Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-07
il&D LEARNING
 h0 BE AMERICANS | NEAR PITTSBURGH
Bined Workers Who Speak l |0nlv Their Native Ton que, Do Work

;ttsburgh, March 6.--.More than
 mo iIv foreigners who live within
 .;Ns of the Pittsburgh court
 are being Americanized
 Sch the education of women and
 Idren by trained workers who
 ak their home tongue and are
 nainted with their home customs
 rhese workers are selected by
 rch board from among the for
 population, and after being
 Icated in cookery, nursing and the
 entials of Americanism are sent
 long the people to carry out a
 fem by which the foreigners may
 lifted to the level of his Ameri-
 neighbor. For religious pur-
 es they have the active assistance
 c]ergymen who speak the lan-
 ges of immigrants from Southern Eope. and who are in sympathy
 h the people.
 he Pittsburgh Presbytery of the
 sbyterian church, the pioneer in
 movement, has 32 educational tions scattered in all parts of egheny county, 42 trained foreign kkers and IA ministers. 1t also blishes four weekly papers having ombined circulation of almost 100,-
 and the leaders of the movement Innate that fully 20,00G foreign
 come under the influence of it's rkers every day.
 The plan is simple. Foreigners hing into the district usually col in groups, each nationality living its own section of the community ere the men are employed. Col Fteurs, speaking many languages
 sent among them to spy out the Sd and inquire into their needs lees men gain the confidence of people, and in time begin the Itribution of literature printed in k language of the particular group lis includes short stories depicting herican life and sketches of men Do have done much to make Amer !. Gradually the foreigners show He'd interest, and when the women R children come over the colony ready for the women worker from Presbyterian training school The care of children, how to pre- re American meats and vegetables. d the best methods to keep their uses clean are gradually taught women, who, finding themselves dessed in the speech of their child od,. freely give to the young work ! their full confidence.
 There is little trouble with the |ldren. They gladly seize upon the portMnity afforded for American lt1Sa and are eager to learn the lk and customs of the countrv. cf cen happens that they are not tent with the learning they ob- n in the public school, but crowd
 summer schools conducted by Presbytery. They learn quickly, after a few months sewing is ght to the girls and manual train to the boys.
 hey are surrounded with cleanli- s ,sporal and physical, and made .s that If they are to become real Rbhs to the country they must m and follow the mental and 'slcai lessons taught to them bv young women workers. Results e been most gratifying, say lead o1 the movement.
 teaching the man from Southern sope is perhaps little more 11icult, but when once reached horlties declare, he seldom goes K either to his former mental te or his native land.
 is the first theme Of workers, not meaningless plati- es, but practical lessons in the antages of living in America. en these lessons are turned to d account. as in the case of a ng kussian who recently trans M lned polshevist society in Pitts sh hto classes which are now aged in learning English.