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Show Kngllah and the reading of American Ameri-can newHp.ipcra, and to enrour ik the native born to show real nelh-btrllneas nelh-btrllneas hy ceasing the uac of of-ft-nivr nl'kn.Hiic. ifialrtluitlon of fiiiRa and a mcaft:ige from tie ireMf.it, with proclama- , lions tv Km ci nom antl mayors nlxo i i werw uriffd, with the aurvstlnn that motion ploturea drplctlnK the prog- j rera of American democracy nd I alldes containing itio:ailona fnm tha 1 I nddrt-saea of famous Americans be : Introduced. CIVIC COURT OF HONOR IS PLANNED NKW YORK, June . The I-eague of Foreign, l'.orn Voters has sugitcated a standardised celebration nf Independence Inde-pendence day, which calls fur holding hold-ing of a "civic court of honor" In every city and hamlet In the country, coun-try, featuring a pageant Illustrative of epochs in American . history. . The league maintains that the Immigrant Im-migrant Is confused by th wavlmrs of flags and conglomeration of aqund ' that greets him on the Fourth of July, and that no organised attempt to Interpret, to him the meaning of th day la made. Psrndes are suggested to give a tru conception of th cultural contribution contri-bution of the foreign born cltlsens. Tht re should be floats or tableaux depicting in pnnorama the eras of diacovery, exploration, colonisation, signing of the Declaration of Independence, Inde-pendence, birth of the American flag, winning of th west, freedom for the slaves, Industrial growth of the natlonand America and th World war.' Th Boy Scouts of America hav volunteered personally to .invite new cltlsens to be guests of the community. com-munity. Speeches should be directed to practical ends, th league believes, - lending to hasten th speaking uf |