Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-16
LINDDERGH SYMBOL
TOFORE|GN-BORN.
New AmeriCanization Ideal
Presented by Flyer to Un-
naturaIized Aliens.
BY LEMUEL f. PARTON.

NEW YORK, June 16.-Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh. suddenly becoming an
international parsonage, performed an
invaluable service for his co. try
abroad by his tact and modesty As
an emissary of international amity
and good will, no seasoned diplomat
could better have furthered friendly
understanding and accord. On his
visit to New York he appears as the
Ambassador of America to Ameri
cans in the making.
There are 1,979,SS2 foreign-born
residents Of Greater New York. Of
these 1892 SIS remain unnaturalized.
These multitudes saw l. 1dbergh
sweep down out of the sky, with his
convoy Of American planes; as many
as could gain a place within sight or
hearing attended the two great pub
lie ceremonies in which the worlds
greatest city accorded to a youth I'M
known n month ago such honors as
the world gives only to statesmen,
ConquererS and kings.
Women with shawls on their heads
held aloft their children, pointing out
to them the youth who has become a
shining symbol of American aspira-
ton Hester street, Essex, Delaney
all the crowded tenement districts
poured out streams of Italians, Poles,
Russians, Hungarians, Lithuanians,
Germans, Bulgarians, Ukrainians,
Czechs and Jugoslavs, hailing Lind.
bergh in a habble of tongues. They
eagerly seized innumerable foreign
language newspapers; they found the
event VisualiZed and dramatiZed for
them in the picture papers. They
heard the great amplitierS and radio
loud-speakers everywhere clamoring
the news to the heavens.
New characterization Lesson.
Young Lindbergh has written a new
chapter in this lesson of AmericaniZa
ton. Foreigners have accepted our
standards and our valuations of life.
They have observed sports, politics
and business as the three fields of the
cloth of gold on which lances are set
and issues tried. They have seen short
sports. crooked politicians and rapa-
cious business men. In all the clamor
and striving. those at the Threshold
of citizenship have been confused.
They have sought leadership; they
have listened for some clear voice.
they have held to their faith and
awaited revelation.
And now comes this boyish youth
Iindbergh. AS truly as a Litmus test
in a laboratory, he reveals the heart
of America. The foreign-born millions
of this country have learned lot
about what America really cherishes.
He is a good sport he played square,
dared all hazards and knew how to
behave afterward.
If good sense and proper demeanor
in a situation involving diplomatic
niceties have anything to do with
politics then Lindbergh is good
politician.
Good Business Man.
He is a good business man. He
saved his money, built d going con-
cern--the spirit of st. Louis" is that
and something more-and he says he
is going to put his earnings back into
the business, and that doesn't mean
the vaudeville business.
Naturally and inevitably, Lindbergh
has been hedged about by officialdom.
1t is fitting that the Nation, the State
and the city should do him honor.
But no plaalanx Of high hats and gold
braid can come between him and the
masses who have made him their idol
There never was celebration in
New York in which every one, from
bootblacks to bankers, so instinctively
and whoIeheartedly declared them
selves in.
In the foreign-born peoples-and
New York is the greatest polyglot city
in the world-didn't miss any IF this.
In it's bearing on Americanization-
America nizatlon in it's real sense as
it involves traditional America-the
Lindbergh episode is the happiest
event of this generation.
fcopyright. 1927