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

or their parents were forefgn born. . If We are to have friendliness and a brotherhood between all these people O we lust give all of these races the e opportunity of learning our language. t And that is our work Three million - of our foreign-born people cannot s speak our language. What is the Y result? We cannot give them our S principles, our mode of living. our
 traditions, our laws and our, history Q Tor we cannot make them understand , us.
 America is to them practically a
 sealed book. And they are worse off, strangers in a strange land. they can
 not give Us what they have to give They cannot teach us their, habits of thrift, their dependence upon relig-
 ion, their knowledge which is the ac- cumIlated wisdom of generations of
 ripened experience. characterization
 IS not the imposition of American
 methods, customs, knowledge and prin-
 ctples of living upon vou. but rather
 the putting you in a position where
 you as a. free agent can select what
 you think will benefit you, and the
 putting Us in q position to get from
 you, your knowledge and experience
 AmerIcanization brings to the com
 munlty the common stock of knowl-
 eoSe which each of us has Don't
 ] '''4-AtN " want you to IOr2PL the SuaSe of your native country or law IaSide it's loved traditions. or it's GUS
 toms so dear to you. No, keep every Ione Of them which does not conflict | with our law, our ideas of Govern | ment or our principles of living. ] lSuL remember, there can be no di-
 yided allegiance. One thing this war
 mas taught We cant be half Amcri- 1 l Iv2n arEI half Hungarian If we arc | 1 CltlZenS of this i all American One country, and one 1 | tiag, and one people,
 We must have 9 common medium l
 or exchanging our thoughts. We can never be real friends unless we have 1 tlHS' We cannot enjoy social or bus
 mess relations without it. Your chance of betterine your condition, of |
 holding your job, of earning the best
 poy' or securing promotion will be less
 without this help
 IT an American went to Hungary %ouIuh he get poorer pay, and have Ie9S chance of promotion until he had earned the Magyar language?
 m every industry experience has proved that the -EngIish sna,1si,,., Ief more accidents, produce less < or~t7, and waste more material than II LILe f.nsllsh speaking foreign born. HuL tlere's something bigger than ! Se eIL-lnlerest In Americanization. Never i!'t totlN Tor anything big in mere self
 This is the big outstanding feature G oc "A representation. The lnowIedga oL E1ngilsh makes for our na+ionaI OH4Ly, and gives Us a. common oi+ize,- "hlp l wonder if I can make won fao1 } the need of national unity bv a reT,- ( Ie" I
 Il you were going up tomorrow in an aeroplane, you'd want every mart c inspected and found in the best con o LlII@oH' 1T on IT those who kept the plane F III Noilulnon Belonged to eight differ V ,Ltl HatIoLlahties and spoke eight diff 2 ,I,,,L4 GL4~ Iahshuages you'd be tinlid '"o"I gong up. You'd want +be o,, E 'rlltoF to understand your orders -yo7, is .t.,-.,.LL .,--,,!I aIrond to risk a misunder- I iltohdlng' for at 10000 feet in tba air 1lGIe d pe no chance of escape
 HIly or purpose, unity of spirit iiu unity Of action are necessary +o 1II-, Sdiely' In boat race. in :, IT nstI each man must pull in unison bi o91 unity Of thought, of purpose N nd of action the boat roas y,1l-..1y Lose ~ IS speed slows down and tho ,.a%o oSt. And that's the way with o,-r III mp or State. We have got +o fao1 Il ogether' and work together. o+be~ H. ISe the speed sIackens. and r-ho,, pI t7 speed sIackens each one of 7,s i al urt' Tor we make up this great ero,- ' ' LHLlent m which we've called the sbf, ra State. 'ii7 SHIp "
 In every job where more than oo ~ =. employed all must worl, tr b oLe pr lohy or you don't get results IT,, III le same way in every business a-,I be very human organiza tfon. an an d Ifotestant, but I ask 1-o,, nat IS 1t which makes the CatboIto
 iuTch the powerful instrument for he Cou It Is in this country in the 1fL,es sr ! fhlIHons of human beings? Is not R p a common purpose, a single - 'IrlI one great hope moves 3. pr achers. In a word unity f,, o-.i5 z9 Ot trL or that great organization Ali of
 US great leaders in America .en,a to dt common language lIsed b,- -1T nr
 Ll9 american members would m 9 uoleuIy bring it's members of ev- . y race into closer communion
 lie Allies fought three Ions, vaars -ii' @ ter disaster befeu them tbev usiiC under independent commands - ley mad no single general in co,,, r and. They were nearly at +ba a5 A
 1HeIf effort. Finally America ca,,,, She at once threw the Tvoierl,+
 her Influence on the side of 9 nj = 'u command. Marshal Foch was
 pointed General in Chief. E7-er,, r Tt or the battle line now respond, ma
 ~ I 744iS1C WILL In Pa leStiua eri1r potamla, in Siberia. on the wester,, Afr ont forward came the order. Eacb inc neral obeyed. At last was milf, cnr
 spirit, unity of purpose, unity of it an and unity of action. At once be ctory began and marched on m vo,, , iCdh forces won the final beh umph in the Argonne Forest. ' mo, ,e you these Illustrations to bring full me to you the vital need of 11nf+T, will spirit of purpose and of action in Y
 the many races of peoples in tba you 4,e states. our hearts must beat and tn loyalty and love for the land tbat com es nope protection, home and to edom to each. vo11 we cannot have this, we cannot 1t is 20 to nave thls' unless we can speak no E
 each other in a language aocI1 few l understand. - IT some dweller on the planet Mars w 'uIa come to our world and be K en the choice of all the countries rI TsaI, k