The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-20

VIII learn to play the game, to stand
 10 the challenge that makes Amerf-
 cans; the unfostered. self-sl1 fficfa,,cv-
 or the man who knows his way and
 has learned it by fighting for if
 VII yet be his. And we will learn
 rom him the viewpoint of those
 peoples who now are wrestling with
 all their new-found strength and
 weakness to realize Iong-nurtl1red
 hopes. If We are to deal wisely in
 lillS larger day we must get within
 that man and look out with his eyes
 not only upon this country but 7Ir,or
 the land from which he came. for has not America become as a. foster. .moth- CT to these strugglers?
 Methods.
 First of all. the hand of frienzsbir TOT that new American, the voice of
 I li1end who shall be an unselffsh ad
 Ise[' Q guide in this strange land of troubles, small and large. but equally lIltofll i lprehensible. Then the school the night school, or if not that -+ba Siop school And with these the com III iiuillty center, the gathering place that represents all America.
 This is a program that has haar, well thought out. It has boe-7 +r;eli, ell out Tn a small way and found sl7c- | ce<'slu lul It needs but nuTturins, to de- ! NeIop into a plan that will make the 1 word Anericanization'' one of e,- | ceplonaI pride. For this plan inc | Sieat cities of the country. where lHoSIty our foreign born have conpra- s1ted' are reaGy. Tor it the in(11s- 'IIeS' the business men, are ready | an warranted in the statement that -i,, 'tIe largest industries in the land 1 VIII rom their own time offer an or- oortunity for an elementary el1,,op Ion 10 every foreign-born man ar oman In their employ. Sor7a .r, F IIIlhS 10 furnish the teacher if ono te m petent for this class of work ca1 1e found If the Government will shape the policy and undertake tbo l!ahe the propaganda for this dafi- -ile elLd or giving a, first insight into ! A,llei i>4h words. newspaper, politics ,lS' 1IiaO winch has iheen regarded as | + W "oi K or generations can be start a u III d very short time and mon mt | n their way towar7l real cf+iza,,-,pl:~ pC,1
 ''iI not urging the absurdity that f Ieh can be transformed into Ar,,a,- f 'dihS py a course in school That i f ut d oeslnnlng. Knowledge of o11r a .--S 11Se IS but a, tool. America is I, ie eApresslon of a spirit an attituda II .., olu men and material things. an n N Nt1ooh' ana faith. Our stranpa r. experiment the r+ | l. nI1Alhg new people is the result tl contact. not of caste, of living +o U sther' working together for Q Iivine ei 'cn one Interpreting for himself and ol T ms nelghbors his conception Of III nat klnd of social being man should W ,d mnat his sympathies, standards, SC W .Q a1noltfons should be. In -SoW, thls cannot be taught out Of
 oook- It is a matter of touch, Of A L,l ls' Ike the growth of friend,shin h. DolI man Is approachabIe in a. diff pc 1eilI way appealed to by very con ot s'lGlory things. One man reaches as tIo,, -ctS through a baseball game, an- tn @ throuSh church, a saloon a bu iltlcaI meeting, a woman. a Iabor tn lon' picture gallery, or something op :" 10 eat The difficulty is in find the meeting place where there is in
 Iear' no favor, no ulterior mo- fol es' and' above all, no souI-insultine, ho