World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget .. . ld. 74 New Americans: HOME MISSIONS There are in the United States three-quarters of a million Bohemians and Moravians;half a million Slovaks; half a million Hungarians; 400,000 Russians; 100,000 Arme-nians and 3,000,000 Yiddish-speaking people. Some of the biggest foreign cities inthe world are to be found in America. Other groups included among new Americans are Albanians, Arabs, Assyrian-Chal-deans, Bulgarians, Croatians, Czecho-Slovaks, Dalmatians, Esthonians, Finns,French Canadi
World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget .. . ld. 74 New Americans: HOME MISSIONS There are in the United States three-quarters of a million Bohemians and Moravians;half a million Slovaks; half a million Hungarians; 400,000 Russians; 100,000 Arme-nians and 3,000,000 Yiddish-speaking people. Some of the biggest foreign cities inthe world are to be found in America. Other groups included among new Americans are Albanians, Arabs, Assyrian-Chal-deans, Bulgarians, Croatians, Czecho-Slovaks, Dalmatians, Esthonians, Finns,French Canadians, Letts, Lithuanians, Montenegrins, Persians, Portuguese, Rouman-ians, Uki-ainians, Serbians, Slovenians, Spaniards, Syrians and Turks. The full participation in the whole life of America on the part of all the people inAmerica demands the removal of every barrier erected by a sensational race con-sciousness and the creation of a new American national consciousness. To be great a nation does not need to be of one blood, but it must be of one of spirit is of more importance than unity of HOME MISSIONS: New Americans 75 The Field PROPERLY to present a survey of new Americans will mean a study of thefield itself, its problems, character and extent; an analysis of the forces atwork within the field; and a statement regarding a program adequate andsufficient for the needs. One problem of the new American is distribution. He has crowded into the he forms his Little Italy, his Ghetto, his Bohemian Hills—usuallyretaining his native social ideas and customs. In a city like New York the problem stands out in the large. In that city the increasein population of Russians, Italians and Austro-Hungarians, for the period of tenyears ending in 1910, was greater in each case than in the native population. Suchan unbalanced growth is inevitably reflected in the decreased percentage of Protestantchurch members, now reduced to nearly 7 per cent. It is reflected i
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