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Americanization of foreign race is great problem
Washington dispatch reports on Kenyon and Sterling bills aimed at Americanizing foreign born citizens and alien residents. Kenyon would fund language teaching and required nightly learning hours. Sterling would crack down on sedition and red-flag tactics. The piece emphasizes assimilation as a national duty and cites labor unrest observations. Officers of the old One Hundred Sixty-eighth Iowa regiment plan a Sunday meeting in Des Moines to discuss Third Iowa reorganization.
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Washington News Bureau
Waterloo
Evening Courier
Washington, D. C
Kenyon
Iowa
Sterling
South Dakota
Senate
House
House of Representatives
Secetary of the Interior
Fedal
Nor
Refus
Tenyon
America
Des Moines
One Hundred Sixty-eighth Iowa Regiment
Des Toines