The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-08-06
TO BEGIN WORK
FOR immigrants
Y. NJ. C. A. Secretary Runs Full
Tilt Into Latest Activity
OF Association.

Associations on the mhiulauu, brhcThl
Secretary Paul Super of the local asso.
citation is back at his desk and devils.
ing schemes for work, among other
things with the immigrants. This
phase of association activity is a new
one that Super ran full tilt into in his
three months tour of the States, par
ticularly in the East, and it has capt..
waited his fancy to n great extent. He
sees in 1t a great social romance of I'M
limited possibilities, and so practical
besides that he intends to introduce it
10 Honolulu at once.
"The association has secretaries liv
ing all over Europe, said Super yes
terday. Most of them are college
men who can talk the language of the
people among whom they are living.
They study the habits of these people,
their traditions, customs and every
thing that will make it easier to handle
them and care for them when members
of their race come as immigrants to
America to earn living and become
citizens
At all the big European ports there
are secretaries who board the boats
with caps bearing Y. NJ. c. A. in big
letters and give all the immigrants
bound for American ports cards of in
PRODUCTION TO the port secretaries on
the other side, telling them to look for
man who will board the ship with the
same letters on his cap.
Ward off Sharks
"This they do and the secretaries in
America get in immediate touch with
them, help them find their friends, get
work for them, help them with the
language, prevent the sharks from
getting their money and otherwise
look after them until they are familiar
enough to take care of themselves.
1.-The work is continued by the asso-
Citations throughout the towns where
the immigrants are settling. The Cam
bridge association uses scores of Har-
ward university students in its work.
1t conducts ten evening schools in
foreign club rooms and has classes in
five factories during the noon hour.
This last season twenty eight lectures
were given in the familiar tongue of
the immigrants on hygiene sanitation,
history and so forth. Eghty.six Har-
ward students have given their time
free to this work, men who were never
interested in such things before they
came to the university.
t'In Yale the men taking the civil
engineering course in the Sheffield
school go into the work. In this way
they become familiar with the class of
men they will have to handle when
they complete their course and are Civ
en- charge of men or become independ-
ont employers themselves.
Work in Massachusetts.
"There are forty-two associations in
Massachusetts engaged in this work
with S71 teachers touching twenty FIVE
nationalities, helping them take out
naturalization papers and teaching
them the tenets of American citizen
ship"
Local interest in this work has al
ready increased largely. DIR. Peter
Roberts, Ph.D., one of the general sec.
TetaIies who is in charge of the work,
has written to A. L. Larimer, educa-
tional secretary of the local association
from New York, touching on local ques-
tions He said in part:
"Thank you for the intelligence that
our system for Coming Americans is
being used among the japanese and
that you are also applying it to the
Filipnos. i hope you will have the
success you anticipate.
Regarding japanese brides coming
over in steerage The best work in
this respect has been done by the gov
ernment of the United States in its
investigation into steerage conditions,
into white slave traffic and into irregu-
larities on board ships which has been
very exhaustive and / doubt not that
if these abuses were brought to the at
tention of the Bureau of Immigration
in America that they would take active
part in ferreting these out and making
examples of criminals guilty of wrong
doing
Super spoke yesterday on the things
that had particularly struck his atten-
tion on his trip
Duty to Church.
cone Of the most important things
besides this new immigration move
ment, - he said, "was the association s
growing sense of responsibility to the
church. The leaders are thinking of
themselves as churchmen first and asso-
citation men afterwards. There is an
intensified desire to win men to church
iAiilbflEAll.
'''rhe movement towards social ser
vice is spreading and becoming large
work. Formerly the idea was to save
your soul from the everlasting bonfire.
Now it is TO assist society and save
your own soul on the side. This social
service is expressing itself in getting
better tenements and habitatiOns, bet
ter sanitary laws and conditions and
such subjects.
"The movement towards scientific
management in the association seems
TO be everywhere and the secretaries
are all working toward that point. Vo-
cational guidance is also attracting al.
tention and II is planned TO do some
thing in this way locally although
nothing has crystallized as yet
GOVERNOR WILSON WILL
NOT QUIT PRESENT POST