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THE GREEKS IN AMERICA 109schools, others give instruction during the day also.Some adults have learned reading and writing insuch schools. Then there are private day and nightschools in the large Greek centers, to teach Englishunder Greek direction. Some schools have Americanteachers.Books and newspapers.—Most of the books publishedin Greece on history, biography, religion, fiction,etc., can be obtained at the principal Greekbook stores, especially at those of Atlantis and theNatiofial Herald, New York. There are book storesin all the important centers. Besides original worksthere are many translations from French, English,German and Italian, but the first two predominate.Greeks in America have contributed a number oforiginal works including stories, fiction, poems,dramas, and religion. There are several translationsand adaptations from English into Greek.But the chief contribution has been in the line ofnewspapers and monthlies.Greeks carry with them wherever they go, theirlove for news. So in America too, many attemptsare made to meet their need and cravings. ManyGreek papers appear and disappear from time totime.The largest Greek newspapers in the world arethose in New York, which go all over the UnitedStates, Canada, South America, and even Greece andTurkey, in fact wherever Greeks are found. Theyare Atlantis and National Herald. The first is theoldest Greek daily in the United States. It startedin 1894 as a monthly, then it became bi-monthly,weekly, and at last daily. It grew as it went. Thesecond started almost full grown from the very beginning,with a capital of $100,000 in 1915, but it hasgained much ground growing and improving.Both Atlantis and National Herald have illustratedmonthly editions, with fine pictures illustrat-