PROFESSOR AND HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AUTHOR OF Introduction to Sociology AND 1919 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRESS LOS ANGELES Copyright 1919 University of Southern California Press AIMBOTLIAO Jesse Ray Miller University of Southern California Press Los Angeles BG CONTENTS APPENDIXES PREFACE To Help Win the War for Democracy is the main purpose of this book. The overthrowing of the Prussian autocracy was one vital phase of the struggle for democratic principles. The perfecting of our American democracy is another important aspect of this world-wide problem. That this volume will assist the cause of democracy, in some small way, is the hope of the author. The Federal government has directed our attention officially to the subject of Americanization. Through the recently established Division of Americanization, the entire country is being organized for that work. To aid in this splendid undertaking is the second aim of the writer. There are many private and semi-public organizations which are carrying on unrelated plans of assimilation. In the activities of some of these organizations, Americanization is receiving a narrowminded and autocratic expression. It will fail wherever it denies the validity of comprehensive and fundamental principles. We dare not base it chiefly on compulsion. We must make it attractive and magnetic and just. To help meet this need is the third leading purpose which has caused the writing of this treatise. This volume is based on the experiences of living in Chicago at Northwestern University Settlement, |