Show The Real Melting Pot 11 By Herbert Kaufman B A is idiomatic Racial spirit defies the resource of PATRIOTISM P p j an an interpreter Just as a dish has little of its original savor so essentially local impulses and traditions are are by translation w While we have a potent vernacular press in the United States our enemies will continue to exert their influence here The q quicker icker an immigrant is forced to learn our language the sooner hell he'll understand our causes causes appreciate appreciate th the meaning and worth of American citizenship But so long as foreign language newspapers conducted by editors trained in Tory environments are alone read by millions democratic motives and purposes shall not reach to the ghetto ghetto ghetto- alien communities will stubbornly persist throughout the republic Just as there are no equivalents for th the Red White and Blue in Old Glory there are no synonyms for the words of Washington Wash Wath ington and Jefferson and Lincoln and Wilson Vilson Genuine nationalization is impossible without reeducation We must teach these men our tongue before we can reach reich their hearts The schoolroom is the only efficient melting pot g We shall not be a firmly u united people until we all think with the s same me accent C Copyright 1918 by Herbert Kaufman Great Britain and all other rights reserved |