Looked at disinterestedly it is, consciously and unconsciously, an institution for Americanization. It is at any rate so necessary and inevitable a part of the life of the immigrant in this country that, rather than destroy it, as has been so frequently proposed, we should seek to co-operate with and use it. Whatever we would like to do with the immigrant, there is after all only one thing that we can do if we want him to be an efficient, contributing, and loyal member of the community and that is help him, as my friend William Leiserson has said, "to get on in the country." If he gets on, if he is able to realize here in America some of the fundamental wishes that were denied him in his mother country, he will eventually become an American, in every sense that we desire to give to that title. President-Allen T. Burns, Director, Study of Methods of Americanization, 522 Fifth Avenue, New York. First Vice-President-Robert W. Kelso, Boston. Second Vice-President-Marcus C. Fagg, Jacksonville. Third Vice-President-Mary E. Richmond, New York. General Secretary-William Hammond Parker, 315 Plymouth Court, Chicago, Ill. STATE CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES Arkansas, Helen Riddick, Little Rock; Arizona, Christianna G. Gilchrist, Phoenix; California, Dora Berres, Los Angeles; Colorado, Virginia McMechen, Denver; Connecticut, Malcolm S. Nichols, Hartford; Delaware, Sybil M. Gordon, Wilmington; District of Columbia, Mrs. Walter S. Ufford, Washington; Florida, Marcus C. Fagg, Jacksonville; Georgia, Boyce M. Edens, Atlanta; Idaho, Dr. John W. Flesher, Boise; Illinois, W. S. Reynolds, Chicago; Indiana, A. J. Strawson, Indianapolis; Iowa, Ralph J. Reed, Des Moines; Kansas, J. R. Wilkie, Emporia; Louisiana, Harry L. Hopkins, New Orleans; Maine, Dr. G. E. Hall, Augusta; Maryland, William Burnet Wright, Baltimore; Massachusetts, Richard K. Conant, Boston; Michigan, Harry L. Lurie, Detroit; Minnesota, Frank J. Bruno, Minneapolis; Mississippi, Anita Eustis, Beloxi; Missouri, Mrs. E. T. Brigham, Kansas City; Montana, Mrs. Edwin S. Thomas, Helena; Nebraska, Mrs. W. S. Caldwell, Omaha; Nevada, Mrs. Frank Humphrey, Reno; New Hampshire, Mrs. James Remmick, Concord; New Mexico, John Tombs, Albuquerque; New York, John Shillady, New York City; North Dakota, Mrs. Agnes M. Rex, Grand Forks; Ohio, R. E. Miles, Columbus; Oklahoma, Rose M. Ohaus, Lawton; Oregon, Mrs. Aristene Felts, Portland; Pennsylvania, Mrs. Sherman Conrad, Pittsburgh; Rhode Island, Donald North, Howard; South Carolina Harriet E. Shepard, Greenville; Tennessee, Mary Russell, Memphis; Texas, Elmer Scott, Dallas; Utah, Arthur L. Beeley, Salt Lake City; Vermont, Mrs. E. A. Linderholm, Burlington; Virginia, J. F. Mastin, Richmond; Washington, Mrs. Jay W. Fancy, Spokane; West Virginia, L. H. Putnam, Charleston; Wisconsin, Ella D. Lemmerhirt, Beloit; Wyoming, Allie Jewell, Cheyenne. |