North Dakota Law Review/Volume 1/Number 3/Citizenship and Americanization Committee

CITIZENSHIP AND AMERICANIZATION COMMITTEE

The following is quoted from the 1924 report of the State Bar Association Committee on Citizenship and Americanization, of which Hon. John Knauf, of Jamestown, is Chairman:

“Your Committee, with other members of the Bar, have been the leaders in over 4000 patriotic celebrations, generally speaking, always planning the celebrations. That they have spoken at some forty county teachers’ institutes, reaching some 4482 teachers, holding our youth in one-room district schools, with inspiration and comely methods of carrying home the strength and beauty of our institutions to over 169,300 pupils, and aiding and assisting 730 town and city school teachers in the patriotic work they have to do.

“Your Committee, and other members of the Bar, have been responsible for, or the inspiration of, over 4400 district school and rural consolidated school celebrations in the State, reaching some over 160,000 of our students of school age and their parents—one-third of our entire state population within one year. These celebrations, partaking of patriotic song services, declamations, essays, letters, orations and pageants. We believe the work has been worth while, that the youthful mind of this State has been more fully developed in and for the cause of good government.”