vide special teachers and supervisors for the field of evening school and adult education, as well as to provide for the necessary persons to train the teachers and supervisors or this work.

The Committee wishes here to express approval of the so-called Kenyon bill now pending in Congress, which seeks to allot funds to the several states on the basis of their illiterate population, said funds being made available through the Federal Bureau of Education in proportion to the efforts and expenditures of the several state departments of education and the several school districts of the various states, for the purpose of eradicating illiteracy and promoting the use of English.

SECTION III

SUB-SECTION II

CITIZENSHIP TRAINING THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Chapter 1. Legislation

II. Americanization Programs

1. Americanization Conference

2. United States Chamber of Commerce..

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This section of the report gives a detailed statement of the activities of various agencies, public and private, engaged in the work of immigrant edu cation and citizenship training throughout the United States, and particularly in the State of New York.

The data here presented is the result of a survey made by the Committee to discover what is being done by various agencies, public and private, throughout the country to counteract radical propaganda by constructive work, both directly and indirectly.

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CHAPTER I

Legislation

No. 3315.

(Report No 276.)

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

October 22 (calendar day, October 27), 1919.

MR. KENYON, from the Committee on Education and Labor, reported the following bill, which was read twice and placed on the calendar.

A BILL.

To Promote Americanization by Providing for Co-operation with the Several States in the Education of Non-English-Speaking Persons and the Assimilation of Foreign-Born Residents, and for Other Purposes.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Education, is hereby authorized and directed to co-operate with. the several states in the education of illiterates or other persons unable to understand, speak, read, or write the English language and with the territories and possessions of the United States, except the Phillippine Islands, in the education of illiterates.

§ 2. That for the purpose of co-operating with the several states in the education of illiterates or other persons unable to understand, speak, read, or write the English language there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, $5,000,000, and annually thereafter until the end of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, the sum of $12,500,000 and an additional sum equal to the balance unexpended of the appropriation herein provided for the last preceding fiscal year.

3. That of the amount appropriated by section 2 for any fiscal year, $500,000 may be deducted and used for the publication of periodicals devoted to Americanization problems; for

aiding in the correlation of aims and work carried on by local bodies, private individuals, and organizations; for studies and reports through the Bureau of Education; for salaries and necessary traveling expenses of officers, assistants, and other employees in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, as the board may deem necessary; and for all other necessary expenses connected with the administration of this Act during such fiscal year.

§ 4. That the balance of the amount appropriated by section 2 remaining after making the deduction authorized by section 3 shall, for each fiscal year, be apportioned by the Secretary of the Interior, among and allotted to the several states in the ratio which the number of resident illiterates and other persons unable to understand, speak, read or write the English language, sixteen years of age and over, bears to the number of resident illiterates and other persons unable to understand, speak, read, or write the English language, sixteen years of age and over over within continental United States, exclusive of the District of Columbia, and the Territory of Alaska, according to the last published United States census;

Provided, That the total sum allotted to any state shall not be less than $5,000 for any fiscal year.

§ 5. That no money shall be paid to a state until it shall through its legislature

(a) Accept the provisions of this Act;

(b) Designate an appropriate official to act as custodian of such money;

(c) Authorize its department of education or chief school officer to co-operate with the United States in the work herein. authorized;

(d) Appropriate or make available for the purposes of this Act an amount equal to that allotted to the state by the United States;

(e) Require, under penalty, all residents who are citizens of the United States, sixteen years of age or over and under twentyone years of age, and all residents of more than six months who are aliens, sixteen years of age or over and under forty-five years of age, who are illiterate or unable to understand, speak, read, or write the English language, to attend classes of instruction for not less than 200 hours per annum until they shall have completed a specified course approved by the Secretary of the Interior;