The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-02-26
To ASS|M|LATE
FOREIGN BORN
KENYON AUGMENTATION BILL
BEING CONSIDERED BY THE
HOUSE COMMITTEE.
ONLY OBJECTION IS EXPENSE
Main Features of the Measure Which
Proposes Federal Cooperation With
the States in the Education of init
crate Residents.
BY JAMES P. HoRNADAY.


Washington.-The committee ON ed
ucation of the house of representa-
tiveS now has under conSidc alton the
bill passed by the senate the other
day to promote Americanization ''by
providing for cooperation with the
| several states in the pducarion of non
| English-speaking persons and the AS
sanitation of forcigu-bom residents"
The bill was known in the senate as
the Kenyon Americanization bin. 1t
| had to run the gauntlet of some stiff
opposition in that body, mainly based
| on the cost of such an undertaking.
Assuming that the committee on edu-
cation reports it favorably, and that
| seems TO be the committees intention,
1t will meet with opposition in the
| house on the same grounds. Every
body realizes that the purpose of the
| legislation is fine, and the view the
senate finally took was that with such
an excellent purpose involved, the
| question of expense should not stand
in the way of carrying it out.
Speaking in general way, the bill
proposes that the federal government
! shall cooperate with the states in ed
uCating the illiterates o. the country.
some 100000 in number. The bill
| appropriates for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1921. SGJ0OUOO. The
! whole enterprise would he conducted
by the department of the interior. TO
begin with, $33GI0O would he cx-
| pended in administrative offices. Here
| in Washington there would he one
administrative officer at $1,000 year,
| four at $1,000, three AT $500, five at
$1,000 each. fonr M $3.50 each, and
| five at $1,000 each. Clerks. ste
n0graphers and messengers I'm Wash
ingtOn would call for an expenditure
of $4,000 annually. As the bin now
stands, four regional officers are pro-
vided for at $4,000 and eight regional
officers at $1,000 each.
Would Allot Sums to the States.
After deducting the $33G1OO set
aside for administrative expenses. the
| remainder of the SG5OOO00 would be
| apportiOned by the secretary of the
| interior among the several states "in
the ratio which the number of resi-
| dent iIliterateS and other persons un-
able to understand, speak, read or
| write the English language, sixteen
years Of age and over, bears to the
number of resident illiterates and 9th
er persons unable TO understand,
| speak, read or write the English Ian
| guage, sixteen years of age and over,
within the continental United States"
There is a provision in the bill that
the total sum allotted to any state
| shall not be less than $1,000 in any
fiscal year
Men in congress who have given
| thought 10 the AmericanizatiOn problem
| believe this legislation would fit in with
the Americanization features of the
universal training legislation proposed
In the senate military bill. There is
| now some question, however, whether
| congress can come To an agreement
on universal training legislation. The
leaders in the house Of representa-
tfves have taken rather a determine J
stand against y because of expense.
Peace Treatys Chances.
President Wilson submitted the
treaty Of peace with Germany
TO the United States senate the
10th of last July. About one week
later correspondent for one of me
influential newspapers in the central
west notified his office that he would
Ike TO take his vacation, leaving on
July 20 and planning to be back by
August 10. He expressed the opinion
that the treaty would probably not be
ratified before his return though he
has confessed many times since that
he feared the treaty would be dis
posed OF in his absence. Since that
time the treaty has had many ups and
downs. 1t has travelled some high
ways and a good many byways and
generally has had rough and tumble
time. Now that seven months have
gone BY since the treaty Wa sub.
mitted to the senate, Washington
newspaper correspondent, should he be
planning another vacation for the i'm
mediate future, would be inclined ia
express The view that he might take
short rest and get back before the
ratification of the treaty.
But since everybody so miSjudged
the situation last July no one with u
care for his reputation would attrmpt
n this time to prophesy when the
trenty will he ratified 1t hus Travelled
II rather wide circle and so far as the
parliamentary situation in the senate
Is concerned is back 10 where II wns
on the 10Th of last September when
the foreign relations committee re-
ported il To the senate. Just before
the extra session of congress came TO
IN end last November the treaty was
laid away In what its enemies, in any
event, regarded ms its last resting
place, and good many funeral
speeches were made over II.
Only One Course for the Senate.
70 most persons here wha have fol.
lowed the subject with care from day