YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1924-02-15
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BY @. d. K0REFF.


not confine Themselves only tai
tasks connected with manaal la
bor. They entered business ana
many OF them met with splendid
success. Some entered the profes-
sioIls, and lawyers, physicians, |
clefgymen Of various denomina-
tions sprang from their ranks
Some, became newspapermen and
writer's of no mean ability. Their
children, enjoying the benefits Of
our American education, graduate
from high schools and colleges.
and even from Annapolis and
West Point. Thus we find the
Slovak immigrants, like those pre-
ceding them, grow accustomed t,.a
the changed life in a country
whose language and traditions
they have. yet to learn. But the
spirit of the pioneer is there, even
if they have to explore the wider
rcss Of a relentless economic sys.-
tenn instead the paths Of nature
fthose who are opposing the
newer immigration for the reason
that in the welding process Of the
various nationalities 50 many for
eigners have remained unassimil-
: atcd, our only answer is that this
newer immigration never had |
fair chance for complete assimila.
tion with American life owing ID
the comparatively short time Id
which this assimilation was to be
accomplished.
4 The opppnehtsFof the newer inl-
migration speak ssof the necessity
Of the preservation Of the Nordic
stock. This .Nordic myth is very
clumsy attempt for the finding OF
an-eNcuse to let in more Germans
We shall try to prove this by fi-
cures, and also by certain provi-
sion of bill, now under consider
alton ct Congress. But the claim
that this, eso=ealed Nardic immi.
grafton is of a superior type lack
proof. If the mere knowledge OF
the English language were sure
sign of superiority, than an Eng
lish navvyl would be superior to
men like Michael Pupin, Nicholas
Tesla, Charles P. Steinmetz, Gug.
liclmo Marconi and many Others
who at the ouset did not know 4
word Of English. and yet have con.
tributed more to the growth ai
the United States than all Eng
lish navvies and their descendants
taken together contributed or may
ever expect to contribute.
The fact is that this so-calle.j
Nordic immigration, which i
held oft as an example to the i'm
migrants from eastern and south
crn Europe, had a much longer
period in which to assimilate, if &
complete assimilation ever tool
place. Yet, if we consider that the
major part fthe fenefit of thu
exploitation Of the Nordic myth
goes to the Germans; if we con
slider that nowhere among the
foreign born the desire to remain
united with their compatriots III
Europe is as strongly developed
and so stubbornly pursued as a.
mong the Germans, and if we
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further consider that the Ger
mans were the first Of all immi
grants to coin political capital out
OF racial political organizations,
which they WELD like clubs over
the heads of the powers that be
we are surprised indeed and vain
~ look for the reason why it is
just the Germans who are to be
made the beneficiaries Of an i'm
migration policy which works out
to the detriment Of all other i'm
migrant groups not bearing the
label Of Nordic mythology.
Thus far all attempts to form
al immigration policy for the