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About The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip. (Portland, Or.) 1923-1927 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1922)
November, 1922 •J THE WESTERN AMERICAN iiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiimii l■lllllllllllllllllllllllllll1llllll■lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHlllll|||||!ill||||f||||||||||||||||||||^■l||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||l||||||||||||||||||■||||||||||||t||||||||||t■|||tllllllllllllllllllulllH<lllllt1llllillllllllllllllll■l•llflllll1lllllllilllll, Oregon on Trial! AN NOVEMBER Seventh, the citizens of Oregon will cast their ballot in a state- diwe election involving many vital issues, requiring a great deal of intelligence to decide correctly, if the electorate of this state shall stand vindicated before the electorate of the na tion, a citizenry of which the governing majority continues to cast a clean, safe and sane and unprejudiced American bal lot, in the interest of freedom, liberty, justice and equality for all! The groups of an oppressive, rancorous spirit that have rent the political parties of this state and created a chaotic con dition in the body politic, may reign for the day, but they are doomed to consume themselves, in time, by the fires of hate they have started, and eventually share the ignoble fate of Haman, who, himself, was hung upon the scaffold he had erected to dispose of the hum ble Mordecai, when the time should arrive that his sinister and malevolent fabrications of slander should have swept a sufficient number of gulable people off their feet, destroyed their better reasoning and found in them a shield to carry out his diabolical scheme in the name of the government. Oregon is on trial! Tolerant citizens hope to make the state, in time, one of the greatest and most popu lous states in the Union. The malevolent forces of re ligious, and racial intolerance, who have revived the “¡know- nothing-ism” that many years ago placed its stigma on the fair name of this republic, may believe, to some extent, that they are serving the best interests of their country, but they have failed to interpret correctly the constitutional stipulations regarding Amer ica’s concept of Freedom, granting to all Americans their prerogative in the matter of religious belief according to the dictates of their conscience. Let our conscience be our guide when we cast our ballot! AMERICAN A Magazine of Good Citizenship Published Monthly By The Northman Publishing Company (Incorporated) Officers H. J. Langoe.................. President B. G. Skulason............. See-Treasurer Board of Directors G. B. Hegardt B. G. Skulason H. J. Langoe Phone Broadway 6600 Offices and Publishing House Labbe Building, 227% Washington Street, Portland, Oregon H. J. LANGOE, Editor Vol. 1 wum“ous 19 November, 1922 Number 2 CONTENTS Page EDITORIALS— Building the Oregon Country......... . .................. 18 The American Ballot and an Adopted Citizens Americanism............ 19 New Federal Law Changes Status of Citizenship for Alien Women.................................................... 19 The American of Tomorrow........................... 20 The Portland Bridge Problem......................... 20 Olcott or Pierce......................... .21 Bigelow and Pier for Commissioners... ................. 22 WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE.................................................... 1 OREGON ON TRIAL............................... 3 POEMS AND SONGS OF AMERICA.............................................................. 4 AMERICANIZATION WORK IN THE CITIES........................................... 5 EDUCATION FOR POLITICS...................................................................... 8 By Edward O. Sisson. THE HUMAN SIDE OF THE COMMUNITY CHEST,.............................. 10 By Hugh H. Herdman. BURNSIDE AND ROSS ISLAND BRIDGES............................................ ..12 By O. Laurgaard, City Engineer. POPULAR FOLK TALES.................................................................... 14 WHERE THE U. S. MONEY, STAMPS AND BONDS ARE MADE......... 26 SIMPLIFYING A CUMBERSOME CHARTER PROVISION.....................28 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.
