Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-22
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ABOLISH |LL|TERACY
IN SIX YEARS. TIME
Claxton Says Appropriations for
Federal Aid Should Continue
Period of Years.
|AMERICANIZE FOREIGN BORN
Nation Plans to Conquer Ignor-
ance and Unrest Through
Program Of Education.
AMERIcANIzE FOREIGN BORN
: ny rlILANDEn II. CLAYTON.


WAsHiSGToN. FEB. Cit is de-
sii1ab Is, T., that the Kenyon Americaniz
be assurance that the Federal ala app BRO.
priations will continue through a
task. which, like any other task of
EDUCATION. must take considerable
TING to be accomplished,
final results. Within that time 1t is
certain that the large majority of
mutive- born iiliterates could be taught
9t ability, and also be given q CON
tion-arthmetic. history. etc.
In TING same time the great major
ny OF foreign born persons now liv-
10 speak and to read and understand
English with some degree OF facility.
II would be impossiblc to give. large
IN year. II tukcs longer than thae
eor Erown-ups TO learn language.
and 1t will take some time to get the
Mork organized. 1t is TO be expected.
however. that the government. having
, mndert !; zen the task. viii continue Il
degree OF thoroughncss.
Two Tasks Overlap.
,,, uitnoaEn the me, two , tasks Of teaching
Dersons, TO speak English are some
what alike. yet they overlap one an
ptncr frequently.
or course. a great number OF the
Foreigners are illitcrate In any lam
suaG. tor them ii will be the double
, ,ask OF ,,G,achins them to read and
edge Of the English language
The work WIFI be wholly In cooper
a atb With the States through the
state Departments of Education The
states and local communities in the
states must, either through taxation
o received he
ernment. In only u few States is
money money now appropriated in any large
of teaching il:terates or teaching
foreign born persons. Probably in no
nSa'e Is 3" much appropriated as will
Tor receiving the States full amount
OF money from the Federal govern
legislatures Must Help.
in all tho States. therefore. legis,a-
. sn VIII De necessary for the appro-
,riIatiom OF money ana also for tnt re-
h ,urn ,nr that iliiierates and foreign
ish. from sixteen TO twenty-one wears
Of a ggS. shpil attend classes az much
iatures offonly few States meet in
his year. 1920. Tho Legislatures of
,ory-two States Or moro meet next
iatcr IN the year 1921. SO that IL. most
~ ING States there cannot be leEisla-
me Federal funds within the States
even though the State docs not an
n npSpr -, en- money to match j, until the
The first Legislative session in INV
'' ato anter the passage OF this act
The II" seve cpaeS $50 SIS 20 DC appropriated to
which the total number or III, su,n
SI i,ii lcrss and the sum CT foreign
IN that State bears to tile total Nun
her Of persons both illitcrate and nm M, :
Soic 10 speak English in Tho Un;ted
Much Preliminary Work.
DURING the first year Of the act the
I nnrean Of Of Education for lis admins ns
used chiefly for making out pIa m.ii p Dd
d tnvi and studying the problem OF
a are pG Snw method &c Of teaching Hitter
get their Interest,": how to Get nias.e 70
S Ss ,ai a and in making material 10
viii =. IN ,eaching-booklcts that
mhich = grown-ub person can he i'm m
home malsine oN asd otter Se i n5EiTieut9re
VIII give them real information, also
n 1nahlnS charts containing easy meth
this kind. 'Hihss or
- Also for foreisn-born persons. IN
iah A in tho Sat , p.sns sn for teaching Eng
way: preparing booklets with dramatic
,ne.hods of teaching matter that is Of
out chart 70 Erown.up persons: thinking
,n.eit;c the language: possibly in
,ilakIns devices for phonograp;,in
p rre enarin that viii be helpful. Then in
a ann mtisSTy OF the United States; the
bbp p offered SO that they may
t 6e dheq snh with what. is done: the
t thhe SSorth~eN and the cotton fields Of
tnou Sou ,.L; nMing: SO that they may
best best" opp mqtu SHiGy can go and get the
Thee ne a LIENS and Limitations.
,,,a I'LL n,..' IN the history of the country
about te urI Its eco an the Significant things
OF government, 50 that tbs;, us rs, forms ,ir,
ierstand what the government, is WHAT T
is s'I nut r1E 6nn a., are and what limitation
order that others may be free. th one i;h IN
dGrty under the law, that they NAV nm
10 the b Fc drgir relation on the one side
other to their State Eovernment on INC
CITY y, e; county unit. and local ordinances. "
antagonisn Which, o ma mat ~ much ,,c of the
duo to the fact that they ovse rn Mt Is
governments Of the co coz 1tras Of f, the
which they come, and tho thinra OF nf
which they, COMPLAIN are not dgs to-
that everything relating to govcrn ppeSe :
comes from Washington. They sholId
be taught to understand, as most ma
tive-born Americans have grown r.
n amas1s nd that in most Of their in.
State government They should Know
however. what things do pertain to tho
Federal government.
There will be an attempt to teach
them the -pripciplcs of the Constitution
of the United States and the more
Important laws and possibly the Con-
Its translated into their e OWN Wy DG lan-
Euages while they are learning to read
English and by articles prepared for
The foreign language press
Inspire Patriotism.
Also. in order that they may DO able
10 understand tho spirit OF the coun.
try, some of our most patriotic, litera-
ture will BIO translated for the foreign
language press or, put in booklets
which they can read
It is expected that the work Of teach
Ing will he done In connection with tho
public school systems, In industrial
plants and elsewhere. classes being or.
| ganized in whatever way they prove
|ssost effective and most convenient. Use
viii be made to some extent Of the
children OF foreign-born parents. They
| will haf. ah1a 10 things N fh.tr