Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-14
DEMOCRACY MEANS
TO GIVE NOT GET"
Splendid Address on Foreign Born
Problem by Quaker City
Expert.

The heart and soul of the alien must
be touched, before the intelectuai sac
of his nature ran he effectively anu
successfully reach ID, and no teacher
can impart a tIue definition OF Aherl-
canization before they themselves nave
implanted in their minds, the true spirit
of democracy and what 1t means, were
some of the thoughts that M1rgaree
Mag,Iire, principal OF the Mc,aii scho,'i'
Philadelnhia gave the audience at the
Americanizatlon Institute NJ the hiSi'
School annex last night
While there have been experts, IN
teaching the foreign born to speak, at
the institute in the past month, none OF
them created the impression that Miss
Nayuire did. Speaking from years OF
experience i'm teaching the alien born,
in one of the slrrm districts of the Quaker
1ity she was able to make the candi-
dates for Americanization work here,
feel some of the things she has learned
to feel and to realize that il WAS not
theory hut practice. that she was talk
ing about,
During her lecture Miss Mcguire
paid her respects to the professional
politician and TO the snug self contentcd
homes of those who think they are Amer
leans
Its the independence that breeds
disobedlcnCe she said, THAT IS really
as dangerous e :. : country aS the
Rolshcvlsts. 1t p>t,u!d he well for us to
teach some SNUG American child that
know. Il little hit more about courtesy,
rs we'll rs to teach them arithmetic and
the other things. know school IN the
Quaker City where 4 teacher gave tho
class one more word in spelling than
thev had been accustomed to The next
iav there were several inquiries from
y arcnts to learn why this WAS done
MEANING OF DEMOCRACY.
II wonder if VIC know what democracy
really means I'll give You my dcf'ni-
tion Of it. Democracy means - give.
not TO get. Until We learn 10 give in his
work. We shall not hc vcry successful.
The alien often comes here 70 get not
to give. and We must teach him the true
American ideal TO give.
But VIC cannot do this until VIC get
the right idea ourselves. Then when VIC
have got it, the alien will benefit because
We shall pass il on to him. No selfish
person can become successful teacher
Of the alien
"Americanization Is not altogether
a thing of the head. 1t must also hc OF
the heart.
I'VE have some things In Philadelphia
that are like Prussia Every little ward
leader is somewhat like the PrusSanS
They demand obedience, Just like the
Prlssian leaders did and do And the
trouble IS the alien secs it That's where
our hard work comes in. in TRYING to
show hem that that spirit IS not as Amer
ican ideals should be. Politicians give
unthinklng obedience 10 their party
That's not American And It's lust like
the Prllssians who give unthinkIng ohe-
dIencc 10 their leaders What We meet
Is thinking obedience That's Ameri-
can.
NATIo>ALIsM HELD GERMANY INTACT.
Il was nationalism that held the Ger
man nation together lew and Gentle
Protestant and Catholic all alike bowed
to the Will OF their leaders That's why
its 50 important now. for us % get a
clear definition of what our American
ideals really are
America has q vision far ahead of
al other nat ions But thc danger TO us
lies in whether We are gong to become
coneeited and cgotistica! ike the Ger
mans. for that caused heir downfall
We cannot reach our high ideals by
dreaming. We must get down to hard
work. and VIC must understand spiritu-
a!lv what Americanizat ion means in
order TO reach the intellectual
Miss Maguire gave some striking
Illustrations Of what true American
ideals mean and what the chasing after
dollars stands for She referred 10 the
need for social service in the work, and
that unless there was social service the
teaching could not Re successful That
the heart of the alien must be