Show TILE HE educational BILL tile the americanization of at immigrant our population has been made up largely of 0 immigrants in 1910 there were in th the united states slates 13 persons persona of foreign birth out ot of a total population ot of ff or roughly speaking every seventh person of the entre entire population was borri born ln in a forel foreign gri land arid the loreign foreign born population in our atlantic coast states and in our industrial states increased rapidly from 1300 1900 to 1910 large numbers of which were illiterates ates a number probably atily greatly increased before the outbreak ot of the war the total number of foreign born illiterates in ln 1910 was 1 65 it these immigrants are to be more than just so much productive power they must become americanized the first step in tills this process is acquiring ability to speak and read english those under turf years of age should go to the he public schools regularly regular jy jr othor other provisions must bo be made for the adults the bill now before congress provides annually to chop cooperate with the states in the amer americanization caniza tion ol of immigrants this sum matched by an equal amount by the states stales Is ia to be used to teach immigrants ten years of age and over to speak and read the english language ana and tile the duties ot of citizenship and to develop among them an appreciation pre clation of and t for the civic arid and social institutions of the united states the money is to bo be allotted to the states on the foreign burn population basis it if the congressional allotment ot of 55 rents cents for each foreign born person were increased by an equal suni sum there would be 1 available in each state tor for each such person if we coil consider sider only foreign born illiterates there would be available a little more than for the americanization ot or each foreign lora born illiterate by entering upon a ten year program each state stale could probably amer arneri cariazo all of its immigrant population utah has immigrants according to the census ot of 1910 the congressional allotment would amount to 1 21 the amount available for americanization work in ili the state would bo be annually the reasons why the nation shell cooperate with the states slates in fir an american americanization ro gruin are 1 Foreign ersa r re remitted tu it tie e country under id 2 they are privileged to portici pate freely in ili a democratic government in en t 3 2 their contribution to national na tonal welfare is in ill proportion to tile raining in ili americanization afforded them 4 tho the pe permanency rma nency of a compert compe vt democracy rests on the Int ellig crial arid and patriotism of its citizenry |