The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-01

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 can of Bridgeport, which is published in this weeks editon of Bridgeport, a Hungarian publication. It is a strong plea for the dissemination of educa-
 ton.
 Father Chernitzky's article is en-
 titled, What Will Become of Us?'s In view of the fact that Bridgeport
 has more Hungarian residents than any other city in America,f in pro-
 portion to total population, the ar-
 ticle is of especial interest, and by
 permission of the editors of Bridge
 port" The Farmer herewith repro
 duces it:
 Bridgeport is the largest Hungarian city in America. This is not imag- mary statement. It is an undeniable act, easily proven by statistics. Com
 paratively speaking, there are no-a where as many Hungar1ans in this. country as right here in Bridgeport.
 Let those who neither know nor take this for granted, consider the following facts taken from the off, Ecial census of 1910:
 Out of the 4,766,SS3 inhabitants of New York, about ]so,o0O are Hungar- ians.
 Out of the 2,1s5, 5,2ss inhabitants of Chicago, about 15,o00 are Hungar- ians.
 Out of the 1,54e,oos inhabitants of Philadelphia, about 10000 are Hun garians.
 Out of the 56o,6ss inhabitants of CleveIend, about 10000 are Hungar- ians.
 We may naturally conclude that there are more Hungarians in the above cities today. It can therefore safely be stated. that, in Phi1adel- pIia, one out of every 155 is of Hun garian descent; in Chicago, one out of every 145 is of Hungarian descent; in New York, one out of every 59 is of Y-io in C1RVRland out of every 14 is of Hungarian de- scent. ..
 Cities with less than 10000 Hun garians may not be interested in the final aim of this article.
 Up to this date. the inhabitants of the city of Bridgeport, total 130, 900 or whereabouts. Out of this number. genuine Hungarians claim at least 13,Oo0.
 Consequently. it is but natural to say that, here in Bridgeport, one out of every ten men is Hungarian. There-t fore our preliminary statement, ac- cording to which Bridgeport is Amer 1 ica's largest Hungarian center, i'm plies no exaggeration.
 Now, what follows:
 The Hungarians of 5 this country have nowhere else more chance and hope for material as we'll as for social welfare, than right here in Bridge port. In other words: all the F 2 900 Hun ngarian colonies scattered throughoLt the United States, can at Bridgeport to prove their useful ness and their intellectual ability to the community in which they live For a crowd of 13,000 can more easily if same should be required from SO,- 900 Hungarians in a city like New.l York.
 It is true that New York and C1eve- land saw earlier settlers from Hun gary than the city of Bridgeport. Not of this, it is also true that, in the eyes of the English speak ing population, from a sympatneticaI standpoint, nowhere else are the Hun garian co-habitants cutting as >Tnuch4 figure as here in Bridgeport Our may be somewhat curtaifed, ever will remain. Labor conditions may become more and more favorable elsewhere, too.- And yet. it is by no means a dream to opine that, with in the next 50 years. the city of will not suffer want of work, irrespective of warlike or of peaceful times, no matter, who will aappen to sit in the presidential chair.
 Factories are growing. here like Not only the makers of ammunition, but severaI1 other industrial concerns also. One of our leading citizens stated, that in i've years from now, our population will number 100000. Twenty years hence, this city may surpass half 8 million.
 And who, I pray. do constitute the population of Bridgeport? Only one la1f of them are Americans, as the ,erm goes. The. other half is com posed of immigrants, and of their irst generation. Let. us name them, Ajr eric (the so-called Magyars), italians. Slovaks from Hungary Ger mans, Poles, Ruthenians from Hun gary, Lithvanians. Swedes, SIoven-1 lar as their number goes, genuine f lead the so-called ''for- sign' element here.
 Concerning their birth rate, fam lies of immigrants are more prolific han those of Americans. This is an fact, sadly admitted by he English-speaking races them selves. The prophecy built upon this act, goes to say that, in the near fu- ure, other than English speaking aces may numerically outwit the rest ,f our cohabitants.
 However, only numerically!
 Hungarians may retain their num- .rical leadership here amongst inn However, everybody knows hat clubs, cities, countries as well as lAy ObILSI SoClaI gathering Cdn never : ,e ruled by masses, but only by per ons whose education stands above he rest of fellow-citzens. The city if Bridgeport will by no means recog- lize the existence of her Hungarians lnless they are able to boast of a uf1ciently large number of their ! hildren who have become thoroughly amiliar with the English, and also vho are honestly able to compete with the rest of her inhabitants, in matters industrial. commercial and intellectual. There is no room in the leart of a real American for envy or ealousy. He gives opportunity to very immigrant. He pays we'll for ood work. Lavishes encoura cement n the more sl,i1lful doAs mt close