Show ST STARTS ARTS TION CAMPAIGN ir r Community Clubs Un- Un sr r r. Way and Others Are Being Formed N X FRANCISCO April 30 With With f four ur urual ual al demonstrations demonstrations' of community or- or adopted adopted as the official pol- pol of the state of California In handling great problem of Americanization Americanization- to be launched before the first August the newly appointed state of public agencies for Amer- Amer has issued the first statement tans lans and activities ls' ls committee appointed a month by Governor Stephens c combines the tho e commission of immigration and anding anding King ing the state board of education lithe the he University of California exten exten- division into one unit for the pur pur- of supervising the work of nit nit- t education in California TE COMMUNITY PLAN this l ii IS Is the first state to 10 place this Imant imant Im Im- Implant plant ant national problem under a unified body It is also the first en en- vor in the United States to work out community organization plan hither hither- established in only three cities on a a. wide scale r California says the statement foes fae 8 acute di dilemma dilemma emma of having to enforce compulsory part time education law aliens Including night classes in len len- n- n and fah citizenship without any addi- addi Mil appropriation to finance the work new l la requires an extra night of t teachers a as well as a staff of hers e especially ec i ly lya trained r ld for t this Ira Ira- taut tant and difficult work TER AROUND SCHOOL I To T solve this difficulty this committee upon the task of community organization which Is a plan whereby t y a AU all sorts Of ot citizenship ac- ac ac social hygienic hygienic educational educational f f l n da are started In the G th Immigrant lg districts and made to center t the school fly ny this plan part art time night teachers may act let ns n. club lub and recreation leaders a at as well and nd ultimately receive a a. portion of ot their from front the tho self supporting I local club John Collier CoUler noted expert In to Immigrant education of New York has been appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed director of community organization tion by the state committee IMMEDIATE PLANS t Immediate plans according to the statement follow Training of teachers and social workers work work- workers ers era for the joint task of teaching immigrants grants In classes and leading the ties of or th the community groups Organization of the first California specimens of community organization organization- to serve as demonstration for the entire state to study and copy The first of these purposes purposes tho the tr training trainIng train train- inti in- in Ing ti of expert leaders e is a already a partly achieved e This I has peen been n done through h the Americanization institutes held In recent months in Los Angeles Fresno and San Francisco and now in progress in Oakland The second task Involves the actual starting of clubs of Immigrants and Americans in neighborhoods of mixed foreign and native born population CLUBS IN TWO CITIES I II j I As the r result sult of the work of the the past month continues the statement such clubs l s are well under way In tW two cities cities- sF a San F Francisco and o Oakland ra That in Oakland is situated in a district which has more than twenty different nationalities nation nation- That In San Francisco is also In Ina Ina Ina a a district where foreigners predominate Activities of these clubs which clubs which are only in the beginning stage will stage will be so varied as to attract the voluntary support jf t men and women omen of all al ages and races They will bring foreigners voluntarily to the night classes established by the state law late Two more of these organizations willbe wIllbe will willbe be started between now and August 1 in Fresno and Los Angeles The connection connection tion between these demonstrations and the work of the to Americanization Institutes Institutes institutes ir il obvious ob TACKLES TASK BRAVELY It It may be seen concludes the statement statement state state- ment that California Is going at this big task in a big way Our problem of immigrant education is huge and It cannot cannot cannot can can- not be solved until every very immigrant adult or child has learned citizenship both by study and by the no less important important im Jm- group activity We ask the cooperation cp- cp operation of ot every loyal Californian toward making these initial demonstrations demonstrations of organization a a suo- suo ess that will set the pace for every other state in the Union |