Evening journal., 1919-09-24
P. {. CHURCH IN
AMERICANIZATION'
Plan to b. Submitted TO
General Assembly Tor
Consideration
TO WORK AMONG
MASSES IN CITIES
Special to The Evening Journal.

Special 10 The Evening Journal.
NEW YORK CITY. sept. 2i-Leadors
OF The Protestant Episcopal Church In
lie United States. in conference here
yesterday, gave 1nal form TO a $1,000
900 program Of AmericanlzatiOn, for
mulated in consultation with the Fed
ersl Department Of the Interior and
which the church plans TO carry out
during the next three years among the
foreign born population Of The country
as a part Of its nationwide campaign
program.
The conference was preliminary TO
the Episcopal General Assembly in De
troit. next month. when the American
ization program will be submitted for
in The budget Of the Episcopal nation
wide campaign.
The Right Reverend Charles summer
Burch. newly elected bishop OF the
diocese OF New York. was one OF the
prominent churchmen and nationwide
campaign leaders who attended. other
bishops present included the Right
Reverend Alfred Harding, OF the Dio-
cese OF Washington. the Right Bcvcr-
end James H. Darlington. Of The Dlo-
cese OF HarTsburg the Right Reverend
Edwin stevens Lines Of the Diocese OF
Newark. The Right Reverend Rogers
israel Of the Diocese of Erie and the
Sight Reverend Thomas j. Garland.
suffragan bishop OF the Diocese OF
Pennsylvania.
The Americanization program was
submitted 10 the conference by the
rev. Thomas Burgess. secretary OF ihe
ecently created Department OF Chris
ian AmericaniZati0n OF the Episcopal
3Oard OF Missions. as The FIRST work
)f the new department. the result oi
months Of study and Investigation by
'pecialisls on The various alien races
'cpresented in America.
The general policy proposed In this
program includes cooperation with
government. voluntary and religious
organizations in The patriotic side OF
Americanization. lt'plans 10 make the
episcopal department a center OF in
tiative for cO-Ordinating existing work
mi organizing new work. II under
axes TO mobilize the resources Of the
,hurch behind the purpose OF making
he foreign-bOrn into good citizens, by
bringing every parish into touch with
lis alien population. providing litera-
turc and speakers, and finding and
training men and women especially
adapted TO the work.
The program recommends that two
central educational ccnters be created
for training divinity students Of for
cign birth or pareniagc. and that spe-
cial courses in work among the for
cicn-horn be established in other
church institutions. Appropriations are
asked Tor sending picked students
abroad. for giving college education TO
children OF fOreign-born parents who
snow promise OF future leadership. ana
for training men and women workers.
TO solve the problem Of American
izing The polyglot masses in down
town districts OF large cities, the pro
srSm provides for reviving dead or
lying downtown parishes, and making
hcm experimental stations; equipping
hem with STATS Of trained social
workers and providing settlement and
other secular and religious social or
-anizaiions Similar measures are pro I
v'dcd for industrial ceniers OF poly I
slot population. For the immigrants I
Nho have settled in the rural districts I
10 is planned 10 send student workers /
who viii relate these people To the !
rural missions Of the church.
Individual and specially adjusted /
prosrams have been formulated for
ino Italian. Scandinavian, Czecho-Slo- I
yak. Mexican. Greek. Russian, Rouman-
ian. Jugo-Slav, Syrian and Albanian
groups. These. the program explains.
have lost touch with their own church