Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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EEEE EEDEEE E THE ALIEN JAMES GRlFI'ITH Who is this Titan of great brawn and might? The furnace heat beats on his glowing sking His rippling muscles symbolize he's been A man of toil, whose holiest way could fight, Working to bring his family to his :aight From close the Danube blue where lives his kin, Hungaria's children waiting to begin Their journey eastward to the land of night. Whistles shriekg a din's throughout the mill, But he hears not the noise of men and wheels, He thinks of home and asks the power of will, And strength from God to carry ong he feels That God his hungry love can surely still, His glistening eyes show what his hearts conceals l13l

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EEEE EEEEEEE E Pole by birth, was active in establishing our parcel post system. Among statesmen, stands the reformer, Carl Schurz. A native of Germany, he won citizenship and nation wide recognition as a leader within seven years after he came to the United States, and through his long, active and influential life fought for the highest ideals of American life. In art, among great sculptors who have given America their best Work are an Irishman, Augustus Saint Gaudens, a Canadian, Phimister Proctor, a German, Lee Lawrie, and an Austrian, Earl Bitter. Among Well-known painters of foreign birth, may be mentioned Thomas lVIoran, from England, Albert Bierstadt from Germany, and Jonas Lie from Norway. The graphic arts, including etcnings, prints, engravings, and typography are represented by such men as Timothy Cole from England, Rudolph Ruzicka from Czechoslovakia, and Gustave Bauman from Germany. Master craftsmen in wood, metal, glass, porcelain, textiles, laces, and needle- work Who came from other countries include such famous men as Duncan Phyfe, a Scotchman, I. Kirchmayer, an Austrian, and Adam Dabrowski, a Pole. The list of musicians includes many great singers and instrumentalists from all parts of the world. Most loved of these is the remarkable woman, lVIadame Schuman Heink, Austrian by birth, whose unswerving loyalty, as well as her matchless voice, has made her the idol of the American people. The French critic, Henry Prunieres, after evaluating the great orchestras of Europe, declared the American symphonies to be finer than any of those of Europe. The American orchestras can be the finest, he argued, because the brasses from Germany, the strings from Italy, Austria, Hun- gary, Poland and Russia, the Woodwinds from Italy and France, are all brought here to be added to instrumentalists trained in America. The contributions of the immigrant to the material life of our nation can scarce- ly be measured in terms of money or gain, the cultural contributions are not suscep- tible of measurement. If these cultural contributions could be evaluated even ap- proximately, such evaluation would make for better understanding, not only between our native and foreign-born citizens, but for better understanding in building up friendly feelings for the homelands of Europe from which millions of our citizens have come. Perhaps no one has expressed more sincerely or more beautifully the idea of the contributions of people coming into our country, than did Franklin K. Lane, himself a naturalized citizen of Canadian birth. The passage occurs in a speech made when he was Secretary of the Interior in President Wilson's cabinet: f'America is a land of but one people, gathered from many countries. Some came for love of money and some for love of freedom. Whatever the lure that brought us, each has his gift. Irish lad, and Scot, Englishman and Dutch, Italian, Greek, and French, Span- iard, Slav, Teuton, Norse, Negro-All have come bearing gifts and have laid them on the Altar of America. l12l

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