The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-03-27
PAINTS A PICTURE
OF ALIENS FUTURE:
DR.. Winthrop Talbot of New
York Offers Plan TO Have
All Aliens Speaking a
Common Language.
CONFERS WITH LEADERS HERE
Working In An Advisory Capacity for
the Wisconsin Industrial Commission
He Urges the Opening of Schools In
AL Factories of the City.

An American city with every work
man speaking common language with
in the next ten weeks was the allur-
ing picture painted to school and In
dustrial leaders today by DR.. Winthrop
Talbot, of New York, author of sever
al books on Americanism and the
Advisory agent of the Wisconsin In
dustrial Commission who came to Ke-
nosha to aid the organization Of
great movement for the Americaniza-
ton Of the alien population in Ke-
nosha.
The movement is regarded as one
of the most important and most in
teresting ever inaugurated in Keno
sha and Dr.. Talbot is hopeful that it
will have the complete cooperation Of
every one Of the Industrial leaders of
the city. His plan is not to segregate
the men into night schools but rather
to teach them in the factories in which
they are employed and during the re-
gular working time.
What we want IS an hour day of
each of these men IS working time for
fifty hours. That means an hour day,
five days in the week for ten weeks
and at the end of that time these men
will have been started in the rudiments
of the English language and will have
been placed on a foundation for the
right kind of citizenship
DR.. Talbot did not appear to be
greatly in sympathy with the proposed
might school methods. He declared that
at the close of the day the laborer suf-
I fered from Industrial fatigue, that he
was often called upon to work over
time and that at night he was not in
a mood to receive instruction but in
a mood for recreation and rest.
| DIR. Talbot has had a wide experience
in dealing with this problem in different
parts Of the country and he told the
school officials and the manufacturers
today some of his experiences in deal
ling with the alien born and in bring
| ing them to see the light ahead of them.
He declared that in six months the
factories of the United States would be
crying out for enlightened workers and
that with immigration at stand still
there would be no way to meet the de-
mand. He asserted that the eduea-
tion of these men to speak common
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language was great business PROPOSE
tion for industrial leaders and that it
was a great promoter Of efficiency in
work and increase in production.
DR.. Talbot is in favor of the simple
methods Of instruction to bring to
these men and women the first rudi-
ments of the language and customs of
the people. He favors teaching them
a vocabulary of five hundred English
words and the proper use of these words
with the understanding that with such
a foundation the men and women them
selves will see to it that they advance
along the lines of proper education for
citizenship.
The plans of DR.. talbot were laid
out to the officials of the continuation
schools today and it was stated that
the plan for the opening of schools in
the factories had the complete endorse
ment of the men in charge of these
schools. In many cities the men are
being educated on factory time and
are giving the hour for school work
from their regular working day. The
matter is to be taken up at the an
nual meeting of the Manufacturer Is
Association of Kenosha which is to be
held within the next few days.