The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25

 nature of whose work necessitates such late hours that the workers could not attend the evening schools, arranged with the board of education to furnish 10 teachers for whom the company pro- vided 10 classrooms opening the or- portunity to more than roo men who would have been deprived of f.. The Solvay company proposed an increase of cents an hour to it's. employees
 who learned English and the Cadillac company introduced the idea to those of their foreign employees who were leaders among the others. enlistinG their influence to popularize the move ment
 Employers attention was brought to their English speaking employees and to the advantages of their learn ing English and principles of Ameri- can citizenship. An executive :n one plant found to his surprise that he had over 500 non English speaking work men, while others already knew With regret that large percentages of theirs d;G not speak English. with the attend~ | ant inconvenience and confusion this caused. In small plant with only ST non English speaking employees, IS 1 readily accepted the night school and | the other three said they were 100 old l to learn a new language. One of teil most prominent Detroit employers said ] "A year or two ago my friends !augho d | at my dream of an English speaking | factory. I believe I shall see it in a 1 few years"
 1 The city authorities. boards of con-
 rnerce and education could provide the 1 schools and the employers invite and | urge attendance. but the best means of | all for securing attendance was | through those for whom the immi grants had the highest respec:-their | nr bn cr1o n a f ion regarding the night schools Many tel I ephoned. wrote. or called on the author | ities, expressing their willingness to i co operate in the plans, and the pubic schools and the parochial schools corr | fsrred as to the best methods Of ham, ding the matter. The priest of a Pol 1 ish church, with a parish of 25,000 | Poles among whom English was rarely heard. except from the children, said: 1 '"The church stands firm for the educa : | tion of its young in the schools of its | own creation. Yet it can see rothing g ! but good in the plan to educate mature ron English speaking foreigners in the Tablic night schools. and in tho rein ] forcement of this by the factory schools I in which the foreigner may learn the
 nomenclature of his job
 l A Greek merchant. who was an ac- | Iknowledged leader among the Greeks, when asked to assist in inter estins
 them, called a meeting at his place urged attendance. and even went to | the expense of having handbills print l ed in Greek, ordering them from New | York, as there were no fonts of Greek | type available in Detroit.
 l Several different styles of handbills 1 were printed, in from one to seven Ian guages, and were distributed by the l health board through the nurses. by the l public library and it's branches through l, ok I,~ 11~I e. r1x | the city recreation committee, by the l Juvenile court. with its widows pen l sions, by the poor commission. those applying for aid being told of the night l school and of the fact that they were | expected to learn and thereby be able | to help themselves more. The Assoc- l ated Charities enlisted the woTnen of l Highland Park, an immigrant section l just outside the city limits. where most of the men are registered in the Ford
 English school It is important that l the women learn English. for # tn ey l do not. the homes remain alien r.l l AEerica, while if the mcthers, too, ] speak English, they can deal better with trades people and in every way l homes.
 The Young Mems Christian associa- l ton. the Railroad Young Mems Chris- 1 tan assC citation, the Michigan Chjl 1 drcn's Home society. the Children's Aid l society, the hospitals and homes the
 settlement organizations and institu- l tions. and the employment organiza- tons, the Twentieth Century clul with a membership of 500 women, all these
 helped ir the work of spreading infor- | mation atout the night school and in rointing cut the advantages of attend ance. Church and civic author;ties | men, women and children lent hand | to Americanize Detroit.
 l The Uncle Sam night school posters
 now more or less we'll kncwn through l the country, the large plaeards in four l colors and reading in seven languages l Learn English" "Attend Night school 1 Become a Citizen" "It means bet | ter opportunity and a better home iii America" Ut means better job," 'It 1 means a better chance for your chit dren," "It means a better America | Ask the public school about classes
 ''If there are none in your town write | the national Americanizarion commit l tee" These posters were liberaly dis l trbuted through Detroit. and other handbills in seven languages were car
 ried by the Boy Scouts. and in one | district by Is little Sicilian boys and l girls. These printed notices were not sown broadcast but in every d;stribu-
 tion were sent out by responsible par l ties who. as far as possible, saw that 1 they reached their destinations and l were understood. Russian, Italian 1 the campaign.
 l RESULTS
 1 The schools open on September 13