When we come down to the larger question, of the response of voters of foreign birth and origin to constructive efforts to interest them in civic matters, we are on surer ground. Given a sufficiently comprehensive survey, we can tell whether the “foreign wards” of a city are apathetic toward movements which they can recognize as embodying concrete things close to their own lives, and meaning a forward step in public administration. The testimony of all sorts of workers among the foreign born is unanimous on this point. The foreign-born voters are more responsive to things of this kind than the native-born. Possibly this is because their more recent introduction into American life makes them more naïve, less blasé--what you will as to the reason, the fact remains the same. It so happens that we have a peculiarly apt and informing exhibit of this in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in statistics of five elections involving questions of municipal import, and showing in most striking fashion the results of a sustained effort, not to influence votes this way or that, but to impress citizens with the importance of voting at all. The following tables show the total vote cast in the three wards of the city of Grand Rapids at these elections: TABLE XLVI VOTE CAST IN PRECINCTS OF VARYING RACIAL MAKE-UP IN THREE WARDS OF GRAND RAPIDS, 1918, 1919 First Ward ================================================================== PRECINCT| RACIAL |MARCH |AUGUST|NOVEMBER|MARCH | APRIL | COMPLEXION | 1918 | 1918 | 1918 | 1919 | 1919 --------+-------------------+------+------+--------+------+------- 1st | Lithuanian | 95 | 144 | 178 | 222 | 316 2d | Dutch | 267 | 402 | 443 | 483 | 601 3d | Polish | 359 | 608 | 672 | 721 | 1,105 4th | American | 197 | 311 | 347 | 358 | 593 5th | American | 334 | 508 | 555 | 757 | 1,063 6th | Polish | 239 | 386 | 407 | 532 | 764 7th | Polish | 305 | 464 | 541 | 729 | 946 8th | American | 213 | 338 | 386 | 536 | 719 9th | German | 210 | 349 | 419 | 535 | 752 10th | Mixed | 296 | 425 | 455 | 682 | 909 11th | Mixed | 263 | 427 | 484 | 643 | 899 12th | American | 260 | 403 | 461 | 685 | 940 --------+-------------------+------+------+--------+------+-------