The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-12
What Is Being Done
In Citizenship Work
Continued from Page one.)

terence on AUGMENTATION, at when
it was recommended: That State
agents for organizing and supervising
Americanization work be employed,
that intensive teacher training courses
i'm the work be organized, that the
board of education appoint home teach
ers, nurses, and recreational and
outside the schoolroom, and that high
schools and intermediate schools give
courses in citizenship which shall in
clude discussion of the problem of
Americauization. The State superin-
tendent of education estimated that
there are 100, 900 fllitcratc foreigners
in California.
Los Angeles, Calif-The local I'M
manuel Presbyterian Church has in
stituted Sunday evening classes for
The study of Americanization.
An intensive course for American
ization teachers has been arranged by
the Los Angeles Council of American
%ization, to be held this fall at the
University of California.
A three-day "Festival Of All the Ma
! tons" has been arranged by the
pupils of the Stimson-La Fayette In
dustrLal School, the proceeds to be
used for assisting the Americaniza-
ton Of the foreign pupils.
The local library mas arranged an
Americanization exhibit showing th2
methods followed by the public schools
in teaching English and civics to
pupils of foreign birth and in other
wise assisting them in the process OF
Approximation.
Richmond, Calif.-The Richmond
High School has instituted a five
grade Americanization course for
foreigners.
New York, n. "A series of AM
ericanization meetings to be held AT
The Municipal Forum, City Hall Park,
mas been arranged by the mayors
committee Of women on reconstrue-
ton and relief. There will be lectures
and discussions on the advantages Of
Americanzation and American citizen
ship; recreational features are also to
be provided.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation is conducting open-air Ameri-
canization classes preliminary to open
ing indoor closes in English for the
foreign born; approximately 5000
people are reached every week.
Episcopal clergymen at a confer
ence preliminary to the triennial gen
eral convention, now meeting in
Detroit, Mich, proposed that the con-
y%ention be asked to raise $780, 600
for Americanization.
The State department of education
and the New York City board of edu-
cation announce that their initial aim
in the local Americanization campaign
is two hundred thousand ~foreign-born
men and ONE in night schools and
extension schools Of New York City by
January L"
Boston, Mass.-The Woman's Equal
Suffrage Association is to conduct
citizenship classes for Boston's new
women citizens; special emphasis is
to be laid on the instruction Of the
foreign born.
Bridgeport, Conn.-Classes for immi-
grants are now being held in II diff
ferent centers throughout the city,
including public schools, factories, and
churches; 40 teachers are engaged in
giving instruction in English, Ameri-
can history, and civics. Nearly 700
persons, including a number of ma
]tionalities, registered in the opening
days.
Representatives of 10 different
Czecho-Slovak societies met, with the
secretary of the local Americanization
committee presiding, and decided to
form classes for those persons Of their
groups who can not speak English
over 100 candidates for such instruc-
ton were reported.
The local Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION is conducting an evening
Americanization class at which lee.
lures are given on various topics OF
civic interest.
Manchester, CONAN institute fol
prospective teachers Of Americaniza.
ton is being conducted at the local
=! high school. The opening session was
addressed by the director of immi
grant education for the Site Of New
York.
Columbus, Ohio,-Fifteen thousand
dollars were appropriated on Septem
Der 10 by the local board of education
for the Americanization of the foreign
ers in Columbus. There are to be