Show reduce the overhead Is ia a sound maxim for increasing the profits of any business one way to reduce the overhead Is to use the plant or office sixteen hours a day instead of eight or ten hours a day instead ot of five and it the plant happens to be a 1 public school the rule no less holds good the community with good school buildings which does not utilize them for some good purpose outside of thel the normal rive five hours of school five days a week Is not making as much profit on its investment in those schools as might be had many communities use their schools tor for americanization purposes in the evenings there are thousands ot of foreigners in this country who are eager to be of as well as in the land 0 of their adoption they hunger tor for american ideas ld easto to transform that lunger into one for american ideals Is s as fine a work as can be done in a school it costs little it it cost much it would still be worth it to take those of alien birth who know nothing ot of the stars and stripes save that they form the flag of america and teach them that tor for which it stands justice toleration religious freedom liberty safety of person and property decency chivalry to the weak to instruct them in the fundamentals of american history let them learn of washington and lincoln Liln coln es as something else than names give them a chance to go out in our strenuous economic life fitted to cope with americans on a basis of 0 mutual americanism that is to red reduce u ce the he overhead on the schools on one band ha d and pay great dividends to th the e state on the other not all foreigners here want to be americanized cut but ot of those who do a large number know not which way to turn the school building otherwise idle in afternoon and evening evening tb the e loyal and enthusiastic american citizen citie to whom patriotism means something else than a chaer when the flag goes by acting as instructor these are the medais mea ns to which he be should be ba able to turn |