The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25

These S,5O0,O0O when taught to read
will be an immense new market for
every form Of merchandise. They will
mean 100000 new readers OF news
papers, periodicals, farm journals,
books in general and advertisements
Of manufactured products. At pres
Nent they can't make use Of any prod
uct Of the printers labor. They can't
read even moving picture title or
Victory loan poster.
MEANS DEATH TO FALSITY Il
The elimination of illiteracy means
the elimination of falsitied merchan-
disc. and the reduction Of cheating by
manufacturers and retailers who rely
upon illiterate groups for their main
support
Secretary Lane has said:
ut takes brave and a very ambi-
tious man to lift himself out of such
an environment. Easily he becomes a
victim to the shrewd, predatory pa
drone or boss. He falls into debt and
becomes mortgaged\ to ignorance and
squalor for years. His ideal Of Amer
lea has suffered change. And is
this freedom?' he says to himself, as
with tired back he bends to his work,
without hope that the burden will be
lighter tomorrow. He can not read
the signs which warn him of danger.
He, can not read Of the opportunities
which city and country offer. In his
own land perhaps he hadno chance to
learn in his own tongue. In this new
land he is too tired, too hesitant to
learn this strange, difficult tongue. Is
it any wonder if to this dissatisfied
stranger the voice fof one who speaks
to, him in the language Of home has
authority and carries far? And if this
;discontent, as the one sure path to
better days, is it strange that he
should nsen? Who are the men who
master this. new world? Plainly the
ones he knows. from. whom he has
suffered. Do these same men control
everything; are there no sweet places
Of refuge? He can find no one to
make him see the greater America.
The whole Of this continent IS to him
the cramped apartment, the dirty
street, and the sweatshop or the fac
tory. To the sweep Of the great land
and It's many beckonirlgs his eyes are
closed And in his isolation and ignor-
ance and disappointment there is fruit
full nesting place for all the hurtful
microbes that attack society,""
From every humanitarian and bust
ness viewpoint, lit IS Of the utmost i'm
portance to alt with messages, educa-
| tional or commercial, that these eight
and a half millions be taught at least
sufficiently to read a poster or a news
| = Y1rf
| word, writer, manufacturer, merchant
ately express his opinion Of the import
ance and immediacy Of this legisla-
ton, to congress. T..
The passage Of the Smith Bankhead
Americapization bill depends entirely
upon whether the following commit
tees are sure that the sentiment Of
the people through the United States
is back Of the measure. e.
EDUCATION AND LABOR-S Senate
Hoke Smith Of Georgia, Claude A..
Swanson Of Virginia, Henry +. Hollis
Nof New Hampshire, Henry F. Ashurst
Of Arizona, .Andrieus A. Jones of New
Mexico, Kenneth Mcclellan of Tennes-
see, William r. 'Borah Of Idaho, Boies
Penrose Of Pennsylvania, Carroll s.
Page 81 Vermont, George r. Mclean Of
Connecticut, William S. Kenyon of
Iowa. y " ?.
.s"t : ? EDUCATION-House
William J. Sears of Florida, Benja-
min c. billiard Of Colorado. Horatio
G. Claypool Of Ohio, w. Il. Bankhead
of Alabama, Charles H. Brand Of Geor-
gia, Thomas L. Blanton of Texas, Je-
rome F. Donovan of New York. Caleb
Powers Of Kentucky, Horace NJ. Town
er Of Iowa, Edmund Plat Of New
York, Simeon D. Tess of Ohio, Fred
erick w. Dallinger Of Massachusetts.
Harry H. Pratt Of New York Albert
H. Yestal Of Indiana. ~ !: