BOOK II. AMERICANIZATION

VII. AMERICANIZATION: POLICIES AND PROGRAMS

New Americans and our Policies, by Lillian D. Wald

The Immigrant and the State

A. The work of the California Commission of Immigration and

Housing.

B. The work of the Massachusetts Bureau of Immigration.

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427

440

474

VIII. DISTRIBUTION

497

502

Immigration and Distribution, by J. E. Milholland, Publicist

Distribution of Agricultural Immigrants, from The Survey.

Distribution of Immigrants in the United States, by Walter F. Willcox,

Professor of Economics and Statistics, Cornell University . . 505

Schemes to "Distribute " Immigrants, by Samuel Gompers, President,

American Federation of Labor

Governmental Distribution of Immigrants. United States Bureau of

Immigration

526

549

IX. EDUCATION

The Education of Immigrants, by H. H. Wheaton, Specialist in Immi-

grant Education .

Schooling of the Immigrant, by Frank V. Thompson, Superintendent,

Boston Public Schools .

X. NATURALIZATION AND CITIZENSHIP

The Naturalization of Foreigners, by R. E. Cole, Counsel on Naturaliza-

tion for Committee for Immigrants in America . .

The International College for Immigrants, by Henry M. Bowden, Pro-
fessor of English, American International College for Immigrants,
Springfield, Massachusetts

XI. AMERICANISM

Address at Convention Hall, Philadelphia, May 10, 1915, by Woodrow

Wilson

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615

What America Means, by the Honorable Franklin K. Lane, Secretary

of the Interior

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Americanization, by P. P. Claxton, Commissioner of Education

What is Americanization? by Frances A. Kellor, LL.B...

True Americanism, by Louis D. Brandeis, Justice of Supreme Court

Americanism, by Theodore Roosevelt

621

623

639

645

What America Means to the Immigrant, by Philip Davis, Lecturer on

Immigration and Americanization, Boston University .

661

APPENDIX

National Americanization Conference .

702

Americanization, by Richard K. Campbell, United States Commissioner

IMMIGRATION AND AMERICANIZATION

BOOK I. IMMIGRATION

INTRODUCTION

IMMIGRATION: A FIELD NEGLECTED BY THE

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SCHOLAR 1

JANE ADDAMS, LL.D.

IS, perhaps, well to rid myself at once of some of the impli-
cations of this rather overwhelming title by stating that it
is not the purpose of this short address to enter into a discussion
concerning the restriction or non-restriction of immigration,
not to attempt to analyze those astounding figures annually
published from Ellis Island; neither do I wish to charge the
scholar with having neglected to collect information as to the
extent and growth of immigration in the United States, nor in
failing to furnish statistical material as fully perhaps as the
shifting character of the subject permits. Such formal studies
as we have on the annual colonies of immigrants in American
cities, and of the effect of immigration in districts similar to the
anthracite coal regions, have been furnished by university men;
indeed, almost the only accurate study into the nationalities
and locations of the immigrants in Chicago has been made by a
member of this University.

But in confining the subject to a scrutiny of the oft-repeated
statement that we as a nation are rapidly reaching the limit of
our powers of assimilation, that we receive further masses of
immigrants at the risk of blurring those traits and characteristics
which we are pleased to call American, with its corollary that
the national standard of living is in danger of permanent debase-
ment, a certain further demand may legitimately be made upon
the scholar. I hope to be able to sustain the contention that
such danger as exists arises from intellectual dearth and apathy;
that we are testing our national life by a tradition too provincial

1 Convocation Address at the University of Chicago. Printed in The Commons,
Vol. X., No. 1, January, 1905.