Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-27
BANK WARNS NATION
OF GREATEST FERTL :"
Citizens Urged to Act Against
"Internationalism" and
Its Influence

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So-rallcd "iutcrna,iouaiisn,' as cN-
cmpltGcd by Eusslan extremists and
revealed by Emma Goldman and hcr
associates, is the most yirulcut, anti
American influence apparent throughout
the country today and is more mcnac-
ing than the recently exposed pro-Gcr-
man propaganda in the opinion Of the
Corn Exchange National Bank OF this
city.
In startling exposure Of this '!n-
nueuce," just published by the bank. Of
which Charles $. Calwcll. one of tho
most influential nnancicrs i'm this city,
H. president citizens generally are
warned to begin a widespread campaign
"a wipe out this great evil through
az intensive system of Americauzation
aimed at the alien through the schools.
From pru-Gcrman propaganda the
bank expects little menace i'm the
future. But from the other anti
American movement We may expect
much" IL adds, since it has recently
been gaining rapid headway and Is
defended by many flghty idealists.'
Previous attempts at AmeriCantzatton
of aliens the bank points out, have only
SCRATCHED the surface and ALREADY
Philadelphia has seen a very large con-
ference Of perfectly patriotic people. with
delegates from all over the country rep
rcscuting every possible nationality and
ism. discuss Americauization amiaby
over lunCheons and dinners and then
have nothing come of it o.
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| here several years ago under the super
vision of Mrs, L. T. Stotesbury.
Originated Among Germans
( The new anti-American menace" is
+ labeled by the bank az The Great Evil"
! "It originated" says the bank in its
official circular, among the SO-Called
Socialists, many of them German, but
the intensity Of the de-natonal idea has
developed among the Semitic immigrants
from southeastern Europe particularly
among those from Russia. The world
! has gotten some idea of what extremists
I have done in Russia. But most Ameri-
, cans do not know that this kind of
thing has also been preached here IN
all the Russian ccnters and among tho
| extreme Socialists who actually, as is
proved by what they have written and
said, saw no difference between the
D democracy ana inc freedom OF NlntIlNd
and the autoCraCy of the Car.
Moreover, the more glib and able
leaders OF the masses 50 inclined had
hesitatCd at no misrepresentation OF
America that they felt would further
their internationalism. Men like Hill
quit have adrOitly famed the flames OF
social, racial and class discomfort 50
that even the young in the secondary
and higher schools accept everything
from America as their rights only tC
despise and abuse it in return and t(
ignore all question of their duties
Propaganda Is MenacinE
THE average American who mcet
this kind Of thing for the first time Il
absolutely at sea. And most ar,
unaware Of the bitter. viruIent mature
of this propaganda, which. in its way
Is the much more menacinG thing thai
the pro-German propaganda developed
since in its worst form, as revealed b,
Emma Goldman and her associates an,
the anarchist schools in New York, II j
a deliberate attack on all social order.
But, curiously enough. misguide
idealists, while they do not go as ia
as the Goldman Berkman crowd, d
indOrse them as 'truth-seekers.'
; From the pro-German propaganda
now eNposed--the statement says, wv
may expect little menace in the future.
It then adds:
But from the other anti-America
movement we may expect much, since
had only begun to gain headway, an
very secretly at that, in this countr
before the war and since II Is what
called 'ihternationalism and is defende
, by many fighty idealists, we shall nee
to organize thoroughly TO overcome II
demOralIzlng effects among the youn
and the unthinking."
Intensive Education Needed
, 1T is this kind of thing" continue
, the statement, that can be fougl
only by preventing the young in a
these alien colonies absorbing the ant
American ideas preached by the O.
tremists They are in America, bl
\ not Of it, and we must bring it 10 ther
: And so we come to this fundament
fact: Whatever other value any o
= ganization devoted TO AmericanizatiC
Z may have, they will fail markedly unle
2 they throw their influence in every Cit
Y and State in favor OF the developmel
o Of complete system or intensive ed
t cation, aimed at the allen, which sha
I not only apply 10 the primary and Sc
e ondary and the high schools. but sha
y look to an entirely new and appll,
= development Of the night schools al
- for those past school age.
y These schools. II is true, have be,
e badly crippled by war work, which n
y called the illiterate workers away fro
the night schools. But this conditit
:, will not persist after the war and '
e must put our educational house in ord
: at once 70 meet the postwar condition
h philadelphia has only nibbled
3 this phase of the questi7 and eve
= organization in town should insist, fro
q now on, that the authorities prepare
i meet the future by such a reaching o
: for the aliens, young and old, throul
u the schools as the chief influence as W
leave none unRcquainted with VIII
America really means what it stan
for and what II is TO be an American