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About The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip. (Portland, Or.) 1923-1927 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1922)
D iversity of EUGENE, October, 1922 THE WESTERN AMERICAN OREGON LIBRARY OREGON . u ... ..........."""""! ¿ti>llitiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinilililll>illllllliilliiilii>iiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiinii>iiiii(iililllliiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiininiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiinillliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii>iiiiiiiiiiillllllllllllllllliiiilllllliltlllilllillllllliiiilliill>i>»< |i|t|l,llillllltllllltll>l>llll,ll>< I The Ideal: America! I ! | | I I | I | | | | i | | i I 1 | | | i II I | II 11 |I | [ 1 || I l II | 11 11 11 11 11 I | I | I | II 11 11 11 I | I | | I | ■ | ■ I II 1 1 11 | I 11 11 11 11 11 11 [| A MERICANS who are ready today to ask the govern- ment for ships to send out of America all alien residents who have never learned to read or write the American language, are, without a single exeception, Americans who never have tak- en any interst in helping these aliens to learn the language of their new homeland, become assimiliated and naturalized, or sufficiently Americanized to be classed as Americans. These Americans are never found in the Americanization movement. They are very pro- nounced for 100 per cent Ameri- canism, but very slient on the ways and means to attain it. To these Americans, America means the geographical boun- daries of the United States. They have never seen the great ideal: America, the inheri- tance of a liberty loving peo- pie, created and fashioned out of the very souls of men who, on this continent, had dedi- cated a new Paradise on earth, a Paradise of Freedom and Liberty, and set the image of that divine concept at the gate, like a guardian angel, not with a sword in hand, but with a torch to light the way from the shores of bondage into Lib- erty’s Paradise. The men and women who have felt the heartbeats of thanksgiving, when they have passed the great figure, torch in hand, guarding the harbor to Liberty’s Paradise, should remember their first, thrill of American Liberty and Free- dom, when they swear alle- giance, and at all times bear in mind that theirs is also the responsibility to deliver this Paradise of Liberty to the children of America and the down-trodden of the earth, who come, with humble hearts, seeking the Land of Promise. The Americanization move- ment is America’s answer to bigotry, class formation, group allignments and preferentiality creeds. It is the soul of Amer- ica, calling for unity of her peo- pie, a people of a common ideal and a common language. AM E1ICAN A Magazine of Good Citizenship Published Monthly By The Northman Publishing Publishing Company (Incorporated) Officers H. J. Langoe.. B. G. Skulason Board of Directors B. G. Skulason G. B. Hegardt Phone Broadway 6600 Offices and Publishing House Labbe Building, 227% Washington Street, Portland I, .... President Sec-Treasurer H. J. Langoe Oregon H. J. LANGOE, Editor Vol. 1 voiumeOU8 19 October, 1922 Number I CONTENTS Page EDITORIALS— .14 American Language a Vehicle to Citizenship........ 14 Americanizing the Industries........................................... No One Should Cast an American Ballot Who Does Not 14 Speak Our Language............................ 15 Progress of Democracy........_.. .................................. .15 The Eno'bling Influence of Music................................... 16 Songs of America................................... .1 AMERICA, W. J. Pabodie.............................. 3 THE IDEAL: AMERICA!................................ , 4 POEMS AND SONGS OF AMERICA..................... AT THE CROSS ROADS— Old World Reactions and American Progress................... 5 LINING UP FOR UNCLE SAM................................... 8 PURPOSES OF THE PORTLAND COMMUNITY CHEST............10 By Hugh H. Herdman. EDUCATION AND CITIZENSHIP.................................. 11 By Dr. Edward O. Sisson. ADVANCING AMERICANIZATION THROUGH MUSIC.............12 ISSUES IN THE GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN..................20 THE AMERICANIZATION OF TWO NATIVE AMERICAN GIRLS....21 POLITICAL NOTES AND COMMENTS.............................22 A LANDLUBBER’S TALE OF AN ARCTIC WHALE HUNT..........24 Subscriptions, twelve issues, Two Dollars yearly; single copies, twenty cents. Remit by United States Money Order, Express Money Order or Check. In Canada and other foreign countries, belonging to the Postal Union, fifty cents additional should be added. Back numbers, not over three months old, twenty-five cents; more than three months, One Dollar each. Instructions for change of address should be sent two weeks in ad vance of mailing. Always give old address, as well as the new, and al ways write plainly. The Editor will be glad to consider contributions; but a stamped and addressed envelope must be inclosed, if the return of unavailable manu scripts is desired. Entered as’Second Class Mail Matter in the Post Office at Portland, Oregon under the Act of Congress of March Third, 1879.