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1,200 newspapers published in the United States are 
printed in some other language than English. In 
1914, fifty-eight foreign newspapers were published 
in Massachusetts alone, altho New York is the great 
center of distribution. These newspapers in Massa 
chusetts were published in Albanian, Arabian, Arme 
nian, Yiddish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Let 
tish, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and 
Assyrian. Their contents usually consist of a digest 
of domestic and foreign news of peculiar interest to 
the race or races for which the publication is issued. 
As a rule they are strongly “national,” at times tak 
ing a very partizan attitude toward political questions 
in the homeland. Many of them have also been 
organs of radical propaganda in the United States, 
a number of them having been suppressed during 
the war. Canada found the same difficulty and 
adopted similar measures. The foreign language 
press is a force to be carefully watched. 
Immigrant Churches 
In all foreign colonies of any importance churches 
have been erected by the different races. 
The influence of immigrant churches on the assimi 
lation and progress of the alien population is discust 
at length elsewhere.* No general statistics are avail 
able as to their number and membership, but a good 
insight into the general situation may be quickly af 
forded by a description of the churches in a number 
°f representative towns and cities. In Windber, a 
bituminous coal mining town in Western PennsyJ- 
* The Massachusetts Immigration Commission of 1914 has some excellent 
material regarding the immigrant press. Much material can also be found 
lr \ report of the Lusk Committee on revolutionary radicalism. Report 
c l Y. . Joint Legislative Committee of the State of New York, investigating 
“ ecl itious Activities, 1921.