The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-09-19
Rev. G. Busacca of the
Italian Evangelical. Asso-
citation Thinks People
are too Careless.
BEST men FREQUENTsALOONS
In America Money VIII Buy Anything,
Even Morals, is the Opinion Of
Minister Who Has Made Study
of Conditions Here.

Severe arraignment Of Kenosha IS
method of the Americanization of i'm
migrants, is made by Rev. G. Busacca,
who is in charge of the Italian Evan
gelical Association here and who has
been making study of conditions here
Rev. Mr.. Busacca, maintains that the
one-sided view the immigrant gets of
| American manners and customs is due to
the fact that when he arrives in this
country the only welcome he gets is
from saloons and the movie theaters.
Concerning this matter he says:
HWhen the immigrant comes to this
country he finds that only two doors
are open to hinn-the saloon and the
movie doors. Because no other doors
are opened to him, he frequents the
only two places which open their doors
and welcome him.
From what he sees, and in his own
way interprets, in these places, he
largely judges American life. A super
fetal acquaintance with the immigrant
populace will early reveal the fact that
their views of American life and
American ideals are but the impress
sions left in their minds from what
they have seen and heard in the only
places they have frequented. Those
immigrants who have been so unfort-
innate as not to make any other ac-
quaintances besides those made in such
places (and there are many in this
CLASSY, even though they have lived
many years in this country, their
views of American life are surprising
" crude and unreal. The following is
/ a fair summary of the views such peo-
pie have gained of American life:
America is a place to make money,
either in legal or an Illegal way.
/ The people of America are very
careless Of their morals.
In America money viii buy anything
even morals.
! The women Of America are clean,
but very frivolous.
The best American men frequent
the saloons.
The writer speaks from personal ex-
Iperience among foreigners of different
Inationalities and knows well the views
those people entertain and how they
have gained them. He also feels that
the true Americans ought to be aware
Iof these conditions and ought to take
Isteps toward remedying them.
One means which has done more than
any other in correcting such views
among the immigrants, has been the
mission work done by the different
Protestant denominations. Missions,
while unadvertised, have been doing
more work than the much advertised
institutions in helping the immigrant
Ito get the right views Of American
life. The mission workers get the i'm
migrants in personal contact with
American men and women who live a
modest unselfsh life; they acquaint
them with the better American insti-
tutions; they become their unselfsh
friends In time of need; they teach
the men the English language and
American citizenship in the free even.
ling schools which they maintain; they
go into the homes and give lessons to
the women; they help them when they
are in trouble, and with their living
example keep before the immigrant the
higher ideals Of American life and
Christianity inspiring them to better
things and thus help them to become
a most desirable kind Of citizens.
s. An example Of this kind of mission
work done in our own city, we Will find
in the work done by the Evangelical
Mission on Grand avenue. For over
la year and half the missionaries,
Rev. G. Busacca and Miss Title Droeg-
kamp, have been doing this kind of
work in this city among the Italians.
by their unselfsh devotion to the work
they have won the heart Of the people.
1.-THE demands for their service are
now far beyond what the two mission
aries can do.
! The missionaries were glad TO learn
that the Chamber of Commerce has
undertaken the work Of instructing
the women in the English language,
and are very DESTROYS to cooperate
with the Chamber of Commerce in any
thing that they can do in order to en-
courage the noble work the Chamber
has undertaken.
IF we would like to keep high the
American ideals and want to preserve
them for our sons, we must see to it
that these ideals are unselfshly incul-
cated into the immigrant who is the
American citizen Of tomorrow and the
parent of the future Americans