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New-York tribune., 1921-03-27

getting adjusted: the Language
through which his compatriots can
give him their garnered experience,
the societies which make him feel
at home,' the symbols of his home
land, reminding him of the moral
standards under which he grew up.
Common courtesy and kindness ex-
act tolerance of these things, and
common sense indicates that they
are the foundation of the readjustf
ment we SEEK"
Far from being an obstacle in the
way of Americanization, Immigrant
organizations are its most potent
aids. These organizations "repre.
sent a separateness of the immigrant
groups from America, bat they ex-
ist precisely because they enable
the immigrants to overcome TINS
separateness. These or
ganizations are constantly graduat.
ing their members into genera
American life.
Assimilation is thus as inevitapis
as it is desirable; it is Impossible
! for the immigrants we receive 70
remain permanently in separa"
groups" the authors conclude
Through point after point OF con-
tact, as they find situations u
America ineligible to them IN ths
light of old knowledge and expelf
ence, they identify themselves WIZ
us. We can delay or hasten tas
development. We cannot stop H.
If we give the immigrants favor
able milieu, if we tolerate the'.
strangeness during their perlod -
adjustment, if we give them 1rees
dom to make their own connections
between old and new experiences.
If we help them to find points =
contact, then we hasten their ~,
simil&sion. This is process =.
growth as against the ordering ano
forbidding' policy and the denaanu
that the assimilation Of the iniInt'
grant shall be sudden, complete sno
bitter And this is the completev
democratic process, for we caIans.
have a political depocracy unis.
1--we have social democracy also.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27
4 LVIN w. KRECH, pres
III ldeat of the Hobby Club.
collects S9acal1aGbulG

Daniel Adams in the early part OF
the nineteenth century. It has seen
rather severe usage.
Mr.. Plimpton's library includes
textbooks on nearly every subject
that has been projected on school
curriculum throughout the world.
IL enjoy collecting then1," he said
"Why not?"
Now the IncunabuIa
Alvin W. Krech is president of the
Hobby Club and quite deservedly
holds that position. His hobby, as
hobbies go, is rather distinctive
Mr.. Krech hunts incunabula, a
species not readily recognized by that
unfamiliar nickname.
Technically the incunabulum is
any work of art preceding 1900
A. D., but more generally it refers
to a printed book. Mr.. Krech's in
terest is in the latter variety. Out
side of banking hours he devotes
himself diligently to searching fol
unconquered incunabula and occa.
sionally reports progress to his fel-
low members in the club.
Darwin P. Kingsley's hobby also
follows a literary line. He collects
Shakespeare folios generally conced
ed to be the original documents Of
the plays as they were set down tx
last through the centuries.
Henry E. Huntington makes {
hobby of books. His library is con
sidered to be one Of the largest ant
most valuable in the country. An
other Huntington, Archie NJ, col
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rationalities, the authors declare at
the outset, attach values to different
things and different values to the
same thing.
Old World Heritages
A comprehensive review of trans
planted Old World heritages exam
ined in the light of what the authors,
borrowing the Technology Of the
we'll known sociologist, William I
Thomas. call the flour fundamental
wishes" (the wish for new expert
ence, security, response and recog-
milton, respectively affords an op-
portunity to examine a wide variety
of Immigrant types set against the
American milieu and to analyze i'm
migrant communities and their infiu-
ence. The method of the proceed
ings is extremely interesting the
bulk of the text consists of original
documents drawn up by representa-
tives of the immigrant types them
selves, classified and linked together
by the authors comment.
The last chapter, entitled "Recon-
ciliation Of the Heritages,' asserts
by way of summary, that Immigrant
heritages usually differ but slightly
from ours, probably not more than
ours differ from those Of our more
conservative grandfathers."
Coercive Amcricanization
Suppressive and "conformist'
tendencies of Americanization arc
emphatically rejected by the au.
thors Of Old World Traits Trans.
| planted. This ordering and for.
bidding" type of Americanizatior
demands from the immigrant com
plete reputation and forgetfulnes.
of the signs that distinguish hin
from us. Such attitude on the par,
| of Americans is, of course, sheer
prejudice. It won't work.
| IF we wish to help the immigran'
to get a grip on American life, t
understand its conditions and fine
his own role in it, we must seize OF
everything in his old life which viii
serve either to interpret the new o.
to bold him steady while he i
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get some of Lincoln's schoolbooks,
but Mrs. Lincoln explained that he
had none when he attended school.
Instead, she offered a page extracted
from notebook, with a series of
complicated multiplication problems
executed and proved by Lincoln
when he was fourteen years old.
Mr. Plimpton bought the relic at
a sale in Philadelphia. AS a COM
panion volume he has the arithmetic
book used and autographed by
Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln's great
opponent. The book was printed by
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27

respect can it be increased or i'm
proved. 1t is perfect On the con-
trary, every one must recognize that
his own Americanization is going
either forward or backward.
"Every baby born in America, no
matter how long his ancestors have
been here, must be- Americanized.
He is himself a little immigrant,
who upon his arrival knows even
less about America than the adult
immigrant from other portions of
the planet. He cannot speak Eng
lish. He takes slight interest in
civics. By nature he is a combina-
tion of autocrat and anarchist. His
induction into the life of America
must take place gradually and some
what painfully for himself and
others, and must be accomplished
more by his taking part in that life
himself, in proportion to his years,
than by learning book lessons about
it,"
Compulsion or Persuasion?
/ In Schooling Of the Immigrant,
Frank V. Thompson, Superintend-
ent Of Schools, Boston, begins by
surveying, briefly, the attempts at
national unification as conceived and
carried out in the various European
countries. The issue that confronts
America, he declares, is whether we
shall proceed in the matter Of ma
tionalizing the alien by means of q
policy of compulsion or by one OF
persuasion. Shall we insist that the
stranger VINO has entered our lane
shall by force of law and compulsior
acquire our language, conform tt
our major customs, become natural
lied and renounce all prior allegi
ance, or shall we attempt to per
suade him to adopt American Gus
toms and to use our language By
pointing out the moral obligation
involved in his voluntary quest o.
our shores, by furnishing convenien
means in the way Of free instruction
and perhaps by granting privileges
which may be withheld from th,
non-citizen?
The author then proceeds to al
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had searched several continents to
make his collection as complete as it
is, but he thought there were many
more sundials he should have to add
before he could call it really COM
plete.
occasionally they try to fool me-"
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for pleasure he collects early school
books and manuscripts. In Mr..
Plimpton's library there are 374
arithmetic books published prior to
1901, besides some sixty-eight manu-
scripts. And there is positive evil
dence in the texts that arithmetic
was just as puzzling in 1901 as it is
in 1921.
Here might be found the arithme-
tic that William Shakespeare used
if Shakespeare ever studied his mul-
tiplication tables. Also there are
original manuscripts of Caesar, Virgil
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27
TNVER since the World War and
Americas entrance into it

THVER since the World War and
Americas entrance into it
have focused public attention
upon problems of national unity the
term Americanization has been used
to denote variety of uncorrelated
efforts, united by no common bond Of
minimum aims and requirements !;
dlscordant, often, in the very basic
assumptions as to what American
Ism IS and what it should be. Some
of these endeavors, however well
meaning, were inadequate in scope
! and execution; others we're self-de-
feating because of narrow concep-
tion of American ideals and the en-
ployment of methods ap3to arouse
distfust and opposition on the part
OF those they were intended to deal
with.
Recognizing the immense signifi-
canoe Of the issues involved for the
national future, the Carnegie Corpo-
ration of New York undertook. three
years ago, the organization of an in
quiry into the fields of fundamental
relationships under which American
life is carried on by the immigrant
and his immediate offspring. The in
vestigation is now completed. and
out Of the eleven volumes which are
to summarize the findings and con-
clusions based thereon three have
been published by Harper & Bros.
under the titles Schooling of the I'M
migrant, America via the Neighbor-
hood and Old World Traits Trans
planted, respectively. The other
eight are to follow in the course of
the year.
Making of America
For the first time d mass OF inval-
uAble systematized material, she'd
ding light upon the processes that
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27
Pocket Sundials, Bookbmding and
American P ortraiture Are Some
Of the Hobbies

hobby. There is difference: a
hobby endures. Through thick and
thin it keeps on gaining courage and
momentum. 1t lasts through wars
and panics, through fires and floods,
through marriages and divorce
courts. A really worth while hobby
dies only with its master.
The Hobby Exchange
Recognizing the virtues as we'll as
the vices of hard earned hobby, the
Hobby Club was conceived by a
group Of public spirited citizens to
serve as hobby exchange. The
first meeting was held some eight
or nine years ago at the homo Of
John c. Tomlinson, present secre-
tary of the organization.
Among the charter members there
were the late Theodore N. Vail.
president Of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company;
Darwin r. Kingsley, president Of the
New York Life Insurance Company;
Alvin w. Krech, president Of the
Equitable Trust Company; George
A. Plimpton, president Of CHM &,
Co.; Professor David Eugene Smith,
Of Columbia University; Professor
William P. Trent, also of Colum-
bia; Judge Y. j. Bowling, William
B. Schnitzer and Henry e. Hunt
ington.
This is by no means complete
list Of the founders, but it gives
fair idea Of the caliber Of the men
who had hobbies and were willing
to admit it. Volumes might readily
be written on the subject. Here it
is only possible to touch on the high
points of some of the banner men,
bers of the Hobby Club.
John G. Tomlinson, who by profes-
sion is lawyer, spends his spare
time collecting pocket sundials. He
has been at it for nearly twenty
years and has an array that runs
up in the hundreds. He has sought
the sundial in the Orient and in the
Occident, in the bush and in the city.
He has established himself as sum
dial authority. Certainly he is the
sundial king of America, and prob
ably he holds the same position
throughout the world. But he takes
his glory modestly.
The Sundial Habit
"I don't remember just how
came to start collecting sundials,"
Mr.. Tomlinson said. II guess it was
an old Irishman who came into my
office one day. He was one of those
fellows who impressed me as being
an ignoranlus or an intellectual.
couldn't tell which. But he had
pocket sundial and I bought it.
"The sun dial interested me and
/ began to study it. And then I
discovered that there were only a
few persons in the world who knew
how to make sundials. 1t takes a
craftsman who understands science,
astronomy and mathematics, besides
the mechanics of fashioning the ap-
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ORGANIZATION T las No Clubhouse, but
Meetings Are Held IN Homes
ofMembers


manuscripts.
Herbert L. Pratt said that he had
been member Of the Hobby Club
for several years.
my hobby is American portrait.
ure," he explained, "and that i
about all there is to it,"
Stuyvesant Fish claimed that i.
was the youngest member of the
club. He has only recently been in.
itiated into the fellowship Of the
lobbyists.
II don't know why they asked
me-" he said, "for / haven't anv
hobby. / guess I'm in there to get
o1ie."
John G. Milburn is another men,
Der who insists that he hasn't anv
hobby.
"lt has always been a puzzle to-
me why was ever taken into the
club" Mr.. Milburn confessed. 81
haven't hobby and never have had
one. But ] am perfectly willing to
listen to other peoples hobbies. |
devote myself 70 being audience"
| William B. Dsgood Field makes
practical bookbinding his hobby.
Over the telephone Mr.. Field said
that a brief notice appearing in one
Of the papers telling Of the last
meeting Of the Hobby Club at his
home had nearly brought catastrophe
ON the house.
"Since then every one in New
York who has anything to sell has
been ringing me up or calling at the
house. It's all very absurd. l have
q small bindery fitted up here at
home and do my own bookbinding
purely for personal pleasure. And
that's all ! care to say about it."
William P. Trent, professor Of
English at Columbia, has spent most
of his hobby hours in studying Dan
iel Defoe, whose fame rests rather
securely with Robinson Crusoe and
that Man Friday. The other cole.
giate member of the club, David
Eugene Smith, professor of mathe-I
matics, has made a collection Of
autographs to while away his un-
mathematical moments.
George F. Kunz combines-as the
expression goes - business with
pleasure. Mr.. Kunz is a member of
the Tiffany firm and his hobby is
precious stones.
Other lobbyists in good standing
include David Wagstaff, Henry Van
Duzer and Albert Gallatin. There are
several more names and hobbies that
make up the full parade front Of
the Hobby Club. Perhaps there is
moro Of an audience than Mr.. Mil
burns confession seems to indicate.
Though the Hobby Clubs chief
interest is the intensive cultivation
Of the hobby, domestic and imported,
it is reaching out toward far
more spiritual end. 1t not only sug-
gests, but it insists, that one man
shall listen to another mans hobby.
Which is, when all the returns are
in, rather an innovation.
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paratus. Anyway, it started me off
after the sundial.
Before clocks and watches were
invented, you know, every one used
sundials. And they are still the
most accurate way of telling time"
Mr.. Tomlinson explained that he
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27
Men Have Hobby Club That Lives Up to Its Name

and other founders Of the treacher-
Gus and tortuous subjunctive mood.
One of Mr.. Plimpton's prize pos
sessions is a page from the Sum
Book Of Abraham Lincoln. Hern
don, Lincoln's law partner and biog-
rapher, recovered the page from the
Presidents stepmother. He tried to
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27

found, With all our rich heritages,
Americanism will develop best
through mutual giving and taking
of contributions from both newer and
older Americans in the interest of
the common veal"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27

he said, picking up a small sundial
from his desk. "Take this one. It's
a fake. It's pretty good fake, but
it isn't genuine"
And he set the bogus sundial back
among some law documents.
George A. rlimpton in a business
way publishes modern textbooks, but
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27
BY T-orrey Ford

w yHATEyER the official
wv ranking may be, the
Hobby Club of New York
ought to qualify as the
most curious and still the most ex-
elusive club in town.
Every member, if he lives up to
the eligibility rules set down in the
constitution. has a Hobby all his
own. Not golf playing, trapshoot-
ing, snarcdrum rolling hobby. but a
regular, full blovn adult hobby that
can stand up under open conlpeti-
tion.
1t may be anything from a crav-
ing for collecting Chinese porcelains
to . leaning toward early Victorian
valentines, but it must be distinc-
tive and original. And, needless to
add, no two members are encouraged
to specialize in the same branch OF
hobby.
Although membership is not re-
stricted to bank presidents, business
magnates and corporation lawyers,
most of the thirty-eight eligibles fall
into that general class. They are
neither old men nor young men, but
busy men who still, have time and
enthusiasm for indulging in a side
line that brings in not fame nor for
tune-just pleasure.
Lobbyists Rejoice Together
There isn't any clubhouse. Each
member, in turn, opens the door
of his own home and gives a dinner
to his fellow lobbyists. Usually the
event signals some spectacular addi-
ton to the hobby lore; but when
there isn't any good excuse they
have meeting just the same once
every two or three months.
AS a general rule, though, the
host has uncovered a manuscript
dating back to S32 A. D. or has ac-
quired some other thrilling secret
Of the forgotten past. He wants
to get the gang together and tell
them all about it. So he calls a
meeting Of the Hobby Club and has
full privileges Of the floor for the
evening.
He can tell about his own hobby
to the exclusion of all other hobbies,
He may open his private library for
inspection or take his guests in fol-
a closeup view of museum rep.
resenting years of travel and re.
search. But however it goes, the
evening belongs to him.
Some people seem to think of a
hobby as the crutch of old age. II
isn't. You realize that instantly
when you see the sparkle of youth
creep into a lobbyists eye as he
admits nodestly that perhaps he is
the only man in the country who
owns a complete set of Romantic
Period necklaces. He doesn't near
to boast about it; but still, there yor
are--look the collection over.
Nor is it quite fair for a passing
fad or fancy to masquerade as ;
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27

Tune, entitled Press and Thcater, will
be out soon, Incorporating the work
of Department 2.
The general conclusions of the
survey will be summed up in a sep
arate volume by Allen T. Burns,
director of the study. Explaining
the methods of inquiry Mr.. Burns
said:
"Our Investigators started out by
establishing correspondence con-
tact with as many agencies and
situations apt to throw light on our
problems as possible. We were not
interested in muckraking-that sort
of thing has been pretty we'll taken
care of--but in practical improve
ment. We sent out letters--in the
first place to the public school sys-
TENS of $500 cities and towns:
then to the health organizations
boards, hospitals, societies-of 200
communities, and so forth in the
various fields of the study. Then
the investigators went out in per-
son to inspect the most promising
and suggestive situations, studying
how the relationships actually
worked out. Our reports were based
primarily on the results Of these per-
sonal inquiries; we made a point Of
using first-hand material as far as
possible.
Must Be a Partner
| "The immigrant is thoroughly
American in insisting on having hand
and voice in everything affecting his
life. For this reason the only way
to bring him into a lasting relation
ship with the native element is to
make him an active partner of the
latter.
characterization IS the uniting
of new with native born Americans
IN fuller common understanding and
appreciation, to secure by means of
self-government the highest welfare
of all. Such Americanization should
perpetuate no Interchangeable political,
domestic and economic regime deliv-
cred once for all to the fathers, but
9 growing and broadening national
life, inclusive Of the best, wherever
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Making of America

For the first time mass OF inval-
uAble systematized material, she'd
ding light upon the processes that
New-York tribune., 1921-03-27

rationalities, the authors declare at
the outset, attach values to different
things and different values to the
same thing.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-09-19
ALWAYS A WELCOME VISITOR
Occasionally Late, but Once Every
Month She Was at the Door
to Receive Him.

She waited patiently for his arrival,
ircIing that he wouldn't disappoint
her Sometimes he was little early
sometimes It little late, but eventu-
ally he would come, bringing with him
something dear to her heart.
once every month for four years he
mad been welcome visitor. How
well she knew his vOice-his smile
his CHEEKY whistle!
g. At times when he passed the house
without as much as a glance, she un.
CerstoOd and made no effort to at.
tract his attention. II he appeared
distant now and then, she did not
srieve, knowing the day would come
week, two weeks perhaps-when he
would walk fearlessly up the walk
with a smile and CHEEKY word of
greeting.
After today she would never look for
him again. At least his appearance
would never again cause the delight
full little heart throbs that were now
agitating her.
At last she saw him. Her arms
were Outstretched to receiye-the last
War Risk Bureau allotment check,
which the postman handed to her with
smIle.-1'he Leatherneck.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-09-19
EASY WAY TO GET MONEY
Indianapolis Youngster Preferred Good
Time at Lawn Fete to Pos
session of Two Teeth.

This young man Of eight years has
been suffering the loss of his first
teeth, and his mother has had him in
the dentist chair several times. As
the teeth show an inclination to part
company with the boy, the dentists
bill is running up. Until last week
the boy positively refused to permit
his mother to pull his teeth. She told
him finally that he could pull them
and she would give him 80 cents for
each one He thought it over and de.
cided to pull two loose ones himself.
1t was easy and he got 81.
A lawn fete was to he given in the
seighborhOod the other night, and the
boy wished to go. The day before tho
affair was scheduled he brought four
teeth to his mother and demanded 81.
His mother was shocked, examined
the teeth and found they were sound
aud would have lasted long time.
The yOungster said he needed the
money. as he expected to attend the
lawn fete. He got it.--lndianapolS
News.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-09-19
REVIVAL OF CLASSIC GREEK
Western Newspaper Welcomes Pos
slbIIlty of Its Becoming, in
Time, a World Language.

were one to judge from the fuss
made from time to time. one would
suppose there was real need of an in
terhatlohal language. In the golden
age of the English language the great
queen addressed the ambassador AZ
her court in Latin, and all diplomatic
conversation and correspondence of
Europe was in Latin. Erasmus. the
great scholar and writer, who visited
tlle court of Elizabeth's father. Henry
VIII wrote Latin works that pro-
uuced an effect comparable to that
produced by the writings of VoItaire
TWO centuries later.
Much pains have been expended in
laDrlcating artificial language, such
us Esperanto, to serve as the medium
OF communication. But such construc.
IONS have no chance of practical adop-
tloh, nor could they answer as well as
actual language whether dead like
Latin or living like English.
There is Il language, however
which is gradually becoming again a
living one, and which as a world Ian
gIlage would be ideal. The Greek uni
VefSltles and Greek men of culture,
including Ecni2elOs himself, are ell
gagged in an attempt to restore CLASH
cal purity and perfection to modern
Hr"ek. 1t is said that the endeavor
Is by no means vain, and that gradu-
ally the ancient model is being ap-
preached. We may yet have the speech
OF PcrcIeS, the written language of
Plato. employed in social intercourse
ANA commercial transactions, in con
tracts, in courts Of law, in houses OF
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Journal.