Barriers that once existed between racial and national groups in this country are fast disappearing. Cooperative effort and healthy respect are taking their place. We are “learning to understand other peoples to understand ourselves.” The newcomers brought with them an ardent desire to improve their conditions. They quickly availed themselves of the opportunity which the public school offered them. The school took “the child of the exile of Hungary, of the half-starved emigrant from the Emerald Isle, and of the hardy Norwegian, and placed them on the same bench with the offspring of those whose ancestors’ bones bleached upon the fields of Lexington.” The library, the church, the motion picture, and radio are also powerful educational agencies in molding the pattern of the New American. _Milestones of Progress_ The immigrant has always been a firm devotee of the ideals of democracy, for in most cases he has suffered religious, political, military, or other oppression. Even in the United States, democracy did not begin full tilt. But, just as the frontier has been conquered, so too the areas of human rights and freedoms have been extended. The abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, the grant of full rights of citizenship to women, labor legislation, and property rights have all been milestones in the onward march of democracy. The immigrant has not been unmindful of the blessings conferred upon him in this country. He has adjusted himself quickly to his new environment. In every crisis, he has faithfully stood by our country and institutions. He has striven to teach his children to love and honor the land which harbors them. All human history teaches us that the price of human liberty is the continuous enlargement of that liberty. The only safe principle of democracy is justice, equity, and equal respect among all our people. Great unfinished tasks remain for us to solve. Our common loyalty must hold high the torch and pass it on, with fire unquenched, to the citizen of tomorrow. [Illustration: IMMIGRATION FIGURES FOR SOME COUNTRIES FROM 1820-1936] Recordings of “Americans All—Immigrants All” Many organizations, churches, schools, and colleges have requested that “Americans All—Immigrants All” be made available in recorded form. The Office of Education, by special arrangement with the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning, the American Federation of Musicians, and the Music Authors and Publishers Protective Association, have recordings for non-commercial use in both 33⅓ r.p.m. and 78 r.p.m. (suitable for use on phonographs). For complete information regarding the recordings, write to: _Educational Radio Script Exchange_, Radio Division, Office of Education, Washington, D. C. [Illustration: _THEY HAVE BUILT A NATION_ _TYPICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICAN INDUSTRY AND CULTURE_] Are People Really Different?