Arizona republican., 1918-06-10
Don't worry because the tide is gO- ing out-it always comes back.
 Anonymous.
The Fiction of the "Meltins Pot"

we can nafuly believe lldt lie leSlSldluie VIII adjourn without the adoption of some Americani- zation plan. It is only recently that we knew or that we realized that we needed Americanizaton Some years ago some devised that catching phrase "the melting pot" and we suppose there is no other people in the world easily and quickly caught by empty phrases Americans. So thought the whole thing done that the instant the foreigner touched shores and breathed of freedom and independence, those catch words of Jefferson Bricks of all generations, they at became Americans.
 All kinds of people here for all sorts of reasons. good people and bad people intelligent peo- pie and fools orderly people and criminal people. Some came 10 make money and go away Some 10 make homes and merely to escape laws which they had outraged. If we had had any sense we would have that such increment could not be fused automatically in any patent melting pot"
 Many of the immigrants we might have known would not have been improved by their coming On the contrary, they would further deterorate criminal from Russia. Austria or Italy would become bolder and more dangerous criminal in America. The densely ignorant mentally defective foreigner only sank lower for coming among us and was steeped in deeper degradation.
 Of course, there were exceptional cases. Many of the foreigners appeared to perform miracle of lifting themselves by their boot straps to higher levels and many of them surpassed their nativeborn neighbors. But part of the great mass was in- capable of rising, and, instead of elevatng, rather depressed the level upon which they had been pre- cpitated.
 The settlement workers accomplished something but their accomplishments comparatively small So many of them were impractical; so many of them had engaged in the work as a fad, relief from plcastIres IVhf had iada on until we went into war; while we were taking an unscientfic and hysterical inventory of our re- sources and looked into melting pot" we found that the contents had not fused
 We rdicule the folks who believe that transmit tation of metals is possible yet we had expected more remarkable and a more impossible miracle than the widest alchemist had dreamed of
 Speaking further of the settlement workers who virtually took control of this problem there vera not only the impractical and the society faddists and the aspirants for notoriety but there were dreaming socialists who impregnated the foreigners With notions entirely out of sympathy with American ideals. Some of the workers were worse One of tbo most prominent of settlement workers was Mrs Rose Pastor Stokes. facing a penitentiarv sem tence for sedton. Anarchists rushed into this field and made the masses of foreigners breeding places for crimes against the government. Can it be won dered at that in these circumstances the eltinp moi" failed?
 We found in the melting pot a strange agrlom oration-some intelligent citizens who were good citi zens Tn the countries whence they came and who would be good citizens anywhere. We found other, negligible citizens in any country who knew and cared nothing about American institutions and felt not the slightest interest in the fate of America We also found in the melting pot" clements positivolv hostile to America
 It is now proposed 10 establish something nrac ucal and definite to fuse those foreign elements susceptible of fusion. We are taking other rneos ures to deal with those unsusceptble refractory clements. Americanization means the teacbinp tbo mculeating of Amercanism. Nothing moro than mat IS necessary. and anything more than that is apt to embrace something that is impractical
 me teaching is to applied systematically to those who are willing to earn and to be forced rno 'hose who, though not unwilling arc only apatbotic We may waste no time teaching the actually refrac. iory but as we have said, We will deal with tbor in another way.
 t' IS highly essential that this should be doro no' ony TOT the future of America but for the nres eht as we'll We are not yet out of the voods n, war; and may not be out for some years vv ho never needed Americans badly as we need tbor, now and that need is likely to be long conti,,, we can increase the number of effective Ar,oricar oy characterization more rapidly than in any other way. 'S 0'''i