The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-12-28
MOTION PICTURE TO HELP
INSTRUMENTATION.
Bureau Of Naturalization Campaign
win Be Carried on Films to 1900
Schools.

the Bureau of Naturalization of the
United States Department of Labor.
Thousands of feet of celluloid are
now awaiting the zero hour to go
over the top in a drive that will car
ny the gospel of 100 per cent. Amer
icanism to every corner of the land,
The pictures will visualize for the for
eigners in our midst the message that
is being sent out to them through the
Bureau of Naturalization. They will
show them precisely what the Gov
eminent of the United States stands
for and what it aims to do for its
citizens.
The films will be exhibited to the
members of night school classes COM
posed of aliens who are taking ad-
vantage of the opportunity offered
them of receiving free instruction in
English and in the duties and privi-
leges of American citizens, and will
act as a stimulus and an inspiration
to those thousands of foreigners,
who have come to the Melting Pot"
to join their fortunes with those of
the hberty-loving people of America.
One series of pictures will project |
before the eyes of the newcomers the
history of the United States from the
landing of Columbus to the present
day, showing the struggles of the
early colonists, so similar to, and yet
so different from, the upward fight
of the immigrant himself; the battles
of the Revolution for independence;
the growth from a child-nation oc-
cupying but a strip of land along the
Atlantic to a country of millions on
millions of free people spreading
over a continent; the conflict of 1861
65 to preserve the united nation so
hardly won; the agony of reconstruc-
ton, the development of a world
power and the final participation of
America in the world war against
autocracy.
There will be travelogue pictures
displaying the splendors of Americas
scenery and governmental, industrial, /
commercial, agricultural and educa-
tional activity. There will be fins
showing the service rendered the citi-
zens by each of the great Federal de-
partments. Reproduction will be
thrown on the screen of, for exam
pie, the latest scientific methods of
farming; the highest development of
industrial machinery; penmanship;
letter-writing; marketing by mail,
through the parcel post; household
economy-in brief, the aliens seeking
a home in America and a part in its
national and community life will be
afforded visual representation of the
benefits and responsibilities of an
and of the social and bust
ness customs that make up the ma
chinery of daily living. To a consi- !
derable extent the series will be a Z
upon the film of the
printed pages of the textbook of
written by Raymond F. I
Crist, Deputy Commissioner of Natu-
for the use in the schools
Of the very audiences who will watch
the unrolling before their eyes of
the drama OF a nation. n
Nineteen hundred schools through +.
put the country have expressed al Q
ready their willingness to cooperate 8
with the Department of Labor in the
and an elaborate plan has r
been worked out for carrying on the .
work by David X. Niles, movie expert
IF the Information and Education
Service of the Department Of Labor.
The films will be distributed from % :
,enters, and win reach practically Z
every American community that has q
alien inhabitants. The exhibitions will |.
De held in the local motion-picture {
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