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56 I became so interested in this kind of teaching that I was trying to write a book on it with a co­worker when the Atlantic flight came along, and prevented our finishing it. Since then the number of such classes in settlements and public schools has decreased partly because of the effect of the laws which restrict immigration.

It would have been much easier at Denison House had there been money enough to do all that waited to be done. So few people understood the real needs, that little money was available. We could not have managed at all without the help of the young men and young women who came as volunteer workers from schools and colleges about Boston. They acted as leaders in Boy and Girl Scout groups; they coached dramatics; they taught sewing and basket making and cooking, and told stories to the youngsters in the evening. I often wished my father could have been on tap for some of these groups for I knew his thrillers would have made a hit.

There were sick children who had to be taken to the hospitals and poor mothers who had to have explained to them that hospitals were not dreadful places where their children were imprisoned and tortured by cruel doctors. It is not so easy to understand the ways of a new country when one knows nothing of the laws or customs. Half the trouble caused by the so-called “furiners” is only because no one has taken the trouble to interpret to them the best these United States stand for. Of