The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-18
AMERICA AMERICANIZED

The Americanization of immigrant
women will be large factor in the
work Of the National Committee of One
Hundred, appointed, upon request, by
the United States commissioner Of
education, DR.. Philander 2 ClaXton.
Under the emergency of war the
America First" campaign of the Com
mittee has become intensive and great
efforts are being made to teach Eng
lish and patriotism to the 100000
non-English speaking people of the
United States. English teaching will
be carried on in homes, factories and
training camps, as well us in schools.
Mrs. Frank II. Bliss of Buffalo,
assistant to the chairman of the eXecu-
tive committee, II. II. Wheaton, chief
of the division of Immigrant Education
of the United States Bureau Of Educa-
ton, has taken up her activities at the
national headquarters of the committee,
Sl2 Washington Loan and Trust Build
ing, Washington, d. c. Mrs. Bliss has
for twenty years been Unidentified with
the civic work of New York state She
was one of the prime movers in the
establishment of a state trades school
for girls initiated by Sorosis. New York
City, the first woman's club in the
country. She is a member of the
National Civic Federation, and a mem
Der of the board of directors of its Erie
couty branch. She has also been a mem
ber of the board of managers Of the
Woman's Reformatory at Albion, n. Y.
for the past nine years and has spoken
from coast to coast on Americani2a-
ton Of our foreign element.
In responce to requests from all over
the country the committee is daily send
ing out advice and instruction in
methods of teaching English and
patriotism and is urging cooperation
of all agencies, official and private,
which deal directly with the foreign
element of our population. To
strengthe nthe public system of educa-
ton to meet the needs Of this unas-
simulated portion of Americas people
a strong program has been worked out.
Realizing that national unity is funda-
mental in the evolution of democracy,
the Committee of one Hundred hopes
to achieve it by five means: "a common
use of language of the United States;
a common understanding and apprecia.
tOn of American standards, ideals, and
responsibilities of citizenship; a genuine
allegiance to the United States, whether
the land Of the citizens birth or Of
adoption; active co operation with
fellow citizens in furthering the com.
mon welfare through government; a
universal consciousness Of our national
and social organization and the impell-
ing forcefulness Of its devotion.
A national shoe" has made its ap.
pearance in Paris and the Women have
given it their approval. Economical,
but not too ugly is the way it is de
scribed.
While the French women are not OPP
posed to wearing shoes of a uniform pat
tern, the proposal that they wear ma
tional dress has raised a storm of pro
test.
Don't ask u.s. pleads the Partisan
Of the world 'to wear a national dress
a uniform would be the censors shears
clipping the wings of feminine taste.
We French women, before all others,
realize the need for economy and we bow
smilingly before the necessity for it.
Limit the amount Of goods, but allow
us the liberty of individuality in design
ing our gowns"
Paris has a new apartment house, re.
ports Figaro, which will rent to no one
without children. TO rent the smaller
suites one child will do; for the medium
sized apartments a prospective tenant
must have a minimum Of two children;
while the large apartments require a
family Of at least four.
A woman who defied the German
army to save the archives of her com
mune was recently awarded the Cross
Of War. She is a school teacher in the
Marne district, a Nine Fiquement Her
citation reads as follows:
"a woman Of the highest courage,
brave and devoted among all. at Taisey,
during the German occupation, had the
power, by her noble and energetic atti-
tude to impose her personality upon the
occupying forces by refusin, even
under the most brutal menaces, to give
up to them the archive and the maps of
the commune. In spite of the inces.
SAINT bombardment undergone by
village now almost leveled to the
ground she continued up to the very
hour fixed by the military authority
for total evacuation to administer, all
by herself, the affairs Of the commune.
With courage and abnegation above
all eulogy, she rendered citizens, Civ
ing to all the beautiful example Of en-
ergy and Of neverfailing devotion"
Mary Cassatt, a wellknown American
artist, who has made her home in
INra for fha 1oct t,,r,rt,r 10.