Imperial Valley press., 1919-02-28

semi-weekly Pranda of Olyphant, Pa,
and the weekly Narodnava Gazeta of
New York.
Four Ukranian papers in particu-
lar pursue policies of Americaniza-
tion-Narodna VIOLA, tri-weekly of
Scranton; Ukrania, weekly of Chi
cago; Amerika, a daily of Philadel
phia, and Haydmaka, a weekly of
Trenton.
The Hungarian press has been
naturally divided in it's interests and
policies, for, like the German press,
it has not been free from foreign
propaganda influences. Etill, num-
ber of the more progressive dailies
and weeklies, entering sympahetical-
ly into the ideals that America has
fought to realize, have begun to
adopt policies In accordance with
American principlese. A few of these
periodicals are the weekly Magyar
Munkaslap of New York, Amerikai
Magyar Nepszava, a daily, also Of
New York; Bridgeport, a weekly of
Bridgeport, and Magyar Banyaszlap,
a New York weekly.
There are over $50 Italian news
papers in the United States, many of
which deserve notice in more ex-
tended catalogue. 1t is possible,
however. to mention only a few, the
dailies II Progresso Americana,
II Giornale Italiana, L'Araldo Ital-
iano, Bollettino della Sera and Gior-
male della Sera, all of New York;
L'Opinione, daily of Philadelphia;
! LItaiia. of San Francisco; Al Nina
tore Italiano of Laurium, Mich, the
| he semi-weekiy II Risveglino of Den
yer, and the \..ri-weekly L'Italia Of
| Chicago.
The Lithuanians' organs have been
no less active in their cooperation
! with the government and in caeir eff
forts to bring their readers inc clos
er touch with America. The dailies
Lietuva and Draugas of Chicago; the
weeklies Parsas of Brooklyn, Amer
ikos Lieutuvis of Worcester, Mass,
and Tevyne of New York, and the
tri-weekly Darbininkas of Boston, are
among the most important.
The Polish dailies that have been
particularly active in Americaniza-
tion work are Dziennik Zwiazkowy of
Chicago, Kuryer Polski of Milwaukee,
Dziennik Polski of Detroit and VOL
ma Polska of New York; the weeklies
Ameryka Echo of Toledo and Swiazda
Polarna of Stevens Point, Wis, and
finally the monthly magazine Pos
ten of Baltimore.
Naturally the German-American
newspapers were in a precarious po-
sition during the war. Of the 400
newspapers and magazines printed in
German in this country, only very
small percentage have been openly
disloyal, while the remaining few
that still upheld Imperial Germany
decided it was best to 90 out of ex-
isence rather than preach what they
could not believe in. A larger num-
Der, especially among the more i'm
portant publications, are honestly
striving to make amends for the
past, when they had allowed them
selves to be the tools of imperialistic
policy. 1t is particularly difficult to
choose from so large number the
calf f-doben whose efforts are the most
marked. Taking at random, how
ever, those that are representative
Of many more, there are the New
Yorker Herold, the Chicago Abend-
post, the Milwaukee Herald, the
Freie Presse of Lincoln, Neb.; the
Rochester Abendpost, San Antonio
Freie Presse, Louisville Anzeiger and
the Anzeiger and Post Of Lawrence,
Mass.
1t is not to be expected that the
foreign language press in the United
States can whole -heartedly enter in
to the far-reaching schemes of eco
nomic reform and Characterization"
which are now being formulated. 1t
IS no easy task to assimilate millions
of foreigners at once. But a begin
ming has been made, for the publica-
tion addressed exclusively to those
who cannot read English are rapidly
becoming aware that in order to eff
feet any desirable relationship among
the people who comes to America,
they must present America to them,
interpret and explain American in
stitutions and ideas-in a word, a6-
vertise America. Naturalization as
legal process is desirable, but the
naturalization that is the inevitable
result of education, culture and SYM
pathy, is the only naturalization that
will prove of lasting good to the
nited States, and it is precisely this
that the foreign language press can
foster and encourage.