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Show A HOMi: SERVICE -PROItLKM , V l ? -' '' i " , Mr, W, Frank Persons, Director Qonoral of Civilian Relief- of', tho Atnorlflin Reef fcrossi stafes. In1 an iptoryiqw reported, by Mr. Francis R,' Boilamy for tho Sopembor Ibhuo ofho Red; Cross Magawlno;, ' "A vasll'y. lmpoTtanco sidd to the work of the Home Service Section 'of Civilian Relief ts the work among the families of our naturalized cltl i i zens. "That side is always typified tor me by a New Jersy laborer, a naturalized nat-uralized Pole, who volunteered in our army last summer 'before the l . ' allotment law had been passed. There must have been something latent in the man because, desplt his limited knowlege of English, ' h e h ad b eeome a sergeant by the time our Home Service people first got in touch with his "wife and three children. - s "We found .the family In a really' pathetic condition. , They were sadty in need of help, We gave it ft once, of course. But In a .few weeks we began tb see an Infinitely greater problem ahead. , In the - .j ' Army, the sergeant was meeting and .-..'. ,. jit i ' mixing with inony, kinds of (men whom ho had never known beforo. t r . - ' His rldefts: were, changing v he was becoming be-coming thoroughly tAmoricanlzed) ifluoafln English and alive to: a'ncw exlstenco. His family" mcanw'hllo, was, at a standstill. -Their .modo, of Uvlng.wns unchongedPWhat woild happen if this fjut kept widening m tho war wnli.onj, j "Tho Homo iervicc-V recognized the problem at coT ""Thoy1 encouraged encour-aged th' wife' to learn English, to go to tho Red Cross, ' to join in other community activities, and J.n every way mako herself a worthy wlfo of an, American 6fflcer aa h'orlhuaban'd nJghVfeloS'i 1&V. ' Today her husband Is a, top-sqrgeant and eho is rapidly becoming' k wiflo awake American woman Instead of a Polish laborof'ti wife." '" ., . J '. .. i |
