Show speaking ng at a dinner which marked the formal opening of a campaign tn ve b e conducted by the government through the bureau of education of thi the interior department secretary of the interior lane declared that the war had opened the eyes of american educators and welfare workers to the needs of americanization work more than persons tn in the united sta states tes last year above 10 years of age were I 1 unable to read or write the english language he said and out of the first men drafted for the army could not read their orders or andl understand ersland them when they were delivered what should be said of a world leading democracy wherein 10 per cent of the adult population cannot read the laws law s which they are presumed to know he asked A new name must be given to the work americanization it the ideals ideal of america ars are to be preserved he told his hearers we want it to mean help sympathy largeness of view we want it to mean not patronage but the largest human fellowship we want that word to be translated into terms of wages for ment men of living conditions for men of an A merica america that will mean something to the man that comes across the water from the other side who has come to ui us with a different understanding of the word liberty from that which we have had bad |