New Britain herald., 1915-06-08

their children, are to be invited to various entertainments, to receptions, to speeches, to music, to motion pie lures, to pageants and to parades, all of which will instruct them in the delights of citizenship, will inspire in the man American patriotism and mage America in reality the melting pot which it is so fondly called.
 v Mothers will be invited to attend mothers meetings They will be inn bued with the desire to learn Eng fish. And the way will be opened for further communication With them, so that teachings of hygiene. Of well fare and so forth may follow nat urally in the future.
 Quotes Some Figures.
 Mrs. Pinchot then quoted some fg- ures in order to show the enormity of the problem. There are l3,- 900, 900 foreign born residents of our country working in our mines and mills. subways and barge canals and contributing to the prosperity of our country. but who have by no means all reached an understanding of America or become an integral part of American society, to say nothing of American citizenship.
 One-fourth of the men in this country over twenty one years of age are foreign born whites. There are aln,o ost 7,00o,00o men in this country old enough to vote who were born in other lands These form apprexi~> roately 25 per cent. of the male pop ulation old enough to vote. Less than half of them are naturalized. This vast army, greater than the Ger mans have under arms today, is be- ing wasted it's power for service and stability is lost. Why not mobilize this army--for peace and life, not war and death? Why not develop a thoroughly trained, intelligent. com potent, unified country out of the in coherent. hostile clements showing all too clearly in it now?"
 And then Mrs. Pinchot came to the immediate cause for the formation of her committee, that cause which has made 1t a necessity more striking than it was last year, or than it is to be hoped it will be next year.
 Reveals America to Itself.
 "In it's rejoicing in the security of peace America is a united nation. And yet the war in Europe has revealed America to itself in an absolutely new and surprising way. A few years ago if we had been asked to state our ideas on the real meaning of Ameri- can citizenship we should probably have considered it an idle question, and the answer obvious enough to be given by any schoolboy.
 "But I doubt whether any thought fuf American has failed to see that months of war in Europe have thrown a high and strong light on the com pleXity involved in the question of American citizenship. Separated, as we are now, into isolated national com munities without our nation, we arc in highly dangerous and inf1amma ble situation, just at the period when We should be strongest in unity and in single nationalisin of purpose. Whether we stand for peace or. for war; these people who arc round about us must cease to be guests. They must be workers, not only for us but with us, and must realize that our in- stitutions our policies and our cus- toms, are theirs for adopting, and arc futile unless they are so understood, and unless equality is not made to mean to these uninvited, but well comed, men and women universality of opportunity to lose their identity in ours and become that very thing for which they have journeyed asross the waters