Show I I Z A 11 0 NI ONAL PLAN I i i Ir Foreigner Inform rm Foreigner 1 o of of Citi City City- t ional onal al education campaign e need of ot promoting a between the Amen Ameri- tock tack and the Americans- Americans tm Emigrants m has grants has just been of America soho so- so ho 0 establishment of ot the ervice the task the It proposes to acl ac- ac l r can public at large with tp the peoples who have k out their destiny the thel ii 10 l' l make to the common problems they face in theiu the tho i iu pent It is going to In- In o p its officers that the the foreigner r rafe not a n I affair gEro rl re two iwo contracting para par- par a d 1 that Poach each must do his tn economically and spir- spir ma c this effort DISTANT I was s formed fo some sonic time ago 1 public spirited men and ond andl I l 12 purpose of counteracting rust of the foreigner that I pt arance and of reas- reas yu 1 content behind the isei term m nl ud udes s s such seh eh leaders In AmerIc Amer- Amer ff rs as Father John A. A T rr Burns Burne Mrs J. J Borden r Ic Willard Straight ht George Ceorge ald aid and it M. M K i. Ravage eI e. e just issued Mr Ravage I b a and author L L' L rap in th the Making MalIng which I ra Roosevelt railed the I Lii said said- tion Ion of oC this organization a luts-IL closer understanding veen Americans of th the Th d tI the more recent new- new between th Imps im- im ps themselves il m ing of oC English to the newer 1 fundamental n ost importance No ap- ap apI I gress toward a t the mutual tu tue W I the tl e peoples o re of e made until the entire e country has acquired gle language true that the mere An- An language groups Is IsIf to reach the heart If stan LJ forget forgetting tin tin- I hat that Jle les who have been com com- ing to our ur ISh shores es pa particularly in th the last generation have been bred bredin In their native native na- na vt tive ve homes to mistrust and mutual The Italian dislikes the southern Slav the Serbian fears and hates the Greek Creek the tho Rumanian is an enemy of the Bulgarian Bulgaria and the thc Turk Turl and all alt together hate and detest the Austrian This re relation re- re lation of neighborly incompatibility and andi i tIa traditional dislike has come to nearly every people in the old world from Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- land to Siberia and from tram Iceland to the Mediterranean And to cap the climax when the Immigrant arrives here from I the old world he finds himself distrusted and looked down upon not merely by his traditional enemies but by his new countrymen coun coun- th t the Americans of ot older stock stock- as aR n well ell NEEDS OF Oi DAYTo DAYTo DAY To deal effectively with such an Immense immense immense im Im- im- im mense fused situation situation something I more is needed than to teach this babel of races a common language What Is need needed d dIs is an Intensive educational campaign to bring home to each racial group roup the Americans Included that here in this new world every everyone one of us regardless of our origin and national tradition is contributing contributing contrib contrib- utin toward the of a new civilization In which the long age I I ties of the old world have no place The different groups must be shown that the long and bitter feuds which di divided divided divided di- di vided them from their neighbors back home borne have lost all meaning here They must be made to understand that here her they are are- Europeans only to the extent that that may bring brin brinto to the task of oC rearIng rearing rearing rear rear- ing this new civilization some Bome of the great and fine traditions that their people de developed developed de- de in the old world that their frontier frontier frontier fron fron- tier animosities can be ho perpetuated here only at the peril perU to the common good Let Lot LetI them understand that here there are arc to be beno beno beno no Slavs or or but that I we are arc all members of one great human family and that this is our Ideal of I Americanism |