Republican farmer., 1919-01-03
THE FARMER: JANUARY 3, 1918

Education is good for all Night schools are excellent things. iteracy and inability to speak English not the thing One who does not speak English be wise and accomplished, and who does speak English be gnor ant and incompetent
 As broad proposition inability speak English mat that cures itself English taught shop school and home. is to the who intends to live here economic necessity; enough English for practical purposes 3 tered by all save the hopeessly stupid, and the old
 The foreigner has in his church. his parocha school in the insurance and fraterna societies that he maintains chansms for his educaion for which he pays from his pocket which far costly than 5OOO expend ed annually in public night schools.
 Not that there is any objection to appropriation for night schools The project is excellent It will do good but the good that it will do, will be but drop in the bucket compared with the things the foreigner doing for himself
 hteracy in the United States not the of the for egner but the of the native born The most of it that exists is not blot against the record of the immigrant but against the American people themselves.
 The greatest block of lteraes in the United States the black men, brought to America against their will and abused and mareaed by Americans since They cons ue than 40 per cent of the total ileracy The Amer canzaton movement ought also 10 include the Americans are responsible for that literacy
 Of the remaining illerates-those who cannot write about wothrds native born consequence of defective educational systems, and not of immigration.
 If should at this be the propor- ton of foreign born unable to speak English would probably be smaller than at any previous tme mm grafton having for four years more.
 years after he arrives the foreigner usually has passed the English speaking class The number who do not speak English is probably not more at time than the total immigration for three year period, that the always represents for the most part THOSE WHO HAVE RECENTLY ARRIVED. They will soon learn English.
 Most of the immigration arriving from Europe these days of peoples who live in neghborhoods where tongues spoken They come speaking and writing rule than language and learn English with
 Bridgeport is familiar with foreign visitors engaged in propaganda who made very good speeches in English with study of the language than obtained in six weeks In general the immigrant le2rns languages with greater than those long native to the United States
 Since New England is community in which persons recently from Europe and their immediate descendants the dominant group New England must be viewed from that angle else there will be failure understand how completely in the whoe the immigrant has made himself part of Amer ica in and peace.
 From the foreign born immigrant there fear the future He religious thrifty public spirited vaorous and filled with the desire to be worthy of America In leases the foreigner like the original Englande than the very descendants of the forefathers like progeniors.
 The forefahers distinguished by their industry the thrift and their almost anatca devotion to religion who believe that the foreigners different have but to the buildings in which they worship in Bridgeport any day morning.