December, 1922
THE WESTERN AMERICAN
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Happy New Year!
LJ APPY New Year! This age
s' 1 old greeting with which
friend again hails friend, brings
jx> us the realization that we
have reached another cross road
pf time, another milestone on the
long trail of human progress.
I We are again reminded that
time never waits for anyone,
hence, the important business in
our allotted span of life is to
keep pace with Father Time.
I Looking back on the trail over
which you have been plodding
along this past year, you may
have reasons to feel satisfied, but
if you look carefully you may
find that there are any number
of acts undone that you at the
outset promised yourself to do
during the year. Many things
you started well, with good in
tentions, you left undone. These,
too, are marring the record you
made during the year.
I If you set yourself the single
purpose and calculated on meas
uring your time in dollars and
cents, you made a mess of it,
and your trail is staked with
signs reading: A failure has
passed this way.”
I If in-your money-making mad
ness you sought but one thing
besides in life: pleasure, the
chances are that you have vio
lated all the rules of the road of
life, a high pressure proposition,
Who had no regard for your fel
low travelers, some of whom had
heavy burdens to carry.
I While you can not go back
pver the road you came and
tight all wrongs, you may have
enough of a surplus in your
treasury of human endowment
to get a new start and make an
other record in which the out
standing feature shall be that
you were considerate of fellow
travelers and found happiness in
helping those carry their bur
dens who were “heavy laden.”
I And the trail you shall travel
this coming year shall be staked
with signs reading: “A success
has passed this way!”
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AMERICAN
A Magazine of Good Citizenship
Published Monthly By
The Northman Publishing Company
(Incorporated)
Officers
H. J. Langoe...................................
.President
B. G. Skulason............................
Sec-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
voK"8 19
December, 1922
Number 3
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL SUBJECTS—
Unrestricted Immigration a Menace to America; An Economics
Conference of the World Nations; Reduction in Atlantic Pas
senger Rates; The “Pool Room and Soft Drink Parlor”; The
Demagogic American; From the Records of Early Colonists in
Greenland; What the Pages of History Tell; Know and Love
America; Education and Religion Essential to America’s Pro-
gress; The Right and Wrong Kind of Americanism; Cultivation
of Civic Pride............. .................................................................... 18 to 24
POEMS AND SONGS OF AMERICA...........................
4
SERIOUS PHASES OF AMERICAN IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS........ 5
AMERICANIZATION AND EDUCATION IN THE MOUNTAIN
REGIONS OF THE SOUTH....................
9
“IT IS ALL RIGHT” (Peer Stromme) ......................................................... 10
THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA ACCORDING TO HISTORY
AND THE NORDIC SAGAS .................................................... 11 to 12
THE PUBLIC WELFARE BUREAU AND ITS SERVICE TO THE
COMMUNITY..............................................
13 to 14
THE AMERICANIZATION MOVEMENT AS AN AMERICAN
INSTITUTION..........................
17
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS IN PROSE AND POETRY............................. 29
A DISORDERED, HUNGRY AND INSOLVENT WORLD......................... 33
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