icanized. A Slovenian family head explained to
the writer that those Slovenians who are sending their children to the
German school do it for a practical reason. They expect some time to visit
their native Austria, where German is the state language. The man claimed
that about one tenth of the settlers do not understand English, and that
only about one fifth of them can speak and write English, although the
colony was founded in America about fifty years ago.

MICHIGAN

The following statement made by the Superintendent of Public Instruction
in the state of Michigan to the writer, September 11, 1918, shows the
situation in regard to the private schools in that state. Parochial
schools exist as follows:

One hundred and sixty-six Catholic; 124 German Lutheran; 19
Adventists; 22 Christian Reform. There is a total of 331. Of these,
190 maintain as many as eight grades, and 62 maintain more than
eight grades. In the grades below the high school there is an
attendance of 43,836, and in the high schools, 2,813. There are
employed about 1,200 teachers. Eighty-six schools use German as a
medium of instruction, German partly; sixteen use Polish; 5 use
French. Only 2 schools in the state give no time to the teaching of
the English branches. Seventy per cent of all the schools use the
English language only as a medium of instruction. The census of the
state contains 892,787 children of school age, five to nineteen
years, inclusive. There are enrolled in the public schools of the
state, 635,020. We regret that we have not yet the data from
Saginaw and Detroit. The city of Detroit alone would perhaps show a
parochial-school attendance as large as the parochial-school
attendance of all the rest of the state.

In a Finnish colony in upper Michigan the writer found three one-month
religious summer schools, well attended. One of the leaders of the
colony stated that they have only Finnish teachers in these schools and
the teaching is in Finnish. The program contains mainly religious
instruction and a limited amount of Finnish history. The expenses are
paid by the church treasury. The people want these schools for
maintaining their religion among the children as well as for sentimental
nationalistic reasons. The schools are conducted in the public-school
rooms during summer vacations.

In the same section of the state the writer visited an old and
com