Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-11
~Have you got your hard work

ments in the Polish community In q
Have you got your hard work
insured from Fire IL not. YOU
should insure St at once. because
tomorrow may be too late
The English rendering Of this appeal
to insure shows also that the Poles are
not less .appreoiative of the value OF
publicity than the Jews, their old
home neighbors We can see i'm
sure your hard work" is more force
ful than insure your home" would be,
and the meaning is the same. Prob
ably the reasoning is that the hard
work and seif-eenial that were neces-
sary to obtain the money TO
huy the home stif remains more
clearly in mind than the ac-
QUESTION Of the home itself. for IL
IS recalled that al of these 1000 people
came to this country with little money
owing their pa ssaEe to friends and
IN the interval Of their climbing from
the depths of poverty they had many
impressive experiences. in a strange
land and among strangers.
Poliel food bonds are now being
sold, $4,000 worth Of the $4,000. .0oo
having 50 far been disposed OF here.
Indeed. the Polish people who are
living here with an abundance of the
things that impart zest and interest
q life about them. were born and
reared in the most hlighting, hopeless
poverty Almost their only inheri-
lance was health, and a proud racial
spirit. that has never shown white
through centuries Of hardshfns and
oppression. Coupled with these was
patience 10 labor and 10 wait. with the
| understanding that in the fuflness of
time their deliverance from intolerable
| oppression would come. so ii these
people are proud Of their herifa sc. and
of their advancement and progress and
| accinnulations thcy are wholly insri-
fed. and in another quarter of a
century we viii find them a tremendou
| factor in our economic and industrial
| affairs: and too il is not AZ all un-
| likely that they will have increased in
population from one twelfth OF our
whole people 10 twenty per cent OF
that total. for, be- II remembered, tina,
| in Little Poland each family unit
averages six persons four children
"a each household and there are few
| spinsters and fewer bachelors
The thrift and industry Of our
adopted people IL obvious in the as
/ 81 ssment lists which, as one Of the
| RI preventative men out there declared
/ show that 80 per cent of our people
live in houses they have bought and
own outright or are paying for fol
| one is told there are no dTones MOI
/ anproductive persons in this stirring
community of men and women who
lare always busy in normal times, wher
there is work TO be done. Nor has an!
member of the Polish group been sueC
tc compel him 10 discharge mis- finan-
'cial obligation to his fellows nor I,
the city.
+ II seems strange. to follow a logica
course of reasoning. that these Poles
! % the peasant class. whose families
have been tillers of the soil for gen.
erations nave turned their backs en-.
| tirely on the country and insist or
working in factories or shipyards
preferring employment where there
are large numbers OF men engaged
They do not even consider agricultur,
Il here, although they have no trades
when they come to America. They
however. appear to make up for thi.
loss Of manual training by natura
laptness for whatever work to which
they apply themselves. and they be
come proficient in a fraction of tn.
time required for other peoples to at
tain 10 like skill, so the NEWSPAPER in
quirer was informed. II seems in
. { s.assfslQ mad nj
for the most taxing manual labor can
With a few weeks experience becom
among the most proficient worker
in factories or in ship yards where !
| IS said they held IN records for spee'
and splendid work during the wa
period when haste was the chief es
sentiai However. such is the fact.
/ The women, too. are no less apt thar
1 the men in training their minds ant
I ha nds for expert service in industria
undertakings. They are proficient il
4 the morocco plants, sn the cigar fac
4 tories and similar industries, but, Ike
their sisters Of other European coun
tries, few, If any Of them, hire thei
services for house work. as domestics
! However, il must not be understoot
I that they are not trained IN nom'
making, in cooking. baking, and clean
ing, and in the rearing Of children
/ The exacting maternal cares seem {,
come to almost al of these healthy
strong. weli-set-up women. Thi
/ mothers attend TO it that their daugh
tcrs have thorough practical *
pc fience in all Of these branches Q
household work and there are usual
children nough in very family to al
ford at least kindergarten training. Il
the older sisters. Indeed, the time
these young Polish girls Is so busi
occupied that there seems little leisu
for diversions. the dances. the movie
the outings, the church and Snndf
school, but they accomplish much
q their continuous effort
9 Except that those from far awa
Russa dress d little less extravagant