The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 13, 1916, Page 12

T i T S R % TWELVE A PAGE FOR FARM WOMEN More About the Americanization School Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Un- der separate cover I am sending .you a picture of the.boys and girls and teachers of the Bismarck ‘Americaniz- ation school, Two teachers and a few of the studeats are missing. There is now an enrollment of forty- seven. Of a truth, human’ beings are the finest material in the world with which to work and what is a teacher but an artist producing the best types of humankind that his genius and his material will permit? girl you see in the picture is lovable and loving. The older the school grows and the greater the number in- creases the finer and firmer grows the bond between pupils and teachers, and the stronger waxes the enthusiasm. Night by night the English language both written and spoken is becoming more and more perfectly expressed. A new boy said: “After the mines elosed in wilton I came to Bismarck. I saw sometiing in the paper about the night school but I could not read enough to find out where it was. I talked with a waiter in a restaurant and he told me he go to one and he take me Monday. I went after him but he was too tired and sick, the next night he was still too sick so I went alone. I looked in the windows and saw everybody working. I was afraid to go in alone and-I went home but the next night I went again and . aw= two hovs were going in I speck 1 to him and I went with him.” This it splenaid looking and fine acting young-man speaks three languages, Russian, Polish and English. The carnestness, the simple trust- ing faith and gratitude which: the students express by word and look and action serve as spurs to their. teach- ers for greater and greater effort. Many of them wrote letters of appre- ciation to the school board lately. Here are a few extracts. “I am going to night school. We liké our room and we thank you for giving it to us. I am to be a good +“American ° citizen. I like ' North Dakoda.” { “T am going to Night,. I am wend- ering if the teacher is-very glad when I come to school Night. ' Please come and see us. We all will be glad if you come.”- ' 5 “I am very thankful to the Board of Education for the use of the school- » room it is a lot of help o us: cannot thank you ‘all for what -y Every boy and. " school. have done for us all. Please do come and see us.” “I learn to read and write English. I am now learning long division. I am bell hop in the hotel.” “I go to night School. I thank yvou for this schoolroom and our books. We study reading, writing, and arith- metic. We all sing- every night and march. I get to work again at 10:30 tonight.” ‘Some have made a most remarkable progress in.these few months of study. The closing hour ofttimes finds the teacher enthusiastically chatting of and planning for “the finest boys and girls in the world.” 1t is a rich recompense to a teacher to find.ready receptivity and response to his work. There is nothing dull, grinding or monotonous about this Everything is activity, alert- ness, progress,- and spontaneity. Lverybody is learning and enjoying it. A feeling of happy good-will permeat- es the place and again and again pupils and teachers have forgotten the flight of time so absorbed have they been in their work, In the Picture Miss Sanderson, straight and tall, stands' at the back of the picture: Near by at her right, wearing glasses, is Mrs“Register. At the extreme left of the picture is Miss-Aldyth Ward, almost hidden by John and Ralph. Mrs. Ward, also, wearing glasses, is near Miss Diesem among a group at the right. Mr. Iver Acker and Mrs: Smythe, teachers, and some of “the most regular attendants of the school are missing. Miss Lucile Dahl stands at curly haired John’s left and near Miss Ward. I am at the extreme right and back. It is hoped that these boys and girls may have some association with the best minds of the city. That good music, good literature and all. the: other. good influences that foster and develop character will ever :be some part of the regular program. Already, a beginning has been made, books in simple English are being dis- tributed. A hand tinted print of “The Song of the Lark” adorns a wall of this basement school room. For those of us who are. surrounded by books, magazines and papers it is almost im- .possible to realize the mental barren- foreign born. - : Literature from the master minds of Furope: would prove a wonderful stimulus’ toward mental act: ‘growth would ness that is'the lot'of so many of the i measure the physical activity of which too often there is a surfeit. -Lives of Struggle One boy, who told of sleeping for weeks in a box car was asked how he thought of seeking such a place an- swered. “When a fellow broke, he learn everything. Dat some good school, too.” A girl who spends long hours work- ing in a hotel never misses a day visiting the mother lying ill in a hos- pital. Another, none too strong, sends her scanty earnings to her mother in the Vaterland, Still an- other supports the child bormm when she herself was little more than a child. A sister sends regular pit- tances to the brother who is buying a ranch in Montana. Thus the stories come to the teach- ers. 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