New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-03
IMMIGRANTS IN SCHOOL.
LEARN ENGLISH READILY-A STUDY
IN PATRIOTISM
IN PATRIOTISM.


The immigrant classes of the Baron de Hirsch
School of the Educational Alliance. East Broad
way and Jefferson-st., one of the most inter-
estng agencies for citizen making in the city.
There the children of the newcomers to the
United States placed acquire a sufficient
knowledge of English enter the public schools,
and there usually several hundred in the
classes who have been here from week to three
months.
THE hardest thing that the quick witted
youngsters and their parents have learn is that
the Educational Alliance well by them;
that it is not working for its personal advantage
and ACKNOWLEDGMENT and for their HARM said Mr..
Blaustein TO a Tribune reporter Russian perse-
cution has taught the Jews regard all public in
situations instruments of oppression.
The observance of national holidays produces
one of the first difficulties. We Jewish people,
what do have do with the Christian holi-
days? is oft repeated query. for Russia has no
national holidays that separate from the
Church. and the Jews are consequently barred from
all public celebra tons
To overcome the prejudice and make the mmi-
grants understand that patriotic and Church OBJ
servarces in this country in way connected.
great stress is laid legal holidays and all
made occasions of general merrymaking and
joicng. and parents as well as children are invited
to the celebration
When the children first arrive they usually
unkempt. quaint looking morsels of humanity.
but they issue from the hands of the barber and
other resorers furnished by the society full fedged
with faxen hair and bo Tes Small bows that the
Emerald Isle would claim for its own. and young
STEERS with every feature of the up-country Yankee
Not a child in the throng is homesick or has
any wish to return TO his or her native land When
asked the other day why he did not want to go
cause | can't go to school there" Another said:
Others explained that in Russia or Rumania they
could not to school because their fathers were
America is free" when class asked why their
At least a week the bright. airy rooms ring
with IN NY country, It's of thee and The Star
flag for it is his first gift after being enrolled
One of the features of the weekly patriotic ex-
ercises is the salute to the flag. As the children
WAY WAY their banners Of red Whit and blu fhGy re-
spror IN, battle. guardian of our homes. whose
and union. we salute thee, We. the natives of dis
tant lands who find under thy folds. do pledge
aE@ protect thee. our country and the liberty OF
the American psopIe, f95ever 90 .,ro,,. r.
struction and Of the loyalty with which Jews re-
young Hebrews Of the alliance who enlisted
volunteers in the Spanish American War. o per
cent OF them had run away from Russia to avoid
About two-thirds of the immigrant classes are
Russian. and the others mainly from It,irna'lll.
They bright every one of them. as the pro
Is amazing Their readiness to learn Il -" 'iI,.
guage is explained by thet" teachers rs the Tsult
of their knowledge Of TWO tongues TO begin With
Hebrew and the speech OF Their nAtLN' anu fiItrE
Jewish boy learns Hebrew. and begins the study OF
Eagerness to learn and promptnesS in attendance
characterize the children throughout the school
The records show that ninety-eight In every hun
dred are in their seats daily The Rurlanan chill
dren have had better edurational advantages as
rule. in their own country. than the russians, Dut
Patrotism is sentiment unknown to them when
they come to Amerca a.. Few Of them n3w The
flag but they soon acquire thS enthusiasm as9 t%n
fundamental studies in the school are patriotism.
cleanliness and morality