New-York tribune., 1910-10-02
MEN VS.. MONUMENTS
Daughters of the ReUolution
Look Into the Future.

The conn.cticut Daughters Of the Ameri-
can Revolution are not exactly tired or
monuments and relics, but they are tmoued
with the belief that the future Is just as
important as the past. and perhaps a trine
more so.
Moreover, some time ago they awoke 10
the fact that while all the Revolutionary
relics they had been able to scare up were,
by their efforts honorably housed, ana
while every historic spot in the state had
been honorably marked, the future eitizens
pouring into Connecticuts manufacturing
towns from Italy, Russia, Hungary anu
bulgaria were most decidedly not IN
fair way to become the kind of citizens
the Father of His Country would nave
wanted Daughters all over the country
have been seeing the problem or the irnml-
grant loom large, but Connecticut Daugh-
ters are rather proud of the fact thaI
when the national organization formed its
committee on patriotic education and sug-
sested that each state form a smaller one
of It's own Connecticut was able 10 an
nounce that its committee on patriotic edu-
cation was already a fact and hard at
work.
One of the results of the committee 5
| work. the one It considers the most i'm
u,
| ten in Italian and furnished with maps.
Everything that an immigrant just LANDED
on these shores does not know and ought
| TO know is In this manual. which was pre-
pared by John Foster Carr, member OF
| the Liberal Immigration League. If ne
| wants to be naturalized, this book tells him
how. III he wants 20 get work, as probably
| he does. this book tells him how. IL in
structs him in the laws he needs TO know.
| tells him about the customs of the country
and warns him against pitfalls. IL is war
| ranted to make If taken in regular doses. a
perfectly good citizen of the rawest immi-
| grant
The Italian manual is only a beginning
Later on the book will be published In
other IangIIages-a regular Tower OF Babel
edition, only there will be no confusion OF
| tongues 1t will be distributed among i'm
migrants by means of the schools. immi-
grafton societies and organizations for the
education of immigrants
Schools are one of the great weapons or
the Connecticut Daughters in their fight
against the un-AmericanizatiOn OF their
state threatened by the influx Of foreigners
Under Mrs Sara T. Kinney, the former
state regent, and Mrs. John l. Buel. the
present one. many evening classes Tor
teaching grown UP foreigners the English
language have been formed Connecticut
school laws make such evening schools
obligatory in towns OF more than ten thou
sand souls and allow them In smaller
towns, only vote at a town meeting being
necessary In the latter case Towns that
are slow TO avail themselves OF this pCrnnis-
sion are stirred up by the active Daughters.
and IL after the stirring they fail To act
the Daughters start a school or class them
selves. Some OF these are taught by volun-
teer teachers. young college men and wom-
en-. When In one Connecticut town the
patriotic school maintained by the local
chapter had to be discontinued for want OF
funds. the volunteer teachers sent up
great protest. so in love with their work
were they.
Several Connecticut chapters have opened
reading rooms for immigrants. with books
in their own languages. one tiny library
set up In a Norwalk barber shop expanded
in time into clubhouse. Bristol set up
library In tailor shop Other local chap-
ters have co-operated with the Connecu-
cut public library COMMITTEES TO set traV-
elling libraries going in the state- n great
difhculty in getting these libraries 10
gether. the Daughters say. D that relia-
Die. up-tc-date. descriptive books anOut
America are very hard 20 md
Miss Clara Lee Bowman of Bristol. Is
chairman Of the patrio<e education COM
mttee, Miss Mary NJ Partridge Is vice
chairman and Mrs Alfred ]. DNleS Is
secretary. They have hit on many plans
~ their citizen making war. but II is safe
20 say that none Is more popular than that
followed by the chapter at Southport,