St Marys High School - Salute Yearbook (New Baltimore, MI)

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Polish Americans inhabit every one of the 48 states. You will find them among the farmers of Wis- consin and Minnesota, the miners of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, the lumberjacks of Washington and Oregon, the fruit-growers of Flar- ida and California, the ranchers of Texas and Montana, and especially among the factory workers of New York, Illinois and Michigan. Eight out of ten Polish Americans are most likely to live in New York, Pennsylvania, Illin ois, Michigan, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio, Wisconsin and Connecticut --- the nine States in which about 86W of all P o l i s h Americans are found. The home address of five out of every ten is likely to be a street in Chicago, Detroit, Buf- falo, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Mil- waukee, Pittsburgh, New York. Hamtramck, Newark, New Jersey, Toledo, New Britain or Boston-the fourteen cities in which almost half of all Polish Americans reside. Only about 1 out of 10 Polish Americans lives on a farm or in a small village. Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Connecticut are his favorite agricultural regions, each of the first three claiming over 30,000 farmers. Polish - American farmers have won an enviable record in New England, reclaiming hundreds of abandoned farms. Others, in the The fund Where the Politfll 14mericanA five Middle West, hold high reputation for food-growing skill. Polish American miners, as yet largely neglected by chroniclers. play an important role in the coal and iron industry. The Pennsylvania Patch districts contain rich ore for the historian as well as the in- dustrialist. Urban Polish Americans are en- gaged in practically all industries- manufacturing, steel, textile, leather. refining, meat, food and transporta- tion. Many are in business and the professions. In some cities, like Chicago, Detroit, and Buffalo, they form sizable proportions of the pop- ulation. They support numerous organizations and institutions. They are vocal in local politics. Their children attend parochial and pub- lic schools. Hamtramck is perhaps the clas- sical example of a Polish American urban community. Surrounded by Detroit, it is inhabited largely by Polish Americans who guard their city's political autonomy with jeal- ous love. Many of Hamtramclds business places bid for attention in English and Polish. Almost every household has at least one member belonging to a political or social club or a fraternal benefit society. But whether in the city, on the farm or in the mine, Polish Amer- icans are today an integral living part of America, conscious of their day-to-day achievements and con- tributions toward the building of a better America, J: Aan Jenn tl

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l7oliAln p4me1-icanA .7 img People Giant United States has a population of 132 million. In this vast human family, Americans of Polish descent are a comparatively small group. Estimates of their number vary from 3 to 9 million. If the truth lies somewhere in the middle Land 6 million is the most popular estimateb, then 1 out of 22 Americans walking down the street is likely to be of Polish stock. Polish Americans come in all sizes and shapes. You will find among them tall blond farmers and steelworkers, short stocky miners and ma- chinists, dark fat butchers, bakers and grocers, fair -skinned dentists, doctors, bishops and undertakers. Polish Americans do not specialize in any particular trade, profession or avocation. Like you, they take a bit of everything - from sports to opera and higher mathematics. But sweat- ing in mills and mines, raising food, running businesses and offices, attending church and school, writing, painting, composing, they work side by side with you in the building of a better America. You may run into a Polish-American girl or matron at Marshall Fields', Hu'dson's ur Macy's. She will be as pretty, or as plain, as the woman sitting beside you on the bus or beating you out of a seat on the street-car. Polish Americans speak Broklynese in Brook- lyn. In Boston, their accent is as precise as Emerson's ever was. Most of them, however, speak the general American of the Middle West. Some few below the Mason-Dixon out-you-all the Georgia Yanceysg others, out where the West begins, can yippee-aye-yay with the most voluble cowboy. Polish Americans are simply people like yon. intensely devoted to America, the mother country of 5 out of every 6 of them. If they differ from you at all, it is only in the spelling of their names fthough not always! and, per- haps, in the attachment they cultivate for the heritage of their forefathers, which they re- gard as a precious trust to be further enriched and gratefully deposited at the feet of the Lady of Liberty, whose light once guided their oppressed ancestors to America. .x4nfAon7 .A gl AIZLU1,

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