A Primer of Civics: Manuale di cittadinanza: designed for the guidance of the immigrant. Chicago: Illinois Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1918.

The author, a Bohemian immigrant to the United States, began this series with an English-Bohemian version published in 1912, then English only (1912), English-Polish (1914), and English-Lithuanian (1915), just prior to this English-Italian version in 1918. The order mirrors in descending order the size of the respective immigrant community of Chicago.

The foreward closes with a letter addressed (in facing pages, English on the left, Italian on the right, as with the remainder of the work) to “Dear Friends” reading it, asking, among other things, rather less respectfully than Carr did:

“Is it too much to ask, while so much has been done for you that you do something in return, that you help others as you have been helped, that you love and respect the Land of Liberty you have chosen for your new home?”

As the name implies, the Primer of Civics explains the organization and operation of the federal, state and city of Chicago governments.