Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-10-19

tries which can be located here, and
it is going after those industries with
the most telling arguments-actual
facts covering the cost of manufac-
ture and distributor, in which Bis
marck's fuel andspower supply, the
favorable labor situation, and its un-
usually good transportation facill-
ties, by rail and river, will play an
important part. l
The question of enlisting the CO.
operation of the public sch0ls of Bis
marck. and Burleigh county with q
view to making American citizens of
foreign residents who have not yet
applied for naturalization Will be tax.
en- up at the directors meeting
Tuesday evening.
Raymond F. Crisp, deputy commits
sioner of naturalization, writes from
Washington to President G. -. Young,
advising that there has been evolved
in the bureau of naturalization a,plan
for the active cooperation OF the
public schools in the country with
the bureau for the education of fore
igners who are candidates for citi-
zenship. This plan has received the
endorsement of the secretary Of labor
and also that at all of the chambers
of commerce and commercial organ
izations before which the deputy
commissioner of naturalization APP
peared during a tour which he made
the early part Of September, and
which brought. him to Bismarck.
The plan, MI. Crisp states. is a
very simple one, and is based upon
the receipt in the bureau OF natural
ization each month of the duplicates
of all naturalization papers from the
clerks of naturalization courts
throughout the United States. These
papers represented last year approx
mately 100000 foreigners. OF that
number thirty declared their niten-
ton and fourteen filed their petitions
for naturalization in the courts or
Bismarck. About seventy-fve per
cent Of these candidates are lacking
in qualifications for citizenship.
"Realizing," says Mr.. Crisp, that
the annual addition to the body poll
tbs of so large a number lacking
full qualifications for citizenship n
realizing that the courts, through
sympathy, admit those falling below
an ideal standard in the absence OF a
standard which can be demonstrated
as a practical one, the bureau OF ma
turalization has adopted the plan re-
ferred to above, and is now sendlng
out a large number Of those names
each month.
while the number Of foreigners
who declared their intentions and Pc
titioned in the courts at Bismarck
last year was very small" Mr.. Crisp
continues, their proportion to the
whole foreign residents Is below tina
which would result il they we're bet
ter informed. 1t goes without saying
that the more intelligent members
there are in a community, the better
is the community circumstanced; the
more productive it is, and the less
liability is there for objects OF char
ity to arise and less liability 9 perl
DDS Of financial distress. In short, It
is a sound business proposition to
have the community composed OF en-
tirely of sufficiently educated mem
bers, all Of whom are self supporting.
So long as there are members OF the
community who are not contributing
members, the community has q great
work to do.
II trust" says Mr.. Crisp, in con-
clusion, shat this important work
may receive the hearty support OF
the Commercial club Of Bismarck to