Community civics and rural life . has welded the country into ahomogeneous society,1 seeking the same national ends and animated by thesame national ideals, will overtop all other advantages. The organizationof the selected Army fuses the thousand separate elements making up theUnited States into one steelhard mass. Men of the North, South, East,and West meet and mingle, and on the anvil of war become citizens worthyof the liberty won by the first American 1 Homogeneous society — a society or community all of whose parts andmembers have like purposes and interests. 2 Major Granville R
Community civics and rural life . has welded the country into ahomogeneous society,1 seeking the same national ends and animated by thesame national ideals, will overtop all other advantages. The organizationof the selected Army fuses the thousand separate elements making up theUnited States into one steelhard mass. Men of the North, South, East,and West meet and mingle, and on the anvil of war become citizens worthyof the liberty won by the first American 1 Homogeneous society — a society or community all of whose parts andmembers have like purposes and interests. 2 Major Granville R. Fortesque, in National Geographic Magazine, Dec, igi7- OUR NATIONAL COMMUNITY 69 How this welding of the parts of the nation together was broughtabout by the war is suggested by the words of an old Confeder-ate soldier who wrote to a friend in the North: During the war between the states I was a rebel, and continued onein heart until this great war. But now I am a devoted follower of UncleSam and endorse him in every Immigrants from Other LandsLanding at Ellis Island, New York Harbor. The fact that our nation contained in its population largenumbers of people from practically every country of Europecaused no little anxiety when we entered the DiverseEuropean war. Our population embraces a hun- elements indred different races and nationalities. Of these our na 10nten million are negroes and three hundred thirty-six thousandIndians. Thirty-three million are of foreign parentage, and ofthese thirteen million are foreign-born. Five million do notspeak English, and there are one thousand five hundred news-papers in the United States printed, in foreign languages. 70 COMMUNITY CIVICS Five and one half million above the age of ten years, includ-ing both foreign and native, cannot read nor write in anylanguage. New York City has a larger Hebrew populationthan any other city in the world, contains more Italiansthan Rome, and its German population is the fourth largestamong
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