Milford chronicle., 1918-12-13

OF Poles, trying to get them to com
out TO New Castle to live. Thev sal
they would not come because Their
was no adequate housing for them
i, ana there was no church. The Poll
4 wants his church, and usually gets +
II ne stays in community at all Bu
il is Polish money and Polish effort
that gets IT,
e Here in Wilmington a bodv nj
Greeks, disheartened at the neglect ot
me city and State to provide them
with means of learning English. raised
fund OF several thousand dollars
them selves for this purpose. The prin-
clple IS all wrong. Ii is the business
oi the nation, State and the community
az matter Of public policy. to give
the adult forelgn-bOr the means of
learning our language and preparing
for citizenship. SO long as any com
munity fails to do this It has no right
TO hnd fault with its foreign born be
cause they are lawless and because
they are restless. disconnected work
men.
several employers in the State have
admitted to the State Council of De- |
Iense that they cannot deal with their |
own lorelgn-bOrn workmen because !
uey cannot speak to the men them
selves. When any labor difficulties
arise, they have to deal with the men
through an outsider who speaks their
language So long as this is true there
viii be labor troubles constantly.
An important labor union man in the
city of Wilmington, when asked if the
ioreign-born belonged 10 the unions
IN large numbers and whether they
came 10 the meetings. stateI t..v did
'ome 20 the meetings sometimes. but
hat they had to be talked to By some
me who spoke their own language. and
Turing this foreign language talk the
latiYe born members got restless and
inpatient. And so the whole matter
1 having foreign-bOrn workmen i'm the
mons does not work very well.
What Are We Going to DO
About IT.
The State Defense Council has work
d out plan by which the State of
elaware could adopt a definite policy
Americanizing the foreign born
orkmen who come 70 Delaware TO -
ie and work. The plan will not sue
ed unless il has the whole commuu- VIC
and the whole State behind it. The lte
an approved by the State Defense ha'
uncil includes submitting a bill to mi
State Legislature for State aid" BrI
industrial committees FOR educating mn
llt immigrants. The principle OF me
ite aid in Americanizing is every ing
ere approved by the Federal au- aOs
rlties and by those States that have OF
iously tackled this problem. Can G
get it in Delaware? the
he Defense Council has almost me
lpleted its census of the foreign pinI
II in the State taken through the OF {
ustrles. BY this census we haye ana
ctlcally card index of every for Viou
thorn workman in the State. with tina
necessary data about himself and man
family. tent
is hoped that Americanization the !
)ols can be started in the city OF ther
in January There is amo
and for them. Already the State Mr..
snse Council is holding emergency abro
ses with total attendance of be Will
IN ninety and one hundred every ques
I for certain groups of men. chiefly Ais
IS and Italians, who did not want conn
ait until January. Other
hen We get the schools we want IN I;
trained teachers to handle them brou
IS why the AmerlclnizatiOn Insti- 70 th
is being held for SIX weeks al the polir
school now. IL has "A total en- ieat
neut OF one hundred and hfty-six Icren
bers who go four nights a week sun .
Saturday mornings 10 do well the son a
4 teaching the foreign Immigrants titud,
operation OF Industries Essential comm
I all these educational plans for towal
'icaniziug Delaware's foreign-born Unite
come to naught unless Delaware anoth
oyers-the men who are responsi- admin
for bringing the foreign-born ton
men here in the first place-are II
.-heartedly supporting the Amer dents
ing policy and program of the peace
it see
every foreign-bOrn workman who ion q
TO this State, or who is here states
every Delaware employer should stayed
potential Delaware citizen who subJec
be given an opportunity to con slble
e something besides muscle and tatiyes
10 the development OF Della unless
II IS indeed perfectly true Del radica
needs the fOreign-born for its peace
ries and for its population, but
We adopt different policy we DEA
neither get them here or keen
ghen we do get them They muet HarH
en- reasons for choosing ms in. aged ?
of PENNSYLVANIA. New York Or Brown.
chusetts. If we do NOT 1ive at $50
he reasons they will leave us Hospit,
survive
Mrs