Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-20
AmericanizatiOn Is
Presented by DR.. Judy
at Wonan'S Club Session

"Americanization is a great ma
tfonal task" said Rev. R. NJ. Judy
of Davenport, in his talk on Ameri-
canization before the members of
the Rock Island Women's club at
the Masonic Temple Saturday in
the first meeting of the fall season,
land the women's club is going to
assume it's part in the task. We
are all immigrants, directly or in
directly, and it is only a question
of who came early and who came
late. We who came early are ey-
pected to turn around and help
those who didn't get here as soon
as we did. This is the greatest
work ever laid on America TO do.
And for those who do it best there
will be a great reward"
Rev. Judy paid high tribute to
the women of America and their
capability in taking hold of any
such movement and putting it
through, and to their being able to
take the places of men in the world
as well as even better than the
men.
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talk the five great crises in the his
tory of America which lead up to
Americanization First. the fact
that the portion of the continent
called the United States was called
upon to be the home and patrimory
of many nat Iities. This was
the first crisis. the opening of the
continent TO all nations, and he
called it the crisis Of the COLONEL
times. The second crisis was that
of the revolutionary times, and he
brought it down to the point of the
political units of government being
fused into one state, fusing 10 units
into one The third crisis was that
of the civil war, which determined
that humanity would not be broken
into in this continent, be dehuman-
lied The fourth was one of the
greatest of all, and he called it the
spir' tualizing of these fused races
into a new type of manhood and
womanhood. That is what Amer
icanization means" said Rev. Mr..
Judy. There is no such thing rs
an American race, unless it is the
Indian race. Blood alone does not
control the destiny of man. Out of
his environment there can be
formed a spirit, and an ideal that
will master his blood. And this
brings US to the world war, and the
facts which brought Americans to
the realization of the necessity OF
this new Americanization move
ment"
Rev. Mr.. Judy cited the fact that
in n
sign their papers with a cross
mark He emphasized the neces-
sity of remembering when going
into this work that Americans are
not the only ones who have some
thing to give, but that the foreign
ers have something to teach as
well.
Mrs. Frank Mixter, the new
president of the club, in a short
talk gave to the club for this year
the slogan of unity, harmony and
cooperation. with these ideas in
mind the club and its various de-
partments will be able to surmount
any difficulties which may arise,
and we will come to the end of the
seventh year with success, she
said.
The president reviewed briefly
the work of the club during the six
years of it's organization. She said,
This is the seventh year of our
club, and we indeed have reason
to be proud of our 6-year-old. l
have been told of the woman's club
in Arkansas state, where the en-
thusiasm is so low that they had to
have a luncheon with every meet !
ing and promised bridge at each
meeting. Everything depends on
getting started right, and we did. F.!
Our first keynote was loyalty, |
under the presidency of Mrs. T. B. !
Davis, and after her came Mrs. |
CleaveIand with her slogan of |
work Now with the return of peace
we are apt to relax, and it is not |
the time for that. We must be
alert still if we do our duty and |
advance the efficiency of women |
and contribute to the welfare of
the community. There is an
amount of work we can do, but we
must first have derisiOn. Each de-
partment needs the help of the |
others. So I suggest the slogan Of ,
unity, harmony and cooperation"
Mrs. c. A. HOge, the new secre- /
tary, gave her reports, which were !
followed by the reports of the (
work of the various departments !
OF the club. Miss Hilda Browner /
for the study department; I
Mrs. a. F. Sala for the music de-
partment, who announced that the .
next meeting would be Oct. IS, |
when Mrs. Hoge would be in charge /
of the program which consists OF |
piano numbers by Miss Ruth Carl
mark and Mrs. Floyd Thompson,
vocal numbers by Mrs. Mae Rich
ards Casey. violin numbers, and a
reading by Grace French Champion,
tenor solo by Benjamin A Hartz
and a group of songs by Mrs. Z. E
Boldt. Mrs. r. J. Rote reported
for the city welfare department,
and Mrs. H. H. Cleaveland gave a
report of the state convention held
in Peoria last spring. Mrs. J. e.
Clarkson reported that the sum of
S72773 which was collected from !
the members for establishing fur
Tough homes had been returned to
the club as the need for such
homes had been stopped before the
work could be fairly established.
The board is to present some ways
Of putting this sum to work here
for the general club. Mrs. c. L.
Silvis, head of the local Red Cross
spoke on the membership
rfvo which ic IN ba held in this |