THE NATIONAL, GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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© Kadel & Herbert 



CONGESTED TRAFFIC ON FORTY-SECOND STREET : NEW YORK CITY 



This view of a jam at Fifth avenue and Forty-second street shows what a tremendous 

 task the New York traffic policeman has to encounter. One who stands for an hour at a 

 busy crossing like this and watches an officer keep order from descending into chaos knows 

 that in Gotham there is efficiency both high up and low down. Often there is more journalistic 

 space devoted to one stray deed of one stray policeman than to the ninety and nine good 

 deeds of the ninety and nine earnest guardians of the law who remain in the fold of con- 

 scientious service. 



Three people out of every four in the 

 great metropolis were born under alien 

 flags or are the children of the foreign- 

 born. But who that has studied the situ- 

 ation can gainsay New York's American- 

 ism ? 



The story of how the one-fourth of 

 the city's population that is of native 



ancestry has Americanized the three- 

 fourths that is foreign in birth or parent- 

 age is revealed in the schools. 



He who studies at first hand the proc- 

 esses of Americanization and citizen- 

 building finds work being done which 

 would stir the heart of the most unemo- 

 tional observer. He realizes that all of 



