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THE UNITED AMERICAN
SEPTEMBER 1925
sausage-cutting citizenship process that has masque to say about it at all. The choice is made by the
raded so often under the name of naturalization, there alien, at the outset, and beyond any chance of change.
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are ten millions of foreign-born residents of America
who are in need of Americanization effort—and most
In the old days there were immigrants who came
of them earnestly want it. On the other hand, there to our shores because they had been persecuted at
are one hundred million genuine Americans most home. Liberty of political thought, or of religious
of them native-born—but at least five millions of them belief, was the lure that called them to the new wilder
foreign-born—who are in a position to help the other ness. Also came the adventurers—those hardy folk
ten million. For every foreigner who is ready to who fare forth to the far places, who live best in the
become an American, there are ten Americans on hand saddle, who know danger, shoot straight and die game.
to help him through. Surely, we have enough On their heels were the home-builders, who would
teachers!
sooner carve a rude hut out of the forest, and call it
Add to this the fact that a wise law has recently home, owned and held—their own—than be tenants
reduced the volume of immigration to America to at ease of the most beneficent lanlord that ever held
something like 300,000 or 400,000 a year—a thousand a condescending string on old lands in old countries.
a day, in the rough—and it would seem safe to say So too, there were the coordinators of a newly knit
that, as long as American children continue to be born, industrial civilization, executives by birth, answering
there will always be ten teachers for every pupil in the call of a complex machine for heads to command
this partnership of Americanizing the stranger within the hands that ran it. With them came the laborers
our gates. So much for mere figures.
and the servants—the backs and hands that did the
multifarious human toiling not yet swept under the
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mechanical sway of the uncanny inventions of to-day.
Yet, there are one thousand a day still coming in, And finally followed the ordinary jobhunter, from all
every day, for as long as the present law stands un over the globe, coming to our country for any old
changed. They are a better lot than used to come. kind of a job, just because there are more jobs here
Every man and woman of the government’s force at than there are over there.
Ellis Island will tell you that. They are better. But,
Here he is, the job-hunter, last of the procession,
by so much the more, are they worth better teaching standing right before us here at the gate at Ellis
at the hands of the rest of us who are already heie. Island! The rest have trooped by and gone with the
Just as they are better pupils themselves, they deserve years—pilgrims, breaknecks, homesteaders, men of
and will demand teaching that is more understanding wit and men of toil—they have gone forever and
and more helpful than any we have ever given before. ever. Only their legends survive. In their footprints
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selves! because they are already a part of ourselves
—every one of the thousand a day —from the moment
they are admitted and come ashore. They are a slice
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Of course we Americans who outnumber the I
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admitted alien by ten to one are not going to turn
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in, the whole ten of us, in every case, and press upon
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him ten different varieties of Americanization pill.
Most of us will pay no more attention to the affair
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than we do to voting and to taking an intelligent hand
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in the affairs of our own government. We are “too
busy,” or too something else. Then in this particular
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ing of the bewildered alien too many gardeners may
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spoil the plant. Still less can we be digging up this
tender plant all the time to see if down there among z
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the roots it is really growing. In fact, we are com
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pelled not only to do a little sorting among the ten
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teachers, and pick from them the one who teaches |
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best, if we are to do this thing right; but even when
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we have perhaps picked out the best of the ten for
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that particular teacher, if the alien’s Americanism; i :
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is to grow naturally and normally, until finally it
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we get under way at all, is where the alien comes in.
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Right here, at the very beginning of the business,
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he appears as full-fledged partner; because it is he
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who picks his own teacher, out of the whole ten of I
us, and does it all by himself. You and I have nothing
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