Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-09-16

been more candidates admitted to cltlzensnip III
given localities than is represented by the entire
number of registered voters. In many places they
represent a majority of those OF voting age. a
goodly percentage of the candidates FOR nrst pa
pers come from the early arriving immigrants.
Many who are admitted to citizenship are unapie
to inscribe their names in the English language
but do so in foreign characters unintelligible to
the American born. Many who are admitted to
citizenship have only the most meager ability
to speak our tongue and have but slight ability to
comprehend it.
Some Of the school authorities have agreed to
furnish descriptive matter printed In various
tongues for further facilitating the foreigner in
the selection Of a school. Where the conditions
Justify it, school authorities have signifed their
willingness not only to open the night schools for
foreigners, but special day schools for the for
eigners whose ~vocations require them to work
during the night. The bureau expects to prevail
upon many of the school authorities to open
schools for the education of the foreigners where
none have been established.
AS illustrative of the enthusiasm with which
the cooperation of the school authorities is being
offered, one superintendent of schools in one of
the great metropolitan centers has stated:
You will find the board of education and
school officials ready to do everything within
their power to make this splendid movement, au-
thorized by your bureau, a success in this COM
munity, and we assure you in advance that we
will be very glad to cooperate with your field
officers to the limit of our ability. We are en-
thusiastic over the plan which you propose and
hope that the work that will be done in this. city
the coming year will be such as to meet with
your hearty approval"
others, expressive of a like interest, have been
received. All have agreed to give their heartiest
endeavors towards the realization of the desires
of the bureau of naturalization and to get the
chambers of anne and other civic organiza.
tons and the press behind the movement locally
SO as to arouse public sentiment and start the
wheels into operation to secure the appropriation
or the necessary funds for opening the public
SCHOOLS or extending their activities where thew
nave been open to foreigners. Others have volun-
teered to give to the bureau of naturalization the
information 1t desires SO as to enable It to show
annually the number of foreigners responding tn
the appeals of the bureau and the school authori.
ties to attend the public schools: The number of
llliterates; the number who have entered the pub
nc schools before taking out their first papers:
the number who are naturalized citizens before
entering upon the public schools; the number of
males; the number of females: those having
aDllity only to speak their native tongue; those
able to read in their native language: those able
to write their native language: and sucb otber
as will enable the bureau to picture
graphically the practical results in the annual
reports or the bureau of naturalization and the
department OF labor and other channels OF pub-
licty. ~
INDIVIDUALS interested In social work, patriotic
ana other public activities have also most. an.
couragingly expressed their willingness to COON
crate towards the advancement of the work of the
bureau In every possible way.