Show r 40 WORDS OPEN U S GATES A sE oU Ml 4 TOOK K 13 MONTHS TO LEARN THEM I t sM tit t r G Ga a R GR t d dt A Ae Aa e a l ln n r I r rr ri t r q r sl r t r 1 t s aA r r MISS By ALEXANDER NEA Service Start Stall Writer NEW YORK TORK Oct Face 15 15 Face Face to taco faco with death In reality l Russian immigrant girl er nc never er trembled race r c to face alth Ith death on paper she ch faltered As Asa Asa Asa a result sho she hail had to spend 13 12 months on EllIS Ellia learning 40 0 words required b by lau lan She Eh was detained longer than an any other Im- Im since line the th new n w Immigration law went Into effect All of this came cam about through the literacy Islon of the law lawand and the experiences lello had just pawed 1 lOd through h on the thc other side E EXCITED After sho ho had pa passed se 1 the tho phys phys- physical ical I I Ical examination she sho went v w nt Into a large larg-e room at Ellis EIlla Island for the literacy test The first word ord point point- pointed point lOd ed out to her was Death was Death I grew rew scared excited Feige I cas ca's I couldn't read rend I 1 as aas de- de detained detained de detained Eight day da later I 1 had an- an another an another other othor hearing I was detained lurther Months passed ed My Mv dreams began l can to vanish I l bO-l came rame bitter Hero Here I was Inside e tI-e tI very door of the th country let letI letI et etI I couldn't get et In Then I t became becam ashamed I wouldn't be b Illiterate 1 I Study I Mould could show them I I found a little book boek It was I about bout America how great treat It Is and how beautiful I pored over o It ft and I soon the tho words became becam plain I kept on n until f I was sure ur I could read d DRAWS W ATTENTION A year and a month had pass pass- passed passed ed d while Fele Fe ISo had studied Court action bv by relatives to gain fain her ad- ad admission admission ad admission mission to the country had failed J he girls I 0 own oan n efforts ere acre all that fl eo her Jer from what was 11 lu lull lI her prison Then she h caught the th attention of CommIssioner Curran Ho Hot tard card her reading readIng- a 0 bulletin to other Another exam exam- examInation examination examination was arranged and Fele E f SES IES Here Her are some of the tho words cords which Miss Stipe man young Russian Immigrant learned before she sho sh could pass the word 40 literacy test teat Yes Matron Sure Sur Commissioner Dinner Thousand My I Animals Family Rich Nice Inside All AJI right richt Supper stairs Down Do n Freedom Girl Thanks Hello Hollo City I I I Iwon won her freedom by reading t the e 90 40 words required by law MOTHER DIS RS Perhaps you 11 Il understand why was 10 so unnerved when death d ath was the first word ord sho shorn n her hAr r as ns she b tried for trance e e to the United States If It you ou listen to the story of her previous life Since Sine I was 10 years old I worked worked 81 anis s Sometimes It iC was as In the fields sometimes In factory But always It was as hard My 11 father died and life Ilfe as aas harder yet we w got along alone Then Then- Then Thena a I pogrom My mother drew me meI close told me m to wait walt In n the th bath back backward yard ward She held the th front door ft nil I escaped but er 1 strength The Th door door was Vas was b butt reif Gown They Thy dragged dratted my mother out 1 I could see c her h r from my lout hIding place She looked around beseechingly but the tho th rUffians I drove her h r on I never saw w my mother agaIn Brain I I ST or TOIl I For FeIre lay In hidIng She made mado her way Into Poland I 1 had no money rel went onNo on I No No 10 clothing but the th old dress s on my m back But Dut I had my hands bands I II Irked In the th fields hoeing pota pota- potatoes potatoes toes loes or gathering the th harvest I I ns as a it I B barber clipping hair lr And I worked as a seamstress I As Ae A I worked I dreamed I dreamed of Am America as a my saha- saha talva Work was wan pleasure so eo o long longos os Its I dreamed But when I stop stop- stopp stop pad Jd p d dreaming there ther was 1 painI pain stoP stoP-I I After two years of effort Miss MIs got cot Into touch with alth th kin kin- kinfolk kins kinsfolk folk In America Sir She sailed lIed al ed to I the theland theland land Ind of her hor dreams August Aug 22 1822 1922 lAnd now do your you ou see ee why that one word Deals DeaU so o unnerved the Immigrant girl that sire elle ha failed In he literacy test tet I Im American now eai cais s Ir If her En English lIsh still till halting and ond ondI I broken I I can con speak the th lan lan- language lan guage and read rend and wilta n a lit lit- little little lit little tle When hen I go so to school Ill I'll learn r I lore core Maybe Mayb to dance a n littie- littie little jazz Th The sweetest s t word ord she ho Imo s That's Illo Ello That'll what my illy sister elster s Id when ahen she sh came camo jo o tiko me m ort ortI I Ellis Island I |