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Title: A Stake in the Land

Author: Peter Alexander Speek

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A STAKE IN THE LAND

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[Illustration: LONG, HARD MONTHS OF WORK SEPARATE THE ROUGH SHANTY FROM
WHITE CLAPBOARDS AND AN AUTOMOBILE]

AMERICANIZATION STUDIES
ALLEN T. BURNS, DIRECTOR

A STAKE
IN THE LAND

BY
PETER A. SPEEK

IN CHARGE, SLAVIC SECTION
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1921

A STAKE IN THE LAND

Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

The material in this volume was gathered by the Division of
Rural Developments of Studies in Methods of Americanization.

Americanization in this study has been considered as the union of native
and foreign born in all the most fundamental relationships and
activities of our national life. For Americanization is the uniting of
new with native-born Americans in fuller common understanding and
appreciation to secure by means of self-government the highest welfare
of all. Such Americanization should perpetuate no unchangeable
political, domestic, and economic regime delivered once for all to the
fathers, but a growing and broadening national life, inclusive of the
best wherever found. With all our rich heritages, Americanism will
develop best through a mutual giving and taking of contributions from
both newer and older Americans in the interest of the commonweal. This
study has followed such an understanding of Americanization.

FOREWORD

This volume is the result of studies in methods of Americanization
prepared through funds furnished by the Carnegie Corporation of New
York. It arose out o