. EDUCATION OF ADULT IMMIGRANT SETTLERS 226
Importance of Reaching Women 226
The Home Teacher 228
Organization of Immigrant Women 231
The Public Evening School 233
Education Made Interesting 241

XIII. LIBRARY AND COMMUNITY WORK 244
Place of the Printed Word 244
Rural Needs for Books 246
Package Libraries in Wisconsin 248
Selection of Books 250
A Community Hall 252
Amateur Theatricals 254
Community Teamwork 256

INDEX 259

LIST OF TABLES

TABLE PAGE

I. Number (by sex) of foreign-born white persons
engaged as farm laborers in the United
States, 1900 and 1910 6

II. State legislation to promote land settlement
for soldiers up to June, 1919 92-93

III. Soldier settlement plans for United Kingdom
and provinces _Facing_ 106

IV. Per cent unable to speak English, of total foreign
born, ten years of age and over, in urban
and rural communities 147

V. Enrollment and language used in parochial and
private schools in Minnesota, 1918 165

VI. Enrollment and teaching force of private and
parochial schools in Wisconsin, 1914-15
and 1915-16 173

VII. Length of teaching service in Wisconsin rural
schools, 1915-16 204

VIII. Percentage of population in Arizona, six to
twenty-one years of age, in schools and not
attending school, 1915-16 213

ILLUSTRATIONS

Long, Hard Months of Work Separate the
Rough Shanty from White Clapboards and
an Automobile