New Britain herald., 1915-01-12
Naturalization COuYt
 Wanted for Ih1s City
C Commonwealth Club Would Work for BenefIt 0f Fo1eigner--Guy p. Gold
 Advances Ideas 0n CiHzenShib

A movement having as it's aim greater efficiency in the assimilation of foreigners was started last night by ~the Comm monwealth club following 2 sof the New American association, of sBrockton. The first step to be taken
 -and it is one regarded as of vtail i'm portance to the city will be to se- You're hearings of the naturaliza ton court in New Britain. The executive committee was authorized by a vote of club to take the matter up with the Civic bureau of the Chamber of Commerce and do it's work in CO., operation with that body.
 It is believed the problem of the Naturalization court can be solved by having a clerk of the common pleas sauthorized to come to New Britain for about week twice a year for the purpose of receiving the declarations of intention and handling the busi- ness in connection with the second papers.
 s5 gram upon which the Comm onwealth club has embarked, for after a new ~sarrival has filed his declaration of in- fentions, the work of giving him a true insight into American ideals and making him a naturalized citizen re- mains MT. Gold told of the steps taken in Brockton to accomplish this work. Brockton is manufacturing city of 65,O00 with an overwhelming percentage of foreigners. Last year more than four thousand foreigners transa cted business with the New American association and in this number were seventeen different na- tionalties.
 tYou ought to be ashamed of your self if you do not get under this proposition and make it go,'' said MT. Gold in closing his address, and his hearers, who had liste2ed closely to his story of the work done in Brock ton and the results accomplished, agreed with him. Similar work on a small scale has been attempted in New Britain by the French Naturali- zation club and the naturalization classes held in the Y. M. c. A. this winter \. H. Andrews Introduces Speaker. -~~M MT. Gold was introduced by A. IT. Andrews, secretary, of of the Cham Der of Commerce, the two men having been closely associated in their work in Brockton. MT. Andrews as presi- dent and secretary. of the Cham Der of Commerce there and MT. Gold as president of the Civic bureau of the ,Lo nJ J years ago young man came to Brockton with ideas. The city soon realized that Gold knew the solution of the problem of the foreign popula- ' tion and he is regarded as one of the best authorities in the country on the subject
 American Citizenship and Demo- cracy" was the subject of this ad- dress, Citizenship. he said, has gone hand in hand with democracy. The people of the United States are differ ent from men in most European countries in that they are citizens, not subjects He pointed out that the Hebrews the Greeks, and the Romans at one time in their histories boasted of the same distinction. This distinction implies that we are free to govern ourselves, although, he said, the people of the United States only make bluff at governing themselves.
 The Italians, Russians, Poles and others come with ideas of govern ment that have been developed in their own peculiar environments and need to be taught something of our conception of republication. Yet, said MT. Gold. they have a back ground that can be appealed to by