Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-05-01
EVERY CITIZEN AN AMERICAN
Women's Foreign Language Division
of Victory Liberty Loan Committee
Has Active ORGANIZATION.

Every citizen an American. Every
American a government stockholder.
Bolshevik doctrines will not flourish in
the ninds and hearts of those who
have a proprietary interest in their
government
That is the threefold object of the
newly organized wOman's f0reign-lan-
guage division of the Victory Liberty
loan, according to Mrs. Edward Bemis,
director for the Seventh federal re-
serve district.
In reply TO a question, Mrs. Bemis
said: Our foreign-born women have
often had reason in the past to think
we cared little for them, but now since
their sons and brothers and husbands
have fought side by side with ours the
differences have fallen away. We are
all women of one country, working to
one end-a united America"
Mrs. Bemis believes there need be
no lack of cooperation between the
native and fOreign-born inhabitants Of
America. She is inclined to place a
| large part of the responsibility for a
lack of united interest at the door Of
the countless native Americans who
| stand in need of misunderstanding
War work has shown that much Of the
renewed patriotism on the part of de-
scendants of the older generations of
Americans may we'll be learned from
our patriotic foreign born.
! The Council of Forei gn-Language
Women has been presenting Gifts of
the Nations to the people Of Chicago
since the Third Liberty lean campaign.
After program attended by fifteen
nationalities, the majority being Amer
leans, che forcign-born woman said !:
'"Ihis is tie first time since I came to
America that Ihaye been asked to do
anything with the American people
Said another woman: Il always could
! speak enough English to get things at
! the store, but never before did Ameri-
! can ladies want to talk with me- Now
I shall get books and learn to speak
| English like the rest of them"
Many do not realize that the her
itages of many of our foreign nation
i alities may we'll be emuIated by our
! Bemis There is an innate courtesy
in some of these older countries, and
| they have patriotism engendered by
years of seeking the liberty found III
America
.'We want to know our foreign-lan-
|
| teach us as much as for the service
that we ourselves can render them.
every member of each community
has an interest in supporting our gov
ernment's financial program. We must
| bring the boys home; we must estab-
lish business for our returned sol
/ diers and we must help this country
| and Europe to stand free and fol
peace We women are as interested
in this as men can possibly be-
The five states of the Seventh dis
| trict, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana Wis
| consin and Iowa, will have foreign
| language chairman for women. Each
| county where there are resident for
| eign groups will have as, county chair.
| man a woman who understands the 10
| cal needs of the various communities
| Group meetings are planned for each
| nationality wherever it exists in con
siderable numbers.
/ "Out of this work will come--if oul
| hearts are in it-that united interest
| in the service of our country which we
| eaII Amnricaniys tiOn -
/ uEf "EIHISA THE toED