The Alaska Daily Empire

CHURCHES JOIN IN MEETING FOR AMERICANIZATION
Union Meeting at Elks' Hall Tomorrow Night—Dancey Pleased with Audience.

Sunday evening's community rally in Elks' Hall will be the closing number on the Legion's Americanization program for Juneau and the committee has arranged a splendid program to supplement Capt. S. N. Dancey's farewell message. The evening will take the form of a union church rally and all the churches of Juneau are co-operating.

"I hope that the citizens of Juneau will endeavor to make a good showing on Sunday evening," Capt. Dancey told The Empire today. "Up to the present time the Capital City has made an unusually poor showing, to that point where they have robbed Alaska of first place in the national test. Americanization is a thing sufficiently serious and important as to demand attention on the part of every citizen of Juneau."

Friday Night's Rally
There was only a fair sized audience at the Americanization Rally in Elks' Hall last evening, but those there were among the thinking class of the citizenry. It was a good spirited audience, they sang exceptionally well and evidenced a deep interest in the program.

John Ford Starr, Commander of John Bradford Post of the American Legion presided, and on the platform with him were Mayor Goldstein, Dr. Jenne, Exalted Ruler of the Elks, Commissioner of Education L. D. Henderson and Capt. Dancey. The preliminary program included violin-piano by Lucile Norton and Gray Walker, a vocal solo by Miss Ruth Mitchell, reading by Mrs. Van Atta and orchestration by the Novelty Four.

Commissioner Henderson in an interesting survey of the educational movement throughout the world, pointed to the world conference at San Francisco last summer as one of the great hopes of a better understanding between the nations of the earth, through the elimination from the national text books of all things that might lead to misconception. He paid tribute to the fine spirit of support that the people of Alaska accorded the schools and gave many interesting sidelights on the educational movement throughout the Territory.

Tribute to Schools.
Capt. Dancey prefaced his remarks with a fine tribute to the efficiency of the Alaskan schools. Economic conditions in different centers had made it difficult for the people to furnish the most modern equipment but, in the matter of efficiency of the teaching staff and the general standing of the pupils, Alaska was as good as any state in the Union and better than most. This splendid standing of the Alaskan schools was, in large measure, due to the indefatigable efforts of Commissioner Henderson, to whom Capt. Dancey paid fine tribute. He deserved the co-operation of every...

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loyal citizen, contended Capt. Dancey. Schools were not a matter of politics, they were a matter of good, sane Americanism, he said.

World Conditions.

In his discussion of world conditions, Capt. Dancey covered a wide range in his hope to awaken his audience to a realization of the seriousness of things. He deplored what he termed the present day tendency to found judgment, not in a study of the problem, but rather in hopes and fears, loves and hates, like and dislikes and resentments. There was too much politics with some and not enough patriotism to country, he asserted. If a man did seek to offer honest and constructive criticism, the world was prone to associate an ulterior motive. The result of this condition was reflected in a time honored truth that "wooden legs are not inherited, but wooden heads are," he declared.

"It is not the slums that make slum people, it is slum people who make the slums," observed the speaker. "It is not your churches that will make good people. it is good people who will make the churches. It is not the city of Juneau that will make good citizens and good Americans, it is good citizens and good Americans who. will make Juneau all that it should be."

Some of the vital problems developed by immigration were discussed in an illuminating way. Capt. Dancey traced Bolshevism and Communism and all other conditions that threatened American principles and ideals to the indifference of the native born American. It was the duty of every citizen to interest himself actively. he said, in the things of country and community. that was the only hope of building up a better spirit of Americanism and saving the good old American type. "Indifference, at this time, is bordering on treachery to country. It is not what you did in the past, because, too many men and too many communities try to live on their past laurels, it is what is being done, today, that counts." he said.

The situation in Europe was treated, country by country, and, the speaker pointed out as the only hope of salvaging civilization, the nations of the earth getting together, and, supplanting misunderstanding and jealousy and greed with a workable policy based on mutual good will.

Facing Serious Crisis.

"There has never been a time in the history of the world, the war not excepted, when the world faced the serious crisis that she faces at this time," he concluded, "and, as far as we in America are concerned, there is only one course and that is to give the best that is in us toward the building of our own land, and, all the while reaching out the right hand of fellowship to every nation of this earth that is prepared to play the game before God and before man."

The question period that followed was not protracted. The principal question having to do with the education of the foreign born in Juneau. In this respect, Capt. Dancey urged co-operation and the imperative need of something being done.