It is very convenient, I know, to think of him and others like him as nothing but workers in the factories, spinners and weavers in the mills, dwellers in the tenements. Why not think of them in the terms of the second generation, -as great lawyers, merchants, bankers, judges upon the bench, governors of states? Why not think of them in terms of their great history? The great-great-grandfather of Jean Baptiste Le Blanc sailed into the waters of St. Lawrence Bay, and founded the trading settlements at Quebec and Montreal. Long before there was a permanent English settlement in New England, one of his ancestors paddled the birch-bark canoe which bore Champlain out on to the waters of that beautiful lake which bears his name. Another ancestor was a 44 voyageur," a "coureur de bois," who went with Father Marquette through the Great Lakes, down the Illinois River, the Mississippi, up the Missouri, and was present at the naming of St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Paul, Saint Mary's, names which mark the spots in the wilderness where Christian missionaries raised the cross of Christ toward heaven for the salvation of a heathen race. You don't know your fellow-citizens unless you know Jean Baptiste Le Blanc.

Let me present John Anderson and Olof Erickson, fair-haired, blue-eyed, pink-cheeked sons of the North, Swedish and Norwegian citizens. Of course, we used to think of them as nothing but "gobs " in the navy, workers on the fishing fleet, or "lumpers" around the docks. But that is not quite fair to these two wonderful peoples. Why not think of them in the terms of what they really are? There is not a man in this hall who would wish to display his ignorance of modern literature by admitting that he had not read his Ibsen. Their ancestors were the Vikings of the North, sailors of the seven seas, discoverers of Iceland, founders of its unique republic, explorers of the Virginia Capes, builders of the round tower, five hundred years before Christopher Columbus was born.

Let me present to you John Druzinski, modern Polish citizen. Oh, what a terrible time his people have had: run over, trampled down, held in subjection for hundreds of years; Germany trying to poke the German language down their throats for forty years, and they surviving and becoming more Polish than when this began! Copernicus, discoverer of the heliocentric system, was a Pole, born in Cracow. Who has not heard of Kosciusko, of Count Pulaski, aide-de-camp to Washington; and is not the greatest musical genius of the age none other than Paderewski, first president of the Polish Republic?

Let me present another group: Luigi Lombardo and Alexis Cosmopolis, modern Roman and Athenian citizens; "the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome." I know it is easy to think of the Italian as the "wop" and the "dago," that shovels in the trench, crawls under the river, labors on construction work and fills the sensation columns of the newspapers with his Saturday-night brawls. It is easy to think of the Greek as the push-cart man, who gets in your way when you drive down the avenue in your Twin-Six.

But the little Italian boy, shining your shoes at the station, has been on the Grand Canal at Venice, has seen the beauty of Florence,

and stood awe-inspired before the majestic grandeur of Rome. There may be coursing in his veins the blood of Virgil, Horace, Cicero, Michael Angelo, or any one of the thousand of those who bore magic Italian names; and who knows but that the little Greek is a descendant of Homer, Alexander, Plato, Socrates, Pericles, or of any one of many mighty Greeks? These people were civilized, had law, organized government, art, music, letter culture, and a place in history, when your ancestors and mine were barbarians in the forests of Northern Germany, or offering human sacrifices to an unspeakable god, in the swamps of England or Ireland.

Finally, let me present to you Solomon Levy, Jew of Jews, from Russia, Poland, Austria, or God knows where, from the ends of the earth. Has any race ever been persecuted as his has been? For nineteen hundred years the hands of men who ought to have known better have been against him.

Oh, I know it is very easy to think of them as ragpickers and junk dealers, and offensive persons in the dining cars. But why not think of them in the terms of their achievements? the greatest bankers in the world, the greatest merchants in the world, the greatest manufacturers in the world; a race which produced, in Abraham, the greatest single leader any people have ever had, and the greatest lawyer, in Moses.

Out of the loins of this race came the Light and Hope of the world. They belong to the very best of the human family. Their ancestors stood on the hills of Jerusalem and communed with God.

These and many others I have no time to mention are our fellowcitizens. All we need to make them what we would like to have them be is vision, tolerance, and a little money. They come, as we do, from the hand of God, and they go, as we do, to the grave. Why not join hands with them, and by coöperating with them, build up on this continent what this country really ought to be, -the greatest republic the world has ever seen?

[Prolonged applause, all rising.]

At the dinner preceding, remarks were made by Hon. Sanford Bates, Frank V. Thompson, Joseph T. Brennan, Robert W. Kelso, and George W. Tupper.

NECROLOGY

Clarence M. Howlett
Thomas D. Luce, Jr.

Tenney Morse
King Upton

Freeman R. Washburn

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES

GEORGE H. ELLIS, President

CHARLES B. BREED, First Vice-President ABRAHAM C. WEBBER, Second Vice-President JOHN J. WALSH, Secretary

A. B. BEECHING, Treasurer

LLOYD B. HAYES, Civic Secretary

BOSTON CITY CLUB

BULLETIN

FOR THE INFORMATION OF MEMBERS OF THE CLUB

"This Club is founded in the spirit of good fellowship and every mem
ber of the Club knows every other member without an introduction.

In spite of the following protest, the big event of the year will occur in the Auditorium at 8 o'clock.

Mr. GEORGE H. ELLIS, President,
Boston City Club.

PURITAN HEIGHTS, MASS., APRIL 1, 1921.

Dear Sir, It is with considerable consternation, dismay and disappointment that I note in the April issue of the BULLETIN just received, that the City Club is to end its season of entertainment on Thursday evening, May 5, with a Vaudeville Show! Is it possible that the City Club has descended to such vulgarity! If so, I must enter my most vigorous and emphatic protest. It would be undignified, and quite out of keeping with our noble and lofty purposes. I hope you will stop it.

Respectfully yours,

IMA D. PRUDE. BOSTON, MASS., APRIL 2, 1921.

My dear old Prude, Upon receipt of your letter protesting against the Vaudeville Show on Thursday, May 5, I conferred with the chairman of the Entertainment Committee but could get absolutely no information from him. He flatly refused to discuss the matter. In fact, he said that the Entertainment Committee itself didn't know what the program would be, that there had been considerable dissension in the committee, but that every effort was being made to have nothing on the program which would have the flavor of dignity or decorum. So you see there is nothing I can do; I am absolutely helpless in the matter. If you will join me in the Auditorium about 6 o'clock (in time to get a front seat) I will, with your assistance, do what I can to stop anything which is too serious or too dignified.

Very truly yours,

GEO. H. ELLIS, President Boston City Club.