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The Immigrant and the Community. (Association Press.) SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS THE SPIRIT OF AMERICANIZATION 1 By Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior The first step. To meet men from Armenia and Italy, from Greece and from Persia, from Russia and from all the nations of Europe, to learn their conception of America, to hear what they believe America offers them, to help them to an understanding, to spread before them our ideals, our traditions, our opportunities; this is the very first step in the process of Americanization. What is Americanization? It has never seemed to me that it was difficult to define Americanization or Americanism: "I appreciate something, I admire something, I love something. I want you, my friends, my neighbors, to appreciate and admire and love that thing, too. That something is America." The inspiration of ideals. The process is not one of science; the process is one of humanity. But just as there is no way by which the breath of life can be put into a man's body, once it has gone out, so there is no manner by which, with all our wills, we can make an American out of a man who is not inspired by our ideals; and there is no way by which we can make any one feel that it is a blessed and splendid thing to be an American, unless we are ourselves aglow with the sacred fire, unless we interpret Americanism by our tolerance, our fairness, our thoroughbred qualities, our liberality, our valor, and our kindness. We have made stintless sacrifices during this war; sacrifices of money and blood sacrifices; sacrifices in our industries; sacrifices of time and effort and preferment and prejudice. Much of that sacrifice will be found vain if we do not prepare to draw to ourselves those later comers who are at once our opportunity and our responsibility; and such responsibilities invoke and fortify the noblest qualities of national character. Americanism is entirely an attitude of mind; it is the way we look at things that makes us Americans. What is America? There is a physical America and there is a spiritual 1 Extracts from an address at New York, January 11, 1919. America. They are so interwoven that you cannot tell where the one ends and the other begins. Seeing America. If I could have my way I would say to the man in New York, "Come with me and I will show you America," and I would say to the man in San Francisco, Come with me and I will show you America." 66 I would give to the man whom I wished to Americanize (after he had learned the language of this land) a knowledge of the physical America, so as to get an admiration, not only of its strength, of its resources, of what it could do against the world, but that he might have pride in this as a land of hope and a land in which men had won out. I would take him across the continent. I would show him the eight million farms which went to feed Europe in her hour of need. I would take him out into Utah and show him that mountain of copper they are tearing down at the rate of thirty-eight thousand tons per day. I would take him to the highest dam in the world, in Idaho. And I would let him see the water come tumbling down and being transformed into power, and that power being used to pump water again that spread over the fields and made great gardens out of what ten years ago was the driest of deserts. . . . 66 America an unfinished land. I would tell him, not that America is perfect, that America is a finished country, but I would say to him: America is an unfinished land. Its possibilities will never end, and your chance here and the chances of your children will always be in ratio to your zeal and ambition." It is beyond estimate when we shall reclaim all our lands or find all our minerals, or make all our people as happy as they might be. But out of our beneficent political institutions, out of the warmth of our hearts, out of our yearning for higher intellectual accomplishment there will be ample space and means for the fulfillment of dreams, for further growth, for constant improvement. That conviction is at once our inspiration and our aspiration. I would have that man see America from the reindeer ranges of Alaska to the Everglades of Florida. I would make him realize that we have within our soil every raw product essential to the conduct of any industry. I would take him three thousand miles from New York, where stands one of the greatest universities in the world, to another great university, where, seventy years ago, there was nothing but a deer pasture. I would try to show to him the tremendous things that have been accomplished |