Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-01
STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS
Opening Session of Sixth Annual Conference Held at Davis Theatre Sunday Evening Stirring Address by Graham Taylor of Chicago

 bodies are dependent on the co-opera- ticn of voluntary agencies, and drew comparison from cooperation in the courts. Even the courts are not a law unto themselves, said MT. Taylor. They need this voluntary cooperation.
 I have very high regard for the police departments, said MT. Taylor. should like to know why the com manding officer of a police force should not be as respected as the commanding officers of the army and navy. MT. Taylor said he would rather give a prize to the man who kept his beat in such order that he never had to make any arrests rather than to the man who made the most arrests. We ought to train these men, he continued. He spoke of the vices in the police depart ents in the large cities and laid the responsibility on the corrupt politician. The police don't want that thing, said Mir. Taylor Let them be men and they playgrounds movement as a great movement and told of how Chicago spent thirteen millions of the taxpay CTS money without a murmur for or all the twenty y-four years he has spent in Chicago he has never seen public money put to better use.
 There is tremendous tendency, since this internal war has been on, to lower our ideals, said the speaker. Isn't it high time that we start think ing of the conservation of childhood, womanhood and manhood Aren't they the strength of the nation. What would our army and navy amount to if we have internal troubles? We are facing 99 periis from within and one peril from without. If government is becoming more directly the govern ment of the people we have got to train the people for citizenship. There should be leaders of the people There should be West Points for civic lead CTS. Each community must work out it's own salvation from these educa- tional institutions.
 At this point in the program Mrs Grace Aldrich Crowen rendered in sweet voice, The Ninety and Nine.
 Amerieanizina the Immigrant.
 The closing address of the evening was delivered by John Collier of the Peoples Institute, New York city, and his topic was Americanizing the Inn- migrant. MT. Collier has made study of the immigrant and had his subject well in hand. In part he spoke as follows:
 It is fact no less ominous than re- markable, that America has no immi- grafton policy. This fact is ominous because 1t threatens the death of the American political ideal, the nu1lifi- cation of that opportunity which is pe- cultarly ours among the nations of the world, and finally because this lack of policy may if continued put us fatally on the rocks in interna- tional relations.
 Our lack of policy is remarkable because the immigrant problem is of long standing. We were born as a composite immigrant nation; our life- experience should have made us wise. And for forty five years the great tides of immigration have washed over our ShnTaS TTUy6nfV-Aiyhf the country bred Italians, caged in old law tenements in Cherry Hill, devel- oped the appalling tuberculosis death rate which forced New York, to amend leaders of the Italian and Jewish im- migrant groups started that appeal which has not yet been listened to for intelligent federal and state action looking to the distribution of immi- grants. Twelve years ago Florence Kelley, in an article of historic signi- ffcapce entitled The Settlements Their Lost Opportunity. summoned the thought of social workers to this problem of immigrant distribution, ur- gent then as now And when at the National Community Centre Confer ence two weeks ago, Charles McCar- thy of Wisconsin, urging the distribu- ticn of immigrant spoke of the com muntty centers and their lost opportu- nifty, he echoed Florence Kelley of
 
 Norton of twenty-five years ago.
 Almost nothing that I shall say to You is less than twenty years old. The restriction of inmigration-its distri- bution-the cruelties and inanitiez of our naturalization procedure = the social tradition-these problems have been cried from the housetops for twenty years.
 Yet we have no immigration policy, This. statement, made by harles Me- Carthy and endorsed by all his hear CTS two weeks ago, can be illustrated in such ways as these;
 The United States immigration com mission published a 40-volume report. This mountain of lahor persuaded con- eracy test. Two presidents have ve- toed this test as being futile. or a class measure, or tniquitous. Congress persists. The literacy test would have one systematic result-it would initiate in favor of urban ana against rural and for year after year, failing to en- act the literacy test. refuses to do anything else.
 Tn the meantime congress eeAzea more than a millien dollars, aeeaxna- lated through the head-tax pa lna- migrants, This fund would make pes- sible the most faF=reaehing work of intelligent nat1ralization of the erea- ton of immigrant 1aber bureaus, of the protection Of immigrants from fraud and loss. We are honor bound to so expend 1t. But congress is not interested In the immigrant problem.
 Three years ago Sidney L. Gulick made public his far-reaching proposals for reform Of the immigration and naturalization laws. These are pro- posals in an intelligent way. which would force China and Japan on an equity with all other nations and yet would keep down the influx from these nations to it's present minimum, and would exert profound effect on the educational and legal treatment of tm- migrants already on our shores. Aft CT three years no committee Of con~ gress nor member of congress- no party leader and no group of social workers have interested themselves sufficiently even to draft the Gulick proposals into congressional bill. Yet Mccarthy states that these are the first constructive proposals yet made for dealing with Americans leading problems.
 Why have we no inInmigration pol- icy7 why does our federal govern. ment continue to do active and wan- ton violence to the immigrant and to our own larger concerns with the in1- migrant problem, while our local cor11- rn11nities continue to do actively noth-