper men and their wives may bo taught what they ought to know about
the American government.
The first thing taught is the English language—conversation, reading,
and writing. Every foreigner is ambitious to be told that ho speaks English!
like an American. The Government sends an urgent appeal to every appli
cant for citizenship, asking him to go to an evening class in the.public schools
of his city. It also furnishes free textbooks to these men and women, and
will recognize the work of the public schools in a certificate of graduation, pre
sented jointly by the Government and the schools to foreigners when they
come into American citizenship.
Thus far. the surface has been barely scratched, for less than two per
cent of the aliens in this country have applied for citizenship instruction.
The Americanization of the other 98 per cent is the almost herculean task the
Bureau of Naturalization faces. The aid of every resident of the community
must be enlisted in the work, if it is to he effective.
Employers of aliens can aid in the work by having their workmen,
r.uticulary those who are deficient in their knowledge of English or of Am
erican institutions, enter the evening citizenship class at «once. Those who
have foreign-bom friends or acquaintances who are not thoroughly naturalized;
car. see to it that they throw off the foreign influence by urging them, in a
friendly manner, to enroll in one of the classes.
Our foreign-born soldiers, many of whom became naturalized since
entering the Army—either in camps at home or on the fields of France—will
have American homes to return to, if the Bureau's program is carried out'
properly. The relatives and friends of these young men can have the mean
‘ng of Americanization brought home to them, just as the young men them
selves discover It in the Army.
The doors of thousands of schools are open to the foreigner who sin
cerely wishes to become an American, and the teachers will receive him with
a cordial wlcome. The schools have already accomplished a great work in
the naturalization program, but there is much more to be done. Many other
schools will be opened in the near future. It is expected.
The Government through its Bureau of Naturalization, and In cooper
ation with the public schools, is extending a helping hand to every alien who
ecmes here. If they realize their opportunity, they wlil embrace it gladly.
It is the duty of Americans to make sure that foreigners understand what is
being done for them.
The courts too are showing thorough appreciation of what the Bureau
and the schools are doing, for they have in the last two years recommended
that 75,000 aliens take the citizenship courses—more'than the total number of
aliens admitted to citizenship in three years of the last decade.
WILSON TO SAIL FOR EUROPE WEDNESDAY
Special to The Nugget by The Associated 1’reas.
WASHINGTON. March 4—President WifW. will sail for Europe o i
the steamer George Washington Wednesday morning.
Tonight tae president will speak on the Longue of Nations at tl- •
Metropolitan Opera House in this city itt the request of a number of socletb ?
and organizations advocating the League of Nations plan During bis stay i
the city, Wilson will also hold a conference with former IT. idem Wm. Hov
ard Taft regarding the League of Nations questions and will ab-.» receive
delegation of Irishmen seeking to induce him to intercede for Iri. U pon
ence. Caruso will sing the Star Spangled Banner at the Metropolit n duril
the course of the evening. Following the meeting, the president -..Pi ; : -4 ‘
•lv go aboard the Washington at Hoboken and is expected to spend be nig
aboard the steamer. The hour departure has not been definitely announce .
BAKER TO VISIT WESTERN COAST AND MEXICAN BORDER CAMP ,
Special to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. March 4—Announcement, was made today that. Se<
rotary of Wtft* Baker and Chief of Staff General March will leave Washing!.•
Sunday on a tour of inspection which will include a visit to most of the mil
tar.v camps and stations along the Pacific Coast and Mexican border.
The tentative itinerary includes Camp Lewis. Washington.among tl »
army cantonments to be visited by the two officials.
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