Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-19
TWO.DAY CONFERENCE
ON APPROXIMATION
OPENS IN CITY TODAY
rvb;bit of Immigrant Races
Art Work in Memorial
Hall This After
s noon
oroTEsBURYs ENTERTAIN

,o,4canizat'on the movement whose
snassed aim is to shape the varied tvpes
81 IMMIGRANTS iEN the mold OF American
OF oin,objn nbj blazed forth today in its first
ciuze,'s ciuz',. oxnress' on when delegates-men
cor ~, ,,,on,en, experts in economy and So
ahv Ya,, business men, Government,
,a and city officials, statesmen, I'M
e,ssation workers, educators-assembled
~ his city for the two-day National
n..farence y, on immigration and Ameri-
esnization. which opens this afternoon.
esrnianel Theodore Roosevelt will furnish
i,n,ax of the conference and its
tnv n,ben he addresses meeting at the
o,nonoiiton Opera House tomorrow
night. :, t. bo,;evod wu b,vo
-, nolitical Significance. Rabbi stephen
,se. OF New York. also will speak,
snd the meeting VIII be presided over by
Ana r. Johnson, president OF thc Bald
e.. Locomotive Works.
Colonel oosevelt, speaking on the sub
~, "sociaI and Economic Preparedness
- peoce ard Unity" has taken as his
.Snoan "Fcar God and Take Your Own
per, He will point out that while Con-
atsss is discussing first and second lines
81 defer Sc, continual armies ana coinpul-
- military training, these will be of lit
"a use II unsupported by internal pre-
paredness
TO CENTRALIZE WORK.
rnroueh every known channel the Ma
.,araI Amcrlcanization Committee, con-
ta,rinp many potent names, expects to
r,lclsen national consciousness to the ne
cessitv o. itR work at the conference,
,,h'ch Is the first intelligent effort to sys-
,snatize the huge labors connected with
tbe problcm of assimilating those who
emlgrate to our shores. national couh-
eli probably will be formed to direct the
work heretofore decentrallzed and hap
hazard.
In chronological order the conference
w,lI omen this afternoon at Memorial Hall
With an exhibition of painting and sculp-
6t,,re the contribution of the immigrant
races to American art.
DINNER AT STOTESBURYS'.
a brilliant dinner will be given in honor
Of the members OF the National Ameri-
eanlzation Committee and other guests by
M. and Mrs. Stotesbury In the new ball
room of their residence 1928 Walnut
street tonight at o'clock, The dinner
will precede the actual conference, which
will convene tomorrow morning but the
character of the speakers lends n more
than social import to the function,
Frank Trumbull is chairman of the Ma
tional AmericaniZation Committee. The
.pfogram of speakers includes Governor
Br,Iinbaugh Alba b. Johnson, John II.
lFahcy, president of the Chamber of Com
merce Of the United States; William f..
Knox, comptroller of the Bowery Saw
ings Bank. Of New York; S. Stanwood
Menken president of the National Sc
curity League; William +. Richards, of
pottstown, president of the Reading Coal
and Iron Company: Frances A. Kellor,
Of New York. d member of the Executive
Committee: Felix Warburg, of New York;
John Finley president of the New York
State University; Robert Bacon of New
fs u s.f Nt,aaI aIt,., q
and Commissioner John Price Jackson,
head of the Pennsylvania Department OF
Labor and Industry. Motion pictures,
.aThe Americanization of Stefan Skorny,"
will be shown
CONFERENCE TOMORROW.
atsconfeyence of the hundreds of dele
gates, open to the public, will be held to-.
morrow morning at 10 O'Clock In the
Clover Room o the Bellevue -Stratford. At
this meeting the plans Will be shaped into
concrete policies in open discussions.
II. H. Wheaton. special collaboration OF
the Federal Bureau of Education. the pre-
siding officer, will explain the scope of
Americanization work as contemplated by
the workers and will present rapid re-
sumo of the meanings and methods of
the movement and the various agencies
now concentrating their efforts in the
work.
Speeches will be made by representa-
tvess Of the organizations whose work
lies In the direction OF AmericaniZation,
the services of which the National Ameri-
eanizatlon Committee hopes to centralize
INTO an organic whole. Short talks will
bemade by Peter Roberts and Mrs. Harry
y. bremer, representing the international
foung Mems Christian Association; DR..
Jane e. Robbins, the Jacob Riis Neigh
porhood Settlement, New York; Louis
brenner. the Young Mems Hebrew Asso-
cation, New York; William b. Patterson,
me American Institute OF Special Service;
Albert Shields, the bureau of reference
and research of the Board of Education,
New York; George w. Trupper. the Mas
sachusetts and Rhode Island Y. NJ. C. A; ;
Shester S, idcGown, the American Inter-
rational College. Springfield. Mass: Helen
Minkler, the Council of Jewi-h Women;
Eawin j. de Nee, st. Vincent de Paul
society; DR.. Henry Fleischman. the Edu-
eauonal Alliance; Newell B. Woodworth,
the National Association S. A. r.; Sidney
Guliek, the Federal Council of the
vhurches of Christ; George b. Utley. the
american Library Association; Frank
Vhara and John Rea. the Catholic Uni
sersity OF America Nathaniel Phillips,
ne League OF Foreign Born Citizens;
sooert N. Lynch. vice president of the
sah francisco Chamber OF Commerce;
3iederlc Z. Howe, Commissioner of I'm
mlsration, New York harbor; Colonel
marry Cutler. Rhode Island Commission
VI immigration; Milton w. Harrison, the
Aneiiean Bankers Association; DIR. j. l..
aasnes the Jewish Community; Bernard
nothWeil' OF the Massachusetts, Commits
sVn OF Immigration; Mrs. Marion Clarke,
Sei investigator of the New York State
5,preau OF Industries and immigration;
shasies II. Fulloway, assistant director
lne division OF postal savings of the
asomee Department. and Mrs. Nathan
Aey the Daughters of the American
luncheon Of the delegates and other
p,u,sested persons will be held at the
s5ssssslsfue-stratford at 1880 o'clock. at
~ Miss Frances A. Kellor Will pre-
- Inc speakers will be Commissioner
Ga rrlee Jackson. Judge Clarence n.
1"in, OF the United States Appellate
dsl Shieago, and John Finley, presi-
~ ot the New York State University.
olis +. Post. Assistant Secretary of
~, l.ed states Department OF Labor.
preside at a general meeting on
mr. seanlzation in the ballroom, begin
eh,S. a. o'clock. The speakers will in
Ed. Frank 7. Walsh, of the American
AZ ..srst9 a.io9 OF Labor; Mary Antin, author
Il. ne promised Land; DIR. p. p. Clax-
Co. eoeral Commissioner of Education;
tssss. Aobott of the Immigrants Pro-
Hssnp League, Chicago; DR.. Woods
4ssson, Prof. Edmund Won Mach, of
itss,ua University; Anthony Caminetti,
,iess. states Commissioner of Immigra-
Hs- Apram l. Elkus, of the Baron de
rs.ln Z una, New York, and Mrs. Penny