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A MAGAZINE OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP
SOLVING THE IMMIGRANT PROBLEM
BY PRACTICAL MEANS OF EDUCATION
TF THE money we so freely spend in this country for patroniz-
A ing specialists and getting statistical compilations on the immi
grant’s life in America could be made available for practical rural
life training and education of the hoftést and well intentioned
immigrant, beginning at the very moment he arrives and sets foot
on the shores of the new world, we should be making a substan
tial and intelligent investment for ourselves, and for posterity.
The disadvantages suffered by those who have no training for in
telligent participation in American life constitute the main force
for the discontentment that feeds radicalism and bolshevism in
America today. By accomplishing his social readjustment, and
placing him in a position to compete intelligently for an ade
quate return on honest toil, the immigrant would be rendered
immune to the contaminating influences that are at work where
the spirit of discontent makes kindred those who struggle against
heavy odds for a just share in our social and economic well-being.
Add to this the money we spend for police protection, more jail
and penitentiary facilities, the cost of trials and incarceration
of the law violating immigrant, plus the loss to industry, agricul
ture and business, and we could profitably render every industrious,
reliable and thrifty immigrant the financial aid necessary to put
him on the road to independence as an intelligent tiller of a piece
of American soil—a soil that is far richer and able to yield him a
better return, based on the amount of intelligent energy applied,
than he had ever known in the land he left behind.
By organizing, under proper direction, immigrant training
classes everywhere on the idle lands where livelihood and educa
tion to intelligent citizenship could be obtained, one with the
other, both the immigrant and the idle land problems in our
country could be solved intelligently in less than two decades.
JUNE, 1926
PORTLAND, OREGON