Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-03
need SYMPATHY
WITH FOREIGN
BORN CITIZENS
Must Show Genuine In
terest in Their We'll
fare Says Burrill
Augusta School Superinten-
dent Outlines Work to Com
bat. Illiteracy - Augusta
Making Good Progress in
AUGMENTATION Work -
Miss Grace Scott Tells of Re
lation Social Morality to Ma
tiOnal Needs


A very scholarly and valuable
analysis of the problem which con-
fronts the nation if it is to correct
evil of illiteracy, was presented
Thursday afternoon TO the members
of the Augusta characterization as
ISOLATION at their meeting at the
Chamber Of Commerce buildings, by
Superintendent of Schools Fred w.
Eurrill of this city. lie also gave an
analysis of local conditions and sug
eestcd remedies. Miss Grace Scott,
delivered a most interesting address
en- social morality.
!. "F'olloWing the war the people in
sisted that the doors be shut against
foreign immigration which has given
us an opportunity to solve our prob
lon and to assimilate those of foreign
birth who are still among u.s." said
Mr. Burrill. "There are probably co.
| 100000 Illiterates in America today.
| To reach the adults we must resort
to displays in public way and to
intimate man to man contact through
factory teaching and in other ways.
A few may be reached through night
schools and still others through the
school children"
| I'VE need also to alter our own
attitude towards those of foreign
birth. Unless we are genuinely SYM
pathetic and ready to receive them as
equals we shall make no progress, for
] they can readily detect the counter
| felt in our approaches and will quick
/ ly raise barriers against self-interest
and false motive.
Augusta is $50 per cent. of
1 white native parentage, an especially
high number: 9.S per cent. of the
City's population is Canadian French
We are really making remarkable
progress here through the school
| children"
Mr.. Burrill then explained by actual
examples the method of teaching the
little tots who come to the kinder
| Garten with no knowledge of English,
until they are able 10 talk easily in
our language. 1t was most inter-
cstinG discourse
Miss Grace Scott
Augusta is surely a highly fav-
ored community in the matter of
! characterization work and the meth
cd of Installation employed by your
organization in the Fourth Of July
rageant is splendid. Such in effect
were the words of lraisc given by
Miss Grace Scott of Indiana, Nation
al w. c. T.. L. worker as the work OF
the Augusta characterization asso-
! citation was outlined TO her
Miss Scott, in her formal address
at this meeting. showed how America
must be worthy Of the faith rcposed
IN her by foreign nations to whom
/ she seems the very embodiment of all
that is highest and best. For the sal
/ walton of the world America must be
true to the high idealism that has
been her heritage from the fathers.
her puritanical principles OF personal
purity as well as those other princi-
pies of justice, of freedom, Of democ-
lacy and of religion.
I'm my work in France during the
war SAID tie speaker, II was i'm
pressed with the innate love of every
soldier of American birth for purity
in women. They have no patience
with the Willingness Of many women
to lower their standards to match
the weakness Of man: they respect
honor and love, those women who
lcep high their ideals of personal
! purity" Miss Scott is making a plea
-, tor personal purity and for a stronger
STAND on the part of women, as we'll
as of men, against social immoral
ity.
| I'm day when The ''happer' is
commonplace. when tie divorce
courts reell with the disorder and
'nn OF unfaithfulncss. and when
marriage IS ridiculed by moving pic
lures. theatrical joke vendors, and in
inc common speech OF the people. and
lapscs of social morality are winked
at and made the subject of greatest
indifference. there is much to be done
fiSht here in America lest we lose the
: .hlhgs mat have made possible our
| leadership and fall in the estimation
OF the world to a place where Amer
lcanism may he synonymous with Ii.
ccnse rather than with righteousness
Eefe then is piece of genuine
characterization work that insult be
done: let us all do our utmost to COM
lat the unholy influence of our times.
| Ihere is danger lest Young people
rcel that we are trying to maintain
me obsolete and Anticipated ideals of
inc dead past. These things must be
shown by precept and example to be
essential to present day happiness,
the only sane foundation principles
upon which society and civilization
can long endure. To this end parents
must give time to the affairs of their
children and the frankest under
standing must exist between them"