Republican farmer., 1919-01-10
i8Ol G0A3 CHARGES UNABS0RBED ALIENS WITH SLACkING
 AN5 TERMS THEM AS AN INDUS TRIAL MENACE, WHILE
 ADvOCATIHlG THE POLICY 0F COMPLETE AAERC AlzATIQ

bued with an intelligent understand ing of the history and purposes of the United States, It is among this ignorant and unassimilated class that Bolshevism makes progress.
 The proximity of Connecticut to the important ports of entry, and our great and growing industrial centers makes the problem acute. We owe it to ourselves and to those who will succeed to our responsibilities and privileges to realize that Americani- zatton Is fundamentally a matter of self defense and self-preservation and not one merely of sentiment or charitable impulse. therefore earnestly urge your favorable con sideration of the necessity of estab- 1 fishing a Department of Americani- zation in this state.
 Education.
 From the very beginning of our history, Connecticut has yielded to no s-ate in it's emphasis upon the i'm pOrtance of popular education. It has made us what we are. No state can be great or good except as the masses of it's people are virtuous and industrious and intelligent. The crit ical times which we face demand more than ever good schools for the 1 masses of the rising generation. Other states ard other countries are 1 aroused. We must not only do our part but we must lead. If we want the next generation to be 100 per | cent. American in the fullest sense of AmeriCanlsm, we must make our schools 100 per cent. efficient for that purpose now. To that end we must 1 bring into our schools as teachers the best and abIest of our young women 1 and young men. That means at bot l tom increased financial support and l an organization best calculated to in | sure the taxpayers value received for money devoted to education.
 Child Welfare.
 The war has brought the value of | human life into focus. The tragic l loss of life in vindicating interna- 'tional justice and ensuring our na- 1 ttonal existence has caused universal 1 sorrow. We deeply mourn the loss by shot and shell and by disease of
 
 1 cur young men. The public of this 1 state was aroused and drastic action ] was taken to lessen the mortality caused by the recent epidemic not i yet subsided. Yet every year, among 1 children less than five years of age we witness an excessive mortality l without it's causing much perturba- ton of spirit This emphasizes our ! moral responsibility for permitting ! preventable waste of human life. We have been intelligently concerned i about preserving animal life and have carefully provided for the ex- animation of cattle for tuberculosis and of swine to prevent hog cholera i and have created a commission to detect and eradicate such diseases among our animals, but we have not been equally or intelligently solicitous cf the health, life, and welfare of our ] children, but have left it to the eff forts of charitably disposed citizens. It is stated upon reliable authority : that four thousand eight hundred and 1 seventy-eight children under five ! years of age died in Connecticut last year. Fischers report on National vitality estimates the economic value
 of child under five years of age to
 be $95O. According to this estimate | Connecticuts loss last year from this
 cause was $4,634,1 100. It is further
 stated that one-half of these deaths
 are easily preventable, from which 1t can be seen how inexcusable is this ! economic waste and what a large
 F1I IT lO i,, F-,r
 country. In addition to this is the cost of sickness, the loss of time and
 decreased efficiency of the parents of
 these children.
 Our records show that one-thfrd of
 he men examined on the first draft
 were not physically it, many of them
 for causes which would have been
 remediable had they had proper care in childhood.
 The time has come when we car
 no longer afford to neglect this inn portant subject.
 Labor Employment Service. With the drain upon man power incident to the creation of a great army there was an inevitable labor
 
 , he chief munitions center of this
 country the crisis was peculiarly , acute here. Connecticut furnished
 about 77,0O0 men for the army and navy of the United States. To effect the necessary readjustment, the , United States Employment Service and certain auxiliary services were ! organized. While this was necessary there was danger that it might not } be in full sympathy with the needs of this state, or might develop 2 . policy out of harmony with the Con. , necticut situation. To obviate suct : possibilities the Council of Defense l incorporated the Employment Service 5 into it's structure and 1t has beer financed very largely with state funds. The wisdom Of this course
 has been amply yindicated by the re. suits attained. The service has beer , efficient and has moved in complete harmony with the council.
 t It now transpires that one of the . chief agencies during the demobiliza. } ton and reconstruction period is tc ! be the United States Employment Service. Under those circumstance 1t is obviously the part of wisdom tt
 retain our control over it's opera r tions within this state. The per
 marent policy is not yet outlined - from Washington, It Is my belle. , that any such agency should be con. ? trolled by the state, though 1t may 7 be advisable to have a Federal con . nection. Proposals by the Depart
 ment of Labor gre now bsrng formu B lated which, l am informed, will bt fnv tbjS