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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1919
Page
2
Washington May 12 The Interior Department opened a four day Americanization conference focusing on methods to help foreign born residents become U S citizens. The gathering aims to improve civic participation and integration through education and community programs.
P P Claxton commissioner of education urged that all schools teach English to immigrants asserting one cannot become American without language. Charles F Towne stressed oral English first with writing follow up. phonograph and stereopticon cited as helps. Night schools discussed, with calls for continuous day schooling to reach aliens, including women and night workers.
George W. Coleman, president of the Open Forum National Council, speaks tonight at the Dorchester School Centre. He describes his first attempt to fuse forum ideas with cinema, featuring a motion picture of My Own United States based on Edward Everett Hale and followed by a audience-led discussion.
The first contingent of the volunteer army raised to relieve the men fighting in North Russia departed Newcastle today for Archangel. The party totals fifteen hundred men including a machine gun company. Two additional contingents will depart in the week.
Franklin Park Zoo lion Jim displays a mood change after meals, growling and snarling for about three hours following a 10 pound beef consumption. Keepers approach cautiously as petting appears to calm him, then he returns to his amiable nature until the next feeding. Jim was captured near Nairobi in British East Africa and presented to Boston four years ago at age two.
Miss Eleanor M. Colleton, a Boston, New York and Washington immigration specialist, has sailed on the Megantic to Rome to represent the National Catholic War Council. Her trip will take her to Belgium and France before Italy. Colleton led the Boston Italian Immigrant Society for years and aided state and federal authorities in immigration and Americanization efforts. She is versed in Italian customs and language and has earned medals from Pope Pius X and Genoa, plus Italian government support for her work.
Paris May 12 Associated Press report quotes President Wilson praising the League of Red Cross Societies. He notes its aim to unite Red Cross groups from the United States Great Britain France Italy and Japan in cooperative relief against disease and disaster. Wilson highlights alignment with the spirit of the League of Nations and hopes for rapid organic progress toward global peace and goodwill.
Boston University students prepare for International Night in Jacob Sleeper Hall Friday evening. Miss Mary Bowen leads the general committee with assistants Frank Kingdon, Nellie Young, and Israel Miller. Sub-committees organize programs representing England Scotland Ireland Italy Greece Norway Sweden Armenia China and Japan.
Washington May 12 Secretary Baker issued a general army order authorizing General Pershing to mitigate or remit sentences under the Articles of War that would otherwise require presidential confirmation. The 50th article of war initially gave the field commander that power but was amended February 28 1919 to require reference to the President.
The transport Luckenbach, due to dock at noon today, will not dock until 8 15 tomorrow morning. It is set to reach President Roads at 6 tomorrow, weigh anchor at 7 34, and depart harbor. It carries 2324 men and 2 officers of the 126th Infantry under Colonel W W Ollison, with six sickness cases aboard including three stretcher cases and a diphtheria case. The transport Talon is also scheduled to dock tomorrow. its delay status is unclear, carrying 1129 men, two arm field clerks, five civilians, and 55 officers.
In Washington on May 12 a plan for a Chinese loan was perfected in Paris. It contemplates reviving the former consortium, dissolved years ago when American bankers withdrew after the State Department ended support. Germany is excluded from the new arrangement, which had played a prominent role in the first project.
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