Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-11-04

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"The foreigner has come to stay,
assume your share OF the burden OF
converting them into good citizens.
The problem is yours, the pan handle
has the representatives. in their mines
from Southern Europe, while south
eastern Idahoi has the Japs and MeKi
ems in their beet fields. / recon-
mend that you;
a. Ascertain if there is any com
mittee doing Americanization work
in your community, and If SO, what
this committee does for the foreign
ers when they first come to your city
or town.
"2 1t is presumed that the child
rem at once get to school and the
foreign mothers brought into moth
er clubs thru the teachers or thru
any other agencies.
"3. Are there night schools where
the foreigners who are too old for
day school and go and learn English
And are such schools near or reason
ably near to where the foreigners
live or work?
"A. Is any attempt in your com
munity being made to have the for
eigners participate in the civic life
of the community?
20. Are any steps taken toward
interesting them in becoming citi-
zens?
&c. Do they receive any instruc-
tion as to what it means to be citi-
zen of the United States?
81. Has any ceremony or order of
exercise been inaugurated in your
community to welcome the foreign
ers as new citizens when they re-
ceive their final papers?
80. In this connection / recon-
mend the study of the 'Catchism of
the Constitution Of the United
States in each chapter as a basis of
study this winter.
80. / recommend that we give all
possible assistance to the Cleanup
Squad of Veterans Bureau In or
der that effective contact be estab-
lished Immediately with the dis
abled the director of the veterans
bureau has inaugurated a nation
wide cleanup campaign the success
of which depends upon the whole
hearted active and moral support of
the public. To this end clean up
squads have begun work in every
state in the union with the full CO.
operation of the American Legion
and the American Red Cross.
This squad will soon visit your
community and it will then be posi-
BILE to bring to their attention all
cases of neglect and complaint which
are known to you or your associates
in order that an immediate and sat
isfactory adjustment be made.
1--WE are working for American
| ism in the broadcast sense and I'd ac-
complish this we must as an organi-
zation personally take an interest in
the upbuilding of the morals of our
schools for the youth of today is
the citizen of tomorrow.
''Ideas installed in the youthful
minds are more lasting than that of
the mature mind children will carry
home from school ideas of good and
bad citizenship. We must asaimi-
late the foreigner or suffer the pain
full alternative of being assimilated
by him. We must look well to it
that the seeds of patriotism are
planted early. They are citizens in
the embryo. The American war
mothers of Idaho have placed Ameri-
can creed in most of our schools
where they are organized. The
foreign born or those of foreign pat
ronage carry them home thus max
ing for Amerieanization in homes of
aliens that otherwise might not be
reached.
Where occasion has arisen the
war mothers have extended a well
coming hand to the brides the boys
brought from across the sea and are
ready to stand in the place as far as
may be the mother left so far be-
hind.
Where hospitals are accessible,
boys in them have been visited and
every comfort provided where the
mothers nave nau the opportunity
Boise at the present time has about
165 patients in its ex-service mems
hospital.
I'm our judgment there is q very
serious danger and a great menace
confronting us, in that our American
people are losing sight of the magni-
tude of the stupendous self-sacrifice
our ex-seryice men, especially the
over seas men made both physically
and financially in the late world war.
Ingratitude and lack of appreciation
are more serious crimes than many
that are on the calendar drawing
prison sentences. We find in many
countries, that the initiative where
there had been Municipal recognition
or courtesies extended to the ex-
service men, that this initiative has
not been taken nv the stav at homes