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Show Fully Assimilated. Ray S. Baker, the author, In an argument ar-gument on immigration at Lawrence, cited the marvelous speed wherewith the immigrant faliily, be it German or French or what not, becomes assimilated as-similated Into the national life. "An instance of this assimilation occurs oc-curs to me," he said. "1 know a worthy Neapolitan, one Paoli Cenci, who came to this country three years ago. Paoli's little son, Francesco, an American citizen of seven, looked up from his school books, the other evening eve-ning to ask: " 'Say, pa, what year was It you Italians discovered us in?'" |