The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1919-11-15
Is MILLION CAM.
PAIGN IN FULL SWING
AmericanizatiOn of Foreigners
One of the Objects of this
Great Work.

Southern Baptists have no sympa-
thy for the l. w. VS., the Bolshe-
visits and bomb throwers, and if the
Baptist rs Million Campaign sue
ceeds in all of it's aspects the radi-
Gals of that type will never be able
to gain a foothold in the South and
the Southwest, and the present in
dustrial unrest will be remedied thru
larger dissemination of the gospel
of unselfishness and righteousness
through the ranks of the employers
and employees, with the result that
amicable relations will be established
between these classes and the inno-.
cent public will not be made to suf-
fer through strikes and lockouts,
DR.. L. R. Scarborough, general di-
rector, declares.
While the campaign hopes to see
the gospel and Christian institutions
and benevolences extended to all
parts of the world, the homeland has
not been neglected in that program.
Large attention is given to the A
mericaniZation and evangeliZation of
the people of foreign birth in the
South and the Southwest, thus rem
dering these people unsusceptible to
the preaching of the disloyalty and
revolution advocated by foreign rad
icals, while the fuller propagation of
the gospel of good will in all neglect
ed quarters, rural and urban alike,
will make for more stable society
and more amicable relations between
all classes, it is believed.
There are 100000 people of for
eign birth and children of foreign
ers living within the territory of the
Southern Baptist Convention, whom
the campaign hopes to reach with
the highest ideals of patriotism and
Christianity, and while considerable
work has been done among them be-
fore the program will be greatly en-
larged as the result of the larger
means made available from this cam
paign. In the Southwestern states
there are 100000 Mexicans alone,
100000 of this number living in
Texas, 100000 in New Mexico, 49,
600 in Louisiana and growing num-
bers in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mis-
souri,. Because of the growing i'm
portance of the Mexican work $685.
900 has been set apart to it for the
next f1ve years. An increasing num-
ber of Mexican families are sending
their children to the United States
to be educated and these young peo-
pie are taking back with them not
only a better understanding of the
people of this country but friend
lier- feeling for them as well.
A representative of the rs Million
Campaign recently made a tour of
Mexico for the purpose of seeing
what the attitude Of the common
people of that country is toward the
United States, especially the feeling
of those people who have been reach
ed with the gospel, and he reports
the attitude expressed was uniformly
kind. He believes the teaching of the
full gospel to the people of Mexican
birth in this country and to the
Mexicans on the other side of the
border will solve more quickly and
surely than anything else the rather
strained relations that exist between
Mexico and the United States at the
present time.
But the work of Americanizing
and evangelizing the foreigners is
not confined to the Mexicans. Spe-
cial work of this character is carried
on among the newly-arrived immi-
grant at Norfolk, Va, and other
Southern ports, those Of foreign birth
among the miners of Alabama, Okla
homa, and Illinois. and other groups
of people Of foreign birth in Florida,
Louisiana, Texas, Maryland and Vir-
ginia. Some of the states carry on
special work Of their own among
these people of foreign birth, while
in many places the work is done on
a cooperative basis between the
state mission boards and the Home
Mission Board, while large work is
done by the latter agency alone.
Believing that the work Of both
Americanization and evangelization
can be done ymost effectively by first
reaching the children, schools where
the English language Is taught, a.
long with American and Christian
ideals, are greatly emphasized. Such
schools are already being conducted
with great success among the Italian
and Cuban children Of Tampa, Fla,
among the French speakins children
Rt Church Point, La, for Mexican
children az ri Paso and other Texas