New Britain herald., 1922-12-30

ing more an ideal Amerleanism Is q
 religion to millions who rightly dis. oern it's meaning in the spirit Some cherish Amerieanism as they cherish their birthright or achieved faith | Others cherish 1t as their only faith
 the love of 1t satisfying their spirit hunger
 | Who Needs AmericanizatiOn?
 1.-TWO classes of Americans require
 to be Americanized-for American | ism Is never to be taken for granted
 in any man--Americans native and Americans foreign born, The ele- mental distinction between immigrant and alien must never be forgotten. An immigrant is foreigner who be- | comes an American. An alien is one who never becomes an American whether native-born or foreigner, The foreign-born like the native-b born Is always a man and never prob- lem. He is ever to be treated as a man.
 "Never hold him to the light as a problem nor look upon his darker side as a man. The statesman-leader of American democracy was right when, speaking long before our ad- vent into the war in greeting the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, he said of the vast majority of the foreign-born citizens of the Unit ed States: Their belief in America has made them better citizens than some people who were born in Amer ica.' He predicted that they would meet the test of America First
 No man is an American who does not place America first, before him self. He must serve America; Amer ica must not serve him. No man is an American who Is not possessed of genuinely democratic faith-that is, trust in the people and such devotion to the commonwealth as sets the benefit of all above the advantage of one or some. He who holds democ- racy to be the rule of the mop is not democrat, whether his forbears came to Massachusetts in 1920 or he to. New York in 1910.. American is he who counts democracy the rule of the many with standards and strives to make it so. He is no American who is a democrat on parade. Amer ican is he who is democratic-genu- inely, profoundly, passionately. He is no American who cherishes preju- dices, whether these be social or ra- cial or religious. who thinks of for eign-born Americans as filling the European liners with human freight. All this is only another way of say ing that an American is a conscious. vigilant, fraternal, unwearied creator of America, who scorns the notion that America bears a, charmed life, and that democracy, even though it be of the American brand guarantees the automatic solution of it's own problems.
 America demands not of the im- migrant that he be obliviOus of the past as his starting point, but that his soul be fixed upon the goal which is America. I can speak here the authority of lifelong relation to one rhase of the problem. As a Jew and Jewish teacher, I have seen it become more certain with the years that the Jew, who chooses to believe or af- fleets to believe that Americariism de- mands of him a complete break with his racial and religious past, is likely to become an American of feeble faith and infirm will Disloyalty does not breed loyalty. The finest service to the future may be expected of him who reverences, even haghifies, the past. Y
 "Jf we wolIld really Americanize the foreigner, we must help him to