The Oregon daily journal., October 13, 1919, Page 3, Image 3

.THE , OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, MONDAY,- OCTOBER 13 1S19.. A
SECRETARY LANE
FINDS ILLITERACY
J FULL OF DANGERS
Primary Purpose of Americaniza
tion Bill Now Before Congress
Is Educatian off Foreigners.
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MASS IGNORANCE IS GREAT
s
4 Per Cent of 1,600,000 Men,at
War Camps Did Not Under
stand Simple Command 'Halt.'
By Franklin K. Lane
crtry of ths Interior and Chairman of the
Indaatrial Confcrrac in Waabinitotk Written
Eprely for UniTersal Service.
Washington, Oct. 12, The1 prl
jnary purpose of the Americaniza-
tiorV . bill, which la now before . con-
; crew. Is to abolish illiteracy in the
. United States, and the plan proposed
It cooperative action between the
federal', and; state governments.
t whereby,. the: stales would toe asked
to pass legislation in which they
would meet on a 60-6(T basis the fed
eral appropriations.
This Is one of the largest problems in
the United States larger than any par
ticular material problem. We must de-
1 liver from bondage millions of children
and men and women liberate them
from the. blinders of ignorance that all
I the wealth of literate and the knowledge
.that comes from the printed word may
4 be revealed to them. We must help
them to an understanding of our ideals,
our traditions, oar opportunities; this Is
the very first step in -weaving them into
our flag the very first step in our
process of Americanization.
PROCESS OF HTMAIflTT
It has never seemed to me that it
was difficult to define Americanization
or Americanism. I appreciate some
thing. I admire something, I love some
thing. I want my neighbors to appre
ciate and love that thing, too. That
.thing is America. .
The process is not one of science ;
the process Is one of humanity. There
la no way by which we can make any-
. one feel that it is a splendid thing to
- be an American, unless we ourselves
are interpreters of Americanism by our
kindness, our courage, our generosity
and our fairness.
We want ta Interpret American In
; boys and girls and men and women that
, can read and write. We want to inter
pret America in better housing condi
tions and decent wages.
; 0PIBIT OF IKDEFEXDEXCI
That is Americanization in the con
crete reduced to practical terms. ThU
Is the spirit of the Declaration of Inde
pendence put into terms that are social
and economic.
t From the first this spirit has been
' generous. . It . has extended the open
hand across the seas.' This was a man's
land a place of tesev. The art that was
most needed-was the art of getting W.
If literature and ' science experiments
were to come, they must be founded
upon the Solid, rocket self -sustained,
un patronised people. V. -The
'American was to be Journeyman
doing. his bit at the making of the land.
' It this was not a worth while lob, then
there was no place for the stranger.
We had mines to; dig, wells te drill,
buildings to , erect, : railroads to con
struct and everyone must do his, share.
And the test of our democracy is in our
ability to absorb that man and incor
porate him Into the body of, our life as
em American.
COMMIS9IOX A8SCEED
This man is our charge our oppor-
' tunlty. Give him a glimpse into the phil
osophy which underlies our struggle and
be will turn into a cheerful worker in
the making of America as have all. the
rest who have preceded him.
But we cannot interpret America to
those whose eyes are "'blind and whose
cars are closed because they do not read
or write or speak our language.
Nearly two years ago I sent a com
Inunication to the senate, giving the
fieurea of illiteracy in the United States
and showing a condition' where practical
ly, in the rough, one person out of
every 10 that you meet in the street
could not . read or write our language,
FARMERS CAKJTOT BEAD
At that time we were sending out
an Immense amount of , literature to
farmers, ursine them to nroduce wheat.
to produce pork 'and other commodities
in our interest and in the interest of
the allies so that we could feed the
United States and feed our armies and
feed Europe.
We were sending out ? Liberty bond
- appeals and one tenth of the literature
ent out was wasted. Speeches Of our
. distinguished men were sent out through
. the committee on public Information to
' arouse 'patriotism and maintain the
morale of the county, and a large part
of that went to eyes that were blind
because they did not know the text
ference and surprising things were re
vealed. We found that hundreds of
schools in some, of our states were
teaching Lincoln's Gettysburg address,
If they were teaching it at all. in a
foreign language.
ABOLISH FOBEIGK LANGUAGE
The boys and airts were being raised
by thousands, who came out of their
schools without a. knowledge of the
tongue of this country. Therefore the
Americanization bill, which is now be
fore the senate committee on education
and labor, was drafted to meet the sit
uation. After that when the armistice came
we had a further revelation as to the
1 actuation and I doubt if any such picture
ever - was - presented to the -"American
mind before as that presented by the
nsur orme war aepartment snowing
that out of 1,600,000 men drawn into our
camps, 24 per cent either could not un
derstand our language or could not sign
the payrolls or could not read the war
department's orders.
We had to undertake to educate those
men In the camps, and we spent millions
of dollars in educating grown men in the
army the meaning of "Forward, 'Halt
and "March." ,
RECRUITS FOOR SCHOLARS
And this was In a country where we
have had a public school system for a
hundred years and a country that held
Itself up as. the foremost democracy In
the world.
I think it is a serious reflection upon
the United States t. that this condition
should exist.. I think it is a serious
reflection upon democracy : I think It is
a great danger to -us not that these peo
ple are inclined to violence, but ' they
certainly can be the easy victims of
any nina or. propaganda wmcn way
cannot check except out of their limited
personal experiences. ,
They are unable to read what the ex
periences of . other nations have been.
and so, if there Is any fertile field in
which this germ of discontent can thrive,
it ought to be in just such a field as this.
America has got to be shown to the
people that "are here as something as
combines , two things opportunity and
responsibility, , You canifot have the one
without the other. Moreover, we want
th people - who come to the United
States to get into their systems a con
sciousness of the new principles under
which they live.
STUDY COMPULSORY
We wish to establish schools in which
the teachers will be trained in this par
ticular art of teaching the English
language both to grown ups and chil
dren. This law applies to those over 1
years of age' and up to 21 years of age
and we can- compel them to attend
these schools, provided the states co
operate. Over that age their action
will be voluntary.
In a large number of our most im
portant industries 50 per cent of the
people working there are foreign born
and they have signs printed for their
welfare and to protect them, and these
situs have to be printed in seven or
eight or nine different languages, and
many of 'the people cannot read them
in any language. In the mining in
dustry alone it has been estimated that
we can save at least 150,000 accidents
a year if these people can be taught
to read enough English to understand
the signs and directions that are placed
before them. f y - -
Now we have got to turn ourselves
into a council of progress and frame a
national purpose. . ' s
NEW RACE WILL tTNFOLD
We are the prophets of a new day.
It means that democracy in essence is
that every man ha a & chance. It, means,
primarily, the very thing to be done
new Is-that we shall put into the hands i
of every man born in this country, the
tools by which he can open the archives
of Americanism. If we can do this we
will produce the "greatest of alt nations
and a new raee that will long hold a
compelling, place in the world. -
Union County Votes';
Big RoacLBond Issue
La Grande, Oct. li-The bond Issue
of $1,498,000 for good roads in Union
county carried in. special election Sat
urday by a vote of about three to one,
returns . from "J1 but - three precincts
showing 2141 yet, to 121 no. . . fl t
. Seaside Couple, Weds
Seaside, Oct 13. On Friday evening
in the Methodist Episcopal church, be
fore a large number of relatives and
friends, occurred " the - marriage -' of
Dorothy Godfrey, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Godfrey, and Frederick Otto,
eon of Mr. and Mrt. Fred Otto. They
will make their home in Seaside, where
the groom is engaged in the grocery
business. '
- Grange Indorses League
Albany, Oct. 1. The Linn County
Pomona grange is in favorof the-League
of Nations. At a vote taken Thursday
a majority rose to- be counted In favor
of the league, but" the minority did not
respond to an invitation to stand up and
be counted. . A resolution was also
adopted requesting the county court to
devote more attention to the side roads.
S. v H. Gresa Stamps tor cash. Hoi
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