Identifier: foreignbornameri00burg (find matches)
Title: Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Burgess, Thomas, 1880-1955 Episcopal Church. Dept of missions and church extension
Subjects: Episcopal Church Aliens Americanization
Publisher: New York, Department of missions and church extension of the Episcopal church
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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h. It is the boys and giris, the childrenof the foredgn-bom, who are especiallyour coimtrys menace or opportunity.As stated above, they make some of ourbest scholars in our schools. They arethe Americans of the future. The Scoutoath begins: On my honor I will domy best to do my duty to God and mycountry. A Boy Scout Troop in whichseveral races are mixed together is oneof the best Americanization factorsthere is. Giri Scouts and CampfireGirls have a Mke part to play. Chiefest of all in the bringing ofmany races togeither under one, andteaching loyalty to the Flag, is the pub-lic school. There is no need of em-phasizing this fact. Here is a story ofa public school in one of our large cities: A visitor of an investigating turn ofmind asked the pupils of various nation-alities, Germans, Poles, Russian Jews,Italians, Armenians and Greeks, tostand up in turn. When the long listwas seemingly exhausted, he bethoughthimself of a nation he had overlooked,and said, Now, let the American chil- 21
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National Child Labor Committee AMERICAN MESSENGER BOYS Are these young Americans of foreign parentage keeping late hours, familiar withthe citys vices, learning the trve American Ideals? dren stand up! Whereupon one lone,lorn, little colored boy stood up to rep-resent America! So they have come, ourneighbors from the manylands of their birth to ourLand of Fredom, to dwellhere as our neighbors, andrear their families, and wehave tried but feebly to beneighbors to them. But nowthat the war is over, ourcountry is awakened as neverbefore to the critical need ofmaking Americans forAmerica. The menace of itand the opportunity of it andthe widespread interest in it,is a great part of the newprogram of reconstruction.Let me repeat—the root of itall must be personal, ordi-nary Christian neighborliness. A ■Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy-self. STREET CORNER IN THE CITY

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