The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-12-31
NOVEL WORK ON
OCEAN LINERS
Y. M. C. A. win Instruct the lmmi-
grants In Americanism

New York. Dee. 3l.--Hundreds OF
thousands OF male immigrants are an
nually TO begin their education in Am
cricanism while in the steerage when
| plans now under way by the Young
Mems Christian Association are COM
pleted. II is intended To have an as
Sociation secretary in the Steerage OF
every ship entering United states
port from Europe. Each secretary
will be able To talk half a dozen or
more languages. and by class teaching,
10y illustrated lectures, by distribution
az printed matter. and by personal
talks he will start the future Ameri-
cans along the path which means good
citizenship and industrial efficiency.
Twenty experimental trips have
been made iu the stecrage by associa-
lion secretaries between England and
the United States and England and
South America, for it is intended to
extend the plan to South American
immigration. Secretaries have tray
eled in the Steerage 10 New York from
Liverpool, London, Hamburg, Bremen
Naples and Trieste
1t has been proved by these jour-
neys that there is Vast field for work
among immigrants on shipboard. both
in extending practical assistance To in
dividuals with various personal diff
oulties, and i'm giving suggestions and
advice 10 the male immigrants en-
masse.
Large Field For Work.
The opportunity open for the kind
OF work To he undertaken is indicated
10y the immigration statistics. Last
year there entered the United States
Ll97OO0 immigrants while 4O2,0 en-
tered Canada. 1t is intended To have
workers on ships running To Canadian |
por,s as Well as to American. OF this /
total immigration host, about SOC, 900 !
We're males between the ages Of ff- !
teen and forty. About 100000 alien |
immigrants also return To Europe from !
The United States each year, and worl; |
Is likewise 10 be done among these |
people during the voyage.
The immigration Section of the In
iustrial Department of Y. NJ. (. y.
Committee now has pro-
posalS before the Cunard. White star,
and Hamburg American steamship
ines for an organization secretary To
he attached regularly To each ship i'm
he North American trade Negotia-
ions with the other lines crossing the
North Atlantic are also to be begun.
The Royal Mail Steamship company
asked for IN" services of workers for
Experimental trips in some Of their
'eSSels running between England ana
PORTS in South America.
immigrants Intensely Interested.
The company was greatly pleased
with The result New York Times re
'"rtcr was told by Charles r. Towson
of the Y. VI. G. \. Industrial
department in New York. SO much
so that some phases of the work ac-
'ompIishod have just been adopted as
permanent part Of the stceragc or
Of that line"
The most recent of all the expert
mental trips was made on the Cunard-
r Lusitania by John Sumner, Euro
'cau Emigration Secretary. He has
ccently sent a report to Mr.. Towson
II mis- VOYAGE in the I.usitania's third
nbin from Liverpool to New York.
lie found that intense interest was
aiken in his work by the immigrants,
~ tho steamship officials, ana by
ONE of the first cabin passengers.
"vcral or the latter hclpmg him with
,ie activities in the third cabin.