EPISCOPALIANS
LABOR AMONG
FOREIGN BORN
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Efforts are being made to enlist
the entire resources of the Episcopal
church to aid the department of the
interior in its work of Americanizing
the 13,000,000 people in the United
States who do not read or write the
English language.
To study the needs among Italians,
who constitute 4 per cent of the na
tion’s population, a conference of all
the Italian clergy and workers of the
Episcopal church was held Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, September
9-10-11, at the General Theological
Seminary. A special service was
held on Wednesday night in the Ca
thedral of St. John the Divine for the
communicants of the Italian Episcopal
mission of New York City, at which
Bishop Suffragan, Charles Sumner
Burch and a representative of the
department of the interior spoke.
The Episcopal board of missions,
aroused by the alarming amount of
illiteracy revealed by the selective
draft law among the foreign-born
population, has named the Rev.
Thomas Burgess as “Americanization
secretary.” Mr. Burgess announces
that as a result of several confer
ences with Secretary Franklin K.
Lane and the Americanization author
ities of the department of the interior
he has written to every bishop in the
Episcopal church, urging them to in
clude adequate appropriations for ex
tensive Americanization work in the
budget of the Episcopal nation-wide
campaign to mobilize the resources
of the church for its reconstruction
work. *"
An elaborate Americanization pro
gram has been mapped out by Mr.
Burgess for the Episcopal church in
its co-operation with the federal gov
ernment. It includes the expenditure
of at least a million dollars during
the next three years, the arousing of
every Episcopalian to hold himself
personally responsible for the better
ment of the foreign-born in his com
munity, training of special clergy and
workers to minister to the alien races,
co-operation with the Greek and Rus
sian orthodox churches, whose wrork
in America is badly handicapped for
lack of funds, and finally a survey of
the need of Americanization w^ork in
each of the eighty-seven Episcopal
dioceses.
Not only does the Episcopal church
plan to assist the government in
teaching the foreign-born to read and
write English, but to go still further
in the process of Americanization.
“The efforts of nearly all American
ization agencies in the past have been
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World Is Forced Into New Activity for
the Protection of All Children
By JULIA LATHROP, Children’s Bureau
It is not too much to say that the world is being forced willy nilly
to a new activity for the protection of all children—not a few, not favored
children, but all children. War losses of population and of wealth force
Europe. A decent self-respect would force the United States even if it
were not plain that the nations which are to maintain leadership will be
those which most wisely and generously equip the children of today and
tomorrow.
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First, as to illiteracy, the United States is perhaps ninth among civi
lized nations; that is, Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the
Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany all have a larger
proportion of the population who can read and write than has the United
States.
Second, as to maternal mortality, the United States is fourteenth
in the list of civilized nations, judged by the proportion of deaths of
mothers from causes incident to child-bearing. That is, in thirteen coun
tries the mother’s life is safer than it is in the United States.
Third, the United States is eleventh among civilized countries, tested
by its infant moriUh'ty rate, a rate whose searching value as a sign of social
wellbeing is axiomatic. %
Considering the exemption this country enjoys from the poverty and
hunger and devastation of Europe, it is not less than our reasonable service
to make the United States stand first in every phase of child welfare in
any list of countries. The war has left us no sectional questions. We have
only the issue of a nation’s welfare.
focused on the question of teaching
the foreign-born English,” said Mr.
Burgess. “The imposition of a lan
guage is by no means the creation
of nationalism, although a common
language is essential to a common
understanding and as an aid in com
mon thought and common action. The
new definition of Americanization has
come to mean the interpretation of
America, real and ideal, to the native
and foreign born through reliable
sources, in terms of their own expe
rience, to the end that they may love
and admire America *and so serve her
and share in American life in har
mony with their fellow-citizens.”
To show the need of this work by
the church, Mr. Burgess quotes Theo
dore Roosevelt as saying:
“No greater work can be done by a
philanthropic or religious society than
to stretch out the helping hand to the
men and women who come here to
this country to become citizens, and
the parents of citizens, and therefore
to do their part in making for weal
or for woe, the future of the land.
If we do not take care of them, if we
do not try to uplift them, then as
sure as fate our own children will
pay the penalty. If we do not see
that the immigrant and the children
of the immigrant are raised up, most
assuredly the result will be that our
children and children’s children are
pulled down. Either they will rise
or we shall sink.”
Too many Americans are disposed
to think the Americanization ques
tion settled, because the tide of im
migration has now turned away from
America instead of toward it, Mr. Bur
gess stated.
“If there should be no immigration
for a decade,” he continued, “we
would still have the very considera
ble problem of Americanizing those
who are now here and will remain.
These offer a more difficult problem
than the newly arriving immigrant,
for they have grown indifferent to
American ideals and many are under
the influence of baneful influences
which seek to destroy instead of build
up the republic.”
AMUSING ERROR MADE
BY BRITISH DECORATOR
LONDON, Aug. 26 (by mail).—The
artist who prepared the flags and
shields for the decoration of the rail
road bridge spanning Ludgate Hill
the day King George came to the
Guildhall to receive the felicitations
of the corporation on the declaration
of peace, made a mistake which at
tracted wide attention.
On one side of the roadway was a
handsome British shield made up of
the Union Jack surmounted by the
British crown. On the other side
was an equally handsome American
shield, with the stars and stripes,
also surmounted by the British
crown.
On account of important business
I shall be compelled to be absent from
Cordova for about twenty days. I
shall sail on the Watson on the 28th
of September and return to Cordova
about October 15.
8-13 DR, L. VON M. ZESCH.
SU MMONS
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division. Torger
Ashjorson plaintiff vs. Caroline
Asbjornson, defendant. No. C-176.
The President of the United States of
America, Greeting to the above
named defendant:
You are hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division, within
thirty days after the completion of
the publication of this summons, to
wit, within thirty days after the 25th
day of October, 1919, and answer the
complaint of the above-named plain
tiff in the above-entitled action,
wherein said plaintiff prays that he
be given an absolute decree of di
vorce from you forever dissolving
the bonds of matrimony heretofore
existing between you and said plain
tiff.
And unless you so appear and
answer the plaintiff will take judg
ment against you for want thereof
and will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in his said complaint
as hereinabove set out.
The date of the order for service by
publication herein is September 3,
1919, and such order was duly made
and entered and tiled herein o i said i
date.
The date of the first publication of
this summons is September 13, 1919,
and the date of its last publication is :
October 25, 1919.
WITNESS, The Honorable Charles
E. Bunnell, Judge of said court, and
the seal of said court, on this 3rd
dav of September, 1919.
(Court Seal) ARTHUR LANG, ,
(Terk of th^ District Couit for the j
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
By JOHN B. MILLER, ;
Deputy.
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